Kindful

MARCH 8, 2021

Here are the automated email examples we’ll cover: Welcome email. By implementing automation techniques for recurring emails, you can strengthen the relationships that matter most, whether you’re on the clock or not. Be sure to check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and our blog. New subscriber. Volunteer thank you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, I have a daily reflection ritual of walking a few miles a day to think away from screens. Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. And, if I’m being honest, I don’t stick to them. That is twenty years!

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

This is the first in a four-part blog series, Building Trust and Credibility Through Design, based on a webinar led by Forum One’s Vice President of Design. I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. Watch the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Make full use of your blog content. Follow these best practices to ensure your donation page offers a streamlined experience: Clearly label your fields and steps. Donations are the most important example when it comes to securing support, but your website’s navigation and design play key roles, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Let me give you an example. Data should inform and optimise your fundraising strategy , and attribution is a simple technique you can use to really help you get it right. The folks at Reforge say ‘attribution is the practice of understanding how you assign credit to marketing initiatives’. Example: utm_source=facebook.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, your marketing team may use AI to come up with new, creative ideas for blog content, but they should still be in charge of writing it themselves. For example, if you’re using a chatbot to answer queries on your site, you could measure response time, user satisfaction, and query resolution. Conduct staff training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. I really like this book, because it: Provides "real-world" and practical everyday steps you can take. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Compassion.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” Even a verbal picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Once you understand the basic elements of a good story and a few different ways to tell them, the rest is just practice, practice, practice. There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Here’s a great example of one such photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Employing these latest trends and best practices can help you amplify your organization’s fundraising success! For example, ChatGPT is easy to learn and use. Jasper AI is great for analyzing decisions and making personalized recommendations and is used primarily for marketing copy such as blog articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

While our book focuses on both what individuals can do and how organization’s can support it, we wanted to share some practical tips and techniques for individuals that worked at nonprofits to get more energy for 2016! The Practices: Create A Self Care Bill of Rights. Self-Care Bill of Rights: Aisha Moore Example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

They should know the topic area, but also understand practice of curation. The practice of curation is being able to sift through daily whirlwind of tweets, blog posts, and other content streams quickly in order to pick the right pieces that create an accurate view of the subject matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Aliza Sherman: Practicing Mindfulness and Tech Wellness.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Many in the audience were colleagues that I have met through my blog over years and have helped me with Cambodian fundraising, like Roger Carr. Her blog is a must-read and I hope someday that she writes a book. Wendy has let me shadow her work for the past five years and share her wisdom in many blog posts. Here are my notes.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Additionally, write search engine optimized blog content to drive traffic to your site. Tell the story of those impacted by your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. And you shared them! Here's what I learned.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For example, Qgiv provides AI to help your organization write peer-to-peer emails, as well as other donor communications. For example, both Canva and Adobe offer AI editor options which can assist your team in creating better graphics and other content for your campaigns. AI-enhanced editing tools. AI Writing Assistant.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 24, 2021

Examples of How to Gamify Your Next Event. Many of the game examples above can also be played online. Gamification Techniques for In-Person Events. In-person events are very familiar with gamification techniques. If you have interesting prizes , then the game practically will run itself! Gamifying Online Events.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. I really like this book, because it: Provides "real-world" and practical everyday steps you can take. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Compassion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. I really like this book, because it: Provides "real-world" and practical everyday steps you can take. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Compassion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Best practices for collecting actionable data. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. The syllabus includes: An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In practice, everything is not as frightening as it might seem at first glance. This technique is ideal for those faced with such a task for the first time and not knowing where to start and how to set goals. For example, if you are looking for volunteers or young assistants, then you can use Instagram. Author Bio: Nancy P.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. What is your favorite journaling technique?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 4, 2014

It’s not the time when you submitted the tweet, blog post, or Facebook share. Twitter, and to a lesser extent Facebook, is often times unpredictable; but you can increase your chances for success by implementing a few best practices, and creating consistency with your posting technique. The more eyes you get on your work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. Provides "real-world" and practical everyday steps you can take. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Friedman is founder and president of Junxure, a practice improvement firm, and Private Ocean, a West Coast wealth management firm. Compassion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. I really like this book, because it: Provides "real-world" and practical everyday steps you can take. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Compassion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

From registering your nonprofit with Giving Tuesday to working with your team to get ready for the big day, this blog post covers 7 steps you should take to make the most of this giving opportunity. This post includes four examples of how you can raise funds and why they might work for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2014

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. Applying these techniques to social platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn for thought leadership, influence, and professional learning.

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