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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye. Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. It does something to my thinking.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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More fundraising software = more data headaches

3rd Sector Labs

And people’s lives change. We move, changes jobs, get married, have families, develop new interests, add and drop contact info like phone numbers and email addresses, and a whole lot more. All data degrades, and donor data degrades faster than most. Because donors are consumers … people.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

In a time of unexpected and continued change , we discussed new trends from 2020 and how Blackbaud customers and the industry are responding to today’s environment and developing new strategies for success. . They were able to meet via phone and social media channels, a s well as in person while remaining s ocially distance. .

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook groups have changed a lot in the past year or so, and they’re more powerful than ever. Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. That’s where I connected with Miriam Brosseau who recently shared this awesome post on Facebook profile.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

NTEN

We can utilize APIs to transfer data from one system to another and even synchronize data sets in order to end up with the cleanest data possible. It allows you to build products and features that utilize both phone calls and SMS text messages. Why do different applications need to communicate?

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On Frogloop's Radar

Care2

Check out this OneWorld workshop on March 26th from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM at the Benton Foundation, which will discuss best practices on email communications, blogs, RSS feeds and social media and how to synchronize them. Do you know any great women who have used mobile technology for social change?