EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email. Content or Outline When asking ChatGPT to generate an outline, it helps to direct the structure.

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Examples email Communication Language 84

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent).

Grant 111

Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. In addition to bringing issues into the open, you need to build a mechanism in which there is a consistent opportunity for calling in/calling out behaviors: Are there structural and procedural processes in place in which to have these feedback conversations?

Activities 97

Activities Active Activism Organization 97

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 3, 2020

In email marketing, email lists are one of the most crucial components because they structure your campaigns effectively. You’ll need to keep an eye on it to know when to make changes according to how they’re responding and interacting with your organization. Building an Email List – What are the Best Techniques?

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email Create Technique Marketing 68

Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

This marketing approach can really resonate with recipients, making them feel more connected and valued by your nonprofit and lead to higher levels of interaction and response compared to more modern marketing methods. Direct mail often provides a more personal touch that may be missing in online communications.

Marketing 52

Marketing Guide Nonprofit Channel 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

Facilitation 99

Facilitation Technique Map Case Study 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Talking VS Listening.

Content 130

Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook. Here’s a write of this technique.

Virtual 130

Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Training Train International 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

FAQ 58

FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event. Design for Flexibility.

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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Do you have a preferred method?

Reflection 124

Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

Analysis 96

Analysis Social Network Social Media Network 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. How are they interacting?

Analysis 104

Analysis Social Network Social Media Network 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Many of the techniques are now possible and within the next decade, just-in-time learning will likely become a cultural norm in nonprofits and elsewhere. This report and the advice for getting started goes right to the heart and soul of what I’m currently working in my training and consulting practice.

Learning 110

Learning Remix Teach Hype 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pay close attention to interactions with other people. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Reflective Listening Techniques. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions.

Skills 50

Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. It is important to evolve your presentation style so it is more interactive, engaging, and a lean forward experience. So, you have to design for that.

Training 98

Training Train Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Professional networking gone wrong includes a mismanagement of structure, relationships, and behavior. But what really matters is structure: Core connections must bridge smaller, more-diverse kinds of groups and cross hierarchical, organizational, functional, and geographic lines. How energizing are those interactions?

Network 50

Network Professional Build Work 50

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service. Incorporating a regularly updated and interactive calendar on your nonprofit website is vital for fostering engagement, facilitating event planning, and illustrating your organization’s impact.

Websites 52

Websites Calendar Registration Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

Social Media 50

Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Stakeholder Discovery : How we structure stakeholder meetings, what topics we discuss and some tips for leading discovery conversations. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. User Research.

Summary 37

Summary Process Design Web 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. You have to be a little fearless piloting new instructional techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Just how many mediums are actually needed for our employees to interact with one another? Such as comments fields, Twitter interactions, or in-platform social profiles). It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique.

Program 61

Program Learning Social Learning Environment 61

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.). Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Finance / @southwestfdns.

Calendar 85

Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. The conference also includes two experiences available at an additional cost.

Conference 98

Conference NTC Virtual Registration 98

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Natural language processing is concerned with the interaction between computers and human language. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks.

Language 221

Language Problem Knowledge System 221

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Apps, QR Codes, AR/ VR, Interactives, all our most lauded tech, got mentioned. I've seen so many EXPENSIVE interactives (not connected to the main messages of the content) that are not future-proof and the exhibition is supposed to last 10 years+. Technology was the number one worst trend in museums in people's comments.

Museum 45

Museum Guinea Tech Studies 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day. Why not have look at the connections of your staff/board in LinkedIn related to achieving a goal or even just to recruit new board members.

Skills 96

Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. Some Reflections.

Reflection 103

Reflection People Network Colorado 103

NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. What if I give her a written note that she ignores in favor of a richly interactive iPad app? In publishing: Al Gore's recently released iPad edition of "Our Choice" is chock full of data-driven interactive features.

Data 91

Data New York Government Digital 91

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. A navigation structure that requires 3+ clicks to get to any substantial content. This is known as “showing your corporate underpants”. Wireframes.

Design 36

Design Process Web Test 36

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting). Providentially, there are plenty of programs that provide structured networking for those who want to make contacts and connections at a higher level.

Network 89

Network Phoenix Arizona Contact 89

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. 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.

Websites 35

Websites Design Site Web 35

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Through a mix of session formats, speakers from inside and outside our sector, structured networking, and informal discussions with peers, participants will explore ways to design and implement evaluation and learning approaches that generate stronger information, decisions and performance. InterAction Forum 2019. May 29 - 30.

Calendar 111

Calendar Conference Las Vegas San Diego 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

She ends her post with: So, how do you encourage interactions with commenters on your blog? How do you interact with other commenters when you comment on someone else's blog? Make it clear in your commenting policy that you encourage commenters to interact with one another. Skelliwag commenters: 3. Michele's commenters: 6.

Conversation 50

Conversation Comment Blogger Interaction 50

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

People 79

People Community Video Podcast 79