Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

With some creativity, collaboration, and an out-of-the-box mindset, your association can thrive in an ever-changing environment while providing value to members and industry partners alike. This initial collaboration proved successful, leading to recurring monthly sessions and a significant revenue stream for the association.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 16, 2024

Understanding the dynamics and responsibilities of the communications, finance, and programming teams will facilitate smoother collaboration in the future. Review email marketing content Request access to review email marketing content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

If you’re working on a team or delegating tasks across a committee, it can be especially difficult to collaborate and avoid duplicative work. Sponsorships are often a key piece of fundraising revenue for golf events and technology can facilitate a number of sleek, high-end exposure opportunities. 3) All the Nitty Gritty Golf Details.

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Bonterra

MARCH 14, 2024

Prioritized support & escalation pathways Ensure that your team stays unblocked and focused on your mission by leveraging prioritized support Skip the line with priority email and live chat support if you and your team run into roadblocks. Support your whole team through custom digital learning paths curated to their needs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The truth is that if ever there was a nonprofit activity that needs to be collaborative across departments, it is the preparation of a grant application package. From this perspective, the role of a grant writer is really that of facilitator of internal collaboration. this never happens, of course, but you get the point.).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The most successful virtual formats invite players to participate in the golf outing over an extended period of time and/or at multiple courses, using the right technology to facilitate registration, live scoring, leaderboards, and digital sponsorships. You also may need to go virtual. 3) Send save-the-dates.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. Starting a Collaborative Project. If you need to look outside of your organization for collaborators, look to your network.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. If you find yourself putting a meeting on the books purely to share information rather than to discuss something, gather input, and/or make decisions, send an email instead. Capital campaigns require input from many stakeholders, both internal and external.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Email is the annoying little brother of online communities: pesky, poking, insistent. Yet email is the most effective way to noodge people to participate. Emails are the best reminders. New Facebook users are barraged by emails alerting them to activities taking place in and around their profile. Welcome Emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. Incorporate water cooler conversations into your virtual collaboration space. We have shifted to digital-mediated interactions for almost everything in our lives.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication Tools In remote or hybrid workplaces, organizations are likely already utilizing popular tools like email, Slack , Teams , Google Meet , Zoom , etc. That might include CC’ing them on project status emails. Google Docs can be used to create collaborative agendas or meeting minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2021

You can promote your event to a broad audience through low-cost digital channels like social media, your organization’s website, and email campaigns with just a link. An event website is an easy way to set your fall event up for success. 2) Upgrade to online registration. 3) Adapt the tournament as necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. It’s the counterproductive practice of sending after-hour emails or direct messages, causing unnecessary panic, or scheduling meetings during universal time off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among other things, WhatsApp can be used to help facilitate team member collaboration, which has suddenly become much more challenging now that teams are having to work virtually due to social distancing. Viewing WhatsApp attachments is actually somewhat easier than accessing the same kinds of attachments sent through email.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Patient engagement: AI chatbots enable patients and providers to rely on remote monitoring solutions that facilitate appointed scheduling, secure messaging, and offer educational resources for patients to learn more. This means that patients enjoy timely and accurate treatment plans while healthcare staff can adequately allocate resources.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility.

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Classy

MARCH 24, 2021

Cross-sector collaborations can increase employee engagement and retention rates by 5 to 7% and sales up to 7%. These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. Send check-in emails to connect on a human level and simply see how they’re doing. Register Free.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

Over the past two decades, how nonprofits initially understood ‘digital fundraising’ as email and social channels to supplement direct mail has come a long way. Silos within fundraising teams and collaboration with other internal teams — already under increasing tension — must ultimately be challenged and reset.

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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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Classy

MAY 31, 2021

Some nonprofits may even be able to facilitate having the child or family write letters to the donor to further build an emotional connection to the cause. Register for the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions. A key benefit to this recurring giving approach is that it makes the donation experience more personalized and meaningful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

And this year, I’m trying this tip from Sree about writing it in email dated 12/31/18 using FutureMe.Org. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Reinforce roles, foster a culture of collaboration and alignment towards campaign objectives. Optimizing Channels of Communication Each communication medium—be it Email, Social media, Direct mail—has a unique potential to engage your audience and facilitate fundraising.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Getting to zero hunger will require unprecedented collaboration and a multi-pronged approach that gets to the numerous causes. Email us at impactlabs@salesforce.com. She brings 15 years of experience spanning program development, community outreach, and creative collaboration to help nonprofits drive transformation.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 3, 2023

Works with All Event Committees Collaboration is key to a successful event, and the Volunteer Coordinator acts as the liaison between different event committees. In conclusion, the Volunteer Coordinator is not just a facilitator but a catalyst for positive change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Esther Press’s list of best Bible studies for women notes that these studies can facilitate collaboration and group discussions, making it a great way for you to get to know other team members’ values and perspectives. For example, you can subtly make your beliefs known by adding a Bible verse reference to your email signature.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? Do you have a fundraising plan?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

From the first email, phone call, or meeting, volunteers are gauging whether your organization is a place where they want to invest their time and energy. Collaborating with local businesses, schools, and other organizations can widen your reach and bring in volunteers who already have a vested interest in their community’s well-being.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Even better. User adoption is a tricky beast.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Access to Network Collaboration Platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. So, when he sent around an email that Janne K. Next, Eugene facilitated a fishbowl conversation with Janne. Here’s one brilliant idea that I loved.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Channel preference (social media vs. email). Nonprofit marketing content comes in many forms, from videos and emails to flyers and website pages. Some common metrics to track are website page views, email click-through rates, and social media engagement. . Payment facilitators. Email marketing tools . SEO success.

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