The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2024

Report progress – Broadcast achievements to build momentum and prompt peers to give. Give first – Lead by example and get the ball rolling with your own contribution. For example, a giving campaign could be paired with a memorial event honoring past members or volunteers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No personal attacks ad hominem comments. Give everybody a turn. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Share an example “Someone once told me… and it may work here.”

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

A social networking feed – so members can view and comment on relevant content. For example, offer live and on-demand webinars on a variety of relevant topics all year long. give members more of the trusted information they want.? Expand your online career center. missing out on an opportunity to?give

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" Establish Comparative Costs: Compare cost of the same result or activity in other media, like blog post comments vs. the cost of hosting a focus group. What are your techniques? Do you have an example of a good ROI story telling?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you. Is it the best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Here’s an example where I calculated the mean, median, and standard deviation of the age of people who were served by a nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I happened to stumble upon this funny tweet from Billboard that asks its Twitter followers to tweet with the hashtag #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong and gave the example “I kissed a squirrel and I liked it.” 2. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

You’re finally done with your year-end giving analysis and follow up. this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use. If urgency is the instinct to act, purpose is the thought behind the action to give. Purpose gives your donors a reason to give. or comment on your posts. It’s spring!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

For giggles, I posted after business hours and noticed an uptick in comments. In the comments, Debra Askanase pointed to her post that detailed the study’s findings in the research study. So, I not only got more comments, but they added a lot of value. Facebook gives less weight to posts made via third party apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2017

Challenge Events – The agency also does step challenges using trackers and gives out gift cards to winners. One event was called “ Eat the Rainbow ” where employees learned basic cooking techniques from local professional chefs to prepare healthy meals. Share your example in the comments below!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

For example, from a race perspective, in most settings, this is white women. For the last scenario, it can be as simple as “I think Kristen got cut off there and I’d like to hear the rest of her comment.” Or “I think Kristen was trying to share something. Kristen, can you repeat what you were saying?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I’m facilitating a Peer Learning Program for the Knight Foundation with community foundations that are hosting Giving Days using the Knight Foundation’s Giving Day Playbook. This is a good trick if your subject is back lit and darker, the iPhone, for example will auto focus and adjust the contrast. Photography'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

But, as things start to loosen up and return to something resembling normal , a hybrid event could give you the best parts of a live event as well as the benefits that come with having a wider audience tuning in online. They can get rid of any inappropriate comments and deliver posted questions to the facilitator. Do a full rehearsal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. You should note how many prospects you may have to reach out to at each giving level. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. We’ll give it another 10 or so seconds. Just look for an email from me towards the end of the day. Here we go. There it is. . Seeing results coming in. .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. Social network analysis gives you a 10,000 view of your ecosystem. Family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. The number of stars depends on how your Post Quality compares to similar Pages (for example, Pages that have a similar number of fans.). Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. It is calculated on a rolling seven-day basis… See More.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. It’s a lot easier to answer a specific question, like “How many comments are you getting on your blog?”

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But in our second example, the donor understands how their donation will be helping someone in need. How do we respond to common objectives such as a lack of interest, recent issues with the organization, or other giving priorities? Listen for matching gift asks during calls and provide guidance to improve techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. In the example above, I discovered a turkey in the canyon. Analyze the Comments. Does it require some special gift? ” 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month. Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

Content curation also includes engaging with your audience around the content shared, but adding value. For example, commenting is about adding context or furthering the understanding of the topic or asking audience to contribute their knowledge to the conversation. And be sure to give them credit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Managing your organization’s Facebook page, particularly tracking, content, and engagement can be a time suck, particularly as your network grows. For example, we know that identifying and engaging with super fans/influencers on our Facebook presence is important. Guest Post by James Young , SpredFast. Scaling Engagement.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Brad Dunn basically summarized the overall themes of people comments. In medicine for example, there are only a certain number of spaces allowed for residency, and it is regulated by congress. Philanthropy is changing, with large benefactors giving way to people giving less and earned income increasing in importance.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

No patterns published unless the designer says it’s okay to give it away. Folks can leave comments on my projects. Studiometry Cheryl commented on my dock entry: Would be very interested. Same with connecting to the work of designers and others who have worked on their projects. When I’m knitting, it’s all I.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. Let me know in the comments. If not, we’ll roll the video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. comprising the people most likely to give and raise additional money." Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Is this wave of the future?

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