Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

When you can identify who you’re speaking to, what their perspective is, and the knowledge level they bring to the table, you can design your presentations to be more appealing and relevant. Meetings allow you to discuss important issues, work through challenges, and ensure everyone’s on the same page. . For example: .

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Work with local clothing boutiques and designers to create runway looks and sell tickets for your community to get a look at upcoming items. Or let your community’s youth put their own designs on the runway for all the aspiring fashionistas. You can also bid off the best looks to boost your funds from the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Then one of the last arriving students, typing their name into the designated row, somehow deleted the whole roll sheet. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck. We weren’t sure. Except when it isn’t!

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Ongoing COVID-19 restrictions have posed novel challenges to nonprofits over the last year and a half, forcing them to adjust on the fly as new guidance becomes available. Read the full client story here to explore some familiar challenges and learn about their unique solutions!) A “Hybrid” Event opens participation to everyone.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the slides! Be transparent with everything: in goals, activities, membership, successes, challenges, issues within the community, and so on. Instead, design for growth and sustainability from the start with lots of room for feedback, evaluation and iterations to continue developing and redeveloping. Transparency.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

However, they also present their own unique challenges, like the difficulty of digitally engaging attendees or the tricky technical process of setting up your event activities. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. Optimize your survey design for mobile users. Send out surveys in a timely manner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. They spent the first half of their time not even mentioning the museum--just talking about challenges that commuters face, their exhaustion and stress, and the ways that their work separates them from the community. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. Camaraderie is one of the best learning opportunities.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. And now, more than ever, tech has risen to the challenge and hosted some of the biggest most important tech virtual events this year. . Qualtrics met the challenge by bringing in industry powerhouses, including sports stars and thought leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

The key to unlocking great ideas is to ask the best question, one that challenges participants to think creatively. Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and author of the forthcoming book, Questions Are the Answer , has this useful article about designing better brainstorming questions. Before the Session.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. I'm genuinely interested in your answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

The New Media for the Networked NGO Networking Conference provided NGOs who participated in the E-Mediat program the opportunity to come together to share best practices, successes, challenges and lessons learned from their use of social media to effectively advance their organization’s work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 That's why I asked.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

The learning in public (slides and resources here ). Learning in Public Challenges and Actions. When you’re designing a peer learning experience, what pitfalls should you avoid? These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? What made it great?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2017

Whether you want to quickly create professional images or design an entire website, there’s a template for that. Canva is a time-saving online design wizard with numerous templates. You can either use the template as-is or use for inspiration to create your own designs. Welcome to the world of templates! WordPress Themes.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Sophisticated virtual event platforms come with this technology, and you can design a custom virtual environment for your event! Social Media Challenge. When it comes to virtual event ideas, the social media challenge is a good one! Have sponsored marketing slides as powerpoints, stable branding, or live ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

For me the interesting design challenge is how to make it an interactive and meaningful experience for those who are watching at their desktops. As a presenter, you have more to think about beyond creating beautiful slides and practicing your verbal delivery. You can also livestream with your mobile phone. .

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. And now, more than ever, tech has risen to the challenge and hosted some of the biggest most important tech virtual events this year. . Qualtrics met the challenge by bringing in industry powerhouses, including sports stars and thought leaders.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I tried to address the Smithsonian's particular challenges and opportunities while contextualizing it with lots of examples across different museum sizes and types.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2008

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Each year at the Game Developer's Conference, these three share the most interesting gleanings from a year of game design research.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges event planners face when hosting a virtual event is ensuring high levels of audience engagement. That way, those viewers who tuned in a little later can still view the recorded presentation, PowerPoint slides, and any additional resources by accessing an event backlog. They will have to type the responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We told attendees they could have 5 minutes and 20 slides in front of the captive nonprofit technology audience. NTEN's newest publication, NTEN:Change , is designed for non-technical leaders of small to mid-sized nonprofits, features a regular section called "DIY Nonprofit Technology".

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. I’m going to pipe down. This is your show, guys.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2012

As a designer of mobile experiences, I too am guilty of these assumptions. You can also download the slides from his presentation here. Complexity is a dirty word So we’re now challenged with providing the entirety of what could be a very complex nonprofit site in a mobile format that still feels uncomplicated and easy to use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking. The big challenge is turning the river of noise into insight. It's all about the relationships.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

days include lightning talks from campers, team design bursts to tackle your thorniest change challenges, MAH community programming, movement and meditation, delicious food, and late-night conversations. For designers. As always, MuseumCamp will be a high-energy, all-in experience. with enough downtime for introverts, too.

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