Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This week, I was fortunate to get a sneak peek at two of the nonprofit sector’s leading tech experts musing on their technology trend predictions for 2016. A great trend for all of us. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me. That’s what the Cloud should mean to all of us in 2016.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This week, I was fortunate to get a sneak peek at two of the nonprofit sector’s leading tech experts musing on their technology trend predictions for 2016. A great trend for all of us. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me. That’s what the Cloud should mean to all of us in 2016.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Study Past Fundraising Trends. At CauseVox , we believe that the best way to grow your resources is to understand what has worked (and hasn’t worked) in the past. List Your Resources. Remember to think out of the box with your resources – where could you save time that will free you up to focus on other activities.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2013

And remember the best analytics is the human brain - meaning you are going to have to spend time analyzing and documenting metrics yourself. Do they come to us first for the latest information and resources? Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Don''t just rely on tools and expect it to give you the full picture.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

No matter how long, hard, or smart I worked, there was never enough time or resources to get it all done. These breaks allow our brains and bodies to recover from the stress of being constantly connected. There were days I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I realized that even if I worked myself to death, the work wouldn’t stop.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

In the digital age, paper resources are becoming increasingly obsolete over time. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. Additional Resources. How should I format my fundraising flyer?

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

In a perfect world, your nonprofit would have the resources to equip every worker and volunteer with a secure laptop. The trend has a name: BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device. More Resources. Donate your brain and join the TechSoup forums to talk about BYOD policies at your organization. That’s not a bad thing.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

It takes planning and patience, staff resources, research, and a big commitment. Coleman says “content is not a feature, it’s an experience,” a concept that has also been discussed by Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic. Developing good content is challenging for all organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

As your team’s projects get bigger or more complex or you are trying to accomplish more with less resources, it gets harder without more intentional planning. Take a trend-line view. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Create Device Free Zones.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The human brain is the best analytics tool. Do they come to you first for the latest information and resources, and do they trust your organization? Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' Are you developing strong enough relationships where you can cultivate these people and turn them into donors down the road?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

The point is that in most cases these exceptions are highly beneficial to your organization, but because they do not fit previous trends in behavior, they cannot be predicted or anticipated. Rule #1 in fundraising is to be grateful and gracious when faced with expected or unexpected generosity.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

In the Nonprofit Content Marketing Benchmarks, Tools and Trends Report of 2014, nonprofit marketing and communications professionals who rank themselves as “Most Effective” at content marketing have a written content strategy. Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Below, I’ll describe some recent research on the used, or "secondary," marketplace as well as some of the trends that address the viability of the refurbished computer market. Refurbishment and the Environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

In the Nonprofit Content Marketing Benchmarks, Tools and Trends Report of 2014, nonprofit marketing and communications professionals who rank themselves as “Most Effective” at content marketing have a written content strategy. Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

I could consider an external look at tax legislation, demographic trends or movements in giving. You’ve mentored some people new to the industry along the way and enjoy your status as a community brain trust on all-things-planned giving. While considering the question, it occurred to me that there are many ways to answer it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

It's an invaluable resource for you and a link to your. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common 'what. Keep Records and Identify Trends. It's the place where. you're most likely to miss something when you're in a meeting or. otherwise unable to keep up in real time. qualitative data.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) 2 Comments | by Share Article in Misc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I've been following Marc Sirkin's blog for about a year before I met him at last year's Games for Change Conference where he taught me Brain Age and Mario. (At We are being far more strategic and we look at monthly trends - the goal is to minimize the average cost per click and up the click through rate. What are your tips and advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Pattern Analysis You'll want to be look for patterns and trends. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. WeAreMedia Resources. How to Comment like a Queen by Vicky Davis The Art of Responding by Beth Kanter 6. This requires stepping back. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions.

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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. You can find more stories and lots of tips and resources in the WeAreMedia Listening Module and really basic primer from the NTEN Social Media Newsletter. #4 More information here.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So with that, what we wanted to do is start our conversation by understanding your understanding of key trends in philanthropy. So ensuring that an organization has the resources it needs to do its work. Okay, so positive trend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Creativity is what makes exceptional social media campaigns stand out from the rest. Is an early adopter. They have time on their side. Online communities grow in number over time, exponentially.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Today, some people who are neurodivergent or have intellectual disabilities continue to perceive the “storm” element of the word as violent or negative, while the “brain” aspect places too much emphasis on intellectual ability. For additional related information, check out some of the following resources below.

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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. Above all you must pick the right metrics to measure what your doing and look for trends that can tell you what works and what doesn't. Can the conversion be accomplished with minimum resources? Document on the fly. Test and tweak.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. The calendar is available as a downloadable PDF , which also comes with a list of related blogs, videos, ebooks, and community resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

She’s got awesome resources. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. What do you think folks should do to maybe, you know, mitigate the impact of that besides those, you know, kind of downloading their people’s brains and recording things, you know, before they leave, which I think is really good advice? .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Yes, that study and also Google’s Flu Trends are all about physical illness. If people who are more socially-linked are truly faster to catch an infection, perhaps the most socially-linked leaders would be fastest to identify & respond to destructive impulses in our now more collective brain.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

And if the collection of resources and highlights below are any indication, a lot has happened in the nonprofit industry over the past 365 days. Check out this post: Nonprofit Content Marketing – Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for 2014 and don’t miss the associated Nonprofit content marketing infographic. Tell stories.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2016

We’ve gathered some of the more popular web design trends from around the Internet. A popular trend is to use these photos as the backdrop of their home page or splash page. A popular trend is to use these photos as the backdrop of their home page or splash page. This is another trend that can prove to be beneficial for NPOs.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

While traditional fundraising still accounts for a great majority of all funds raised, online fundraising is continuing to inch upwards and this trend is expected to continue given the ease of giving and increased efficiencies on the back-end with integrated donation and donor management tools. Focus on Trends, not on Specific Tactics.

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