Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. Our purposes for using Analytics as User Research are: To learn about current visitors to the website. Research Questions. User Research. Overall site visits.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Thorough understanding leads to big ideas. Creativity matters only if it sells.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

The book includes access to Katie’s research papers, vendor selection charts, and much more. You also get access to Katie’s monthly Measurement Hours where you can ask Katie questions. Katie’s e-books also come with a “Lifetime Content Warranty.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. If you been to a training where the trainer incorporated movement, what techniques did they use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

When researching the book, we came up with a curated a list of our favorite technology wellness apps. But last week, I was honored to do a webinar for Whole Whale where George Weiner and I discussed apps. There are many Mood Trackers, apps that let you you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Using best practices and tips based on research can help you improve. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. Twitter Cheat Sheet based on research from Buddy Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Gift range chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. The skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

It was great to do at a Spitfire session and discuss how social media integrates with the Smart Chart. CLEAR Training: Social Media Strategy View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. Pete Stauffer. The good folks at The Port Network had emailed me about an extra NTEN Membership and I raffled it off at the end of the session.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

And because a lot of these organizations are controlling administrative costs by cutting staff, there just isn't much time for additional research. region can also skew grantseeking techniques and results. If your organization is like those of many of our respondents, there is never enough time or staff to devote to grantseeking.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

What's noted: "Adapted patterns are also cross-cutting techniques for increasing engagement and revenue." In my levels of engagement chart, a simple action involves befriending (e.g. Has anyone done any research on this topic? MySpace), subscribing, forwarding and/or learning. Need to go digest. What am I not seeing?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% It’s in our org charts. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. Can you read a chart? of total fundraising revenue. Common Best Practices Remain Uncommon.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Tell Your Story, Literally!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In October, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This another area of Steve's interest and expertise. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We have done this in-person as part of stakeholder discovery and have also done them remotely, with end-users, as a user research activity. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Here's the research I did. Should Your Organization Embrace Social Media or Not? ??? Here's how.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

But there is a slight error in that line of thinking as it restricts the progress that comes with adoption of new practices, techniques, and technology. It requires a bit of research and hard work to make this work. How do you get all of this research done while still leading your organization? You know what I mean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The next exercise participants worked in small groups using a low-tech method to "doodle out" their networks (magic markers and flip chart paper.) This exercise reminded me of an exercise I used to do in workshops 12 years ago with nonprofits to introduce the Internet, " Draw A Picture of the Intern et ". Click to see larger diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Market Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. The ten steps was originally tailored for a nonprofit technology and nonprofit audience -- so some of the examples were not as relevant to the audience as the new ones that I had researched.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. More than 750 researchers, teachers and leaders from the field gather at the Annual Conference. Research / @ARNOVA. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Annual Conference for Development Researchers.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

StoryBrand Framework There are two major ways you can think about crafting stories, and you can test this through donor research and data analytics to see which is more successful for you. Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys. Find out what makes them give and what they care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other techniques. Good research starts with hypothesis generation. Fundraising Research Studies' Please Retweet! The room was packed.

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DipJar

JUNE 8, 2021

AI for fundraising works by identifying deep patterns in your historical engagement and fundraising data and then training predictive models to chart likely outcomes in the future. Major giving predictions can help prioritize your prospect research and stewardship efforts by honing in on the supporters most likely to convert.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2015

Idealware has been hard at work researching nonprofit initiatives to collect and report results data and apply the findings to particular areas of interest, with the goal of better understanding how organizations think about results data and what’s being done in the space. Did you know charitable giving has been around since 2500 BCE?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. How many by when?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Despite study after study that shows pay is not the top reason employees stay with a company, research results like these often surprise workplace leaders. Then, use the web and social networking for research. Compensation came in fifth on the top five list. Employee pay often is not the most important driver for employee retention.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

Community users can download a variety of research reports and presentations about leadership and leadership versus management. Then, use the web and social networking for research. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? GEN X Employees -- Think up a list of solutions on their own. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions.

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