Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. The notes are here. What surprises you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding). Anyone can be a designer!

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. Major Gift Fundraising Strategies for Every Phase of the Process In this guide, we’ll take you step by step through every part of the major gift fundraising process and provide you with tips for securing more (and larger!) Why Implement It?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Communication and Outreach Skills Are you comfortable with public speaking? Communicate these expectations regularly, and track progress through periodic updates and check-ins.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

To mitigate this, work as a group to evaluate AI outputs across different demographic groups and address disparities. Plus, according to NXUnite , offering ongoing training and professional development opportunities is an important employee retention strategy. Encourage experimentation.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. Help donors find and give to your cause online Fifty-five percent of people who interact with a nonprofit on social media take action, and of this group, 59% consider donating money as a result.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

having your marketing team launch a new campaign and explore a different communication channel). These groups require different tactics to persuade them to change their behaviors, and here’s how you can use data about each donor type to increase fundraising: Existing monthly donors. Organize them into groups based on their gift sizes.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Working with volunteers and including them in your nonprofit’s strategy can be meaningful, challenging, and rewarding, all at the same time. scroll down to learn more about them!)

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Looking at the current state of fundraising, there are a few top trends and strategies to elevate your fundraising efforts that stand out among the crowd. AI technology can revolutionize your donor interactions by helping you create personalized donor communication quickly. A well-informed donor is a committed donor!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Advocates get better at communications – proactive/planning, partner engagement, message discipline.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Customer personas (like mine above) are not just for marketing professionals, they are also incredibly beneficial for nonprofits seeking to understand who their donors are, why they give, how they like to be communicated with, and what their barriers to giving are. How to Create a Donor Persona So how do you create a donor persona?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

For nonprofits, data segmentation means dividing a donor or supporter base into groups of individuals that are similar in specific ways. By using segmentation, nonprofits can target groups more effectively, as well as get the most out of their marketing efforts. There needs to be a more focused approach to reaching potential donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

The foundation of an effective fundraising strategy is built on the relationships your team forms with the people who power your mission. A donor stewardship plan is a long-term strategy to strengthen those relationships in the hopes of earning repeat donations from these individuals. Create your donor stewardship team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Whether you’re planning holiday events or social media campaigns, incorporating texts into your promotion strategy can have a big impact on your success. We’ll cover five best practices you can use to improve your texting strategy and earn more for your mission: Ask every supporter to opt in. Ask every supporter to opt in.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Who attends : Professional fundraisers, nonprofit communications teams, and tons of vendors. The conference will bring together fundraising and marketing professionals to exchange innovative ideas and generate creative strategies that can help you build and strengthen your relationship with your donors. Website : [link].

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

Fundraising 4 Types of GivingTuesday Email Communications You Need to Send 12 min read Read Now 3. GivingTuesday Participants Want to Be Part of a Huge Group of People Doing Good 52% of GivingTuesday supporters said that they are drawn to the idea of a bigger group of people doing good. participated in GivingTuesday 2022.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2012

I recommend David Grossman's, You Can't Not Communicate, 2." And, even more important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to implement the day after you finish reading it.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It also requires strategic planning, effective communication, and innovative marketing techniques to reach your target audience and inspire them to take action. Leverage Multiple Marketing Channels If you want to attract the attention of as many supporters as possible, develop a multichannel marketing strategy.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

But it’s worth the effort — becoming well-versed in the various platforms is a vital part of your nonprofit’s marketing strategy, and your accounts can serve as important venues for cultivating relationships with your supporters. Keep in mind good storytelling techniques. Facebook is the most popular platform, boasting nearly 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I learned that you can’t explain complex, wonky policy positions in 140 characters, but you could communicate or let people know the policy paper exists with a punchy statement and pointer to the paper. Spectragram. Living Case Study.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2013

I recommend David Grossman''s, You Can''t Not Communicate, 2." More important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to do when you return from vacation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social Media Strategy Game Workshop Final View more presentations from kanter. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. For the small group work well, it requires having at least one person with hands-on experience. It worked well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce that I contributed to: npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS), a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. Happy Friday!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 22, 2011

I recommend David Grossman's, You Can't Not Communicate, 2." More important, David gives you lots of practical, real-world, wise, straight-forward advice on how to communicate more effectively as a leader -- all tips and techniques you can start to do when you return from vacation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. We need to make tweaks and try new ways of working.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. The method that best sustains communication in this space is two-sided. About Alford Group Alford Group is a national, full-service consultancy for nonprofits offering services in 6 focus areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Gives you specific techniques and tactics. James Dallas has more than 30 years of experience bridging the gap between strategy and execution, using IT for competitive advantage, and developing leadership. Capsulizes "Chapter Tweets" and "Coaching Moments" for you at the end of each chapter. Is easy to read and absorb.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, you could need assistance with: Fundraising strategy, including a wide range of specialized campaign types. Technology strategy and solution implementation. Marketing strategy development. Bristol Strategy Group – Strategic Planning & Board Development. Carol Weisman – Planned Giving Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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