Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Let’s take a look at some fundraising ideas – the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Next, narrow your analysis down to your donation form to see how many people are visiting that specific page from a mobile device. 2) Grab People’s Attention.

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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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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

3 Better Data Collection and Analysis AI prompts can collect and analyze large amounts of data in real-time, providing insights into user behavior and preferences. This work can include writing newsletters, social media posts, research articles, editorials in the voice of the founder, and grant writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

Instagram, the mobile photography app, has been getting a lot of attention lately. It boils down the techniques to simply: Curate, Snap, Hashtag, Engage, and Repeat. I ran an analysis on my Instagram experimenting and discovered that my most engaging photos included Monks , Clouds , and Cats !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. This is why gamification in e-Learning is fast emerging as an effective technique to engage learners. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

Let’s take a look at the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Next, narrow your analysis down to your donation form to see how many people are visiting that specific page from a mobile device. 2) Grab People’s Attention. 1) Go Mobile, Now! That’s right – this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Next, we did a role-play.

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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. Focusing increased attention on volunteerism is a great way to round out your spring fundraising. It’s possible you’re even gearing up to close out your fiscal year before June 30th rolls around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Therefore, we want an end product that looks good, professional, and captures attention and if we lack graphic design chops we turn to in-house graphic designers or hire professional designers. I couldn’t agree more! My favorite free tool for doing that is Wordle.

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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. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” These small yet impactful design choices can make a significant difference in capturing the attention and generosity of potential donors. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. I think people are more likely to pay attention if they know that they might in the presentation. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

There is more analysis of the problems over simplification like this cogent analysis from Ethan Zuckerman. Similarly, the focus on rape as a weapon of war, Autesserre argues, has caused some armed groups to engage in mass rape as a technique to gain attention and a seat at the negotiating table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. Here’s an example from the Jewish Education Project. Images work for engagement.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” We pay attention to these only 6 key indicators.” It means we have to be nimble and responsive.”.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

But we talked about solutions as well: Jason Parker of the Gates Foundation told us about techniques Google is using to overcome issues of accuracy by dramatically increasing the quantity of data being analyzed. (We OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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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. Reporting and analysis through the Revenue Opportunity and Action Report (ROAR).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2003

I'm working on a workshop on structured creative problem-solving techniques. I found this great resource from Directed Creativity, a meta analysis of over 250 creative problem solving techniques. To read more: Three Principles Behind All Tools

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." " You read an excerpt here.

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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. Let’s look at a few potential threats that your team may encounter. Social Engineering Many social engineering terms have funny names, but there is nothing funny about them.

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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. What kind of language is going to grab the attention of different donor groups?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

We live in a multi-media world, and there is a lot of competition for people’s attention – a lot of ‘noise’ Fundraising campaigns used to be characterized by a single message to all prospective donors. GARY: Ditto. But as we mentioned, the fundraising paradigm is shifting. GARY: One step at a time. Study your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This post covers some simple techniques to give your fans the content they want most and inspire more engagement. Many times we’re on the hunt for the tips of what to do and when we find them, we just implement them. Content Analysis of Comments on post and shares. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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