Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They don’t follow a script. Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists. What distinguishes the best facilitators from average ones is knowing the right questions to ask at the right moment to yield outstanding results. They use a pre-retreat assessment process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.” The Whisky Bot , while not a nonprofit focus, it is a good example of a more elaborate bot.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

Beginning with one client and one horse in a backyard, this organization has grown to a 10+ acre state-of-the-art therapy facility in Santa Clarita. While most organizations tend to focus on peak giving months (spring, year-end, GivingTuesday, etc), Carousel Ranch flipped the script by hosting their peer to peer fundraiser in February.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. In other words, when it comes to measuring the impact of arts and culture, we may be surprised by how much funders, creatives, advocates, and communities have in common. What resources will be needed?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 4, 2016

At Achieve, we focus our efforts on increasing your site speed through a combination of tactics that include adjusting the size of images on your page and minimizing scripts to diminish the amount of server requests. Site speed is arguably the most important element when updating your website for the new mobile-first index.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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. Have Them at Hello Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

Create a script that your callers can use to keep these conversations short but impactful. eCardWidget’s donor recognition guide outlines a few simple ways to make your appreciation efforts more personal: Send an eCard. eCards are the natural evolution of email thank-you messages. Create a video.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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. HAVE THEM AT HELLO Start with an irresistible subject line that’s 50 characters or less and grabs your audience’s attention: Convey urgency. (“Our

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Now, we’re getting into the art of thanking donors. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started. Donors are different, as is the best way to thank each donor. In other words, one size does not fit all. Just say thank you.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Arts, culture, and humanities fell 7.5% (-8.6% You can find a sample script here. International affairs -related causes grew 9.1% (7.8% adjusted) . Foundations grew 2% (0.8% Health organizations fell 3% (-4.2% adjusted) in part due to declines in revenue from fundraising walks, runs, and other events. .

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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. Managing donor data quality, for example, will require you to get the data out of the confines of your CRM database and into an environment where it can be analyzed, problems identified, and clean-up scripts applied. What about cleaning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I designed this exercise after a delightful experience visiting the Barnes Foundation Museum where the art work is hung on the wall in a way to facilitate pattern recognition and learning about art concepts. Defining Roles. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity.

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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. Get it at bbcon at Rachel’s session, “Major Gifts and Art of the Ask” on Monday September 30 th at 8:30 am. . Does the thought of making a six figure ask make your palms sweat? Give sincere compliments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology It’s my social graph, darn it! Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0

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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. Does the thought of making a six figure ask make your palms sweat? Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Or, to put it another way, confidence breeds competence. Composure during your delivery.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Raising funds for nonprofit organizations is both an art and a science. Instead, provide them with information about your nonprofit, instructions on how to make an effective ask, or even write up a script they can follow to communicate with their networks and raise funds on behalf of your nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Before Visual Intelligence , users might have had to wait for IT to segregate or pull data from a database, or write scripts or code, before the analysis can even start. Share your SAP Visual Intelligence works of art by attaching them as images to emails. Share Your Visual Masterpiece. Expert Session Webinar.

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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. Does the thought of making a six figure ask make your palms sweat? Take heart fellow fundraiser, practice makes perfect. Or, to put it another way, confidence breeds competence. That is a lot happening at once!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2017

Provide them with talking scripts if necessary so that they can practice what they are going to say. Prepare them with material that outlines the issue and provide any facts and figures. Role Play : Help your advocates make their case for your cause by giving them a sense of what they can expect.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Part art & part science, her approach played to the inherent strengths of current & prospective donors. And so she let me write up this Major Donor Cultivation Events guide , which includes her formula, sample events, a preparation checklist, and even a script for the *very important* post-event dialogue with participants.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Mastering the art of the nonprofit ask isn’t as hard as you think. Practice can make perfect, but I’m not talking about a role-playing exercise or standing in front of the mirror with your asking script. With a little polish, you will master the art of the nonprofit ask and discover you really are a Natural Born Asker.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

It’s tempting to think that designers should instinctively know when a design works, but let’s not confuse design with art. Inspectlet seemed too whiz-bang good to be true, but with a small embed script you can record and playback anyone using your website. Is my design effective? How can I make it better? Hello, Crazy Egg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace. The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

What: The art of social instructional design. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. Understand the art of repurposing your materials to save time. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Here's the script. will scan later) Also, I haven't fully mastered the editing features yet as I was just trying to get it from script to filming. So look out for more formal reflections about process, particularly on the art of screencasting, along with reviews for some of the tools, both free and expensive.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At Convio Summit, our Art Director, Michael Chang, and I led the Mobile Homepage Design Slam session where we developed some mobile homepage layouts on the fly for audience volunteers. As you may have heard, more and more folks are accessing nonprofit sites, taking action and even donating from mobile devices. Build and test.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a clickjacking takes the form of embedded code or script that can execute without the user's knowledge, such as clicking on a button that appears to perform another function.

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Simply put, use the art of visual storytelling to show them how their money funds specific initiatives and all the outcomes that lead to achieving the desired goals of those initiatives. Coming in at Number 4 of most trusted nonprofits is the Special Olympics, with a website teeming with the art of storytelling.

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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. Bruce Wyman from the Denver Art Museum shared this: Okay, since we're talking about Flickr, here's a link to a protoype that we did recently.In In this post, I???m

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

Heres the outline: Tell a story Keep the audience in mind Make a clear call to action Shoot video with repurposing in mind Think outside the box Prepare a script and get some feedback B-roll is important Sound is critical Give the viewer the right web tools Host a screening To get the details, read the full article.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I start with the premise that most people are afraid of fundraising because they really have no grasp of the art and science involved. This doesn’t necessarily require following a word-for-word script, but the participants should clearly understand who is going to say what, when, and most importantly, who is going to make the ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Note: She'd like a developer to create script where you could submit to all these directories in one click version going to each one seperately because it is very time consuming.). She recommended Jason Van Orden's book, " Promoting Your Podcast " (I bought a copy and it is well worth the $16). What things attract you to subscribe?

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