Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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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. Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? Well, almost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address. In other words, to what end?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. AI tools for fundraising When it comes to AI for fundraising, there are many tools that can help you succeed in your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I read Beth’s post, Help! 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. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” What’s your story?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Text marketing , also known as SMS marketing, can help your organization engage supporters, build relationships, and ultimately boost your fundraising results. Donate by midnight to help us provide clean water to those in need. With your help, we raised $200,000 for those affected by the devastation in Puerto Rico.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The data utilized by the nonprofit sector can be used for an effective marketing strategy when handled properly. Watch the Market for Effective Marketing Strategies. Populate Pages with Effective Lead Capture Forms. Watch the Market for Effective Marketing Strategies. Populate Pages with Effective Lead Capture Forms.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Responding to challenges effectively and capitalizing on your strengths can set your nonprofit up for long-term success. In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis. Fundraising You can also use a SWOT evaluation to analyze your organization’s fundraising streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

(So that’s why I do a lot of reading outside of my main discipline and think about how the concepts might apply to being an effective networked nonprofit.). Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Schoemaker.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Analytics tools help an organization to know about their learners and how they are digesting the information. Mobile learning.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques or ideas. Year in Review. 2014 will be the year of learning for me. Learn: Learning is not just for kids or students.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â?? and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â?? is vital to any nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

In this section, we’ve laid out some tips that will help you better pinpoint major gift prospects and prepare to start cultivating them. Proper major gift donor identification rests with your organization’s ability to efficiently and effectively sift through donor data. Why Implement It?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Pipeline Efficiency measures how effective sellers are at managing their pipelines. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

It helps you do better as an organization. Proper implementation of accessibility in website design can help you reach a lot more people and allows people without specific needs to use your website more efficiently. We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible. It’s a legal issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set. T This board is also using social media as part of its governance role.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective. Seeing how others are doing this work can help you develop or improve your assessment plan and lead to improved results. L earn and borrow from others. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. Here at Double the Donation , we’ve compiled a number of tips and tricks to effectively communicate with your donors about matching gifts and raise more in phonathon revenue overall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In today’s world of content abundance, the skill of how to find, make sense, and share content that we need to be effective in our work is critical. Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. It is like sipping fine wine. Getting Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. What are your expectations about the outcomes for NGOS?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use Time Management Techniques. Get a memory upgrade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. It makes my listening and learning more effective because I'm looking for synthesized bits of wisdom to share.

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