Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2022

Use videos, charts, games, slide decks, checklists, and interviews within your training courses to engage members and keep them coming back for more. . To take your learning program to the next level, you’ll need to ensure you offer engaging learning courses. Offer non-member pricing for training.?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

A simple report with a pie chart can easily show you that. Volunteers can be awesome, but with no skin in the game, they can get behind or take shortcuts just to get the job done (I’ve seen it happen). So set up your Chart of Accounts right from the get-go. A report showing comparisons can help you see this increase.

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System Help Nonprofit Track 98

Care2

JULY 6, 2012

But Facebook has changed the game and decided that Tabs are not their focus anymore in terms of UX (usability). Take a look at the chart below. Prior to Timeline, organizations spent a lot of money and resources on Facebook tabs as a way to interact with their fans. ” Has your nonprofits experienced a similar drop off?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Mastering the long game wins over chasing quick viral hits. The next game-changing campaign is out there, waiting to be crafted.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . Development is a data game. How many donors do you have? . What average donation would they need to make to reach your goal? . How many donors currently make gifts below that average?

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 126

sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Charts make it easy to make sense of a lot of data by creating context. That’s where a list format would be more valuable.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Rachel shares five tips to help you up your website game. How to Create Better Charts to Show Fundraising Results by Ashutosh Nandeshwar, University of Southern California. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Follow Ashutosh’s tips to make sure no one asks those questions the next time you share a chart!

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Blackbaud Chart Trend Museum 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game. Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. verena_fidelia) April 4, 2014. Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

Created by gaming expert Jane McGonigal when she needed to recover from a concussion, it gamifies the process of creating good wellbeing habits. There are many Mood Trackers, apps that let you you chart your emotions and thoughts and test different self-management techniques. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Anyone game? There's a few hosts there that were on my radar, to-do list, including Click.TV (Carla, I haven't forgotten). I really want to play with FlashMeeting but need at least two or three people with webcams. I want to compare it to skype with video.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

And now, back to Game Friday. Gamasutra has a feature up entitled Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games. In it, John Harris provides a whirlwind tour through arcades, Ataris, and Nintendos, discussing the design principles and evolution of video games described as “open world” or “exploration."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. I used the wiki a flip chart - so the leave behind is the slide deck, notes, and a few resources. EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future. One way this shows up is as a bizarre expectation and representation of perfection.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes. I used Thiagi’s reflection game, Thirty-Five. It is also important to design a similar process for each small group to work through. Reflection and Takeaways. Learning More.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. The “game show” conceit made it all more fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing. so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it.

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Flickr Remix Photo Chart 50

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Now for the Social by Social game! I created this game in collaboration with my Social by Social co-authors, David Wilcox and Andy Gibson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

One of my favorite techniques was called “Round Robin,” which reminded of the game played by Surrealists called “Exisquite Corpse.” We were given a piece of paper folder over so you could not see the next three questions and asked to write down the challenge statement. In the last question, we were asked to add a final or revised solution.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). Four or five years to adoption: 3D Printing (K-12/Higher Ed), Remote/Virtual Labs (K-12), Wearable Technology (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Each table had some markers and flip chart paper (“table cloths”) so participants could take notes. We did several rotations and the discussions generated many ideas.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes. We had roughly 40 minutes for the small group sessions. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s in our org charts. But the data clearly shows that donors do not see themselves as online or offline — they’re just supporters who don’t care about the attribution games nonprofits play. Generation Z, those born between 1995 and 2012, will make the connection between gaming and giving. Can you read a chart?

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Online Giving Offline United States 36

Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Assigning guests to tables and creating a seating chart. Deciding the order of events, such as cocktail hour, dinner, dessert, and any auction games that might be happening throughout the night. Generating guest lists and assigning bidder numbers. Buying bidder number cards and printing auction catalogs. Soliciting a guest speaker.

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Roles Fundraising Sponsor Registration 40

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

He’s the one that somehow manages to turn a conversation about the next fundraiser into a story about his nephew’s baseball game. You might even kick off this conversation at your meeting by going around the room asking everyone to share their idea and writing it on a white board or flip chart. Challenge: Distracting David Oh, David.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

The following chart shows the collective response from 3,915 nonprofit managers. The current fundraising environment means that everyone, including board members, needs to step up their game. My post here last month discussed the clear and present need to think differently about the ways that we manage nonprofit organizations.

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Research Survey Fund Stats 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game. Who is target group you need to reach with your overall communications objective?

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Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

This can be done by writing out all your goals/audiences on whiteboard or flip chart and having folks vote with sticky dots. Or you can make it fun and give everyone play money from a board game and decide how much money they want to invest in each stakeholder group. Or, have a round of meeting to prioritize what you want to measure.

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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2016

My 18-year-old son is headed to college knowing that doing good can be a part of whatever path he charts. And the Millennials, they’re changing the game. And that makes me exceptionally happy. Being a Gen Xer myself, I often joke that I’m from the generation that nobody talks about.

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Social Chart Philanthropy DC 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I'd use the social media game as culminating activity. From reading the participant blogs, there were a lot of insights generated from the strategy game like this one. I'd include the implementation/metrics at the end or as an extension of the game. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

Last week, Allison had a chance to test some of our thinking at the Games for Change conference. . As chair of the chart committee, I had originally diagrammed this concept as the rungs of the ladder of engagement - see it here. The more we noodled, the more we realized that financial frameworks were not right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The content for the first face-to-face sessions was based on the workshops I’ve been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. Change needs to happen now or organizations risk playing a game of catch up. SF Gay Men’s Chorus.

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Social Media Media San Jose Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Twitter is all about community - up with the ppl, down with the numbers game :) @ danschawbel RESOURCE: Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube [link]. It sounds like he did an electronic version of many of us done for years on flip charts or on the wall in low tech ways. (See uberbabyboomer #TWTRCON sez @ shelisrael & I say, Yes!

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? What is the experience of my staff?

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Nonprofit Adopt Chart Press 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2006

I caught up with her at the Games for Change Conference in New York for an interview. our overview of 27 different online donation tools with reviews, recommendations, and summary charts. I ran into you at the Games for Change Conference, do you have interest in this area? So, tell us about Idealware? Absolutely!

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Director Typepad Case Study Game 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Not sure what a Game for Change is? The ResDistricting Game involves moving the invisible district borders in every U.S.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch. Clicking on their name of the amount that they've donated yields a graphical chart containing the people that they've recruited and/or recent donations that they've made.

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Conservancy Facebook Experiment Build 49