Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Come learn the ups and downs of these contests from brands that sponsor them. Trust me. Nonprofits use them to rally supporters.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Use of Convios multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Some people find that designating certain days each week for the same tasks is helpful. Others find that designated blocks during each day help them stay on track. This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. But what this also means in taking care of YOU.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. The example to illustrate these points is from a panel I designed for the NTC08 on ROI and Social Media and including Wendy Harman from the Red Cross. Know your keywords. Use your RSS reader like a rock star. Engaging and monitoring responses from clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Don’t forget to consider potential sponsors at this stage, too. With the right tools at your disposal, your organization will be able to create and design event fundraising that captures your donors’ key information.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

alpha brain waves game I always see at ASTC. Or, sponsor some of these crazy game events--races to see who can maintain the highest mpg over a set path. That's what museum designers are doing all the time--trying to make games out of educational concepts and learning experiences. How could museums be part of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Design for People To Self Organize. I asked the students what else does that? I did not eat chocolate.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. You can use free graphic design tools like Canva to generate infographics to supplement your blog posts. Let’s dive in! Visual content is easier to interpret and remember than long chunks of text.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

was designed for Africa and costs more. The DoGooder Awards recognize exceptional use of video to promote good causes and are sponsored by YouTube and TechSoup donor partner, Cisco. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The Big Picture.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Consider asking local businesses to sponsor your online concert to cover any overhead costs, such as livestreaming equipment or musician fees. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Therefore, ensure this resource is designed to showcase your organization’s brand effectively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. The overhead of finding sponsors for a small publication is enormous. Others aren’t at all. I’m really not sure what the answer is. The licensing is a pain for everyone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. It's just natural in our brains, if you look at the brain science and everything around that, women want to build community. It may be animal rights.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if your people in your organization are healthy, meaning they are doing the work that they are best designed to do, if they got a little extra, that comes with the job. Which is why it’s very important, if you are the person that is a designer for a workplan that you preemptively suggest in your workplan, opportunities to step back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” For example, their bootcamps which were sponsored by American Express. Or involuntary actions, like breathing. Focusing on KPIs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

On Tuesday, I'll be chairing a session at the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference called Eye on Design: Inspiration from Outside the Museum , in which we will feature creative and intriguing design elements from worlds away from museums--guitar stores, baseball stadiums, and more. It's not always pleasant.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Do you think that can be something that a grant could help with in terms of a specific funding designation, I suppose? She has written the coolest research studies and papers that we’ve had the opportunity to sponsor over the last few years. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

You can design your marketing and fundraising materials to appeal to the right emotions. If a corporation sponsors a certain nonprofit, employees may be eager to support it as well, either because they love the cause or because it makes them look good at work. That means making info visually pleasing and easily shareable.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. Our instinct was designed to keep us safe when the world was a lot less scary and you could get eaten by a bear. “You can’t make me buy anything,” or, “I’ve got to get out of here.” I talked about the brain.

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