Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Because we are not in full view of each other compared to face-to-face meetings, it is harder to pay attention because we are tempted to multi-task (reply to emails, etc) ( Theory of Zoom Fatigue ). If you are using Slack, you could set up a channel called the “Water Cooler” for this. These can be useful for 1:1 check-ins. .

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. ” These small yet impactful design choices can make a significant difference in capturing the attention and generosity of potential donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Patron personas also allow you to more effectively segment the highest-impact supporters who need your team’s individualized time and attention the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Carolyn, Ben, and I each did a brief presentation on the topic and then we sat down for a discussion facilitated by Darian and Ritu using questions from the several thousand people in the audience. Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.” Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

While many of the challenges for embracing a networked mindset and implementing a digital strategy that makes use of social media channels are similar for US nonprofits, there were some unique differences. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ?

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

For starters, data is an indispensable part of the story-telling to your donors and constituents, facilitating the formation of longer term relationships. And let’s not forget that data captures people’s attention. Data and story-telling. Oh, and (most of the time) people trust numbers, statistics, facts and figures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. Marcelo talked about how humor can capture attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Channel preference (social media vs. email). As seen with the importance of creating a marketing strategy, mapping out a content strategy allows you to identify what’s working and what needs further attention down the road. . Gather past content from a specified time period and channel. Identify your distribution channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

” When Alison Carlman , unmarketing manager for Global Giving, shared her social media measurement spreadsheet during a peer learning session I’m facilitating for Packard Foundation grantees based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I couldn’t help but think, “Now That’s A Spreadsheet!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally. I know there are many wiki patterns - how they evolve, are they are facilitated, what works, what doesn't -- just read Stewart Mader's book. I didn't facilitate it, but I participated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 5, 2022

You’ll also want to strategically use bolding or italics to call extra attention to key points in your letter. They want to know how they're going to make a difference, how they're going to facilitate some amount of change. And in fact, sometimes my paragraphs may just only be one sentence that stands out the main point across.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By translating these lessons into the nonprofit context, we can gain valuable insights into crafting campaigns that inspire participation rather than simply grab attention. This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention. Focus on optimizing donation channels for mobile.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Offering perks to loyal supporters also leaves you more attention to focus on attracting new donations. They can also facilitate easy membership renewal Communication tools. Here are just a few benefits of creating and running a nonprofit membership program: Diversified and stable revenue stream. Member portals.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. You should pay careful attention to where the points of friction are that may cause a would-be donor to abandon their donation. Through what different channels do donors hear from you? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Your supporters often engage with your organization using more than one channel. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them. Build A Multichannel Donor Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Increase reach on social media channels. Increase engagement on social channels. Social media content mirrors other channels. Advocates get more attention from policymakers. Advocates have more partners or better partners, more or better relationships with reporters, and more or better policymaker relationships.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Pursuing a multichannel marketing strategy using a variety of channels, from social media and email to direct mail, will allow you to expand your reach and promote your cause to the widest possible audience. No nonprofit fundraising plan is complete without specific attention paid to online fundraising. Online fundraising. Direct mail.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Also, make sure to follow writing best practices by keeping your paragraphs short and using bolded text strategically to draw attention. For instance, you might group supporters based on their engagement level, recency and frequency of giving, or preferred communication channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Told well, stories will grab people’s attention and compel them to take action. . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

Online auction software for planning the event and facilitating bids is the primary expense associated with hosting your first virtual auction. Do you have the tools you’ll need to host the auction and facilitate bids? Pay particular attention to these two channels: . Think about your average event attendee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. ” Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Curates content to capture attention from their network in an age of information overload. I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

On November 16, I had the pleasure of facilitating a webinar through the European Foundation Centre entitled, Foundations & Practice in Data Visualisation. To view the most recent recorded session, please go to the EFC's YouTube channel. to draw your audience's attention to where you want it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

By using the above online channels (more on these later), digital marketing allows organizations to endorse their brand and bring attention to particular call-to-action items that an audience type can respond to. Why Do You Need It? If you don’t have an online presence, you are behind the eight ball. Types of Online Fundraising Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels. Development.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. With this partnership, both parties received a lot of positive media attention which even led to more support in money and supplies. Event registration tool.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Use learnings as a stepping stone and initialize discussion based on learning topics via private social media channels (Protected Groups). This will not only further facilitate learner engagement but also bring attention to learning efforts.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It can be tempting to ask for excessive information so that you can learn more about your supporters, but sticking to the essentials will streamline the process and better hold the attention of your donors. . The digital space your supporters encounter each day is full of organizations and individuals fighting for your donors’ attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Post a variety of different media types, photographs and visuals get attention, shorter status updates, and curated links. I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. Measure Networked Nonprofit.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. Your slogan should convey the value and vision of your event with only a few attention-grabbing words. Expand your reach by partnering with a media organization and advertising your event through external channels.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

Your gala event is a culmination of a year or more of relationship building, multi-channel outreach and face-to-face interaction, just like a social media fundraising campaign. Despite the narcissism and deficit of attention in my generation (as far as you know I'm still 29), I still believe this is an achievable goal.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

Virtual attendees will have a lot of different things competing for their attention. A platform that integrates with your social media channels makes this back and forth easier for attendees but can improve the attendee experience overall. Easily Accessible Agenda. Social Media Integrations.

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