VQ Strategies

JANUARY 3, 2023

In a January, 2021 VQ blog post , I shared shared the following perspectives on Days of Service: Days of Service are a double-edged sword. I had hoped it would fuel some conversations, which it most certainly did, but it launched conversations not only about service days, rather about many things.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This GivingTuesday, you may want to try something a little different as part of your social media strategy : Consider social media sharing and engagement as a form of generosity. In this blog, we’ll dive into why social media sharing is useful on GivingTuesday and a great way to encourage generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

I had a wonderful conversation with nonprofit expert and founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab , Joan Garry, to discuss the importance of fairness, mental health, and wellness in the workplace. Can you share your thoughts on creating a culture of well-being in the nonprofit sector? Can you share your experience with this approach?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Do you have one in place? Or you’re stuck. Think about this for a moment.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2022

Conversational marketing speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. . Coined by our partners at Drift , conversational marketing aims to guide users through an engagement funnel more quickly by using real-time conversations.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

JUNE 1, 2018

A large component of MENTOR MN is to serve, educate, and share resources with other mentoring organizations, making the website a key component and tool. However, once more conversations ensued, this project evolved into something much bigger. This resulted in getting MENTOR National involved. The End Result.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there expertise we can share? This big little idea was simply to hold space for CDOs to talk about what’s stressing them out and share experiences, ideas, and lessons learned with others who are facing the same challenges and finding their way through. And things are still changing, day by day and moment by moment.

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Forum One

APRIL 14, 2021

Though conversational marketing is relatively new, it speaks to the growing expectation of a personalized experience and the opportunity to connect and start a one-to-one conversation. Generally speaking, traditional online forms are seeing fewer conversions on websites for things such as e-newsletter signups or white paper downloads.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We’ve shared past blogs highlighting important figures and resources on Hispanic Heritage Month , and this year, we sat down with a few of our employees to share their personal stories about their Hispanic heritage and what the month means to them. Can you share a bit about your own cultural identity? Luisa Chil, Sr.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

According to Chantal, “We’re in a place now where philanthropy is thinking about how do we, as funders, collaborate and collectively fund infrastructure, like a shared data platform, like the ability for nonprofits to move to the cloud.”. Recognizing the Rise in the Voices the Organization Serves.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

Our decision was really driven by a desire to lower grantee load and increase transparency, so that across the sector, we’re able to have shared language and understanding that contributes to greater sector-wide learning. I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 31, 2022

We need to collect and share individual stories that highlight our organization’s impact and show the difference we’re making in the world. Yet, in this context we are holding space for people to share some truly special or important moments in their lives. As you can see, I was nervous about sharing this story about myself.

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Qgiv

MAY 31, 2023

You want to share things that your followers will want to engage with. Don’t just give a generic, “thanks for sharing” reply. By being personable, you help create more opportunities for conversation. Let them know you welcome responses and conversation with them. That doesn’t feel personable. That feels automated.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2010

This week, I’m sharing 3 separate posts to get your feedback and ideas about how I can make it as valuable to you as possible. Thanks to everyone that’s shared comments so far in this process! Thanks to everyone that’s shared comments so far in this process! Redesign topic #2: Focused on Conversations.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. Sometimes this conversation happens in person or on the phone. No matter how we are carrying on the conversation, a dialog like this without stories becomes stale and ultimately boring. The Four Categories of Stories You Should be Collecting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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? 5000 list, becoming one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 20, 2023

Listen to Julie Packard discuss and share the steps that are urgently needed to help save the oceans that are so integral to the future of our planet.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Here are a few statistics that we shared: 27% of Americans say they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ( Pew Research ) 39% of Americans, a record-high, say they don’t trust the media at all. Many attendees expressed surprise over the trust statistics that we shared.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Not surprisingly, many shared how they have seen a decrease in participation as events went online. Given the variety of sectors represented, there were a unique range of ideas that leaders shared, such as; • A museum, unable to have visitors, became much more connected with. Teeny Conversation on Feb. What was positive?

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sgEngage

JUNE 7, 2021

Topics Discussed in This Episode: Compliance officer’s viewpoint on sharing patient data. The post The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 197: Protecting Patient Information—A Candid Conversation on Healthcare Compliance first appeared on npENGAGE. Grateful patient programs. Creating a balance between data needed and wanted.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

Meme: A great friend and mentor of mine—who is also a philanthropist—challenged me to hone in on my theory of change and mentioned how GuideStar is a great place to share our work with funders. Can you please share a story of an organization that has participated in the CARE program and how that has helped to advance their work?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

That’s part of the key to success when using Twitter for a Global conversation. There are also more and more opportunities emerging for people to coordinate global conversations that happen at the same time, instead of disconnected over time (still tied together via hashtag). What do those # mean? Consider your time.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 11, 2024

Create and manage different volunteer groups To encourage and facilitate conversation between your member volunteers, use your online community platform to create different groups. If your volunteer program is large, you might want to add more groups to ensure conversation flows more freely. Your online community platform can help!

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

Four remarkable leaders, whose life experiences give them inspiration and strength, share their personal stories and reflect on their leadership journeys in conversations with Fred Ali, the retired President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and a former nonprofit leader.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

Pulling from experience with thousands of RFPs, Prosal shares five best practices to enhance your RFP writing process. Put yourself in our shoes – would you spend 10-20 hours on a project if the person you’re sharing it with won’t give you time to answer a question? It’s incredibly demoralizing!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I can’t wait for your feedback, comments, recommendations for further improvements, and general reaction; but first, I need to share some thank yous and some background for all those who have followed this process. or come across more valuable items to share. Using Disqus will mean you get my reply in one step instead of two!

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

Step 2: Know Which Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board. Share these slides with your nonprofit board directly, and use our game plan in step three to bring thoughtful considerations to the table. . Top Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board from Classy. See Where You Stand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2020

Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf. The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level.

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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. Joining the conversation really means conversations.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In conversations with digital advertising agencies, they’ll admit that some clients simply throw money at them because they have a fluid budget. That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2014

Meal Sharing (@MealSharing) May 13, 2014. In an earlier blog post , I shared a framework from Jeremiah Owyang that describes the different sub-sectors of this economy – from sharing homes to sharing food to crowdfunding. One of the categories is “food swapping” or “food sharing.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

It’s like seeing a new place through the eyes of a local, where you engage in authentic conversations, share personal experiences, and build a community that’s genuinely interested in your cause. Instead, share your mission through stories and behind-the-scenes looks at your work. Make eye contact with your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

Bonnie Koenig and I have had some great conversations about how we have seen and how we have tackled scale in our work. In those conversations, we realized that we probably had some good examples to share and case studies to provide; but we also realized that there were many, many more people we wanted to be having the conversation with!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

#4Change is a monthly Twitter-based conversation about how social media is helping to create change , and you can see it via the hashtag #4Change. Throughout the world activists, organizers and non-profit professionals are exploring how best to use these tools, and sharing the results using the tools themselves. And beyond.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Share details about your work and interact with funders’ social media posts. Initiate conversations to create connections Effective fundraising is built on funder relationships, which are created by engaging in meaningful conversations about the work your organization does. If your funding areas align, don’t be discouraged.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 6, 2017

One of the hallmarks of a great website is creating a dialogue that allows your users and loyal visitors the opportunity to be a part of the conversation. The post Care to Share: Allowing You Users to Submit Content on Your WordPress Site appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 27, 2016

Why aren’t they commenting on our content and mission and becoming a part of the conversation? Here are some ideas to ponder and actions to take: • Liking and sharing is a form of acknowledgment for human beings, a kind of “virtual empathy.” Why aren’t followers liking our pictures?

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