Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analysis, chatbots , and automation have the power to increase fundraising capacity. Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Since its launch in November 2022, millions of users have used the platform to do their homework, summarize content, translate text, and even write code. ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For-profit companies have relied on these strategies for years to serve up relevant content and personalized experiences to deepen engagement with their brand, and donors now expect that in their interactions with nonprofits. . Performance analysis solutions help you understand programmatic strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. You have heaps of data.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Engagement with content. Analyze which types of content, stories, and communication techniques resonate most with your donors. Understand donors’ giving behaviors. Determine your objectives.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email. In order to leverage its power effectively, you’ll need to know how to use it to generate the content you want.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

SEO reputation management strategies aim to paint a positive picture of your brand in the search results by creating positive content and drowning out negative content so that your brand can stand out from your competitors. Content Management for Nonprofits. Make Use of Online Reviews. Improve your Ranking Through Video

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This technique is ideal for those faced with such a task for the first time and not knowing where to start and how to set goals. Finding the right social media platform will allow you to create content that hits the mark. Start Working on Content Plan. Make a content plan based on the specifics of each platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. Always good to leave time for Q/A at the end for those).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. Here’s an example from a recent workshop I did on Content Curation at Scoop.It.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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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. 5 Creative Content beyond text Generative AI tools are becoming very powerful storytelling aids. Here are just a sample of a few AI tools that can boost creative output.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis and link it back to decisions. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Each principle is also illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to strategy. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. Including social media icons on your website helps you recruit volunteers, enhance brand visibility, and disseminate content that aligns with your organization’s mission.

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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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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? I think there are many timeless lessons that still apply to current strategy that can be gleaned from looking backward. Lean into what works.

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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. Your digital strategy defines how you use online marketing. This digital marketing content directly impacts the success of your online fundraising strategies.

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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. Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way. Mobile learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. 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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. My Fan Page objective is: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

John Haydon did a pattern analysis of different Facebook Wall posts that were questions “ 16 Ways To Get More Comments on Facebook “ that illustrate different examples of questions. I also tested some of the tips suggested by the research. Here’s what I learned: After Hours Posting. Mari Smith also has a post here.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

John Haydon did a pattern analysis of different Facebook Wall posts that were questions to illustrate this. This may be surprising, but you can re-post some content because not everyone reads your post the first time. The London Symphony is a master of this technique. You can see the checklist here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis, and link it back to decisions. Do only numbers matter? Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

This week I lead a full-day workshop for 300 nonprofits and foundations on social media strategy and tactics. It isn’t about content, although that is important. It isn’t about content, although that is important. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Most of the time you’ll be making charts and graphs of numerical data, but some of your data may be a content analysis or theme analysis – and you can use word clouds to illustrate the frequency of a particular theme. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a Webinar for grantees of the Agriculture Sub-Program. This blog post summarizes some of the knowledge shared about effective social media strategy, tactics, and practices. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other. Most Frequently Tweeted Words. Peer Case Studies.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. User Research. Information Architecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. 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. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

If you know of other tools (or tips) that make you more efficient managing content, engagement, and tracking on social media, please share them in the comments. Conversing with people in all of these places, and creating interesting, value-add content for each is a time consuming business. Planning Content on Weekly Basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. Spredfast is a listening/content distribution tool. Understand why we had more new fans on a certain day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

(I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). 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. Wait for maturation?

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