Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Deciding how to handle donor recognition on social media is a complex exercise. The social media posts that get the most engagement often include strong examples of mission impact, surprising facts, spotlights on special groups like kids and volunteers, or useful tools and resources. Final Thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

“Born from necessity, the pandemic catalyzed the shift to a more digitally-driven selling process, and consequently thought leadership has become an increasingly important top of the funnel marketing tool.” Be Deliberate Thought leadership is an important top of the funnel marketing tool. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns. To help you dive right in, this posts provides an overview of the tools available, best practices, and examples to make your chosen AI writing tool work for you.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. That synergy happens when people express opinions frankly and debate in the spirit of collaboration. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. Cultivate Diversity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

By investing in automation and organizational tools that let technology take over on the day-to-day tasks, your team can devote more of themselves to your organization’s big-picture initiatives. Gaining alignment across multiple groups is an exercise in communication. Now ask yourself, what’s keeping you from achieving that goal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The brainstorming methods remind me of the “creativity” techniques such as Michael Michalko’s “ Cracking Creativity ” but instead of drawing them on paper alone, using sticky notes to make it a collaborate or group process. When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. To raise the bar in digital innovation, nonprofits can explore new ways to drive more engaging, impressive, and effective digital experiences by coupling modern tools to work together through composable architecture. Not Loving GA4?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Offer high-quality accountability and management tools. They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They offer high-quality accountability and management tools. Make the day fun. Ask the right questions.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 24, 2021

From donor communications and community collaboratives to leading your team , there are few areas where confidence doesn’t play a major role in your success and your comfort. The more you work to improve it and exercise it, the more it grows. But, maintaining healthy confidence is rooted in things deeper than these accomplishments.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Venture 2 Impact leveraged technology to continue providing nonprofit partners and volunteers around the world with necessary tools and training to advance their mission despite challenges created by the pandemic. We developed stronger relationships within our team and across regions — even as we collaborated on this project from our homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. The 2014 LightBox Collaborative Editorial Calendar has arrived! Beautifully done–thank you for this excellent planning tool!”

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Givinga

AUGUST 12, 2021

We know that while HR teams and insurance brokers are committed to devising benefit packages that attract and retain key talent, expanding the benefits package also needs to be an efficient exercise. Our new partnership with Givinga allows for both,” said Bradley Taylor, Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at PlanSource.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

This promotes exercise and appeals to individuals and families alike. Impactful Collaborations & Partnerships Your fundraising events can also celebrate your nonprofit’s partnerships and even forge new connections with businesses. A road race. A bike race or trail ride. A walk-a-thon or dance-a-thon (or any other a-thon).

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Classy

MAY 18, 2021

We embraced our core value of “ always be learning ” and quickly connected and collaborated with our hiring managers to think of approaches beyond what we’d historically followed. . We re-evaluated the tools we were using in order to get coverage in new locations. Hackerrank to simulate whiteboard exercises virtually.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

And, whether you are taking a piecemeal approach or attempting a radical change in the way your organization operates, the greatest challenge you are likely to come across isn’t selecting what technologies or tools to implement, rather, it’s getting everyone on board with the change in the first place. As Katelyn put it: “don’t do this alone.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

The LightBox Collaborative 2013 Editorial Calendar is here! If you are new to the concept of an editorial calendar, it is a user-friendly tool for mapping relevant, compelling content to your media channels. This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Supercharging DevOps; 3 Key Considerations” was one of many conference highlights diving deep into optimizing team collaboration during the building and deployment of Salesforce apps. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 24, 2021

From donor communications and community collaboratives to leading your team , there are few areas where confidence doesn’t play a major role in your success and your comfort. The more you work to improve it and exercise it, the more it grows. But, maintaining healthy confidence is rooted in things deeper than these accomplishments.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

These technology tools frequently create ecosystems of users and businesses that either implement them or create integrated software tools. What if a competitor’s tool is simply better? The inherent collaboration of nonprofit organizations globally drives the need for structures that facilitate exchanging nonprofit data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

” I was lucky enough to collaborate with Janet McIntyre , a nonprofit leadership coach and Jeffrey Golde , Adjunct Professor of Management: Columbia Business School, along with Abe Flores from AFTA. We ended the afternoon with a coaching exercise that helps motivate and empower people by focusing on their strengths. .”

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I've been a fan of an online community called Innocentive and a new announcement about how their program has successfully matched researchers with funders is a testament to the power of their online collaboration program. "It was certainly worth going through the exercise."

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. The tools and methods here are designed to be flexible and adaptable so that you can make them work for your organization and needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The instructor is Stanford Professor and Philanthropist Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen. The course teaches students to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact giving plan, volunteer more effectively, and use online networks and tools for good. The course also has an action learning component.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization. Effective delivery for professional development needs to be integrated into the actual work day and that with limited professional development budgets and fast paced workloads, micro-content and micro-exercises as well as mini-sessions are most useful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It encompass mindset and ways of working which can be used to exercise new power despite whatever platform or tool is available to us. The Cheerleader: Champions new power values like collaboration, transparency, and participation, but leads in an old power way. Examples:President Obama and Howard Schultz.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Working virtually for our team meant we worked collaboratively in a way that wasn’t possible prepandemic. Dave Holmes Programs Manager, Midwest “Our national network of nonprofit professionals not only still needed our critical fundraising tools and expertise last year—they were craving peer connections and engagement.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

This virtual summit created a digital experience that enabled attendees to connect with others, collaborate, cultivate success, and inspire others long after the summit ended. It can be a powerful team building exercise. Virtual Trade Shows or Expos.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

This virtual summit created a digital experience that enabled attendees to connect with others, collaborate, cultivate success, and inspire others long after the summit ended. It can be a powerful team building exercise. Virtual Trade Shows or Expos.

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