AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organization maintains an active presence on social media platforms , include social media links on your website. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Select a cost-effective online donation platform that meets your specific requirements.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

To help you put on the best event possible, and with an engaged and satisfied audience, we’re here to offer you some useful tips, tricks, and advice for both virtual and hybrid events. When tuning in from a remote location, your audience will be experiencing competing demands on their attention. Virtual escape rooms.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Nonprofits are able to grow their audience by tapping into GivingTuesday’s large, global social media community. When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

To help you put on the best event possible, and with an engaged and satisfied audience, we’re here to offer you some useful tips, tricks, and advice for both virtual and hybrid events. When tuning in from a remote location, your audience will be experiencing competing demands on their attention. Virtual escape rooms.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Told well, stories will grab people’s attention and compel them to take action. . A story that compels includes a protagonist your audience cares about, important problems that must be overcome, a solution that overcomes the problem (something to root for), and (4) an ending—hopefully a happy one. .

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Tech-savvy audiences like millennials are also familiar with automated emails and tell the difference between a generic email sent to a thousand people and one written personally for them. . also supports the impact of physical documents as our brains comprehend text better when it’s printed than when it’s on a screen.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Share it everywhere!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It works, because there’s nothing else drawing your attention. Better microcopy means better engagement for your association’s platform. A bad user experience discourages people from exploring your content and, with the attention span of the average user these days, may cause them to abandon your site altogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.).

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

In contrast, you can also use this information to make sure you have to right items for your audience. There’s something to interest any supporter, and this attention to detail has led to them raising over 60% of their fundraising goal … and their event hasn’t even happened yet! that encourage participation.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The focus has gone beyond whether or not you will have digital platforms. The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. First, pay attention. Or to create FAQs for each of your platforms based on trending inquiries. The following are a few providers of point-and-click platform builders.:

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 24, 2016

If your organization is already appealing to a younger crowd, it will be an easy transition to embrace the app and build a following big enough to make adding another platform to your social media strategy worthwhile. Every social media platform is adopted early by a younger audience. Surprise, surprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. Understand your audience. By understanding your nonprofit’s audience, you can craft marketing materials that connect your mission to their specific interests and values. Let’s jump in. Occupation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Make sure the game is targeted to the right audiences. This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. Jeff came to the attention of the new leadership of Games for Change through his personal blog, Game Culturalist, a socially aware blog about video games. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. The cost of online fundraising software can be fairly inexpensive, only requiring a small platform fee and processing fee. Increase brand awareness.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 79

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

GoFundMe is a platform that does this incredibly well, including a feed of recent donations with donor names and comments. This simple word change has huge implications on gaining the attention and support of audiences. This shows exactly how powerful a tool “keeping up with the Joneses” can be.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When your nonprofit uses online fundraising platforms and follows best practices, you can meet your supporters where they are—online—and enable them to give quickly and easily. The cost of online fundraising software can be fairly inexpensive, only requiring a small platform fee and processing fee. Increase brand awareness.

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 99

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. Content is one of the best ways you can connect with your audience, ask donors for a gift, and share the good news about your organization’s impact.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Also, our collective attention span is evolving. In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. But it’s one thing to tell someone a story and another to show them. Consider this.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Segment your audience. This helps you also broaden your overall outreach, as communicating with donors on multiple channels and showing consistent attention to detail can go a long way towards converting new donors while also solidifying your relationship with your current ones. . CharityEngine’s nonprofit CRM guide. About the Author.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Identify your audience. You should also plan to communicate the urgency of your campaign to your audience. Identify your audience. Your audience for your end-of-year giving campaign will consist of both new and current donors. Pro tip: Qgiv’s platform integrates with Facebook fundraisers !).

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Identify a business that shares your audience, and think about ways to support each other. Then pay attention to which stories people respond to. But let that sink in. Lots of stories.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I’m very platform agnostic. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. ” Tech ROI means paying attention to the data that’s coming in and taking action based on the information that your technology is serving up to you. Start with five that you should be paying attention to regularly.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And I’m especially excited to share it with the Bloomerang audience who I know are my peoples. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . An important topic that I don’t think gets enough attention.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s a platform to connect, to earn trust, and for even the most reluctant of supporters to discover just how much they want to be a part of your community. With the ever declining attention span of your audience, it’s necessary that you start appealing to a broader range of senses. Have you ever thought about it?

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