Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Thank you for your support.” …plus the standard default language. While an automated message is easy to set up, the default language (which most people use) is vague and too cookie-cutter to be meaningful. See the hero language? Your thank-you message should be more specific to your mission and be more impact-focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book is not only an excellent reference for many Facebook questions, but also provides tactical recommendations for an effective Facebook content, engagement, and measurement strategy. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. How you break through the clutter? Any guidelines?

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Make sure to check out his blog [link]. Consistently posting a variety of photos, videos and status updates directly effects how much Facebook users interact with your Page and it’s content. How interesting is your content? Are people viewing our content more or less than the previous 30 days? Is it your blog?

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Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

In layman’s terms it’s an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file designed to store and transport data that lists the URLs (Universal Resource Locators) for a particular site and allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL, such as when it was last updated, how often in changes and its relationship to other URLs within the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Fine and I originally published this blog post on the Candid Blog here. is AI-powered software that indexes and clusters millions of conversations and expressions across public social media, news, blogs, institutional sources, and search engine trails. Register for the webinar. Using all of this data, Quilt.AI

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Media Cause

JANUARY 18, 2022

In marketing, it is critical that we are speaking our audience’s language. This blog will dive into what emojis are, why you should use them, what to be careful of, and how to integrate them in a way that is accessible to all users. When a brand uses emojis that their users like to use, you are speaking their language.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. They were talking about API’s.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This might involve browsing your event calendar, reading your blog, donating through your online giving page, or using your contact form to get in touch. Accessible content. Kanopi refers to this process as the donor journey — the steps donors take to go from initial awareness to research to donating. Simple navigation.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, when asking for donations at Christmas , you might focus your messaging on the season of giving or use religious language if that aligns with your target audience’s values. As you create marketing content, use storytelling strategies.

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John Kenyon

MAY 1, 2019

If you have in-house expertise, and are doing this as a one-off project, for example, the person making the templates would have to learn the specific templating language used by the static site generator. There are static site generators in every programming language. These templates give the website its look and feel.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. If you query ChatGPT frequently, you’ll notice that it regularly references its pedigree. ChatGPT has a reputation for jumbling references.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Note from Beth: If I could wave a magic wand, and ask for a wish related to my work to come true, it would be this: I’d like to spend a year to attend conferences where I don’t know a lot of the content or people and learn and network and blog about the experience. Well, a girl can dream, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

There are also special sections of your profile where you can list certifications, languages, patents, skills, and publications. Featured on your profile, “Recommendations” are like references, and they are highly prized and much sought after on LinkedIn. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. Check out this blog article on effective fundraising communications tips you can use as you talk with your supporters. Try combining messaging you know resonates with your audiences with references to your donor’s history with your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. Sadly, the vast majority of nonprofits are dreadfully behind on understanding the importance of creating mobile content and incorrectly conclude that it is expensive to launch mobile campaigns.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Elliott Harmon wrote a great round up of free HTML resources a few years ago on the TechSoup blog. The renowned computer science institution opened its course content to the online world with MIT OpenCourseWare , giving everybody access to its programming and design curriculum. Reference Sites and Books.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You don’t have to look far—you can reference data for current members or send them a survey to discover their interests and motivations. Build a marketing plan to promote the membership drive and include language that highlights the value proposition you defined in the previous step.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

The unfortunate fact of blogging is writing good blog posts is more than just the words. If you want to use blogging for your personal learning you need to be effective at engaging and having conversations with readers. Heading 3 works the best with my blog themes. #3 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) will make or break your social media campaigns. Link to online references and source material often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I was nervous because I've never been to Romania, so I didn't have a lot of time or a frame of reference to tweak and customize. this was hard to do at the same time as the language translation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

There are also special sections of your profile where you can list certifications, languages, patents, skills, and publications. Featured on your profile, “Recommendations” are like references, and they are highly prized and much sought after on LinkedIn. Be sure to monitor your LinkedIn referring traffic to your website and blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Rumor has it that David Krumlauf was taking great notes, so I'm hoping he'll blog them or fill in some gaps here. . Here are my notes and I've added some of my own notes and links for more context: Overview: Facebook is in 30 languages, with 200 Million Users (want some demographics on users, check out Nick O'Neil's Demographic Page ).

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The top 13 on page SEO factors for content marketing. What this guide is : An introduction of the top 23 SEO best practices that will help get your content ranked in 2017, including: On page SEO factors – factors that are visible to your audience at the page level. Top 13 On Page SEO Factors For Content Marketing.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Forum One works hand-in-hand with major civic and social organizations to ensure that their online content is effective and reaches target audiences. The first three focus on “internal” strategies for keywords, content, and site organization—things you can do within your web properties to optimize them for search.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Sorry, Lobo, with all due respect to you and CiviCRM, a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps. What’s involved in this? 8 Judi Sohn 01.22.09

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There are now even natural language prompts powered by AI. See How Bennington College Uses Low-Code to Automate Reporting AI is a broad and quickly adapting term that refers to the use of data and machine learning to create new content or make predictions from it. Did you know you’re doing this stuff already?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The system will pull articles from your blog and send them out on a set schedule. For example, you could send a monthly newsletter to your subscribers that pulls from your blog posts. Your blog posts, in turn, can show what your organization is accomplishing and explain why people should give. Winfosoft Cloud.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. And the blog post’s playful tone draws readers in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. What is the best mix of content between social networking profiles and main web site page? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? Where do they access the content?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 11, 2024

Engagement rate refers to the percentage of visitors who interact with your website in meaningful ways, such as clicking, completing a form, or viewing multiple pages. If your website has a low engagement rate, then either your content or design likely isn’t engaging or relevant enough to keep users around. Survey your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" A reference to gadget in the Delta Airlines Logo. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Defining Web Analytics by Neil Mason How To Use Web Analytics , Part 1 by James Maguire Top-Ten Web analytics blogs from Avinash Kaushik. For example, you can check the referring url and look at the messaging there. Look for surprises in the referring report. Are there links from blogs? What content do they consume?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I would scan the pictures and embed into my presentations to do the debriefing - and overtime would have user-generated content in the curriculum! One of my favorite drawings was the metaphor of being in a foreign country and not being able to speak the language.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

A number of the items in this article refer to ways you can collect, analyze, and act on donor data. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “channels” refers to the different platforms you’ll use to reach your supporters. That includes newspapers, television, and radio, or even local blogs. You’ll reap the benefits in the long run.

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