Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Wait a few days and do an after action review or deeper meta analysis (this post).

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

You’re finally done with your year-end giving analysis and follow up. this is one of the best fundraising techniques to use. To take advantage of this tried and true method for your spring fundraising campaign, start by reading our peer to peer fundraising primer , which covers everything you need to know to run a winning campaign.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By translating these lessons into the nonprofit context, we can gain valuable insights into crafting campaigns that inspire participation rather than simply grab attention. Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. Apply those lessons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Our increasing connectedness should be celebrated as an effective method of achieving change, not as the change itself. There is more analysis of the problems over simplification like this cogent analysis from Ethan Zuckerman. And so the debate on my Facebook wall continued with very thoughtful comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

” Read her analysis. Last week Kivi wrote about “ newsjacking ” the technique of piggy backing on a crisis to get more media attention. Watch and learn, so you don’t make the same mistake on whatever hot button issues your organization might be wading into.” Let me go a little meta here. And it worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Getting Attention – Google Grants. Getting Attention: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Google Grants. Getting Attention is a nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in Google Grant acquisition and management. EXPLORE Getting Attention. Aly Sterling Philanthropy – Capital Campaign Support. EXPLORE ASTRON SOLUTIONS.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. The digital environment is a loud and busy landscape; competition for donor attention is at an all-time high. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Phase 3: The Execution Stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents?

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

These techniques are used by threat actors to influence unsuspecting individuals into acting or sharing information that can be leveraged for a cyberattack. Password Cracking Password cracking involves using various methods (computational and otherwise) to break through password authentication to gain access to an account.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. And each one of those methods has particular strengths and weaknesses.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

Value proposition – Here I’m using a broken link building technique with the promise of providing a list to help webmasters fix URLs that aren’t redirecting properly. After conducting a site-wide analysis I found 230 additional broken links that I was more than happy to share. There is one thing to keep in mind.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2016 through FY2020. To date, very little direct targeting of current donors happens related to converting these donors via digital techniques. The data set included 16 million donors who gave 57 million gifts for a total of $2.4 Expanded use of vlogs.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. Discover strategies and techniques that can help increase the effectiveness of your international development program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. We should pay attention to the social media standardized metrics discussion and translate it into useful ways to apply it to nonprofits and grassroots media - but not get bogged down in geeky measurement. The Web is changing!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2017

” Sometimes, this psychological principle runs counter logical reasoning, “because it is a preprogrammed and mindless method of responding, automatic consistency can supply a safe hiding place from troubling realizations.” Think of this as the “foot-in-the-door technique” 3. Social Proof.

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