Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Using stop motion technique more common with animation, it is a nice way to get people to pay attention to something pretty mundane. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Sure they do, but so does an engaging story. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

websites, operating systems, apps, etc.) We have the technology and techniques necessary to make the web adequately accessible. There are various tools and techniques available to test your website for accessibility. These add-ons evaluate your website’s accessibility and provide suggestions on how your site could be improved.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But just because that mentality exists, it doesn’t mean that it cannot be gamified or even done in an impactful way that can and will completely benefit your system’s learners. Why are you transitioning the content over to the new media in the first place? Bite-sized pieces. Conclusion.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. The Importance of Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 How do networks learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Technical or Systems Challenges. Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

2) Always Be Evaluating To ensure that healthy Leadership Alignment actually leads to excellence, there is just one question, the most important question, that brand leaders must ask every single day: “Is it true?” 3) Include Everyone In an effective Brand Leadership system, brand is defined as “What everyone ELSE believes you are.”

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. What content on the website is most popular? Research Questions.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Use your CRM or your fundraising platform’s dashboard to track the number of: . Direct mail.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

There was so much low hanging fruit, it was never hard to find the next scientific system that could be gamified through adapting it as the core mechanic within a digital or physical game. The production system at the museum was not designed to make consumable games. So players got to learn by doing in a social context.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. In the case of the Stanford study, I was fascinated to learn that the content of the music video was significant in terms of signaling change in prejudice. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals?

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. Over the past couple of years, they have been dabbling, and then wading, in data visualization techniques.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SEO is a set of techniques for making your website more discoverable to people using search engines to find information. The websites that appear prominently on the results page use SEO best practices to signal to search engines that their content is highly relevant. Enter search engine optimization (SEO). Meta description.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So if you have to leave or leave early, or maybe get interrupted or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff to you later today. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. So this is a true question to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. It is used to improve content, messaging, and engagement on specific channels. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. In the end, it comes down to leadership.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. This digital marketing content directly impacts the success of your online fundraising strategies. Your digital strategy defines how you use online marketing. Phase 1: The Identification Stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Forum One works hand-in-hand with major civic and social organizations to ensure that their online content is effective and reaches target audiences. The first three focus on “internal” strategies for keywords, content, and site organization—things you can do within your web properties to optimize them for search.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They’re a great way to learn new techniques, brush up on industry knowledge, and learn about up-and-coming trends—all of which are important as you hone your fundraising skills. Others, they’re presented by a single person who explains a concept or best practice and shows you how to make it work in their system.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

If you have questions about your nonprofit systems, databases, CRM or data needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us. 2 – How many different types of technology systems are you using today (CRM, email, online, social, payment, events, etc.)? Can you talk a bit about why these three need to be evaluated together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Data from system. The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. " What you are looking for how best to interact with the community as well as the techniques. I don't think there is a cookie cutter approach yet -- a fish to toss at you. members ten at a time.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

There are experts in every industry, from books to film to art, and they have an important voice in the selection and presentation of content. To evaluate this, you have to consider whether your visitors are Web 2.0 critics"--people interested in judging content. Do visitors really want to review museums and collections?

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Gyrus

APRIL 28, 2016

However, organizations often struggle to evaluate this new medium properly and a lot of them have refrained themselves from using video learning because of the misconceptions around it. This is why organizations are trying to integrate video learning in to their training and development practices.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Social Capital 2016 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Feb 24 - 25.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

The campaign’s results will be evaluated throughout the first half of 2024. At YES Prep Public Schools, a public charter school system that functions in underserved communities within Houston, Texas, the primary focus has been on finding those within its hundreds of donors who can be migrated up the major gifts ladder.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Build a monitoring system for your needs.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. Start with a good newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Content Generation and Issues Awareness: You encourage stakeholders to create content about your organization or it's issues and share it with others and encouraging fans to talk about your issues to others (word of mouth). Will your content updates depend on any other resource or person? Do you need any outside expertise?

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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. at 4:30 pm Michelle: I wonder what you think of David G’s framing of the content model issue.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. 84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” This one is for social media.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Julia: All right, so all systems go. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Julia: Yes.

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