Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes resilience so that every time you hear “no,” you don’t let it stop you, especially when times are hard, the economy is tanking, or some other crisis is looming. Not only is asking for donations uncomfortable at times, but with SO many great causes out there to donate to, WHY would someone choose your cause? Y’all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion. or “On what social channel can I find my audience?”.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Most people who’ve been doing email communication for any length of time understand that too many emails equals increased unsubscribes, lower open rates and lower click through rates. This approach works well if you’re really strapped for time. Different options. Same theme, different options. 4) Deadline Alert.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Whether they are donating their time, their voices, or their dollars, it’s essential to make sure your supporters know how valued they are—and fully grasp the impact of their generosity. Valentine’s Day is a great time to give your audience a little extra sugar! Get in touch at FreshEyesDigital.com !

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

Bill walked us through seven different perspectives organizations can use to further their mission using traditional media plus new channels. ” Layering advocacy, strategy, dealing with barriers and some go-to techniques, Cierra laid out a plan for all of us to build powerful brands from the inside out. . .”

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Byte Technology

JULY 16, 2021

Web download speeds and overall performance are an evolving science, and record shows that as little as milliseconds can make a massive difference in customer’s behaviors and impact sales conversions. . This protects server time and allows web pages to download faster. Closer proximity equals quicker load time.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

3 techniques for effective data-driven decision-making Whether you’re looking to acquire new donors, retain the ones already on your list, or upgrade existing donors, using your data to optimize your asks can help you reach the right supporters with the right messages at the right time, every time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

There is a technique that you can use for nearly any type of campaign that will help you achieve the best results and the lowest cost per result: it’s all about targeting broadly, having lots of creative variations and giving Facebook time to learn. . 6) Your Facebook campaigns need time to learn.

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

But if you’re like most nonprofit organizations, you don’t have a whole lot of extra staff or time to devote to chasing news anchors and movie stars to help you get your mission in the public eye. This blog post will help provide some quick tips and techniques for helping your mission get more attention in less time.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season. Now is the time to get started with AI fundraising!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Create more than one video at a time When staff create videos, they often record three to four at the same time. First, it saves time and energy. Setting up to record video takes time, whether it’s prepping the space or getting yourself camera-ready. There are a couple reasons why we do this. What happens next?

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission. What is the difference between inbound and outbound marketing? For-profit marketing is heavily focused on making a profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them. Then ask everyone to cast their vote at the same time. Step 2: Start the process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? It’s important to understand your traffic sources so you can attribute revenue to different ways you’re trying to find more donors. Leave the game of chance for another time. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

It isn’t just the huge uptick in back-to-back virtual meetings we are hosting or attending, many times without breaks in between. As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

Continuously Learn and Adapt: It’s important to design processes and implement systems that allow for the continual training of models with new data to improve the accuracy and relevance of responses over time. Consistency: Responses should be consistent in voice, tone, style, and factual accuracy across different sessions and contexts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. The busier you are during your workday, the more your nervous system needs quiet time. Sometimes we just time into the next meeting before we’ve had a chance to take a pause from the previous meeting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It does this by finding the best timing, messaging, and asking amounts for each donor. Gain insights into donor behavior, understand stakeholder preferences, and more, while freeing up time for relationship-building. It also shows the best time to ask for donations. AI tools help organizations find the best fundraising targets.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Instead, embrace the silence and use this time to observe the donor’s core reaction.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

times greater than ticketed events.”. Team fundraising introduces gamification, which is a fancy word for an online marketing technique intended to inspire engagement with a product or service. Compared with traditional fundraisers, it requires less money and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

It’s Time for Next Generation Virtual Collaboration by Civicist – tips for online collaboration. Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. It’s Time To Get Good At Virtual Meetings by Spitfire. Creating Connection in a Time of Covid-19 – interview with Nancy White.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore different ways to enhance your nonprofit’s recruitment and talent acquisition strategies with email. As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Use automated personalization tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. The design lab was facilitated by Pete Maher, founder of Luma Institute. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. That’s a long time. So stay tuned. What about you?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. Examples: Percentage of budget spent on different departments. Breakdown of how Americans spend their leisure time. If you choose to use this technique, use pies with only a couple of wedges to keep it easy to understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As we continue to highlight ways corporations can encourage employee health and wellness throughout early 2021, we wanted to share how our customers were implementing some of these techniques in real-time, making an impact in their workplace and communities.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

Transcript: Writing grant proposals is a time-intensive process, and it can often feel repetitive. Tip number two: Even though proposal questions may seem exactly the same, pay attention to nuance or slight wording differences. Some people prefer to have a spreadsheet with a different tab for each commonly asked question.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

Be sure to start your event marketing plan well ahead of time so that you can implement all of your event promotion tactics and work through potential contingencies. . With this added value, attendees will remember your brand, remember aspects of your event, learn from the event, and find inspiration through different sessions. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Fortunately, Gallo shares in her new book, Getting Along , practical insights, tools, and techniques for how to get along with each type of difficult co-worker you’ll likely encounter. Gallo says that deenergizing relationships have a four to seven times greater impact on our well-being than energizing, positive relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Online shopping saw a boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 holiday season is no different with about 94 percent of consumers planning to shop online for gi fts. Here are some techniques to promote it on social media. Understand the time of day when your shoppers like to browse. Already have a shop?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As technology evolves, there are new ways nonprofits like yours can take advantage of advancements to save time and raise more money. There are various approaches to AI that each serve different purposes. There are also other fundraising automation tools which can help you schedule and plan your different fundraising campaigns.

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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. One person can field questions while the other answers them.

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