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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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User Experience: What Can Frank Lloyd Wright Teach Us?

Forum One

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Thanks for the creative tour, @mojoguzzi!

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. What need will you address? Next, donor management.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. After we had all the sticky notes on the board, we had generated a landscape analysis from the grantee’s point of view.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Harry: A Green Geek. Interview with Jonathon Colman.

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. This book focuses on getting results by teaching new and experienced nonprofit leaders the fundamental skills of effective management. Rather than fearing the inevitable, this book will teach you how to feel, map, assess, and learn from the continual state of flux we experience everyday.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Right now, Charity Navigator is in the midst of beta testing CN2.0 , which is the first step beyond simple ratio analysis. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. But thats getting ahead of ourselves. All You Need is Love.

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