Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

It’s kinda sad when a blog looks abandoned, isn’t it? When I started blogging way back in January 2003, there weren’t a lot of other places where I could communicate and express myself publicly. And who knows, maybe I’ll pick up the blogging bug again some day. I will be forever grateful.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

And if the writing sucks, who cares? Okay so not every piece of content marketing, blog post (cough) or video can be a Tarantino-esque passion-laden thrill ride. But you always, always, always need darn good writing. Of course, posting a boring read with a jargon headline at 2 a.m. for your age 45+ audience is going to bomb.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While video views are nice, we measure our success by engagement—using likes, comments, saves, or shares as our metrics. These results convinced us to make video a permanent part of our social media strategy. Second, it gives us a backlog of content. We tie our videos to our blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. Rituals can also be used by teams in the workplace to improve effectiveness. I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I also use it as a reflection as the year progresses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Read our blog post to find out more about how videos can be powerful fundraising tools. The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” 4) Write a captivating fundraiser story. By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about. Collettey’s Cookies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Unfortunately, the atmospheric river dumping a lot of much needed rain prevented us from enjoying a hike. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I Year in Review.

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, writing about what you need (e.g., Your proposal is tailored to the funder and clearly answers each question  You likely need to write a lot of grant applications, so it’s a good idea to reuse past proposals as a template. They want to know that your program and organization are a smart investment.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We often put things off, placing learning skills on the shelf where they weren’t easily accessible to us. For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. Inviting writing Research shows when we write things down ( especially handwriting ), we internalize it more and remember it better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

Several years ago, Allison Fine and I started talking about our next book together and started writing and thinking about the implications of an emerging technology that we describe as “Smart Tech,” and what nonprofit leaders need to know to be prepared. We’ll hope you take a listen and be inspired to purchase the book!

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

And if the writing sucks, who cares? Okay so not every piece of content marketing, blog post (cough) or video can be a Tarantino-esque passion-laden thrill ride. But you always, always, always need darn good writing. Of course, posting a boring read with a jargon headline at 2 a.m. for your age 45+ audience is going to bomb.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? The use of generative AI in your grantwriting involves two main principles: 1. What you put in: Be deliberate in crafting the prompts you use with generative AI tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Writing a proposal for a project grant can feel like a daunting task, but with the right guidance, it doesn’t need to be a bewildering endeavor. In this blog, we will share the key elements of a typical project proposal and best practices for how to approach drafting each section to help you secure the grant you seek.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. We have trained our supporters to ignore us. . We’ve conditioned our readers to expect junk from us by sending junk over and over. We’re all busy and most people don’t like writing. That’s average. ).

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Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

Additionally, the weight of unfinished work (those requests in our inboxes) continues to nag at us well after 5 p.m., tempting us to just keep going. While work reaches us through our devices, we’re also surrounded by home-life requests, whether it’s taking care of a crying child or paying bills. One study found that U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

But how do you unlock this power without knowing how to write code? Our panelists will share the use cases they’ve discovered and how you can get started with this cornerstone of digital transformation. Join us in this session to learn what responsible AI could mean for your school. Blackbaud’s 2024 ATLIS sessions include: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for annual planning and goal setting. Year in Review.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 3, 2024

This March, join us in honoring the women who make your organization and community a better place! For example, hire an ASL interpreter, use gender neutral bathrooms, and include gender pronouns on nametags. Since 1987, the United States has honored women’s ongoing contributions to history, society, and culture.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using ChatGPT prompts for nonprofits can help your organization create fundraising letters and other resources quickly and can be used to help you raise more money throughout the fundraising cycle. With over 100 million users, ChatGPT learns more information and writing styles to provide superior responses. What is ChatGPT?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A reader writes : “ Bloomerang, please add emoji support throughout the platform–but especially for email subject lines!” ” Bloomerang responds : Our readers mean the world to us, thanks for letting us know your needs for content. Here’s Laurence Pagnoni’s blog about emojis in reply.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

We’d love to hear what questions you have about integrating AI into your social media practice, whether you raise your hand at NTC or send us a message later. We’ll share more after the session and dive into some of the questions we’ll tackle here: Everything’s changing so fast, is everyone already using AI? Template creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an opinion piece, “ AI Can Help Nonprofits Reach More Donors But Fundraisers Can’t Ignore Potential Pitfalls ,” a topic that Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about since 2017. For the most part, Narrow AI is what is in use today and getting better. And never should).

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The short answer is no, not if you want to use your data in meaningful ways. We knew that there was information in one part of the system that could be very useful for another team. We knew that there was information in one part of the system that could be very useful for another team. So, we invested in a connected platform.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

Here’s what the data is telling us to do to improve online engagement: Write more engaging emails: Focus on content that people want to see and are motivated to click. The post Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report Highlights first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Over the last few years, many researchers have come to us trying to better understand what data we have, what the data says, and how they can use it. The section describes cleaning processes that can be used to remove unusable responses and recode write-in responses. Please reach out to us at research@candid.org.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. Data gives us context. Data helps us make decisions.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

It means you have to PLAN what you’ll say and think about who you’re saying it to, not just hurry through the task of writing so you can mark it off your “to do” list. For example… Ask for this Not that Help us care for a dog/cat for a day Give to our annual fund Provide lunch for an orphan for a year for just $38.40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Through the years, I’ve featured four books on my blog by Robert L. You’ll learn about: understanding the power of personal connections how to pivot in your career the right way to make mistakes how to use influence for the greater good how to be a memorable manager effective networking Robert L. Dilenschneider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Many of us work for nonprofits because we are passionate about social change missions. Despite the challenges, many of us manage to get extraordinary results without burning out. Stress Reduction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2010

A big thanks to everyone who contributed a post to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival! In her post, Nonprofit blogs: why this one works , Lisbeth of Nonprofit Execs on the Edge points to 2 keys to a juicy blog: a focus on storytelling and blog posts that aren't staff-generated. Nonprofit 2.0 Nonprofit 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s a terrific book that captured my attention back in January when I wrote this on my blog: “It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. It’s that good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. At the same time, our industry has shown remarkable resilience in times of greatest need, and this year has been no exception.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After drafting this blog, I hopped on a call with a colleague who had just begun working back in her office and she (unsolicited!) Write it out. Writing about your emotions is a proven tactic to help us address and learn from them. So, what’s the answer? Sadly, I don’t have the solution. Are you sad ? Disillusioned ?

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

This negativity bias is adaptive, as remembering what hurts us keeps us alive. Anyone who works in the nonprofit sector knows it’s not for the faint of heart. By necessity, the sector focuses on the negatives—the systems that are broken, the problems that need solving, the issues that are underfunded.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

If this has been your experience when setting up and configuring any software, stop reading this post and email me ASAP what you are using. If this hasn’t been your experience—which I imagine is true for many, if not all, of us—then keep reading. Because I want to know! One piece of software can’t solve all your problems.

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