AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. But, a live conference or physical event has natural lulls that people often use to interact with a fellow attendee, help them do the same in the virtual format. Program Networking Sessions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

31% of offline-only first-time donors are retained for over a year , versus 25% of online-only first-time donors. Wherever you’re coming from, here are 10 steps to help you make the most of the year-end giving season and reach your goals. This will help you strategize for your upcoming campaign and improve year-over-year results.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Plus, understanding motivations, interests, and passions can help you connect with them on a deeper level. A nonprofit CRM helps you keep all this information organized and easily accessible. This type of stewardship helps boost donor retention. are specifically designed to help nonprofits retain more donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2011

The report was filled with examples , but more and more are coming to life everyday. And, with resources like “ Like Minded &# that facilitate the fast sharing of best practices, we’re bound to see more. Does a fundraising campaign simply happen by itself or are there core organizers who help with lift off?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

They’ve just published this terrific, free e-book with lots of tips and planning templates to help your organization decide whether to participate. The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. Click to Download. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I did it!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2020

It helps to tell the story of their experience with your brand for any kind of interaction – from first donation, to an upgrade to a larger gift, to a conversion from activist to supporter, etc. For example, a fall in renewal rates or average gift size. Third Step: Facilitate an in-person or virtual mapping session.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Because it helps us deal with panic or impulses, it’s a gift. For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. It’s about death. Why do we tell stories?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. But, a live conference or physical event has natural lulls that people often use to interact with a fellow attendee, help them do the same in the virtual format. Program Networking Sessions.

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Virtual Network Create Social Media 52

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

An accessible member portal is a great way to encourage online community-building, as well as help new members acclimate to the online community. An online space facilitates member engagement and improves the overall experience. For example, Salesforce is a popular CRM with a long list of native tools and integration partners.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every month, a group called #4Change organizes open & lively conversations about how web-connected communities and our use of social media tools are helping to create change in the world. Starting the Conversations: Here are some questions to consider: How does online discussion and networking connect with and support offline action?

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. Offline use with automatic sync. Accessible Content Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I used David Hood as an example. I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Take for example the SFSPCA Facebook Page, a stellar example of engaging fans that David discovered for me.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. Community Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy. So for example, now I can see what State Department was tweeting in Arabic. For example, what is being tweeted about the use of social media. There are a few issues with trying to follow the issue directly via the hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. For example, turning to your professional online networks can help save you time because you don’t need to know everything about a topic area. These can be done offline and online. You can more efficient.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But with so many elements to modern fundraising—both online and offline—it can be tough to keep up. Keep reading for an overview or use the links below to skip to the topic where you need the most help. For example, you don’t want to only reach out when you’re making an ask. Goals S.M.A.R.T. The purpose of S.M.A.R.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Social Media Train Training Network 97

NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Offer help via yourself or other active community members with email addresses and links to their profiles. Just as in the offline world, people are more likely to do something when personally invited. Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. Below are four steps that we recommend to prospective clients to help guide them through the process. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. online software) without too much hassle.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

traditional offline software) into the cloud (a.k.a. Below are four steps that we recommend to prospective clients to help guide them through the process. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. online software) without too much hassle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. Together these efforts empowered women to advocate more strategically and help a larger community of survivors. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

“ For example, during Hunger Action Month in September, Feeding America created a tab on their Facebook page where people could share a different action every day. We are low on the donation conversions but we are seeing social media become very important in helping with public policy efforts – like the recent Child Nutrition Bill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. It helps a network get more specific with the work flow which maps to different online collaboration and social media tools. This can help you make better decisions about use of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Social media can be a useful (though often overlooked) tool for frontline workers in social service agencies to engage with youth, according to Jason Shim, a Program Facilitator at the Canadian nonprofit, Mosaic Counselling & Family Services. Using personal, rather than organizational, Facebook accounts helped. And that's okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. The last drawing/map is from a peer learning group of Packard Grantees that I am facilitating based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” from Radio Bilingue. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A concrete definition helps clear things up here. Platforms as a service: you rent server space, bandwidth, and the tools to help you build or customize web-based applications ( Salesforce , for example). Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

In turn, the typewriter brought about and helped to accelerate social change, opening up new jobs for women in the office. being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. For example, if an organization does work online with board can it be effective or I used to say, "a dysfunctional board offline is dysfunctional online."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2005

Steve and others, just when I thought there was a lull in our conversation about blog communities and blog cross conversations, I noticed this thread on the Digital Divide List (btw, the digital divide network is another example of a community blog). If you've been following the conversation and want to say something, here's your chance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement. With international networks, it is important to recognize cultural norms both online and offline. (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. We help guide it." And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it. Others have a different take.

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