Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work. Since I do this every year, I also review what I wrote at the start of the last year.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 5, 2023

Read our blog for five employee empowerment strategies you can adopt at your organization today. Harvard Business Review states that employee empowerment occurs when staff have work autonomy and routinely contribute to their organization. Provide time off benefits. By being intentional about employee empowerment.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

On top of that, there’s a lengthy contract to review and sign. Now that we’ve done our audit (at least until next year), I’m taking a moment to reflect on key takeaways from our compliance initiative that all nonprofits can benefit from. The post Building a culture of nonprofit compliance at Candid appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the Salesforce Winter ’22 Release , there are a number of intuitive new features, updates, and functionalities sure to benefit your Salesforce instance. From within your Salesforce org, the Your Account App allows you to do any of the following: Increase product and license count. Blog: Solving the Salesforce Talent Gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. If you want the basics about holding a meeting that is energizing instead of draining, here is a good summary from the Harvard Business Review: “ What Everyone Needs to Know About Running Productive Meetings.”

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Candid

APRIL 8, 2024

Together, we strive to deepen our understanding, strengthen our commitment, and align our policies, procedures, practices, programs, products, and services to ensure our employees and stakeholders thrive. We accomplished this by reviewing current DEI-related efforts and examining statements from other organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

They create social capital or value by making their skills, resources, and knowledge available to each other. Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues. Network Types. Each one is different in its DNA.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you read this blog, you’ve probably come across articles about artificial intelligence and predictive analytics for associations. Driving more revenue by cross-selling your products in a targeted way based on members’ previous purchases and interests. . Review your data and how it will be used. . and how it will be used.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With a robust feature set, Apsona provides a wealth of productivity features for nonprofit organizations ranging from cross object filtering and multi-step reporting to extensive data management and mail merge tools. At the conclusion of the project, Riley Children’s Foundation had a better product, and Cloud for Good had happy clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades. This session will explore ethics and privacy in the age of AI as well as the benefits experienced through Blackbaud’s adoption of AI within its own solutions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Many nonprofits don’t put time and energy into SEO because they don’t understand the benefits. Share expertise on your website and on other websites or blogs to raise your rankings. Use the “mullet” philosophy when writing website and blog headlines. Google loves when you use its products.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Earlier this year, my colleague wrote an article on this blog about digital transformation and its importance to the future of associations. Findings from this study suggest that there are some disconnects between organizations and their members when it comes to the importance of certain benefits. Review Study. Learn More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. There are a few more benefits to turning off your camera on Zoom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

I’m a product manager, so I have the privilege of being on a team producing software every day. Low-code platforms can give your team great power to improve their day-to-day workflows and increase their productivity. Therefore, it’s important to test all low-code applications in an environment separate from the production environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! It’s not a luxury.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 19, 2024

Request references and reviews to gauge their reliability and the quality of their services. Attend their events, sample their products or services, and gather as much information as possible to make informed decisions. The post Why Event Vendor Partnerships Matter appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Outputs : The products, goods, or services which result from an activity. Improving Strategies Despite the benefits strategic planning delivers, many nonprofits fail to approach it as part of an integrated, enterprise-wide process. Inputs : The resources—financial and non-financial, human, and material—used to conduct an activity.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

With numbers like this, it may benefit every nonprofit organization to develop or build a planned giving program. Planned Giving Benefits Planned giving programs provide increased opportunities for existing and potential donors and encourage long-term growth. Here are additional benefits of implementing a planned giving program.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Trust is the number one value for Salesforce.org and we are committed to ensuring world-class security across our products and solutions. Organizations should critically review proposed data collection and ensure that the intended benefits and impact justify the risks of data collection in the first place. Learn more.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

AMS solutions built on Salesforce provide the functionality associations need to manage their membership plus the benefits of the leading CRM platform. A sandbox is a testing environment where you can test code changes separately from your live production environment. Great choice! Code coverage is important.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

LeanImpact is all about #socialgood and #socent in for-profit business, however nonprofits can also benefit from lean business practices, including the following: Set monthly goals. Setting monthly goals allows employees to be more productive and focused on measurable results. Image courtesy of Good+. Create accountability mechanisms.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Gone (mostly) are the days when cause-centered organizations stuffed flyers into envelopes and received a check back in the snail mail or reaped the benefits of plastic jars and point-of-sale locations. One cyber-marketing expert reviewed his purchases for an entire year and discovered his charity received only a couple of bucks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

The benefit is more resilient, productive, and successful employees and grantees and a greater positive impact in your community. If you already have a vision statement, I invite you to review it and assess how well you’re doing at realizing it. Ultimately, a healthier workplace isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s a must-have.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It’s a plain English primer on what cloud computing is and how it benefits nonprofit organizations. It’s a new licensing arrangement in which Adobe products users download the software as they have in the past and use it on PCs, but licensing is on a monthly per-user fee basis. Please log in to comment on this blog post.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

There were a million scenarios and questions going through my head related to COVID-19, teaching remotely/hyflex/in person, reviewing assessment strategies, evaluating digital learning tools, maintaining student connection and community, etc. No calendars” wasn’t going to fly now that folks had seen the benefit of pre-populated calendars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This can be done in less than hour and can reap many benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

These exercises can calm you and have the added benefit of restoring focus and productivity. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. The busier you are during your workday, the more your nervous system needs quiet time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! The problem is that walking is perceived as a “break activity” not part of work as explained in this Harvard Business Review blog post, “ Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It A Break.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

When the sales goal is reached, Teespring organizes production and shipping. 4 Benefits of Fundraising with Teespring: No risks, no costs: Never spend a dollar on service – Teespring has absolutely no up-front costs of hidden fees. Scale to any size – no limit to the number or type of products you can sell with Shopify.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

Video interviewing platforms frequently field questions around the benefits of implementing video interviews when you are already using a video chat or video conferencing tool. These products include Skype, Google Hangouts, and FaceTime. These products are ones like Zoom, WebEx, and GoToMeeting. Support You’ll Love.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2021

They have even served as a great benefit to helping employees get back to work faster, with research showing that 27% of all grant recipients were able to immediately direct more of their attention to their work because of the aid provided through employee relief funds. With COVID-19, hardship can come in so many different avenues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

We all recognize how consumer feedback drives competition, innovation, and continual adjustments in the for profit world—who hasn’t read Amazon reviews before buying a product or Tripadvisor to research a hotel? And they will find the reviews of others helpful and empowering for their program and service decisions.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Identify 5-10 good fit opportunities by reviewing the funder’s 990 report, and then generate a report from that tool to review at your next board meeting. The key question to answer when reviewing your strengths is what can your organization build on?

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