Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search. ChatGPT was the fastest product adoption in history. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search. ChatGPT was the fastest product adoption in history. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice. Don’t forget to ASK!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your donor engagement strategy may outline different recognition tiers by gift amount ($50 donations receive a shout-out in your newsletter, and $250 donations receive a plaque, for example). Report: Report back to donors and share how your nonprofit is making a difference. So engage your donors by speaking like a person.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2022

Collect data about your current donors and potential donors including information like their age, backgrounds, wealth indicators, giving histories, and motivators. With a good nonprofit CRM platform, you can store and organize all of your data and use it to segment your donors with different filters. Qualification.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Here's a brief description of the elements to include in your case statement: Mission + History. Be sure to provide a full picture of the expenses you expect to incur, not just snapshots at different points along your timeline.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! This data includes real estate holdings, giving history, assets, and more. How will their gift make a difference? Start by brainstorming different ways you can recognize donors. Don’t despair.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is well documented, and even the history of people describing themselves as white goes back to the slave trade. And I wonder if you could share a little bit about how it’s been for you to be working with this imagery, this visual language that you’re creating? Devyn Taylor: Yeah.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 8, 2008

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. I first tried the fresh version, and found it unpalatable (pictures above). Micronesia left quite an impression on me. It was kind of tannic and bitter.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We''re working on a theory of change.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Understanding the new up-and-coming generation is a little like learning a new language—and I’m not just talking about deciphering their slang. And we need to do so in their language. Here are five things a millennial would tell you as you work to connect and engage with the largest generation in American history. Post pictures.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. What's different about your life, your work? This is a detailed history from the future.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing instruments, painting pictures, and cooking gourmet meals in record numbers. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives. They're going to trivia night.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. But I couldn’t get there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. If you are copying it to the letter, ask permission.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. I needed to know more about aid, about philanthropy, about the history of Western involvement in international development. Matthews makes the point that despite slight westernization, Africa remains rooted in indigenous languages and cultural norms.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. Too many nonprofit staff are so busy doing the work, they don’t step back to consider the bigger picture of organizational culture and a shared mental model. Business guru Peter F.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, I am going to go down a different and very special path. I will add to this post several pictures so all of you can muster a true sense of what she was to members of the Love clan. The picture below shows our Business Relationship blossoming into a personal friendship as we dined on a train from London to Plymouth.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Using your CRM, divide your donor list into a series of smaller, more specialized groups based on different shared attributes. Then, craft different messages to send to each group. A picture is worth a thousand words, so include visuals in your communications that showcase your nonprofit’s community. Don’t just ask for help.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Dang, she’s done a lot of Bloomerang webinars over our 10-year history and is just one of my favorite people. I’ve used Bloomerang in different gigs. I love the copy as well as the picture. . Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When you collect information about your donors—including elements like their demographics, their background, and their history with your organization, you can use that information in all kinds of ways. How do you know what stories, images, and language to use in your upcoming campaign? Here are three examples of how it can work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We recommend using an integrated payment processor and including information about it in your form (like the PCI badge pictured below) so donors can be sure that your donation process is secure. Is your donation form easily accessible on your website, or do your donors have to dig around your different pages to find it?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So we have several different topics today and the four. ” And to determine what we want to track, we want to look at different areas of engagement. Those are two different things, efficient and effective operating. And there’s three different areas that we can look at. So perhaps we’ll see some of you.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

As I will show you different concepts of love throughout the presentation, the kind of love that we’re talking about is not just the love that we can have for people who are similar to us, who are easy to love, who are welcoming us loving them, but also the people who we may or may not be able to love in the first go.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. So know that when you are talking and having this conversation with them, they’re already telling themselves a different. I know a number of you do.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So I’m going to cover the different changes in-depth, major gift demographics that we’re seeing now as things are shifting into these different directions and then I’ll talk about how you can make some adaptations in your donor relations as we look at incorporating things like cryptocurrency into the ways that you can accept gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

In my last post about nonprofit bots, I discussed the big picture of automation in the nonprofit space and what I learned from the “ The Beth Bot ” experiment. For this post, I did a landscape scan to identify some of the best examples of nonprofit bots. My conversation with the Albert Einstein Bot. Momconnect.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2017

The danger is amplified even more so for people living in oppressive contexts; there the law of the land does not offer protection to people whose social behavior differs from the norm. It has been translated into eight languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, and Russian). Chayn's Crowdsourced Guide.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So I’m going to cover the different changes in-depth, major gift demographics that we’re seeing now as things are shifting into these different directions and then I’ll talk about how you can make some adaptations in your donor relations as we look at incorporating things like cryptocurrency into the ways that you can accept gifts.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But, lest we repeat history if we think the digital paradigm will solve things! We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. Digital Paradigm. Holistic Paradigm.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

People like pictures, video over words. Because when you think about, when you’re on social media and you’re scrolling, you stop when you see a picture or video quicker than, say, words. It makes a huge difference. And what is the donors’ giving history? They may want to give to something different.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 Billion. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy. Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. For the first time in U.S.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This year should be no different. Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Segment your donor list, and tailor your direct mail content to resonate with different groups. You can always adjust the goal higher later if you reach it too quickly!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events you’ve captured on your iPhone into brief movies to share. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This year should be no different. Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. As we all know, those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it! You can always adjust the goal higher later if you reach it too quickly!

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