Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Establish A Singular Variable: Don’t try to test more than one variable at a time – just pick one thing to test.

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Forum One

MAY 16, 2024

This post is adapted from a presentation at Drupal GovCon in November 2023. It takes intention and planning to maintain a website’s level of accessibility as you make content and development updates over time. Survey your content creators and pressure-test your design system—do you have adequate styles for all your content needs?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. Dig Deeper and See Farther You may wonder how AI-driven analytics differ from the queries, dashboards, and statistical packages that have been around for some time now. Not necessarily so.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

But as offices begin to re-open on a full- or part-time basis, we are left with a meeting landscape that’s somewhere in between being fully in-person or fully online. To avoid awkward disruptions, account for the time needed for setup and teardown when reserving a conference room. However, keep in mind that other sources of noise (e.g.,

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The growing interest from donors and nonprofits alike in sustainer programs is an opportunity to test and do something different. With testing, nonprofits can experiment and improve on what communications work best for their sustainer audience. Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Each year Nonprofit Tech for Good features a new set of online fundraising tools that are timely and relevant for the year to come. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 3) GiveTrack :: givetrack.org. Sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

When time and resources are scarce, it’s easier to send out the same fundraising message to everyone in your community. This person fears offending donors by asking at the “wrong” time. These categories can be presented as personas or identities; that is, the types of identities or groups where donors wish to belong.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

In addition, our user experience team conducts extensive research—surveys, interviews, usability tests, and data analysis on specific areas where we know there is a need. A small feature, sure, but it saves time—time constraints being the challenge we hear most about from nonprofit professionals.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 25, 2024

All apps go through a hardcore review and testing process before being added to the store. Nimble AMS customer service has been timely and helpful when we present them with questions or concerns. Or maybe you’re hoping to streamline processes to free up valuable staff time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard many (many) times that all your nonprofit’s blog and site content should be optimized to drive traffic. Over time, a high exit rate signals to search engines that your content is not helpful to visitors, which can negatively affect your ranking. You’ve heard this one a million times about social media, too!)

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M+R

AUGUST 14, 2023

Read time: 3 minutes ICYMI! Spoiler alert: we’ll be talking influencers, creative testing, Scout Quest, and more.] REGISTER NOW Tuesday, September 26 at 2pm ET October 10: 60 Tests in 60 Minutes Do facts or stories inspire donations? The format is hella simple and a whole lot of fun: We’ll present a test.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With ChatGPT entering the scene, we’re presented with an innovative way to enhance these dimensions. Implement and Test : Develop and implement your ChatGPT-powered initiatives. Be sure to continuously test and iterate to ensure optimal performance and user satisfaction. Output as a table.”

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

Who on your team or board has the time and experience to reach out to leaders from a vast array of organizations to help identify potential qualified leaders? Approach potential candidates and test their interest in this new opportunity and persuade strong candidates to consider the new opportunity. What is your housing market like?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

The past couple of years have represented a challenging time for nonprofit fundraising. As you incorporate these tips, work at fostering genuine supporter relationships, and strategize ways to improve the donor experience, you can generate more reliable revenue streams over time. Prioritize building strong supporter relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

When we first started publishing and presenting on Smart Tech and AI tools to audiences of fundraisers, nonprofits, and funders in the social sector field, the media narrative around AI was presented as binary. We call this the dividend of time in our book. And never should).

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Now, assess the posts to see what makes them similar and different, including the text, imagery, links, post types, timing, and platforms. Whatever inspires you, here is a general experimentation process for social media posting: Pick one thing you want to test at a time, like type of post, length of text, posting time, or something else.

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.orgSource

JULY 29, 2023

Take enough time to accurately assess the situation. If you don’t already have those mentors in place, it’s past time to begin developing an executive support system. Elizabeth Holmes , Theranos—Heralded as a wunderkind entrepreneur, Holmes claimed to have revolutionized blood testing. First and foremost, don’t panic.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This can tell you a popularity of a specific searched term, based on time of year. For example, Whole Whale regularly writes for Nonprofit Times , Huffington Post, TechSoup, Ad Libbing (Ad Council), and other publications to build reputation and links. You can use tools like Experte mobile test and Pingdom to test your site speed.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

