.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. Use ChatGPT as a virtual event host to welcome attendees, guide them through the schedule, answer queries, and facilitate networking during virtual conferences. This is also the right place to experiment with an MVP , or minimum viable product.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Do you have one in place? As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. .” — Alex Osborn, How to Think Up , 1942 seminal book on concept off brainstorming The process of getting a group to generate and build on others’ ideas depends on how you facilitate openness in the group.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

You can read the post and join the conversation over there – it’s also copied below. Despite the generic title, this is a report chock full of examples, best practices and data about the effects of joining the conversation online. Social media is a prominent social gathering place where these goals can definitely be met.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Smaller, place-based foundations are managed by individuals with deep ties to the community. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. Without a culture of philanthropy in your organization, you simply won’t have all the pre-conditions in place to be truly effective at fundraising. Shape the Conversation .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2019

As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Do people genuinely like each other?

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

As hosts of the Collaborative , an annual immersive experience designed exclusively for nonprofits, we’re no strangers to facilitating meaningful connections. The event hashtag will also be a great place to look for fellow attendees. What’s the best way to determine who to approach and how to spend your time? Nail the Follow-Up .

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

Kicking off the conversation. Just remember to set a hard time limit on the kickoff portion of the meeting to avoid having it overtake the entire conversation. Review any specific policies in place, especially for longer meetings where members’ attention spans are more likely to dip or wander. Meeting participation.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations. Keep conversations about a project to the main channels of your workplace communication system (Slack/Teams/etc.) Include the message in multiple places (i.e. Include as much of the team as possible at any given time. to increase visibility if they need a reminder.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A conversion-optimized donation page. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). A conversion-optimized donation page. Motivational imagery.

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Websites Donation Images Mobile 97

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Conversely, amplify the strategies or messages that lead to the most conversions. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. An insight is a learning that leads to new value.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. These spaces offer opportunities for, not just collecting data, but explicitly and intentionally bringing data into conversations in ways where folks can come to deeper understandings of each other and of what is possible.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 99

Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

The fact remains that most charitable giving still goes to the donor’s family, the school they attended, and their church, synagogue, or place of worship. If your nonprofit is not among those three places, then you have a marketing task to attend to. Provide clear instructions. Choose the right time to bring up the subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Holly Ross wrote a good reflection piece about public conversations on blogs and how to get your audience ready for that conversation. She makes the point: What I am saying is that your audience may not be ready to have the conversation that social media enables. That's because social media does not just enable conversations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Great Good Place is a book that challenged many of my preconceptions about third places—what defines them, what makes them work, and how they function.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp represents one such medium that presents nonprofits with an outstanding opportunity to engage with stakeholders through texts, attachments, and multiple forms of conversations delivered to their mobile phones and now to their desktops. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants. Grantmakers should address the potential for bias through training or direct conversations. You or the facilitators can ask participants to identify biases and point out any discrepancies or gaps that emerge as the group moves towards decision making.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There was a lot of energy in the room, some very intense conversations and some great ideas were built. Based on a lot of experimentation (and a lot of failures), a whole lot of conversations and some amazing questions from people, here are some things that seem to contribute to getting creativity introduced and to having it stick.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

It was a lovely evening that inspired rich conversation. The energy of live speakers and meaningful conversations fostered by face-to-face communication is hard to replicate in virtual spaces. “A The process of sharing the meal and conversation is central to the event experience. As we all know, then the world shut down.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

As a result, educators have an important opportunity to harness and facilitate this passion by connecting students to the global citizen science community. Our commitment to the community and students of Davos, to climate action education, and to driving the conversation around stakeholder economy globally is stronger than ever.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual networking event, we have some tips that can help you with the planning and facilitation process. How can you bring people together through meaningful interaction when you cannot get them into the same room? .

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Virtual Hosting Network Industry 98

AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From event ticketing to marketing, an event planning software allows an event organizer to see all of their tools in one cohesive place. Facilitate attendee engagement. Facilitate globalized networking. Clear Analytics for Tracking Audience Funnels, Lead Retrieval and Conversion, and ROI Measurement.

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Software Virtual Integration Analytics 83

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

However, if no one knows that your event is taking place, you won’t be able to achieve a high turnout or meet your fundraising goals. Plus, this type of event offers your organization ample time for one-on-one conversations and relationship-building. Your nonprofit puts a lot of time and effort into planning your events.

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Marketing Fundraising Tips Registration 52

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Part of the job of being a true philanthropy facilitator is showing donors how they might benefit from being a little more generous. Any excess contributions available can be carried forward for the next five years, subject to the 60% AGI limit previously in place. One place could be your “other ways to give” donation landing page.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Social media platforms (like Facebook) facilitate connection, allowing your nonprofit to spin an extensive web of support all across the globe. Leverage Facebook Messenger for conversational messaging. Leverage Facebook Messenger for conversational messaging. Inspire Facebook supporters to take action.

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Facebook Build Community Strategy 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Synchronous Facilitation Practice Second Life 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state. Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact.

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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. We were asked to place the green sticky tabs on a detail that we liked.

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Design Strategy Digital Technique 128

AccelEvents

JUNE 4, 2020

It is likely that the questions and responses will prompt conversations between participants that can continue offline or in another session. Virtual cocktail hours and virtual lobbies give participants a place to meet up, relax, and share. Also, make room in your agenda to include a Q&A at the end of each session.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Budget for capital in addition to operations : A capital budget can run for several years, but a good strategy should be in place to ensure your organization meets non-operating goals as well. Be sure to include the goals and supporting information with the Board in advance to help facilitate a constructive conversation.

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