Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Nonprofit database software solutions serve as your nonprofit’s hub of information and documentation, allowing your nonprofit to make data-driven decisions to improve operations while staying organized. . Your nonprofit needs to collect donations, message donors, host events, manage volunteers, and much, more more. Running strategic tests.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

By keeping careful documentation of all of this personal data, the museum was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from its major donors each year. In this guide, we’ll cover how nonprofits can leverage their donor management software as well as how your organization can find the best solution to solve your most pressing needs.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Training: Does your entire team understand how to interact with the software they need to operate effectively? Before you begin working with a consultant, you should create a list of your team’s most pressing tech questions. Step Three: Documentation. Are there areas for improvement in your existing processes? Deliverables.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We must track and communicate well with our donors, members, and volunteers — really anyone who interacts with our organizations, including press and partner organizations. It also has hosted email via Exchange Online and online document sharing with SharePoint Online. Nonprofits increasingly rely on data of all kinds.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. Several years ago, Perla Ni started GreatNonprofits to let ordinary people have their say about the nonprofits with which they interact – a Yelp for nonprofits, if you will.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Raising funds.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

The ‘frontend’ of your organization’s website is the publicly-visible part that your donors and supporters interact with. Optimizing the frontend of your website is essential for giving your supporters a positive user experience when interacting with it. Let’s get started. Frontend Elements of Your Website. Your blog, if you have one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

As a trainer, I strongly believe that learning experiences need to weave content delivery with participant interaction. Also, it is far more effective to have peers share their own case studies and experiential learning with others. I always design to incorporate the voice and experience of the participants.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts. Curators and front desk staff blog about their interactions with objects and visitors.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism documents how nonprofits are using analytics to listen, experiment, learn, and thrive in the digital era. The first theme focuses on the interaction between advocacy tactics and the broader media environment. A press release is just a piece of paper in the absence of media organizations.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether they’re holding an internal meeting, giving a speech at a gala, writing a press release, or simply telling their friends about your mission, this ensures they do so in a manner that aligns with your hard-woven branding. Each of the examples above shows multi-page PDF documents that certainly contain more than simple logo information.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2015

Microsoft offers many apps for its popular Office suite to review and edit documents, as well as an app for accessing your OneDrive account remotely. Esri offers a broad collection of apps for interacting with GIS, demographic, and touring data. Box ( iOS , Android , and Windows ; free; subscription required). Social Benefit.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It was once my day job to visit worldwide facilities and – within 2-3 days – determine and document whether a given organization had the necessary systems in place to meet their commitments in an ongoing way – no hiccups, no excuses. Do you have a documented succession plan? The Seven Questions. Can I see it?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. But it's not a fair choice.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). InterAction Forum 2018. InterAction Forum 2018. InterAction / Washington, DC / TBD. Finance / @southwestfdns. 40th Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference. 40th Annual FAE Nonprofit Conference.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Here are some other ways we compensate our collaborators: Give them as much press as possible. Suggest them to press for a feature in the local paper. Document the event: Share photographs of the event on social media outlets and always have fully downloadable photographs available for their use. Pay for all their materials.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker. Attendees can use a hashtag to share the event with their network, interact with others who are attending, and generally be a part of the conversation. Determine next steps you’ll take in case a remote guest speaker doesn’t show up, or has internet issues.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With the support of museum staff, children developed the exhibition theme, selected the objects, designed the space, developed interpretative materials (including interactives), managed the budget, raised sponsorship, created press and marketing materials, put on the opening party, led interpretative tours, and trained museum guides.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Begin the process by assembling your team, which should include a wide range of stakeholders beyond just the team members who will be directly interacting with your technology. Start by developing a responsible party list that documents each individual’s key roles. Documentation: The consultant documents their recommendations.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

And understanding your audience is a lot easier when you have a nonprofit CRM that allows for detailed interaction tracking with customizable fields and powerful analytics. Check out this Generosity Xchange webinar on hosting an interactive auction experience from Matt Burwell, founder of ClickBid , a Neon One partner.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

This multi-tier design allows secure real-time interaction with an organization's database, while leaving the user interface design completely flexible. Getting all their in-house and on-line systems talking to each other seems to be a pressing concern of the organizations we work with. tools - but none of these excite our users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He also described the educational projects in Second Life where young people are constructing their own worlds and are teaching other programming skills as well as social, economic, and cultural interaction. The design of media is for more activist and personal interaction. They document their learning." NMC Flickr Photos.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We got a lovely bit of press on the first four exhibit selections, and I'm thrilled by the diversity of participants and novel creations that have been submitted thus far. This time, I want to talk about the codevelopment process--how we are taking these virtual exhibits and transforming them into floor-ready interactive experiences.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

San Diego Humane Society documented the rescue of #92Yorkies on Facebook Live, which kicked-off a major online fundraising campaign. According to Adweek , 86% of charities and nonprofits use Twitter to share content, promote events, and interact with their audience. Building media relationships and writing killer press releases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. saw increased press for each disaster based on newsroom. Move from huge disasters only to documenting daily disasters such as home fires. Come measure success.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2012

I need to control the interactions. Inability to adapt : As organizations are pressed to offer more comprehensive services and communicate their mission more broadly, building a staff with particular specialties and differentiated roles is necessary to maintain an open line of communication with supporters.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. England / By invitation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Unlike the front porch program, which was silently discontinued, It Is What It Is received a lot of press as a revolutionary art piece indicative of artists moving towards focusing on social experiences rather than objects. I both enjoyed and learned from the road videos , the diaries , and the interactions among the travelers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And you can record things like interactions. But if you create these reports to start off with, all you have to do is make yourself a reminder and press a button. But you should document that organizational basic foundation structure for your database. Were you paying attention? Let’s see. No googling. Look at that.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’d love for these to be interactive. And having a culture that sort of documents things and keeps track of things can also be very helpful too because that’s how you become a learning organization, not just an organization that kind of does all these tactics but never actually learns from them. We’ll see them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But most importantly, we’d love for these sessions to be interactive. Don’t hide any bad press or challenges that your organization is facing. So what I’ve done with this one is I have a private Facebook group for customers only where we all interact and we do a lot of fun stuff on there. Definitely be honest.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Instagram Stories is a great tool for brands to document certain events that are happening in real-time, share behind-the-scenes moments, and showcase company culture. This is a simple way to gather user-generated content and interact with your followers. Take Advantage of Stories and Highlights. a billion are watching. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. ? Write a mobile and social content strategy. ?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And don't forget the "communications" side, whose press releases and news items help raise awareness. Their microsite reveals documented, widespread threats to voting rights in America and effectively weaves localized challenges into a broad picture of the problem. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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