Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a lot of content, and we know that you’ll have questions. We have a short evaluation at the end and formal breaks for Q&A throughout the session, so we invite you to stay engaged. And as I said, there’ll be formal breaks in the content where we review some of those questions. We have multiple polls.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0

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.orgSource

MAY 9, 2023

Foster a supportive environment that discourages snide comments and eye rolls. The MVP frees developers to ask the important questions. The MVP frees developers from being prisoners of a culture that demands answers before the important questions have been asked. Make it easy and comfortable to offer suggestions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Take free or paid classes, courses, or webinars to learn how to fundraise. Use ProPublica or Guidestar (free) to research past grants made by foundations by reviewing 990 tax forms. It’s easier than it sounds. Miscellaneous.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. Raise awareness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation. If you’d a chance at winning a free copy of this very useful book, Civility in the Digital Age , leave a comment about how your nonprofit would put it to use.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2018

The best way to answer this question is to measure the impact of your social media campaign. But there are some things you can do to cause a shift in sentiment such as participating in conversations, educating new groups of people, and answering questions. There are great free tools you can use to track conversions. Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. This 82-page report answers these questions and many, many more! Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. We should begin by focusing the bots on tasks that can unleash trapped resources or free staff to pursue higher-level human contact.”. Evaluate and Iterate: Run your pilot for a few months.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I knew it was hitting many more people than the average news story when I saw tweets, facebook posts, and other online comments coming from people in my community and network that I rarely see participating online. How do you evaluate and recognize “critical mass” of a free agent community? But how did she know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In the comments , there was some thoughtful discussion about best practices for identifying, screening, and cultivating board members. If you haven’t evaluated your board before, you can use this board tune up kit , produced by board coach Michael Davidson, as a starting point.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? There are a variety of types of eLearning assessments that you can use to evaluate your association’s members. Learners are asked to choose the one correct answer that aligns with the question asked.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Read the complete article in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Yet organizations regularly implement campaigns again and again without evaluating their results and practices, and even fewer measure campaigns in progress to try and improve mid-stream. Working for what?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time. Alexa shared a variety of ways her team evaluated the success of their planning and execution of the Collaborative event.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prepare for donor questions. Here are the key components to any phonathon script: Introduction: Answer the most basic questions: Who are you? See how they respond when a donor has questions about the campaign, voices objections, or is looking to complete their transaction. Prepare for donor questions. Why are you calling?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

This will attract reader’s attention by making them question the steps you took to get those results. You can also use a free design tool like Canva for nonprofits to create visually compelling case studies on a budget. The Hemingway App is a free tool you can use to monitor and improve the readability of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. Are they tips?

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

While there are always lessons to be learned as we gather feedback—through evaluations, emails, and conversations with members of the Community (yup, we really do read them all)—we wanted to take a moment to share some of the highlights. We will be sharing these in blog posts and free webinars prior to opening up submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. To make twitter work for your organization you need free agents , people who don’t work for you but can mobilize others. You want them to be enthusiastic free agents as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” The qualitative comes in the forms of comments and can often the why the numbers are moving in a particular direction.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Just look for an email from me towards the end of the day. You can also use Twitter. But say hi. ” .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. When there are no rules, our minds are free to wander to thoughts of the future, or perhaps dwell on a particular issue of the past. Digital Marketing Plan Chapters. Chapter 1: Introduction.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

This new, free online platform provides organizations with resources, interactive tools and a network to help them understand how pro bono service can best support their work, design and implement a skilled volunteer project, and measure the immediate and long-term impact of this work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

We welcome your comments and feedback. After all, this is the nonprofit world, where we get things done for free all the time, and often find ourselves being the ones—happily—doing the free work. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

She says those reasons are: Leaders tolerate low performance ROI is not enough of a motivator Culture is more than free Panera Leaders often treat their employees like a number Elizabeth McLeod and her mother, Lisa Earle McLeod , are a mother/daughter consulting team whose clients include Google, Roche, Hootsuite, and G Adventures.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2017

When a volunteer approaches you with an idea, listen and ask questions. Pro Tip: Create a comment box. The comment box is an anon ymous way for a volunteer to raise their concern ( s ) without singling themselves out , and it will guarantee honest feedback. . Volunteers who feel ignored won’t be volunteers for long.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Neither harmed the museums in question, though they both had questionable qualities. So here's the question: what's the right response to this kind of activity? Mark Allen of Machine Project talks a lot about the benefits of artists creating "shadow organizations" within museums to comment on and respond to their peccadilloes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

If you answered "no" to any of the above questions, then this blog is for you. Evaluation: Measure outputs and outcomes. Here at the Center, we offer valuable courses on how to effectively evaluate your programs. Feel free to post below in the comments section. If so, we would love to hear more about it.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

Feel free to leave your favorites in the comments below. This session will describe sometimes painful, but often rewarding process to do a better job of collecting, analyzing and acting on data, for use in both strategic planning and evaluation. This is the session that has the answers to all of your questions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I answer all of their tech questions, and solve pretty much all of their tech problems (mostly by helping them figure out who they should call.) I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

One that could include free webinars, as well as paid training. I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) They all are certainly interesting, and DimDim and Yugma are free. (I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. {

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