Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

We all have bad memories of pop-ups interrupting our flow on websites when we simply wanted to read some content, buy something, or take another action. A pop-up is an informational or promotional offer that displays over the top of your website content, with the goal of capturing users’ attention quickly and easily.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

Service design principles can be applied to the social sector to craft audience experiences that create positive change in the world. Overall, here are four key reasons why service design is important to nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies. They are using service design to better serve their community’s changing needs.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Step 1: Build the top of your funnel SImply put, building the top of the funnel means participating in activities designed to create awareness about your association. Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility. Or offer them a discount on membership?

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VisionLink

JUNE 19, 2012

Tech4Good Denver hosted an excellent and extremely informative group panel who shared true and tested content strategies when designing or managing your nonprofit’s website. Choose keywords that you can use on ALL pages by testing them out on Google Adwords. Remember, creating the most valuable website content takes time.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

Initially Bard, the underdog who I was rooting for, failed this test miserably. Conversational Abilities: ChatGPT is specifically designed for conversational interactions with users. I can also translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Bard is not perfect.

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Byte Technology

MAY 16, 2017

How many times have you browsed a website with content you really liked and, wishing to stay abreast of new developments or additions, you searched in vain for a contact page only to find there wasn’t one? To make your contact form page more personable add, well, personable content.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. What about content?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Everytime you reskin your website, or send out an email blast, you need to make sure that you take the time to test how content appears to your supporters. This may sound like a really basic step, but it’s amazing how many testing and double checking procedures fly out the door in the midst of a last minute frenzy.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

If particular role types are not attending, take a look at your content and determine if it makes sense to create sessions or a learning track that addresses their needs. Do a scan of the market to determine if this segment might be obtaining their content from another source. What factors influence first time attendees?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. In the first part of this series , we talked about why you should test your website and donation form with real supporters. Makes sense, no?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

Brand guidelines expand on the decisions you have made with the design of your logo. They walk through how to use your logo, your brand colors, typefaces, and often include other assets of your design library. 5) Design Library. Look at this step as creating your first design collateral utilizing your brand guideline s.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Step 1: Improve Your Content Strategy Acquiring new donors online requires you to build a better content plan.

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sgEngage

JULY 13, 2021

Website design has changed a lot over the last decade, largely due to the vast availability of low-cost, templated designs that look quite stunning. Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of a website. IA defines the navigation of the site and the layout of all the key design elements. Scalability.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Maybe you’ve already experimented using generative AI to create content such as outlines, agendas, or even articles. Use ChatGPT to design and conduct surveys and market research. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. Check Bing out.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2020

“Content is the gateway drug of small organizations.” – Gary Vaynerchuk. Your organization probably needs to create more content than it is right now. You need quality content for others to critique. Good content brings conversions. You have to consistently share valuable content. Your Content Squad.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

“Headless” and composable architecture, which de-couples the front-end design from the content structure, is increasingly our recommended solution for this ever-changing technology space. This flexibility, in turn, allows space to prioritize creative, visually interesting, and attention-grabbing designs at a much faster pace.

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Whole Whale

MAY 31, 2023

Are there any tools I can use to help my content be more accessible?” Making your email marketing strategy more accessible involves ensuring that your email content and design are inclusive and usable by people with a wide range of abilities, including those with disabilities. Avoid using such content in your emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Built for publishers that produce a lot of content, Action Button is a widget that features “Donate” buttons (as well as Tweet, Call, Pledge buttons) directly inside trending articles published by their partners. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 1) Action Button :: actionbutton.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

First off, a huge thank you to Matt Cheuvront , the designer who made all of this happen! I’ve transferred content that was previously on static pages into posts. Phase 1: Finding a Designer. For me, I wanted to find a designer that was already part of the community or larger network that I am. About the Redesign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

By Maria De La Guardia , design director and brand strategist at Bureau for Good , a design agency that helps nonprofits explain why they matter across digital and print media. For more insights on branding, messaging, strategy, print and web design, sign up to receive Bureau for Good’s once-monthly articles here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

By Katy Teson , a content strategist at Wired Impact , an organization seeking to make powerful websites something all nonprofits can afford. If your site doesn’t have a responsive design (meaning it displays well on computers, phones, and tablets), it’s time for an upgrade. 4) Key features and content aren’t accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement. To get engagement on Twitter, you need to tweet the right kind of content.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sandy Marsico, Founder and CEO of Sandstorm Design, described the challenge of balancing risk with growth like this: “You need the courage to take chances and the stomach to handle anxiety. These funds are designated for experimentation. We’re also watching the statistics carefully to ensure that the content we roll out is relevant.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Having a strong, engaging online presence requires having an a ccessib le , professionally designed website. Of course, designing, programming, and migrating your content to a new website is a long-term investment. Finalize visual design. Test your website. Conduct test groups. Developing a new website.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Designing a desktop menu is one way; it’s one aspect of navigation that informs a website’s overall structure. Before identifying which menu approach is appropriate, make sure your team is aligned on overall goals, audiences, and content needs. Content: What content (e.g., What needs to be created or removed?

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Forum One

MARCH 2, 2023

The home of animation and development by designers. The designers are taking over the development chair. Webflow is a content management system that allows the creation of websites with no code required. This is in part due to the Webflow community, which has created engaging educational content on Webflow University.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover common reasons your website may need a revamp, including: Your content is out of date. Once you’ve determined if your website needs to be reexamined, review the best nonprofit websites available once more, using their design as inspiration for your new and improved website. Your content is out of date.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. Multiple Staging Sites – you can make a copy of your WordPress website to test new plugins before adding them to a live site. Three “staging” environments are included, along with one-click staging for need basic plugin testing. 3) Kinesta :: kinsta.com.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Content Strategy is “planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content”.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. ChatGPT can help you create content, come up with fundraising ideas, and assist with event planning to support your organization’s mission. AI Writing Assistant.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Unfortunately, subpar formatting, uninspiring content, and other mishaps could be holding back your fundraising efforts. All About Donation Pages Donation pages—sometimes known as giving or fundraising pages—are special webpages designed to rally financial support for a cause or individual.

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Achieve

MAY 6, 2015

When I first heard Ethan Marcotte speak on the topic of responsive web design in 2011, I remember the whole room being filled with a thick layer of wonder as we all mulled over what this meant for the web industry. The first website that he tested his concept on was. which was a perfect test case. The Boston Globe.

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content. In the modern world, we have access to a wide-variety of free content. Here is a quick guideline in evaluating the free content available to you, and how to augment your learning program with what you find. Evaluate Current Content. Evaluating the Free Content.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Proof reading, avoiding spam triggers, ensuring it’s mobile optimized, creating alluring subject lines are all imperative to the success of the newsletter and what the content inside is promoting. Gathering your content. Generally speaking, the way you gather your content will vary depending on what your goals are for the newsletter.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fundraising IQ is a collection of AI, machine learning, and data science tools designed to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to maximize their impact by simplifying day-to-day tasks. This automated security measure has resulted in a 97% drop in card testing on Qgiv forms.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. The top nonprofit websites have more than just solid design and engaging content. Accessible design. Compare top platforms. Work with a website consultant.

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