Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

For counseling situations, body language and tone are important in traditional therapy and support, but chatbots, which interact with text virtually, cannot (yet) observe or understand nonverbal communication. Second, chatbots and other AI technologies need to be carefully designed and tested for human interaction and bias to mitigate risks.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Every piece of software has a software development lifecycle (SDLC) that typically involves discovery, requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Test in a Safe Environment Low-code development can be incredibly fast. Unlike low-code, it’s a complicated process.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Drafting and testing. Writing multiple drafts for A/B testing on social media. Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? AI can help in quickly drafting responses. Optimizing reach. Generating variations on hashtags and keyword searches.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

To answer these questions and put experts’ advice to the test, I decided to ask my peers. Prefers language that is both relatable and easy to understand (with some experts saying it’s important to use their slang ). To make these more engaging, we’re going to test using different images, calls to actions, and subject lines.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Test it on various browsers and on a mobile device, just to make sure. Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand. Update your blog. A blog is a great addition to your nonprofit website for frequent updates. Offer an easy opt-in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

Use urgent, actionable language. Use A/B testing to assess the effectiveness of your CTAs. Use urgent, actionable language. To create a truly eye-catching CTA, you can’t just rely on using urgent, inspirational language. Use A/B testing to assess the effectiveness of your CTAs. Make your CTAs stand out on the page.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Some nonprofits have approached this additional registration step by providing multiple lines to reduce wait times, so those guests who have vaccination cards—or proof of a recent negative COVID test—can enter the event right away, while special situations are handled by staff elsewhere.

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Personal Ideas Registration Guidelines 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Hopefully by now, all fundraising practitioners and development leaders at impact organizations large and small have begun testing and seeing success. Speak the Language Your Donors Speak. We recently published a blog entitled “Why it’s Time to Rename our Sector from ‘Nonprofit’ to ‘For Impact’. Engage More Diverse Donors.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language. Finding the balance in your organization.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

We weren’t sure what messaging angle to take with Pi Day after taking a step back from Penny Pi, so we started with message testing. We tested different angles on how to present the Museum’s mission in the context of Pi Day to see what would resonate most with folks, as well as images and taglines for the campaign.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

A sandbox is a testing environment where you can test code changes separately from your live production environment. Read the blog article, Don’t get caught without a Salesforce sandbox for your AMS. Testing code as it’s developed to make sure it works properly is critically important to a quality software product.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

For example, on social media you’ll want to modify your language to be simple yet engaging to encourage sharing. To test or preview your campaign, consider doing a soft launch first. The post Launching a successful nonprofit communications campaign appeared first on Candid Blog. Be sure to tailor your messaging to each channel.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

If you don’t know, I suggest you go test your own “Donate” button right now to find out. 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?

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

That left us with only one more step before launch, the User Testing Phase, but this quickly showed us we still had some work to do. Going into user testing, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. After the first day of user tests, my expectations were already shot out of the water. Incidentally, this is the launch.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 6, 2014

Using unfamiliar language, over the top punctuation, or off-beat spelling in your nonprofit’s call to action message can often confuse or turn away potential donors and visitors to your website. Testing your software to make sure it is simple and effective is imperative to your success. Direct call to action message.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

Maybe you’ve even played around with ChatGPT or some other AI language tool. This would be something I’d carefully consider before implementing, or at least test and monitor by ensuring the automated system is weeding out the same applications that you would.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And with the latest entry being 2023 – when Google released its generative AI natural language processing tool. Finally, as an unexpected special treat, Appendix B provides a fascinating History of Technology Timeline , starting with the first technological milestone dating back to more than two million years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

She also used the term “Red Teaming” where you test the technology to try to break it so you feel confident that it will do no harm. And because they use natural language processing, it makes it easier to use because you can have a conversation versus navigating menus.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

This includes the type of language you use, the message you send, and the visual representation of your organization. Some of the considerations you should take into account when redesigning your website for engagement include navigation and A/B testing. Of course, your brand is larger than just your logo.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Here’s an overview of the book from the authors blog. Automation and the Changing Demand for Workforce Skills: Blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger summarizing various studies about AI will impact workforce skills. A recent article in the New York Times describes how new AI driven systems are getting better at natural language.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you were paying close attention when GDPR came around in 2018 and your organization is confidently GDPR-compliant , you are probably in good shape beyond some updates to privacy policy language. Using wealth screening regularly on NY or CA residents if you are a large (+$25M organization).

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Much of the public discourse currently revolves around natural language models, and you’ve probably read commentary positing that ChatGPT offers a solution to virtually every problem. We’ll discuss the importance of understanding when to use AI and how to get comfortable testing AI in various scenarios.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Avoid Complex Language and Narratives While all the nitty-gritty details behind a story might be interesting, too much jargon can be distracting. You can share it far and wide—in your newsletter, on your blog, as a video on social media … the possibilities are almost endless!

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Storytelling Guide Nonprofit Story 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . The Universal Center for Design provides a robust explanation of the standards for keyboard accessibility, including how to conduct a manual test.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Use A/B testing to determine which images are most effective for engaging visitors. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. You can also use calls to action throughout your blog posts or services pages. Intuitive user experience.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Explore identity and feelings : Use proposition testing; A/B test Facebook ads; conduct sentiment analysis. Understand who influences them and whom they trust : Conduct content marketing testing, qualitative analysis, and social media listening (Do they follow celebrities vs. political commentators?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Check out the blog post, “ Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do With It? ”. This person will take the lead in convening internal stakeholders, making plans, testing the waters internally, setting parameters, and liaising with foundation leadership. Choosing Your Participatory Grantmaking Champion.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Use these tried and true best practices to turn your website into a fundraising tool you can count on year-round: Optimize your donation page Streamline your navigation Create an engaging blog Before you dive into these tips, ensure that you’re working with the best tech stack possible to bring your web design dreams to life.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing. How does this make any sense, and why don’t we acknowledge that we, too, are testing hypotheses, and we need the skills, resources, and flexibility to test them?

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Allegiance Group

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Microsoft.NET language (they remove “Core” from the name starting with version 5) is rebuilt from the ground up and can run on multiple platforms including Linux. Any changes can be pulled, tested, and distributed to different environments more easily and in a more structured way. We did have to use version 7.x

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In face-to-face meetings, you can feel the energy in the room drop when people get tired by watching their body language or engagement falls off. The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test.

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Media Cause

JULY 19, 2022

In this blog, we will explore why accessibility is important as well as social media accessibility best practices. Write in plain language that users of all audiences and cognitive abilities can comprehend. . Bonus tip: create private social media accounts to test draft content before publishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. We reconnected, of course, through a recent blog comment. We are particularly interested in the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and support donors.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

To learn this, test as much as you can in order to get to know your audience well and understand what resonates with them. For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller.

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