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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. How they use this technique : They anticipate the visitor’s emotional journey. 3) Bushfire Help.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Harry's Green Geek: Tip #3 and Green Charity Donation Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Harry wants to save the environment and is interested in video blogging. So what better way to combine his geek interests with social causes than to create a video blog post tip series on Green Geek Tips. This Harry's Green Geek Tip #3 is about washing your cloths in cold water and was inspired by this post from Crunchy Goddess.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Reflections on Guest Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data. Brennan noted that when a program that is trying change a system is in this stage – the logic model is not the navigational star.