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Attention nonprofits: We don’t know our donor data!

3rd Sector Labs

We move, take new jobs, change phone plans, change email accounts, marry, divorce, raise families, change religions, develop new interests, attend new events, and get involved in new activities. Before the start of every event, we poll the attendees about their technology and data, and we’ve been accumulating and tracking the results.

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More fundraising software = more data headaches

3rd Sector Labs

For months, Third Sector Labs has been polling webinar attendees at the opening of each event, asking how many different fundraising systems attendees use to execute fundraising appeals and campaigns. Almost everyone is using 3 or more systems, with nearly 50% using 6 or more. All data degrades, and donor data degrades faster than most.

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Julia Campbell’s Secret Sauce: Expert Social Media Tips for Nonprofits

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Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. It’s very hard to make people understand that managing social media is, very often, a full-time job. Also you can ask your audience! Do you have any tips for nonprofits who don’t have a full-time social media manager?

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Better data analysis, linking it to decisions. Often overwhelmed.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. This activity allowed the learner to move, engage in small group discussion, and apply analysis to the content. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !” You also want to document your training.

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Integrated Social Media for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For this webinar, I incorporate some instant polls so we could get a quick reading on who was on the call. In addition, I wanted to explore TwitChimp, a tool for making Twitter lists, that Robin Good dubbed, “ the ultimate Twitter list curation tool.”