Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Integrations with your social media pages, email marketing platform, CRM, and any other digital systems you use. You’ll be able to leverage these features to create a user-friendly nonprofit website that facilitates online donations and other transactions, keeps donor information secure, and increases brand awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move. Diversify fundraising channel s: The report documents shifts in donor behavior and preferences. How are you nurturing and supporting your fundraising staff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. Your RFP is a document that outlines your project and prompts consultants to explain how they would approach it. Create a request for proposal (RFP).

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

We recently wrapped up our 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions event here at Classy. The Classy team created engaging content that Collaborative participants could use in their professional lives. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. Be sure to watch their space for more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I obtain a list of participants with their organizational contact information and do a scan and audit of their digital presences if I’m leading a session on digital marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook. Give Miami Day raises record $5.2

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We wanted to create a fun and collaborative environment to pitch an idea, help them think strategically, and find like-minded individuals to work through their ideas together.”. “We wanted to give nonprofits a chance to propel their world changing ideas, especially as they are often overlooked in the tech community,” said Emily. “We

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

From full on role playing games to scavenger hunts, games can be digital or analog. There was so much low hanging fruit, it was never hard to find the next scientific system that could be gamified through adapting it as the core mechanic within a digital or physical game. Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Here’s a case study from Kivi Leroux Miller documenting what they did. What Happened on Give Local America Day?

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Community Contributions and Collaborations. A neat aspect about some data visualization tools is the ability to collaborate and integrate with other platforms. The team behind Bellingcat relies on community sightings and submissions, and thus creates a large-scale collaborative story. Data comes in all shapes and forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). But, I'm also interested in improving my skills as a trainer - especially facilitating social learning or learning in public. Putting It Into Practice As a Facilitator.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Automations like scheduled social promotions, email campaigns, and critical calendar reminders are digital conveniences that free space for more important assignments. You wouldn’t wait several years to get a read on how a new employee is doing, and you shouldn’t defer this important checkup on your digital capacity. Kevin is right.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? Social video includes the sharing of videos across networks and channels along with the rise of video meetings, workshops, and collaboration sessions integrated with social media tools. In future NPLive sessions we will dig deeper with social video collaboration tools like. early beta).

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

An RFP is a document that thoroughly details your project, its purpose, your needs, and the guidelines you’ve already laid out. Digital marketing strategy development and support. Our expertise across all facets of nonprofit tech and digital strategy (plus our network of partners) gives us an edge on practically any project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. You can get rich photo streams when participants a) have and use digital cameras b) understand and use tag based photosharing services like flickr.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

Nonprofits have that same risk, but we also have the risk of delivering the service but failing to document the service properly or the service recipient’s eligibility. Strategies to manage these risks include: Establishing standard, digitized processes to capture data and supporting documentation—financial and non-financial.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration? It embraced a truly hybrid model; that is, it facilitated real-time participation from every attendee, rather than just adding a digital component to an in-person event. An inclusive environment that cultivates engagement from a global community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How can we facilitate digital experiences that empower more people to discover, engage, and contribute to the narratives and realities of race in America? million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive— the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Be Helpful.

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fusionSpan

MAY 10, 2024

In today’s digital age, nonprofits and associations are continually seeking ways to streamline operations, amplify their impact, and better connect with members, donors, and beneficiaries.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

In my presentation, I looked at ways organizations need to change the way they do business and generate content in order to facilitate a storytelling culture, namely: Ensure organizational backing from senior management. Some groups that sent staff writers to document the Haiti Crisis include: International Medical Corps.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Rather than having our exhibit team walk through and fix things up every once in awhile, we wrote facilitation plans for the Memory Jars and other intensive participatory elements. Digital Collections comment wall.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Boards are struggling to collaborate, make important decisions, and generate community support. But what does moving your board meetings to the digital space entail? Tips for Hosting Engaging Digital Board Meetings. Going digital doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice board member engagement. The Benefits.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

While going digital is oftentimes a choice, many nonprofit boards must do so now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some board software providers have recognized the challenge of going remote and offer dedicated tools to ease the transition to digital meetings. Nonprofit boards handle and produce many documents throughout the year.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Membership management software allows new members to easily join online using a digital form that only collects necessary information to make sign-up short and sweet. Your website is likely the first place potential members will go to learn more about your program. Send multichannel communications. transaction fee.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 15, 2023

Blackbaud products include some of the most powerful digital tools on the market for nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits using the following solutions can likely benefit from working with a consultant: Luminate Online : a set of powerful digital marketing, online fundraising, and donor engagement tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Take photos with your digital camera and share them on your web site or blog and ideally, in Flickr. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Tech Against Trafficking was born out of a meeting at Wilton Park which brought together 60 stakeholders from key sectors — including policy makers, law enforcement, business, civil society, and academia — for an expert exchange on the creative uses of digital technology in tackling modern slavery. How are you combating trafficking?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. The answer is: something pretty amazing. Here's what I learned.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? a conference).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. We believe NLEs will be the next evolution in eLearning: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2012

That was the topic floated in the fishbowl during the ”Post-Modern Communication for 21st Century Foundations” panel organized and facilitated by Barbara Osborn @libertyhill at the Council on Foundations Annual Conference in Los Angeles. Collaborating with stakeholders. Leveraging communications as an agent of change.

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