Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” ” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. Who are we trying to reach?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Ask a question. (“How Joe, join our new Art Lovers Speakers Series.”) Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Our supply of pantry items will last only 30 days.”) How many Florida panthers still exist in the U.S.?”) Thank you’s.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Ask a question. (“How Joe, join our new Art Lovers Speakers Series.”) Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Our supply of pantry items will last only 30 days.”) How many Florida panthers still exist in the U.S.?”) Thank you’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Yes, we need to practice the art of data cleaning … or cleansing … or hygiene … pick a term. Our question “What’s in your data management plan?”, What about cleaning? It is important to remember, however, that cleaning cannot be a one-time or occasional event. The need for the Data Management Plan.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. Education, art, and culture can receive the support they need to flourish. Animals and the earth are protected and respected. And so much more.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Asking is part art and part science. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. If your voice inflects to a higher pitch at the end of your sentences like you are asking a question you will not sound confident or credible. Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Asking is part art and part science. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. If your voice inflects to a higher pitch at the end of your sentences like you are asking a question you will not sound confident or credible. Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Raising funds for nonprofit organizations is both an art and a science. Keep it interesting and start with an attention-grabbing subject line that either asks a question or encourages opens by creating intrigue. From knowing your target audiences to getting them to donate, there’s a lot you need to know as a fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". What: The art of social instructional design. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Asking is part art and part science. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. If your voice inflects to a higher pitch at the end of your sentences like you are asking a question you will not sound confident or credible. Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Mastering the art of the nonprofit ask isn’t as hard as you think. If you can just get all that great information out there you’ll be able to face the do-or-die instant where you must pop the big question. You respond by asking a question, sharing your opinion, relating a similar experience or offering advice. Isn’t this so?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Because whether you’re crafting emails or designing web experiences, you will ask yourself the two big questions over and over. It’s tempting to think that designers should instinctively know when a design works, but let’s not confuse design with art. Always tough questions. Is my design effective?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. This was circa 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. This discovery emerged from a question the Museum list about using flickr in a museum context. My other question. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve In this post, I???m

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

First off, for 2010, there are some security questions you should ask yourself as trends emerge: Are robots attacking my servers? (Ro)bots Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. " 'Nuff said. developers of low-budget modern campaign websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. The next question is, well, how useful is this anyway? bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

That way, you’ll never question your ad performance. Whether you work at a museum, performing arts center, library, or another type of cultural organization, INTK will work with you to achieve more through professional Google Ad Grants management. Compliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" I don't even know what it is, but she also posted the question with more details on her blog. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. After a long day running around a science center, I would show up at the Worcester Art Museum in the evening and make $20 just to stand around and listen to a painting instructor talk about art. I hope this is helpful for someone.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

If you’ve got a question specifically, it might be a little more visible to us if you use the question box, but no worries, we will monitor both. And that is the $64,000 question you want to answer is how you do those things? A question and really listen. And as philanthropic questions like, why did they give?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Next time you consider moving to a more capable software platform, consider these 10 questions to help ensure that your decision will be the correct one, and your selection will not fail. The key question is whether you are looking to support a singularly focused or a multi-focused operation. Click here to download full White Paper.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Cultivating a donor is part art and part science. What types of activities can you do to find out what the donor cares about? Can you invite the donor to come to your organization and watch a program in action? Can you ask for a meeting over coffee?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Do type in questions during. You can put the questions in the Q&A. I will be asking you questions and your answers will go in the chat. I have a poll question for you. So go ahead and just answer the question. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift. That’s the place to put them. Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Zen and the Art of Web Analytics. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. The 3 Most Frequently Asked Google Analytics Questions. Avinash Kaushik says that some reports are more important than others and it comes down to a few essential questions. Helps you focus on the data you need to answer that question only.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? I asked each panelist to create an ignite style presentation to answer the questions briefly.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2012

In conjunction with the third annual TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge , we are offering three free webinars to ensure you know the nuts and bolts of all the stages of production — and get your questions answered by the experts. storytelling, translating that story into a script or production. really make your story shine.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. If you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier, a little higher chance that we get to that question as insider tip for you, but we won’t discriminate. Pretty please with sugar on top, any questions that you have, just pop them in that Q&A box.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. First, there is the question of what they know. Really a lot. Where is this client, now ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. like anyone who has a background in the arts full well knows. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit. But the stats. are very different. Unique Readers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I used to think that because I was more naturally drawn to the arts and literature, science did not have a place in my life. Science is about answering an unknown question, not telling a scripted story. I expected to come away from this experience with a new understanding and appreciation for science. Silly, silly Kate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2022

One question must be asked at every step of the planning process: Is video the best way to communicate the message? The target length of the video and the production requirements (equipment, script, locations) will help determine a timeline. Define the goal and audience. The primary goal should always be high video engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Tagging in Art Museums. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction. Nonprofits and Tagging: Two Case Studies.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition. And my favorite, from a designer who was initiated into a secret world of graffiti-ed walls behind elevator doors in his art college in an entirely silent exchange. With mediated interactions, the answer to the question is known, and thus the engagement feels safe.

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