.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Include your teams in strategy sessions and provide them with the tech tools they need to keep pace. I’m a big believer in documentation.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Can a commercial product provide the tools you need? Additionally, it’s critical that the project road map is managed meticulously to avoid risk of delays that can lead to cost overruns. Implementing a new software solution is a huge project. Or do you need something custom to meet your business objectives?

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Software Build Analytics Associations 321

Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

Compass is an app designed to support parents in their journey from pregnancy through postpartum by providing answers, resources, and compassion at every step. million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian.

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Museum Kansas City North America Wisconsin 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Join me on February 22nd at 9:00 am PT for a LinkedIn Live with Zoe Amar for a conversation about taking the first step for responsible AI adoption.We’ll discuss the challenges, tips, and practical resources available. Staff also need to learn the limitations in using these tools for these types of tasks and how to ensure responsible use.

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Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mindset: A Critical Tool in Your Implementation Toolbox. Are they comfortable using new tools? What resources, training, and support will you and your team need through the implementation and beyond? Are these procedures documented, and do documents need updating? Significant change requires significant planning.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. So, I thought I'd take the time to document my recommended processes here!

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Map Content Community Chart 75

NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization.

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Skills Technology Develop Training 88

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to do more with fewer resources, prompting us to look at our internal fundraising operations to see how to become more efficient with the resources we have. Analytics can be an extremely powerful tool for generating reports. Step 3: Map out the Data.

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Database Donor Fundraising Nonprofit 52

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Step 3: Identify the tools. Content Mapping. >>

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Metrics Community Map Template 219

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Link to resources In your blog posts, make sure to reference other pages on your blog. Most blogging platforms have tools and plugins to help optimize a blog post for SEO.

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Practice Tips Storytelling Nonprofit 52

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

Here are a handful of communication tools we’ve been using and raving about. External Communication Tools. It also features an in-depth analytics tool that lets you visualize what’s working for your nonprofit and what’s not. Internal Communication Tools. What’s your nonprofit’s winning stack of tools?

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Communication Tools Social Media Nonprofit 38

NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

That said, we’ve compiled a few resources that might help you think through your next website redesign. Assign them key tasks and document results. Define user habits, outline behavior, document social activity, note technology savvy-ness (IE, % mobile, etc.?), That’s a great question. Audience Analysis.

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Design Web Guide Slides 247

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. Use these tools to streamline your planning process. List Your Resources. Creating a Fundraising Plan. You also need a way.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

We leverage the tools and infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, bring the ‘security-by-design’ approach to everything we build, and use best practices in automation and data security. Particularly of note in this effort is documenting employee onboarding and offboarding procedures.

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Organization Structure Guidelines Evaluation 98

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2015

He recently shared “ Toolsets for Social Media ,” a brilliantly curated collection of tools. He has organized clusters of tools around different concepts of use that a social media professional might need. These are all tools that mostly for mobile phones, easy to use, and for individuals, not enterprise.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Technologies and tools used to capture and manage data change, get upgraded, get replaced. Manual data entry is always prone to errors, and non-staff resources will create more errors than staff. You need a map and a plan. Document your data needs. Do your data input resources need training? For example ….

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Data Management Map Problem 130

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Analytics tools. how to integrate tools without reinventing the wheel. use monitoring tools. Listening tools: Netvibes. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When the pandemic hit, you probably invested in video conferencing tools as your nonprofit’s team headed home to work safely. At the same time, you incorporated additional online and virtual fundraising tools to continue raising funds as in-person events pivoted to virtual seemingly overnight.

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Tech Consultant Nonprofit Software 52

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

Tweetnotes is one of the newest tools from The Extraordinaries. You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session. I also think it can be better!

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Review Doc Slides Stream 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Online collaboration tools and platforms give nonprofits the opportunity for connectivity and collaboration internally as well as with external stakeholders like volunteers and board members. But it can lead to being overwhelmed or what has been dubbed “ Collaborative Overload ” or “ Collaboration Tech Tool Overload.

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Collaboration Facilitation Nonprofit Platform 68

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

Some are using tools like Twitter or Facebook to invite listeners to a post-segment conversation with reporters, moving them from a passive action (listening) up the ladder of engagement to an active action of commenting and discussion. Templates: Community Map Template. Content Map Template. Using Social Media.

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Social Media Public Media Community 178

NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. Finding out could be as simple as conducting a survey through your newsletter or website (try free tools at SurveyMonkey.com ). Think Old School.

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Place Tools Social Media Online 78

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

It examines the tech you use and how effectively you use those tools. These tools are working well for your team and are optimized to manage your team’s current fundraising capacity. In this scenario, you may conduct a nonprofit technology assessment to understand how new outreach tools will fit into your tech stack.

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Evaluation Tech Technology Consultant 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages. This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients.

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Calendar Content Tunisia Strategy 117

NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Centralized communication : Many nonprofit board management software products make it possible to store board-related documents in a centralized, secure location. Web-based software allows board members to access the resources they need from any computer or mobile device with internet access. documents, meeting minutes, calendars etc.)

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Software Management Time Cleveland 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To understand networks and their value as a social media trainer’s tool. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. Network Mapping Exercise. For partners and In-Country teams to get to know one another and the project.

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Network Build Exercise Map 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve captured some good notes, tweets, photos, and shared resources for each session, but here I wanted to dive into a few interesting ideas that bubbled up. The former refers to things like manuals and documents, which he points out we tend to preserve very well. Organizational Amnesia. That is the wrong place to start.

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Conference Grant Network Learning 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

It also lets you give time, money and resources to support efforts. The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. The app lets you preview different data skews and features from Esri's mapping software. by Symantec (Android, iOS) before disaster strikes.

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Disaster Blackberry Hurricane Map 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

They have also provided resources for nonprofits to learn how to use tools to get feedback in t he Feedback Commons or the DIY Toolkit , and join GlobalGiving to earn points (which leads to more funding!) by using those tools to become more effective. (Or, Captricity is a tool that extracts data from forms and documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Having too many platforms and tools for collaboration can confuse and annoy your team and partners. Sound familiar?

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Source for Presentations, Documentation Methods. Documenting Events and Conferences Youth Service America Service Day Blog post about it. How-To Resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Unfortunately, many organizations and individuals that usually collect insightful data lack access to such resources. We've been positively surprised, over and over again, by the innovative ways that Silkers have used the tool to reach their audience. It does so by collecting sightings from social media and mapping them.

Storytelling 36

Storytelling Advocacy Data Lebanon 36

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Hopefully tomorrow the connection will sustain some real live blogging with CoverItLive (my favorite live blogging tool). Peter Campbell’s How to Decide session: Nonprofits have limited resources, which usually means that we have to make tough choices about where to spend our time and money. Buy Peter’s book!

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Newsletter Wiki Evaluation NTEN 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Access resources! Second, use tools and practices. Finally, ask for help!

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