Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. To add a donate button, e-newsletter, mobile alerts opt-ins, and social network icons to your blog, for example, you need to know how to work with an HTML editing software. Creative Thinking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I break down the archetypes of naysayers in the corporate setting that stymie innovation – for example, the Withholders who deny praise in order to destabilize rising stars, especially those who are wired to be pleasers. I mentor people all the time and this is the number one assumption I challenge.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In an interview for a previous ED position, I was asked to provide an example of how I demonstrated “extreme frugality.” The idea of a mentorship, webinar, or investment in a conference is dubbed a waste of time or money unless they’re the one teaching or mentoring. Limiting Belief #2: Frugality is a Virtue.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Check out the blog post, “ Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do With It? ”. They might, for example, review synopses of eligible proposals and rank them, or vote to prioritize strategic issues or geographies. Support from a mentor, peer, or staff person. Choosing Your Participatory Grantmaking Champion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. A Few Examples of Good Openers. Nonprofit blogger Vu Lee has some tips on what types of openers to avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

They can, for example, provide executive directors with leadership training, organizations with skills and tools to develop strategic plans, and networks with training on the latest technologies to scale their work across the globe. OE grants help nonprofits strengthen their leadership, organizations, and networks. If not more so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Responsive tech support.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Here’s how you can get a conversation started: Direct message potential participants – Send personalized messages directly to your most engaged social media followers to invite them to participate. For example, you might offer a free t-shirt, hat, tote bag, or face mask. Provide incentives for participation. Here Are Some Ideas.

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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 Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In an interview for a previous ED position, I was asked to provide an example of how I demonstrated “extreme frugality.” The idea of a mentorship, webinar, or investment in a conference is dubbed a waste of time or money unless they’re the one teaching or mentoring. Limiting Belief #2: Frugality is a Virtue.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Most of the hypothetical situations or examples we’ll explore will be focused around event committee recruitment and those more complex volunteer roles. As far as the partnership conversation referenced above, this is a terrific way to help your volunteers understand exactly what it means to be in the volunteer role they’ve agreed to fill.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

" Our initial move to a management position is often made with little to no training, mentoring, or support. This series of blog posts will focus on methods that allow you to. Start by setting an example and let them experience being important. conversation (HR-appropriate, please). Engage others in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Read Sector Blogs That Cover Data: If you want to stay current on data in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the best place to go is Lucy Bernholz’s Philanthropy 2173 Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

” I’ve been experimenting on how to do this with my peers so I can better understand how to design for this experience. One of the participants, Meg Biallas, does this through her blog – using it to synthesize and share lessons learned. His digital background is great, and he’s really become like a mentor to me.”.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters. For example, if two people had just had kids, regardless of age, they had more similarities than just age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

They used the landing page as a hotbed for A/B testing – analyzing what worked best to get conversion — images, less or more text, placement of “sign petition&# button and so forth. They learned that images are really key for conversion. How does your organization use A/B testing to improve conversion rates?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. Ways to plug in Intrigued?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. No bells or whistles — just straightforward.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2024

I thought I could lead by example, and that was not enough. “I Keep the conversation meaningful with an honest discussion about strengths, weaknesses, and progress that avoids judgment. As Sandy struggled to understand why she wasn’t happy at her own company, she realized that she needed to look in the mirror. “I

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We started our conversation with my dad describing what cultural entrepreneurship is: Tom Aageson: Cultural entrepreneurship is an effort on the part of an entrepreneur who is very committed to cultural development and sees opportunities. Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader. Will this person take a genuine interest in me?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. That is, wise mentors offer up plenty of suggestions to their mentees. Mentoring is all about sharing experiences. They pose alternatives.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2013

Hi friends, I've been inspired by this community for a long time - from being mentored by Britt Bravo when first starting a little Net2 chapter in Vancouver (which Elijah van der Giessen and team have turned into something huge and magnificently helpful), to being inspired by Amy Sample Ward to grow conversations and dig deeper.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

For example – if on your site you sell shoes, google will send you people specifically looking to buy shoes. The best way to do that is to practice on your own website , by setting up a blog. STEP 3- Find a Mentor. Towards the end of a deep conversation my friend once said, after a long thought – “Things take time.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

I’m not arguing for long, pointless, unstructured conversations with everyone you meet. But many of my most fruitful relationships have resulted from a meeting or call in which I was not entirely sure what would or would not come of the conversation. How do you create the inner circle of your network?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." blog in November of 2006, about halfway through my work on Operation Spy. The blog started with a conference experience.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

One interesting example of how community building in the open source world mirrors the methodologies of nonprofits is the "book sprint" phenomenon, where teams of volunteers gather (in person and remotely) to write user guides. More recently, open source applications from SugarCRM to Zimbra have entered the SaaS space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. New power and old power leaders would have opportunities to learn from and mentor each other. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, members who are deeply engaged can be more likely to refer their friends and colleagues. Google Analytics, for example, allows you to track your association’s website performance and analyze user behavior via metrics like website traffic, source of traffic, demographics, conversions, and more.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Tuesday, November 9, 2010 How To Produce An Effective Company Blog If you lead a business and aren’t part of the 34% of U.S. Make your blog as non-promotional as possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2019

For example, when you get asked to do something you don’t want to do in a job, think about what you can learn from it that someone else will pay you more for in the future. Question : Why is mentorship important and how do you find a mentor? Williams : I write in my book – Chapter 3 – about official and unofficial mentors.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2006

I’m a perfect example of the challenge these associations are facing. It's hard to be motivated to initiate the same kind of conversations with strangers--give me someone with a different take on it. Mentor partners? Blog/web hosting space? Feeling pumped and ready to join? I can’t even join ASTC as an individual.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Establish and monitor relevant key performance indicators. Fight entropy.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! For example, older donors (65+) still respond well to direct mail offers. Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate. At BDI, we also see total website conversion rates of 8 to 10%.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Establish and monitor relevant key performance indicators. Fight entropy.

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