Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

That way you can avoid a situation where your top candidates, who were excited and ready to go in July when they applied, are fully booked with other opportunities in November when you get back to them. Share the interview script with all interviewers. Block enough time on your calendar to complete this process in weeks (not months).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world. This is an area of special focus for our Bookshare team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

Plus, as a special bonus item, you’ll receive Joe Garecht’s exclusive Asking Scripts Guide. He is also the author of several books on fundraising including How to Raise More Money for Any Non-Profit. Bonus Item! This e-guide includes sample fundraising asks, sample major donor funding proposals, and more.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They often have books, blogs, and podcasts. They don’t follow a script. Tom Iselin has built eight nonprofits and written six books. If a facilitator does good work, people will happily sing their praises. The best facilitators will have dozens of written and video testimonials on their websites. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2015

So, there's no better time then now for the new book, The Stay Interview, A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and the Brightest. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book. Most important, stay interviews are the ticket to trust-building because they are delivered from the heart.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Once you understand these five elements, you’ll be able to pick them out in TV shows, movies, books, and news articles. In short, great storytelling tugs heartstrings and that’s step 1 if you want a donation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For example, you’ll need to set up your lighting and music, design the layout of your event space, script your program, and more. With a virtual event, you won’t need to worry about booking a venue or paying for catering. Especially if your event is on the larger side, you’ll have many logistics to contend with. Greater outreach.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. You can learn how to make this call by grabbing my free Thank You Calls E-Book + Script. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun. Don’t ask for an upgrade at this point.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

“Today’s savvy buyers are impatient with old-school selling tactics and stereotypical sales behaviors,” explain the authors of the new book, Stop Selling And Start Leading: How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen. It’ll teach you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to consistently make extraordinary sales.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

With multiple characters, up-and-down capitalizations, and spaces, phrases from your favorite books or movies seem like the perfect hacker-proof solution. Besides books, whitehat (good hackers) and blackhat (bad hackers) are tapping into news websites, movie scripts, song lyrics, and social networking sites to pull potential passphrases.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2013

It is a challenge for me to not judge someone who doesn''t believe in gun control, or not be angry with the corporate customer service rep who can''t answer my question because he needs to keep to a script, or not be selfish when I''m worried about finances, or be collaborative when I''m sure I know the best way. Those feelings come easily.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

It's a straightforward translation app that translates printed materials, such as signs, menus, or books. It tends to choke on cursive and other fancy scripts and it will not work with handwriting. Word Lens is one of those apps that seems, dare I say, magical. It also works best with simple, clear printed font.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

” He offered a simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build. He also talked about the Improviser Mindset VS Scripted Mindset of leaders. Scripted mindsets expect everything to be perfect in theory, on paper, and in the real world – and when it isn’t they don’t know how to lead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Don’t be too scripted and embrace the unexpected. Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

To be clear, this was not because I was a shy and introverted child who was generally happiest sitting in a quiet room with a chess set, some books about dragons, and no friends. Reading time: 12 minutes Soon after I learned the rules of chess, I started playing a lot of games against myself. Or, not only that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I’d read about PdF in Steven Johnson ’s book “Future Perfect” and heard about them from Rachel Weidinger of Upwell. Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

If your summer is already booked with adventures and vacations, don't worry the learning continues into the fall with the DEMO Fall 2012 conference. In her words, Jenica "took many of the skills that [she] learned in the NTEN leadership academy and from the 2012 conference to put together a script and small communications plan."

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. What books are in your donor’s bookshelf? One of the most challenging things in an ask is managing your own composure and delivery while simultaneously listening for verbal and nonverbal cues from your donor. That is a lot happening at once!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

First, donor expectations no longer include an in-person conversation, so a gift officer can have several more “visits” per day than she would traditionally do, and may be able to book significantly more gifts. You see a sample phone script for this call here. So tour guides, receptionists, security guards, coaches, etc.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Facilitate virtual meetups, book clubs, and happy hours with special guests, like No Vet Alone is doing. Virtual solutions. In-person volunteers are disappearing for key activities (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot about scarcity and abundance mindsets lately because the first chapter of the Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout book I’m writing with Aliza Sherman asks this question: “Why do people who work for nonprofits not practice self-care and burnout?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That quote is from Anne Lamott from her book Bird-by-Bird which is about the writing process. You have to acknowledge that the first time you do something or write a first draft, it isn’t going to be perfect. Defining Roles. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In editor Karen Pearlman's book, Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit , she states that most great editors claim to edit by "intuition". The tempo of the dialogue, which can be scripted, interview format, or even visual dialogue is another element that establishes the rhythm. We are experiencing life in the same rhythm.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. What books are in your donor’s bookshelf? One of the most challenging things in an ask is managing your own composure and delivery while simultaneously listening for verbal and nonverbal cues from your donor. That is a lot happening at once!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I learned this from Andy Goodman -- I've taken his workshops and read his books. In his workshops, he offers the following formula for a storytelling based on Hollywood script writing: Introduce the central character. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. What books are in your donor’s bookshelf? One of the most challenging things in an ask is managing your own composure and delivery while simultaneously listening for verbal and nonverbal cues from your donor. That is a lot happening at once!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. It is certainly better and more secure than IE.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 Have you experienced the same?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, I’m trying out some new themes soon. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. I generally like to have visuals, a place for my script, and links. I'm filling in for colleagues Marnie Webb and Billy Bicket from Netsquared. That's a hard thing to do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2008

Morrie Warshawski , author of Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants for Film and Video, recently sent me a copy of the 2nd edition of his book, The Fundraising Houseparty. It also has an order form in the back of the book with bulk purchase rates (25+ copies for $15.95 Have you ever hosted a house party?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. One piece of advice that I learned from Cliff Atkinson's book was to think about your presentation key points as tweets so people can retweet them. In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 22, 2007

This capable tool lets you view -- and more importantly, modify in real time -- the css, scripts, images, cookies, and form elements in any page you are viewing. Tools: Web-development plug in for Firefox If you do any web-development work, you'll want to get a hold of the Web Developers Extension for Firefox. Give it a try.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. He also points us to books, languages, and application frameworks - like this survey of five new "rails"-like application frameworks for php.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

For example, if you want to build a list all authors of all books with a publication date of 2000, you could reference them with a string like /book[@date="2000"]/author But here you run into browser problems - the Mozilla family and IE implement Xpath in entirely different ways. Still seems pretty complicated?

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