Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search. Apply a discount rate from 10% to 90% for each category accordingly. ChatGPT was the fastest product adoption in history.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. If your nonprofit is going to use LinkedIn Pages, then commit to posting a minimum of 2-3 times per week to maximize your click-through rate (CTR) and engagement. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. Personalized salutation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

Improved Donor Retention Additionally, smart donation asks contribute to improved donor retention rates. They also use predictive analytics and natural language processing. They may adopt new nonprofit marketing automation tools. This custom approach taps into donors’ passions. Nonprofits can increase donor loyalty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. For those nonprofits out there that embrace being an early adopter and have a staffer excited about Twitter Spaces, jump in and launch a weekly Space.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Then, strategize ways to match your language, tone, and style to your audience’s interests. Options to read your content in different languages depending on your audience’s needs. For example, you could make your content available in both Spanish and English if many members of your community speak both languages.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Overall, Composable Architecture allows developers to use efficient and popular modern frameworks, tools, and languages. On the WordPress side, things like Atlast from WPEngine are maturing and being adopted quickly. Are there potential drawbacks with Composable Architecture? As well as the launch of tooling such as Next.js for Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence is providing enormous labor-saving help to fundraisers, helping them research prospects, talk to donors, and increase retention rates. AI can increase online donor conversion and retention rates. Even at this early stage of adoption by fundraisers, there are tremendous benefits already being accrued by users.

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Benefit Fundraising Retention Conversation 65

NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are three tools I created or co-authored that can help you match skills to roles: Nonprofit Data & Tech Skill-Building Checklist — a worksheet that provides an inventory of technology and data-related skills and a way to rate your skills or those of a team member or job candidate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

They use machine learning combined with Natural Language Processing (NLP). I’ve been tracking nonprofits design and deploy chat bots for a few years now as the pace of broader adoption of chat bots has accelerated. ” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

To meet rapidly changing donor expectations, we need to adopt a digital-first mindset to keep our organizations relevant and grow our missions. iWave rates and scores an individual’s financial capacity, propensity to give, and affinity for our mission, adding scores directly to donor records in our Salesforce CRM.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Instead of treating it as a static repository for donor information, use it as a system to support fundraising efforts, taking full advantage of built-in tools like wealth ratings to identify top prospects and understand their capacity to give. Wherever you are in adopting new technologies, you must be willing to have these conversations.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Best of all, you really only need to adopt a few proven and productive cultivation and engagement methods to start converting your peer-to-peer event participants into monthly donors. Determine their motivation and inspiration : Apply behavioral psychology and consider response rates and participant profiles.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Food insecurity threatens to worsen as households continue to face setbacks due to COVID-19, fears of a global recession, and the highest increase in inflation rates and food prices seen in the last 40 years. In 2021, 53 million Americans turned to food banks and community programs for help putting food on the table. Melanie Calhoun.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A key message for an animal shelter might be “Every animal deserves a loving home and you can help care for those in our shelter until they’re adopted.”. For example if you need help caring for animals in your shelter until they’re adopted, you can say “Please help provide food and shelter for the 26 animals in our care until they’re adopted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. The app gives you a dashboard that gives you metrics and you can also track conversion rates on the landing pages that you send users to.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul. Survey results suggest a seven-year increase, on average, in the rate at which companies are developing digital products and services.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Among all developing countries, Vietnam has one of the lowest unemployment rates. English is increasingly favored as a second language. percent obesity rate, which ranks them as 186th. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

In follow-up interviews we discovered that many nonprofits were using cloud-based software without even realizing it, so the adoption rate could be even higher. The survey also found that once nonprofits begin using one cloud software solution, they are likely to adopt other cloud tools. Primary Findings.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Whether it’s rethinking how they contact their donors, the language they use on donor calls, where they ’ re direct ing their funds, or even how they ’ re partnering with students to drive donor engagement. So how do we combat this? Throughout bbcon, we heard time and again from customers how they ’ re finding new ways to drive giving.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

The rapid spread of the virus forced the entire industry to adopt an event format that was either completely foreign or had only been used as an add-on to physical events. . What is the clickthrough rate? Good emails are key to increasing registration to attendance conversion rates. How many conversions come from email?

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Guide Virtual Registration Platform 93

NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The technology world is full of buzz words that make up a language all their own. While typically the organization will still purchase and “own” the software license, the remainder of the technology investment is paid on a flat rate subscription basis over the contract term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. Their approach to staffing — they’ve found that it works best for adoption to have social media tasks integrated into job descriptions. This can be sensitive issue for some orchestras at particular times.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. Your technology plan is a document that lays out the goals and objectives of adopting and implementing technology. And it works for nonprofits too! We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. Claire Sale.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In 2015, 193 world leaders came together at the United Nations to launch the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , a universal call to action adopted by all nations to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people can enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

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BoardAssist

MAY 10, 2016

Adopt the ones that will enhance your work. The rate peaked at 10pm when 42% came in from smartphones and tablets. Many nonprofits can’t reach these mega donors, can’t talk their language, and find relationships with them to be challenging. Note: I am not touting shiny new ideas or be-all solutions. Discard the rest.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. There is perhaps no more telling data point than this: online donors 65-years and older have the highest retention rate. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If your goal is larger than what your team can process quickly, have a plan for promotional and stewardship language that is not dependent on announcing totals. Opportunity 2: Who said unruly participation rates were a problem? Opportunity 1: Adopt a process from direct marketing called the “drip campaign.”

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

Organizations using multiple scripts can create phone banks that can target different scripts to different people and allow phone bankers to toggle between scripts and even toggle between different languages—all of which will help them connect with and activate more support for your mission or goal.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Over the years these terms have evolved to fit the adoption of new marketing channels. Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. This includes adopting pay per click (PPC) ads as part of their promotional strategy to increase revenue and create brand awareness.

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Beginner Digital Marketing Guide 91

NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

But what if I tell her in a language she doesn't understand? This shift started fifteen years ago with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. Data un-communicated, or ineffectively communicated, amount to personal knowledge or useless raw material. What if I don't speak loudly enough?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Are We Speaking a New Language?    YES We are talking about a lot of new apps, new terms and how can early adopters be your tour guides.  More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Use easy-to-understand language and avoid jargon or complex phrases. ” The more specifically your language of your CTA speaks to your mission—”Support a Pet Today” versus the more generic “Give a Gift”—the more likely a donor is to answer your call. To read more about crafting strong CTAs, skip to #4.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Or, they resist adopting the technology. Here’s what drove our design: Speak the language of users We worked with our content experience team to ensure the language of the interface is approachable, friendly, and appropriate. For example, using source codes is a common method for tracking conversion rates.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Try to be creative with your subject lines and think about the design and layout of your emails, too, to keep readers’ attention and boost your open and click rates. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Or, they resist adopting the technology. Here’s what drove our design: Speak the language of users We worked with our content experience team to ensure the language of the interface is approachable, friendly, and appropriate. For example, using source codes is a common method for tracking conversion rates.

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