sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. Bonus question: what percentage of the organizations you work with are tax-exempt?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

Initially Bard, the underdog who I was rooting for, failed this test miserably. I asked each of them the question using a slightly different prompt. Bard is a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. The C-Bot is the clear winner of this test.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2023

With Quora’s vast variety of topics, your nonprofit will have instant exposure on a platform with tons of users looking for answers to their questions. Answer Questions This is a question-first platform that rewards the best responses with a top position on the thread and on Google Search results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the early, nascent days of the Internet, webmasters treated their users as if they were monoliths – everybody got the exact same pop-up, which ran on every page of the site – annoying users and suppressing conversion rates. The golden rule (and question you should be asking yourself) is, “Is this relevant to my visitor?”

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

With such high stakes and near-constant evolution, decision makers need to be confident on compliance basics to ensure you’re asking the right questions of your vendors and counting on them to deliver the partnership that today’s complex compliance environment requires of you. Here are 5 key questions to get you started.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

So, here are four common questions about mobile fundraising your data can help you answer: Will donors give through text? Divide the number of unique visitors by your online donations to determine your conversion rate. Calculating your online conversion rate for mobile users requires a little more work. That’s a fair question.

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EveryAction

JUNE 22, 2016

Unfortunately, there were so many questions from the audience that we weren't able answer them all during the alotted time. Here are some great, thoughtful questions that we received and Brett's email wisdom. " My bigger question is: why continue to keep sending? BS: Re-engagement, it’s all about your specific list.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Formalize the interaction between these two groups by providing specific times for them to exchange information and channels for reporting the outcomes of those conversations. The board plays the central role of visionary.

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Classy

AUGUST 9, 2021

To help you capitalize on the biggest donation day of the year, we’re answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. To drive conversion and boost revenue, fundraising professionals will need to create campaigns that attract new supporters and prioritize donor experience. .

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Remote work was one of those unsettling tests. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. While listeners are responsible for hearing what is said before formulating a response and asking follow-up questions that ensure they have correctly understood.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If you’re doing an A/B test or targeting your email to a certain segment, it will also be difficult to refine your list without real-time access to your data. This is important for conversion metrics or click-through success metrics. Conversion – this is pretty straight forward using the number registrations or renewal.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

These three columns let visitors dive straight into content they are most interested in, like presentations (notes, information, links and slides), roundups (compilations of interesting content and conversations), and event popular blog posts (this is decided based on blog posts with the most clicks and visits). Input #3: Adding the extras.

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Track, Test, and Test Again The key to maximizing your return on investment is ensuring your campaign is set up for success on a foundational level. Installing pixels, and making sure the conversion actions you want are tracking are all vital to being able to report on success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Are your conversion rates different for different audiences? The breakdown of campaign/source/term/medium used as UTM parameters is a tried and tested structure for understanding acquisition. Test with a couple of links to see how it all works. Are your conversion rates different for different audiences?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

There are many ways your nonprofit can test the AI waters , h owever, in this post, we’re focusing on how you can use AI to improve your organization’s written content. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

The best way to find out is to ask them directly: Schedule regular check-ins with board members and personal conversations with donors, especially new ones! It begins with a simple question, “Why do you give to…?” Begin testing your messaging to learn which message has the highest engagement in terms of engagement and donations?

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

is an opportunity to have meaningful and deliberate conversations that lead to greater involvement. This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. Other common tactics include adding a first name into the body of an email or the subject line to test performance.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

The recent release of ChatGPT, an incredibly potent example of the power of AI tools to mimic conversations and empathy, mental health providers have also been tempted to substitute bots for people. Second, chatbots and other AI technologies need to be carefully designed and tested for human interaction and bias to mitigate risks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs Some of my favorite leadership lesson takeaways from the book, written in an easy-reading, conversational and friendly style, include: Successful people are self-aware enough to avoid the following three impediments to effective leadership : The belief that you’re right, no matter what. No side conversations.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

To stay focused on our users’ needs, we’re creating a set of persona archetypes based on in-depth conversations with current and potential users. This raises the question of whether we may be able to help get the information they need more quickly and efficiently. We do this through a program called Follow Me Home (FMH).

