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JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps you can meet the expectations of this trend by incorporating just a hint of personality, fun, or playfulness like the Anne Frank House bot.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

State of AI in 2018 Report: The AI NOW Institute , which is affiliated with New York University and is home to respected AI researchers with Google and Microsoft, released a report describing the state of AI in 2018 that highlights some worrying trends.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Over the past few months I’ve been asked a lot of questions about giving trends: What explains the flat trend in overall fundraising? The data shows a troubling trend in the nonprofit sector: Donor populations have been shrinking for the past five years and revenue per donor has been flat. .” A Fundraising Cliff?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

” Key trends: What are the fundamental forces driving the need for social sector evaluation to evolve? Game-changing approaches: What are the most promising methods and examples of how social sector players are practicing evaluation in light of these new trends?

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MAY 23, 2017

Fundraisers need to be trend watchers and adapt their engagement strategy based on larger understanding of the environment emerging trends. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. Transparency.

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

Yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about charity giving trends and social media use. From now until the film's December 25 release, Disney will donate one new book to First Book (up to 250,000 books) for every comment posted. They mention DonorsChoose , SharingTV , the Salvation Army's use of mobile phones for its " text a kettle campaign."

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’m sharing this infographic because it is the best synthesis I’ve seen on the trends of technology wellness and malaise, intersection of machines and humans, and the duality of technology as an agent of fitness and calm, but also of distraction and distress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018. According to Lee Odom , influencer marketing is one of those trends. … Read More

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JANUARY 8, 2018

Twitter Lists: Twitter lists are really useful for tracking trends in a specific area. Here’s an example of how AskACurator used polls. Twitter polls are limited to four answer options and have a lifespan of a week. I use them everyday for content curation, but there are many other ways to use lists.

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APRIL 26, 2017

But overall the trend is that nonprofits are reaching more people more frequently in more places, and in return they’re seeing increases in revenue. I was most interested in seeing what the trends were on digital ad spending, including social ads. There is a quite a lot of data as well as useful analysis from M&R.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon. When his reports come out, they are the most downloaded on the Internet. He gave a provocative talk – pointing out population trends, migration trends, and the impact it is going to have on our food, water, and health care systems.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The site also offers content that is expertly curated to cover trends, research, topics, causes, and other information — all with the goal to help improve giving and philanthropy. It analyzes your giving and provides some good feedback and guidelines for making sure your giving has impact.

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MAY 20, 2014

We’ve witnessed how crowdfunding and micro lending has been a huge trend in the nonprofit sector – think Kiva for micro-lending, GivingTuesday, Give Local America, and the many nonprofit crowd funding platforms. But could cypto currencies, like bitcoin , be used for donations, even major gifts? Share Companies and CSR.

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MAY 29, 2013

It is easiest to understand your data – whether the trend is increasing, decreasing, fluctuating, or remaining the same. It is best used when there is cumulative data, like growth in subscribers, followers, or fans. The challenge is figuring out how many trend lines you can show before your chart looks like a bowl of pasta.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday making too much noise. GivingTuesday trended for over 10 hours straight in the United States (9:30 am – 7:30 pm). On Tuesday,Dec.3rd, 3rd, the GivingTuesday logo was blazing in neon on Times Square.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

The framework is called: “facts-stats-trends” : Facts : Counts, or sums, of numbers. Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g., The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert. Stats : Basic descriptive statistics (average, median, mode, distribution).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

David La Piana released a report last week on the " Next Nonprofit " Blog taking a look at how five key trends are helping shape a new social sector. The section about technology and social media describes a few key projects and trends. But I wondered, is there a larger frame?

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

This trend is the same for both our non-disaster projects, ($5.3M We’ll be watching to see if these strategies will help convert some of our one-time disaster donors into more loyal repeat donors in the future, and we’ll continue to monitor to see how long-term giving trends are affected by these disasters. YTD in 2016 vs $10.6M

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

Recently, I noticed a trend on what major retailers were doing on their Facebook pages for the holiday season. Identifying a Trend. The emerging trend was that major retailers were using their Facebook pages to release special deals and give retail discounts for the holiday season. The Old Saying Is Still True.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Wonder if #GivingDays is just the hottest trend, to be a regular part of the toolkit in the near future? In the lead-up to the December 3rd event, the question of how to extend a day of giving into a giving season? Alison Fine , my Networked Nonprofit co-author, is crowdsourcing suggestions and advice on making a Giving Season actionable.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. Naturally, our buying behaviors have radically changed as a result of this trend. Economists refer to this as a “sharing economy”, or one that is based on peer-to-peer transactions.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Their book provides recipes for nonprofit organizations to capitalize on internal innovation and predict future trends to remake and reshape their culture, structure, and staff. Provides nonprofits a look at the future of fundraising and communications trends into 2016. (I can agree on that one!).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This event brings together nonprofit and industry experts in mobile technology, fundraising, and social media to share trends, tips, and strategies to incorporate mobile fundraising. If your answer is yes, then you need to register for the Innogive Conference.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

Turn your peer-to-peer fundraiser into a viral trend. If you give them the option to individualize their pages, it will emotionally connect with their friends and family better! Urge your volunteers to explain why your nonprofit’s cause means so much to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.” In 2013, social media will continue the trend of “going visual.” ” More and more nonprofits are adding data visualization to compelling story telling to create amazing infographics as part their marketing tool kits.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

24th. Will nonprofits follow that trend? If you follow social media guru Mari Smith, you have no doubt noticed the headline ” The Year of Video ” and promotion for a free webinar on the ins and outs of video creation, video production, video marketing for small businesses on Jan.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Put your top content through each of the following questions and see where trends emerge. million posts from the 10,000 most-Liked Facebook pages to glean some larger trends in the timing of social shares. Pull your top posts and see if any trends emerge in the timing of those with the most interaction. Were they urgent?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Utilize new tools and trends including social media, microvolunteering, virtual volunteering, and hackathons. Track the history of volunteerism, and the social, cultural, and technological shifts that will shape its future. Keep current volunteers on board, and engage more donors, supporters, and effective board members.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research.

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MAY 22, 2019

Marcelo explained how the ecosystem is evolving, pointing out big trends like the rise of Millennials and Gen-Z, highlighting one of the most inspiring social changemakers like Greta. Now to recap some thoughts about what we presented and insights generated upon reflection. The New Ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Trends in technology change quickly. It’s important to reflect the trends of how your consumers are talking to each other and make sure that you stay relevant. Be relevant. The power of social media is that users are in control. Success involves responding to new technology and adapting it to fit users’ needs.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

Filter engagement trends by type and time period. Page Analytics : With this feature, organizations can be more informed than ever about their network following. As reported in LinkedIn’s recent blog post , users with company pages can now: Identify the updates that drive the greatest engagement.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Karen Walker , Senior Research Fellow, Child Trends. We hope you’ll read it and let us know what you think about Small, But Mighty! Debra Natenshon , Principal, DBN & Associates.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

In early 2009, the Compete Blog posted its media trends for 2008, suggesting that publisher media continue to integrate social media. . Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 . Do you have an example of how Twitter can be used to distributed "trusted" information about an important policy issue?

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

What I have always appreciated about GivingTuesday since the beginning is how they innovate and anticipate new trends in giving and incorporate into the campaign – either as toolkits or techniques for nonprofits to test and adopt.

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MAY 27, 2011

CARD’s curriculum, materials and training style were developed in partnership with local agencies; with research from the fields of adult learning, facilitation, advertising and marketing, consumer behavior, disaster psychology and other disciplines; and current technology, events and trends are activity incorporated as appropriate.

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