sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s Time to Kick It Up a Notch The good news is that you only need three things to successfully identify, engage, and convert those elusive brand-new donors, and I’ll bet you already have them on hand: data, content, and technology. You have high-performing content that many potential donors haven’t seen. You have heaps of data.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. The tools and methods here are designed to be flexible and adaptable so that you can make them work for your organization and needs. Content Map. A note about DIY.

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Media Cause

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog post is the second of a series on MarTech. If you are unfamiliar with the term and what it includes or would like a refresher, check out the first blog of the series here. 5 Cost-Effectiveness Digital marketing tools can be more cost-effective than traditional marketing methods, providing a better return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 31, 2023

Interactive Memory Book While networking opportunities and social gatherings are some of the best features of chapter membership, perhaps the most powerful benefits are the friendships and memories your brothers or sisters make together. Gathering appropriate and relevant content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Use social media for quick updates and fun content. Encourage plenty of interaction. New blog posts. Use social media for quick updates and fun content. Tweets and Instagram stories are best for short-form content, but you can post quick updates anywhere that suits your nonprofit’s audience. digital fundraisers. ,

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Many consumers now expect a personalized experience from every brand interaction, and that can only come from data you collect. Make sure you’re collecting only what’s necessary to accomplish your goals and that your program has backing from a reputable company with secure data privacy methods.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. The tools and methods here are designed to be flexible and adaptable so that you can make them work for your organization and needs. Content Map. A note about DIY.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

For example, you might improve your follow-up methods for both first-time and experienced patients. Use Patient Journey Mapping Patient journey mapping exercise helps healthcare leaders understand how patients interact with their providers by outlining each communication touchpoint. That said, let’s explore these tips in more detail.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2023

Online giving is one of the fastest-growing donation methods. You should also look at content like past newsletters, social media and blog posts, and your website to see what types of images your organization typically uses. Explain a few of the benefits of donating online like the convenience and added security of this method.

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Mail Integration Digital Strategy 75

Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2023

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. Save the longer stories for your “About Us” tab or your blog and try using calls to action on your homepage instead.

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Websites Results Fundraising Social Media 52

Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. By Vicki Halsey.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s a terrific book that captured my attention back in January when I wrote this on my blog: “It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental. It’s that good. Leadership comes in moments.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Bloomerang is designed to give nonprofit professionals more time back in the day by making data insights easy to interpret and act on. Nonprofits themselves can also use the platform to fundraise and interact with supporters. Customize your donation page with photos, videos, and other branded content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” Just A Little Content To Get Started . There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. There are different ways to design a participatory workshop.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. So, save the longer stories for your “About Us” tab or your blog and try using call-to-actions on your homepage instead. or “Contact Us.”

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Whatever method you use, be sure that folks get excited about them. Content Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It seems that Training personnel are always focused on new and innovative teachings, and designers are obsessed with developing an open platform that can accommodate all these visionary changes that we as learning professionals would wish to implement.

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Industry Learning Environment Training 74

The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. Initiate Contact for Feedback Proactively reach out to those who have interacted with your organization. Steps to Gather and Utilize Testimonials 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in eLearning Industry in May 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. It is redefining workforce learning methods and tools, allowing organizations to nurture their talent in the most effective way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2012

Kelley Jarrett is market manager for Guide Creative , a design agency that serves nonprofits in creative design from strategy and branding to web and print design, social and mobile strategy to analyzing results for success. Guide Creative is the new design agency for Blackbaud. How do they interact with your site?

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Websites Effective Create Nonprofit 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Content Delivery Is Not Learning. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives.

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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). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. If you design and deliver training for professional development, what technologies are impacting your practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Training Train Audience Activities 103

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Leadership is interactive, risky and experimental. The book is fast paced and highly readable, with a bold design including graphics, end-of-chapter Q&A’s, and bite-size content presentation for easy reading and comprehension. The design – by Stauber Design Studio – is intended to draw you in and pull you along quickly.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. Training Design' The key is to not feel frustrated, and pick it up again.

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