The annual and lifetime value of a sustainer is usually higher than the average one-time giver because one-time givers are only retained at around 20%, according to Giving USA. Barriers to Email Measurement Keep Rising Measuring email performance has changed, and it continues to become more difficult.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To convince you to buy from me, you must believe that I can increase revenue, decrease costs, reduce cycle time, enhance the member experience, and finally, mitigate risk. Leaders must be able to communicate each of those points to both staff and volunteers and to present risk within a cognitive framework.” Association 4.0

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As in-person events have had to shift to virtual events this year, the silver lining has been that they’ve opened up the opportunity for events to be more accessible to more people, where travel, time, and related expenses aren’t a barrier to participation. This will allow you time to prepare to meet those needs. Presenter tips.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Large language models such as ChatGPT can make up facts and present them as true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Using the scientific method for experiments can yield insights about how much time and effort – whether our effort has to reach perfection or not. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Don’t waste too much time on people who will never agree with you.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tim sat down with Steve McLaughlin as part of the Blackbaud Institute Index’s 10 th Anniversary Celebration series to discuss how testing and data are critical to identifying and optimizing your value prop. While testing may seem risky, the fear of a failed experiment should not be a deterrent. But we must set up a system to listen.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Step 2: Master Multichannel Promotion Once you have created your annual campaign calendar and have decided what “lead magnet” content you will feature each month, it’s time to figure out your promotion plan. Organic posts, paid posts, and boosts allow you to test acquisition on social media. Extend it to social media platforms, too.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Read time: 7 minutes If you’re a professional fundraiser, every day is giving day. Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

As entire countries move “in person” conferences and events to virtual ones in the time of COVID-19, I want to help out. It is not enough to do a quick test run before you present for the first time, especially if you are organizing a set schedule webinar. When we are presenting virtually, the focus is on the slides.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2010

We've talked a few times on this blog about the importance of testing how constituents respond to your website, but we've never really talked about how to run a test. If you think that testing a new web design or call to action requires an experienced web programmer, then you might be pleasantly surprised. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

In our book, The Smart Nonprofit, we present many examples of nonprofit use cases as well as Microsoft’s many nonprofit examples. She also used the term “Red Teaming” where you test the technology to try to break it so you feel confident that it will do no harm. Where is your nonprofit in adoption AI?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2019

Network For Good hosted a virtual conference today called “ Fundraise Like Netflix: Engaging Donors in a Subscription-Driven World ,” that included several hours of online presentations about strategy and tools for getting repeat donors. It requires having the right data and acting on it. He also mentioned Quilt.Ai

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2012

These were just a couple of the great statistics that panelists Teresa Weaver, of OMP and Erica Gulseth, of Earth Justice presented on the recent Care2 webinar “ Bring it On! Earth Justice has been working on refining and testing their cross-channel integration efforts by: Refineing online list growth efforts. Email appends.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Master your sales presentation. Use the “so what” test when evaluating your statements in your sales presentation slides. Your prospect should speak more than 50 percent of the time. Packed with proven concepts, principles, tips, techniques and actionable 60 takeaways, this book will help you: Generate and qualify leads.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 1, 2021

While most event venues have updated their technology, you may have to pay more for early access to the venue to test equipment or for the additional power supply needed. For example, if you’re offering guest access, recognize that about 10% of users will access the internet at one time. Commercial venues typically have 2.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

View more presentations from Social Media for Nonprofits. Should your nonprofit do more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any more time? What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? How much time are you investing?

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Read time: 5 minutes. But for nonprofit fundraisers like me, it’s a day for the time-honored traditions of repeatedly refreshing Google Analytics, double-checking that all of the 12/31 emails launched, and applying final optimizations to make sure our fundraising ads shine. Ah, New Years’ Eve. Review your creative.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Master your sales presentation. Use the “so what” test when evaluating your statements in your sales presentation slides. Your prospect should speak more than 50 percent of the time. Packed with proven concepts, principles, tips, techniques and 60 actionable takeaways, this book will help you: Generate and qualify leads.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On the live side, guests can view auction items in person, socialize over dinner, and raise their paddles in the appeal—and guests at home can participate in the auction from their mobile devices, just as if they were present. Other fundraisers have chosen to check guest temperatures as they arrive at the venue with instant-read devices.

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