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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. In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. You have my sympathies!) 2) SOS Violence Conjugale.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use a combined method. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. The above shows the methods.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. method is a tried-and-true goal setting acronym that stands for s pecific, m easurable, a ttainable, r elevant, and t imebound. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. 1) Visual Storytelling. see above).

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. But campaigns.