Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Do the words "design" and "brand guidelines" make your toes curl and teeth grind? Does design lingo make you think you need to hire a professional designer or go to design school? recognize and define five basic core elements in design and in your organization's brand guide.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As we cross the milestone of having 1 million Trailhead badges earned, now is a great opportunity to reflect and share key takeaways on what our team learned through the process of designing and implementing a learning program on Trailhead. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. The Results (So Far).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

via Lifehacker comes a pointer to a kick-ass screencast called " A Beginner's Guide To WordPress " from Rachel Cunliffe, a web designer from New Zealand. Definitely work a link in my tutorial collection in the sidebar of my blog.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management. Design and Multimedia. A well-designed website doesn't require a large budget and a professional design team.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Speaking of widgets, even WordPress beginners are aware of how easy it is to drag and drop them into their sidebars. Here you’ll discover options galore, but do a little research on the Beginners Guide for WordPress before you start messing around too much. Sidebars Simplified. A Sneak Peek.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mailchimp | Best software for multichannel marketing Mailchimp is a marketing platform designed to assist you in establishing your nonprofit’s brand and connecting with your supporters. Pricing Mailchimp offers multiple monthly plans based on specific features and contact quantities, including a free beginner plan.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

To learn more about designing a great online presence, visit our blog where you’ll find advice and examples of great nonprofit websites. Whether you already have a website or you’re just starting out, website design and management can be hard work. Instagram for Nonprofits: A Beginner’s Guide.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Innovate, Innovate, Innovate One of the biggest challenges in direct mail donor acquisition is designing visually appealing fundraising materials that are attention-grabbing. In addition to creating a beautiful piece of direct mail, the copy on it should complement the design and be persuasive in a way that resonates with your donors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2017

Design for Nondesigners (two courses). Web Design Best Practices. Adobe Absolute Beginners: Create a Fundraiser Invitation Using InDesign. Adobe Absolute Beginners: Photoshop. Adobe Absolute Beginners: Getting Started with Illustrator. Guide to Microsoft Server Licensing. Design and Web Building.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This guide highlights the top affordable and free nonprofit software solutions to turn to for support. Qgiv Platform overview: Qgiv ’s fundraising platform was designed with the donor experience in mind. Graphic design tools help your nonprofit develop and distribute cohesive branded materials while staying within your budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. of some really well-designed bots from nonprofits and beyond here. Designing an Effective Nonprofit Chatbot. I decided to set up an experiment to better understand what was involved in the design of small pilot bot. Conclusion.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Essential companion reads for this article are our Beginner’s Guide to Analytics and our Guide to Custom Analytics Dashboards for Nonprofits. A low website view rate might not be a sign of a ‘bad’ website, but it might be a sign that it is not correctly designed for SEO, or that your advertising is not up to scratch.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

You can even prime it with famous people – write our guide like Abraham Lincoln or Dalai Lama. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. Build large training guides on a given topic. Build a tool for your audience that helps with a task.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. With 25 sessions, Gainsight’s Pulse Everywhere had topics presented by leaders from top companies with a focus on the “beginners mindset” to reimagine how their event experience would work, from online registration to networking. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Continuing our coverage of the power of online video for nonprofits, we wanted to point you to a cool series of videos released by See3 Communications as a beginner's guide to online video. This is a 7-part series of short videos designed to introduce nonprofit professionals to new ways in thinking about online video.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2022

The yoga should be easy for beginners and promote deep breathing and stress relief. If you go the meditation route, consider hosting several sessions of guided meditation to help people visualize a less stressful situation for themselves. Instead of issuing a challenge, host a fundraiser in the form of a yoga or meditation workshop.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Make sure your guides are turned on by clicking View > Show. The option to show Guides should be checked in the flyout menu. (If Click and drag the logo to line it up with the innermost guide on the left and just above (not quite aligned with) the bottom guide. Line up the URL text with the bottom guide.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Make sure your guides are turned on by clicking View > Show. The option to show Guides should be checked in the flyout menu. (If Click and drag the logo to line it up with the innermost guide on the left and just above (not quite aligned with) the bottom guide. Line up the URL text with the bottom guide.

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Adobe Tutorial Files Beginner 36

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The Elements interface includes three editing modes called Quick, Guided, and Expert that provide a step-by-step process for beginners or allow advanced image editors to get right down to work. Adobe offers an official comparison guide for the whole Photoshop family. CMYK coloring for preparing images for professional printing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Luckily, Hubspot just published this awesome guide, one of the clearest and easiest to understand how-tos on A/B testing for Beginners. Here’s the method.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. With 25 sessions, Gainsight’s Pulse Everywhere had topics presented by leaders from top companies with a focus on the “beginners mindset” to reimagine how their event experience would work, from online registration to networking. .

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Industry Virtual Tech Cisco 52

Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Tutsplus has a helpful guide to buying your first Raspberry Pi, complete with info on every component you'll need.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Like Instagram, the Vine app is designed to be very easy to use. Aaron's guide to getting started with nonprofit videos. Benchmarks for nonprofit video and guide for creators. A beginner's guide to Vine. The free Vine app allows users to record and edit six-second videos called "Vines."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2013

The Elements interface now includes three editing modes called Quick, Guided, and Expert that provide a step-by-step process for beginners or allow advanced image editors to get right down to work. Support for automating Photoshop tasks through scripts written by developers. CMYK coloring for preparing images for professional printing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2009

A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. Write content that guides people to your other web properties such as a volunteer position sign up form, an even registration page, a forum or your online giving form. Raise more money – Write posts that will guide and encourage people to give.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

GoToTraining includes all the features of Citrix GoToMeeting , and also allows your organization to design tests, build libraries of training materials, and to charge participants a course fee. Each lesson is designed specifically for nonprofits and led by CPA Gregg Bossen, who's been teaching QuickBooks for over ten years.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They provide a user-friendly interface with simple editing tools and pre-designed templates. With other builders, a nonprofit might have to adapt features designed for traditional for-profit businesses. Design Flexibility: Choose builders offering a diverse range of templates, customizable themes, and design elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. Yes, this is a book you must read if you want to become the person others will follow. I still practice them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

One thing we hear again and again is how organizations pay someone to design and develop a website for them, and once that site is handed over, the organization doesn’t have anyone on staff who knows how to use and update it. ESD (admin fee: $35), a handy HTML editor for design and publication of your website. Start Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

Twitter management clients also have internal functionality designed to shorten links just like Bit.ly , a well-known URL shortener, a vital tool since character space is at a premium. A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter. Tools such as HootSuite , CoTweet , or TweetDeck. Bites of Wisdom. Twitter Best Practices.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So grab your paddle, put on your thinking cap, and let’s dive into the key ingredients for a memorable and profitable pickleball fundraiser : Planning Your Pickleball Tournament Matches Who, What, Why Define your target audience (beginners, advanced players?), This will guide your format and budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

These are free and simple searches designed to monitor blogs and news sites for mentions of your organization, services, or other specific keywords. How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms.

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RSS Beginner Feeds Search 50

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Impact Nonprofit Donor Databases: The Ultimate Guide 35 min read Read Now The Five Best CRMs for Small Nonprofits Our team has reviewed the available options and determined that the following five systems are the best options for small nonprofits: Neon CRM Bloomerang Little Green Light Network for Good Excel or Google Sheets 1.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Museum-themed apps, which I work with, are mostly just gallery guides. Another application, the MoMA iPhone app , offers a calendar with museum events and includes a simple audio guide, a catalog of the works shown, and ticket purchasing feature. It's related to another aspect of the app: a well-designed user experience.

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