Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

Jean is also a freelance consultant who works on digital strategy, marketing and design for non-profits. Organic reach on Facebook declines year on year, but there are still so many charities spending valuable time every week trying to make it work. It will use that model to find 50,000 people who are similar to the first 50.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage. 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” Furthermore, he adds, “Working harder doesn’t always achieve better results. We need to make tweaks and try new ways of working.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here are common trends and examples of areas where local news coverage has waned: Rural areas: Many local newspapers and broadcast stations in rural areas have closed or reduced their coverage due to declining readership and advertising revenue. This can include internships, research partnerships, and educational initiatives.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. For example: that a member lapsed. . For example: a member lapsed due to low engagement. . For example: actions that could prevent a member from lapsing. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

It’s hard juggling parenting with work and you need to acknowledge it. We’ve modeled them as part of the session and it allowed us to brainstorm in smaller teams on how to be more engaging in our meetings from now on. Show & Tell: Remote Work Tips for Collaboration and Generosity (via Edith Asibey & Jamie Lonie).

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. For this post we’ll highlight a few examples from our own experimentation, explaining what we see going on and what we’ve learned. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As a free, relatively easy tool, it was used almost universally by nonprofits and all the organizations with whom we work. There’s nothing wrong with this kind of modeling, but the extent of its use is unclear, and the lack of clarity makes some users question the data they’re seeing. As of July, it is officially gone, replaced by GA4.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

O ur Intelligence for Good® approach combines licensed and proprietary data assets, world-class industry data science expertise, advanced machine-learning techniques, and robust analytic methodologies – all optimized to drive your mission impact. . A few examples of data health tools include address updaters and deceased record finders. .

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve?

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. Well, there’s a solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

That holds us back from embracing networked ways of working. Having a networked mindset as you approach your daily work can help you get better results. Think about your current work. Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. An important technique is to visualize your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. New power is behind some of the most impactful movements (and business models) of the decade. Examples: #BlackLivesMatter leaders, Candidate Obama, and Beth Comstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.”

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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. . For example, if the goal of your next event is to get more leads , you would need to implement a lead capture strategy. Map Out Event Marketing Goals and Event Plan.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Another complication of continuing UA was that it works through cookies. GA4 is designed to be far less reliant on cookies, using AI and data modeling to help fill the gaps in data caused by privacy restrictions. The biggest change in GA4 is the shift from a model based on sessions and pageviews to a model based on events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One of the most significant issues facing any event, but particularly those in a hybrid model, is that of attendance. . Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . How do you get people to turn up in person and online? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

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. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Today, largely thanks to the work of Greenpeace , WWF , and others, it is recognised as the defining challenge of the century. Learner juggling caretaking with school work. Historically, environmental and conservation organisations have led the charge through their advocacy and campaign work.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It isn’t your organization’s values, delivery model, or social impact. It is the only way to understand how donors perceive and truly value your work. Are there many organizations working on the same issue, or are there only a few? Can donors understand your work without the benefit of being a part of the day-to-day operations?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

AI interfaces can be tuned to help with specific tasks your stakeholders do ranging from writing draft letters to officials, to getting feedback on poetry, creating drafts of RFPs for work and the list goes on. #2 Learn more about how nonprofits can have these use cases purpose-built for their work. #3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Kathyrn Minshew, CEO of the Daily Muse, notes in her HBR post, “ Never Say No To Networking ” it is hard to make the time to get out of the office when you are working long days. A closed network is a network of people who already know each other – an industry network for example. work/life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We need to integrate evaluation thinking into our everyday work so we can improve what we’re doing. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. For example, if crime increases in a neighborhood, they know how to allocate patrols. Based on a logic model. Evaluation is not an add-on task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I worked with Alexandra and her company to design a study that gather insights about social media usage and charitable giving. There’s many other great conferences this month — for example – if you are in New York City, I would not miss the Social Media for Social Good event on March 17th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. If you don’t know it or don’t have one, work with others to create one.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 23, 2021

With an event, exclusivity works extremely well. For example, if you tell your audience ‘not to tell anyone’ and that they are part of a hand-picked group that will attend an exclusive event , chances are they will feel drawn to participate in that event and to tell people about it. . A pre-order works in the same way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. Many organizations are enjoying lower overhead, higher productivity, and happier employees by providing the option to work from home (WFH). Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

Let me share two examples of the Big Data opportunities we’ve seized at Benetech: a long-standing use of data that has global implications and a nascent one that has just launched. We’ll learn much about things like how (or whether) textbooks get used and which approaches to a specific learning objective work best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One of the most significant issues facing any event, but particularly those in a hybrid model, is that of attendance. . Fortunately, there are a handful of techniques you can use for boosting attendance for both the virtual and physical audience segments. . How do you get people to turn up in person and online? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., Then it was time for a simple exercise.

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