Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. User Research.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Note: This is the tenth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. The visual design details the final look and feel of the website. Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. Methodology. Deliverables. What’s Next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Learning Analytics.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ongoing support can be especially helpful for organizations interested in completing their project in phases. Rather than finding a new consultant for each phase, you can partner with one consultant who is already familiar with your technology and can ensure your system remains cohesive. Explore a few of our past web design projects.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. Base this evaluation on the SMART goals that you set previously, using Google Analytics and other measurement tools on your social and email platforms to assess engagement, website traffic, and any other metrics that relate to your goals.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly and without hassle. Review your website analytics. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

A well-designed, professionally executed direct mail conveys professionalism and legitimacy. Steps in the Direct Mail Fundraising Process Designing a direct mail fundraising campaign involves many moving parts, from conducting intensive donor research to enlisting marketing strategists who will develop messaging frameworks and concepts.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. What is Google Analytics 4? The next five months can be your learning phase.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. Do not let looks deceive you though as these are possibly the most important deliverables in the Web Design process!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These include: Research and analytics. UX design and content. The trends that appeared reflect that orgs struggle the most with Research and Analytics. At the other end of the spectrum, the Branding and Strategy category showed high levels of success, alongside UX Design and Content. Branding and strategy. Technology.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. To create a sitemap, we begin with the documents produced during the Content Strategy phase. In later phases of the project, I tend to transition from the graphic sitemap back to the old spreadsheet we used during the Content Strategy phase.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Next, consider what audience learnings you can surface using your nonprofit’s marketing analytics, such as email engagement metrics, website traffic measures, and social media performance. To lessen the burden and time commitment of your staff, you could consider partnering with a nonprofit design firm that fits the scope of your rebrand.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Note: This is the ninth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. It’s best to get buy-in on wireframes first so we can truly focus on creative look and feel during the visual design phase of the project. These are the basic wireframes you’ll need to provide for the visual design to commence.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List The Bloomerang app is designed to support donor management from wherever you are. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go. The first is designed for event attendees.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Visual Design. Solution Design. Build consensus around target audiences.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

When you can identify who you’re speaking to, what their perspective is, and the knowledge level they bring to the table, you can design your presentations to be more appealing and relevant. This can help you think intentionally about how to lay out your presentation without getting distracted by the design elements. .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Here’s how Solis views the three phases of where we’ve been and where we’re headed: BC = Before COVID. Now the only thing normal about the phase we’re in is everyone is in this same transitional space, focused on politics, new social behaviors, and the associated socioeconomics. Think back to how different things were.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Using analytics data from your website, you can decide which pages people are most interested in or map to SEO keywords to begin prioritizing and optimizing. Getting started with personalization can be broken down into three phases: Crawl, Walk, Run. Your email communications are another simple way to personalize content.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Specifically: Your major gift officers can drive productivity on a modern mobile platform with instant analytics and income forecasting. NPSP was designed to utilize the flexibility of the Salesforce platform to ensure that every nonprofit can meet the needs of its constituents as effectively as possible.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 21, 2021

Considering the amount of effort that goes into running a successful event, your event team needs to ensure that the event marketing funnel is designed to effectively capture sales or leads at all stages. Each stage needs to be targeted with relevant content that is unique to every phase of the marketing funnel. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

So, that’s why in 2012 I opted to invest in the programming time for responsive design. She says that Google Analytics will give you a crystal clear picture of how many visitors are using mobile phones. “You can see how many of those people leave the site quickly. I queried a few colleagues for advice. Work the project plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. The book goes on to layout a method for designing a system, developing a theory of change, and talks about some of the culture issues required to work this way. The book Lean Analytics focuses on the measure stage.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

Personas in the Design Process. My job at Blackbaud is to help nonprofits design things. Whether it’s a full-scale website, an event fundraising site, a donation form or a mobile email template, our design process usually goes something like this: Stakeholder Discovery. Visual Design. User Research. Build and QA.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You move tasks from the idea phase to various stages of in-progress and finally to completion. With a scheduler, you can plan and execute your social media calendar and use the product’s analytics tools to track engagement. It’s a graphic design tool that does so much of the work for you that you get to just play and experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Geoff Livingston recommended that in addition nonprofits look at their web site analytics, google analytics for example can tell the percentage of referral traffic. Visual design is necessary now. Design apps based on what your audience needs. Allyson Kapin shared some stats about the use of email on mobile devices.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. GivingMail – Direct Mail Design. Nonprofit web design and custom projects. Getting Attention – Google Grants.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So how do we ensure that our online experience is designed for donors (both current and would-be)? Instead of seeing one long, exhausting form, the user is asked only a small handful of questions at each bite-sized phase. It allows you to use Google Analytics to see where, exactly, in the donation process your users drop off.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop? The goal of the documenting phase is just to get everything on paper. On technology implementation, try the three P's: Phased schedule: For each phase of implementation, have the entire system backed up and ready roll back if something goes wrong.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For example, is there a volunteer doing design work on her personal laptop? The goal of the documenting phase is just to get everything on paper. On technology implementation, try the three P's: Phased schedule: For each phase of implementation, have the entire system backed up and ready roll back if something goes wrong.

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The process of outlining your nonprofit’s digital strategy can be broken up into four phases for a total of seven steps, as follows: Phase 1: The Identification Stage. Phase 2: The Planning Stage. Phase 3: The Execution Stage. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Let’s begin with an overview of the first phase.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2011

Having systems that support integration has implications on the front end for campaign design and on the back end for measurement and analytics. ” Some are in the experimental phase; many are still tilting their head at what exactly mobile marketing is. The process of proving ROI is complex.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Currently, this happens in two phases. After this first phase is approved, the second phase is building out a basic Google Ads account, and submitting that for approval. Have Google Analytics installed on your website (ideally, we recommend installing Google Tag Manage r as well). This means that you: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. Courtesy of Jon Husband, publisher of Wirearchy.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

You might say that, just like those survival shows, grants also come with daily tasks designed to keep your funding stream alive as well. Additionally, as the project moves into the post-award phase, funding agencies and prime recipients have new requirements to manage risk over the life of the award.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2014

Note: This is the final installment in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Solution Design is the technical planning phase where we define how the back end of the website should function. Purposes for the Solution Design phase include: Making decisions about site-wide settings and configuration details.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. We can also get a feel for what constituents want by reviewing the Analytics Data and seeing what content is most popular. Visual Design. Solution Design. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Develop an analytics strategy. Develop an analytics strategy early in the process of bringing your app online. Subdivide your app marketing strategy into pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases, and clearly outline any specific elements and goals at each step. Keep in mind, app analytics are not a siloed resource.

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