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. Have frank internal conversations about priorities. Continuously test outputs across sensitive dimensions. Use representative test data spanning racial groups. Complement with human judgment.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Formalize the interaction between these two groups by providing specific times for them to exchange information and channels for reporting the outcomes of those conversations. The board plays the central role of visionary.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Show donors you’re invested in getting to know them personally by asking questions about their hobbies, families, professions, and connections to your nonprofit’s mission. Leverage A/B testing. In this context, A/B testing is the process of testing different gift suggestions to see which options yield the highest donation amounts.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

Get an idea of what’s needed by asking yourself questions like: Will this meeting have one presenter the whole time, or will it be a larger group discussion? Test your tech in advance Once you understand what tech is available and needed, test it out! We’ve all been led astray by a Slack message or email from time to time.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

To answer these questions and put experts’ advice to the test, I decided to ask my peers. But to truly understand how nonprofits can best engage Gen Z on social media, we thought it was important to bring my generation’s voice into the conversation. What does it even mean for a brand to be authentic? Invest in Instagram.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

All you need is a basic script of questions you’ll ask and 6-8 participants. Examples of questions include: How did you come to be involved with our organization? A/B Testing. A/B testing is comparing the success of one page/email/donation form against another. Keep the test focused on one thing you want to learn.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2023

Next, staff suggested it in our annual accessibility survey feedback and associated conversations with the equity team. Some of the most interesting planning was the work we did as a full team driven by the places where staff had questions. Please head over to the online groups and join our conversation about four-day weeks !

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Tim sat down with Steve McLaughlin as part of the Blackbaud Institute Index’s 10 th Anniversary Celebration series to discuss how testing and data are critical to identifying and optimizing your value prop. In this conversation , they emphasized how organizations are most effective when they aren’t trying to be all things to all people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Most charities had used the same tried-and-tested methods for decades (namely, galas and sponsored endeavors), but with new health and safety guidelines to contend with, this was no longer possible. Nonprofit fundraising had been due an upgrade to catapult it into the modern era for a while. When the pandemic hit, that event finally came.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

An added benefit of email marketing strategies is that you can analyze performance and optimize those conversations in real-time. How are the answers to these questions impacting your fundraising? Pose a question, tease a story, or make an offer like a matching donation campaign. Where are they in their lifecycle?

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sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. While there are a few ways to complete a change management process, the big question is who should be included in the process. Getting the right people in the room is key.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 31, 2011

One of my favorite books about leadership asks its readers five powerful questions , putting aspiring leaders to the ultimate test of what it takes to be a true leader. The best thing about this book is that if you pass the test you can skip reading many of the mountains of other leadership books on the market today.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Recently, more than 70 British companies started testing a four-day workweek. Jenn Lim Today, Lim shares these additional insights, thoughts and advice about four-day workweeks: Question: In addition to the research supporting a four-day workweek, why do you believe more companies should adopt this practice? Not every email is urgent!

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

But when looking at the bigger picture, even more valuable benefits become clear: Higher conversion rates through better-targeted donor lists. AI can generate predictions that help you: Create highly targeted mailing lists for appeals, reducing upfront costs and increasing conversion rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

So, if your nonprofit works in environmental conservation, use a keyword research tool to identify common questions like “how to support local environmental initiatives.” The longer keyword targets your audience more precisely, leading to better engagement and conversion.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This is the fourth part in my series about learning how to test the usability of your online donation form and website with real donors. Part one discussed why to usability test , part two outlined crafting your test , and part three gave best practices for recruiting participants. Today, we gear up for your big test day!

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

We love to extend learning at Forum One, so I was excited to be able to bring two experts at the forefront of new digital applications for government together for an open conversation, How & When to Create Custom AI/ML Solutions in Government. We’d love to explore with you: inquiries@forumone.org.

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