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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once your website is designed and structured according to this technique, it becomes easier to update it when those needs change by asking these questions: Which tasks don’t apply anymore? In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. They are good for handling straightforward and structured interactions and are easy to build and maintain, making them an appropriate choice for beginners or initiatives with well-defined processes. There are two types of chatbots.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Step 1: Understand story structure.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. If your communities are not growing, then something is missing from your social media strategy (good content, right voice, e-newsletter, blogging, etc).

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Learning from Failure: Building Online Communities

Tech Soup

Leverage the natural structure of your community. Use guest bloggers as an extension of your brain. Perhaps contradictory to the previous point, community/content managers should also let their guest bloggers put their own spin and voice on their content. Study their forums, social media presence, and other outreach methods.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Validate their voice and do what you can to keep them focused on how this change will impact the organization. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes. Technological change – new software and systems. Create A Timeline.

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What I learned from Jad Abumrad About the Secrets of Creative Risk Taking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. He referred to a Stanford study that showed that successful, brilliant creative people go through a game of ping pong in their brains as they create: This is good!