The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. Here at CauseVox , we know how important the process of creating a fundraising plan is.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the end, testing creates pathways for learning and evolution, making it the best risk mitigation tool in your arsenal. If you are starting from scratch, as most organizations are, finding your value prop can take the form of a brainstorming session with a focus group of your staff, board, and even a sampling of your most loyal donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

You’ll create tools to help narrow the field to the best match for you. By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. You’ll find some sample matrices here. Evaluation matrix . To RFP or not RFP?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013. rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Here’s a bonus link of simple techniques and tools for finding great content on social channels to curate. Fill out the form here and download free your copy of ebook: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads? We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

It’s what happens at the end of the day when your nonprofit is doing what it was created to do. You may want to spend some time on the front lines of your nonprofit gathering stories and creating a story library so you have several ready when you need them. Keep practicing and refining your technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. Create a social media policy that integrates with HR manual. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). You’ll want to create a Twitter hashtag for the event and make sure it isn’t already being used. Rowfeeder is terrific for this.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

To create and launch a survey is relatively inexpensive in comparison to a multi-phase research study. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. Whether you want to create and disseminate a survey or create an in-depth research study, we can help. What is your budget? find your solution.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Creating a plan for fundraising can be as simple as hitting the pause button—even during the busy holiday season—and putting thoughts on paper about what you want to do in the next 12 months or six months or even three months. This is a procrastination technique, and it works! Sometimes, planning is like trying to grab smoke.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Your volunteers are your team, and with these important communication upgrades, you can create an efficient, two-way line of communication. This enables you to get a representative sample of volunteers to ensure that you’re meeting everyone’s needs, not just a certain segment’s. Get feedback with volunteer surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

We created this guide to help you build just that. Create a detailed outlook of the costs associated with your campaign: financial, allocated staff time, advertising/promotion costs, vendor contracts, startup costs, etc. Included: sample fundraising goals, funding source matrix template, and asset inventory template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

You have a vision and then you creates a hypothesis and you collect data to prove it right or wrong. Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Here’s an article on that topic.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

How did you co-created the campaign? What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? Personal Fundraising – In order to extend our reach and to leverage personal networks, we encouraged people to create fundraising pages. In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors. What you will change the next time?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. Good Tech Fest is a conference for professionals in the nonprofit, social impact, and government spaces who are seeking to create an impact with technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags. See the Google Doc for links.).

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Once you have RSS feeds for each of the above searches it’s simple to create a listening dashboard. See a sample Listening Dashboard here ]. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? This way you can share it with others internally, access it on the go and get to it no matter what computer you’re using.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

I’ve even had nonprofit professionals offer to let me use pledge forms and program descriptions they created word for word to save me time. In this way, I have found most nonprofit professional to be more collaborative than combative, very willing to speak candidly about techniques that work for them.&#. Take a look around you.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Communicate urgency, give short deadlines, and explain all all of the Ws to create a powerful story. When I focus on donors, it’s a matter of which program they want to support. That makes a request for donations so much easier and more painless!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups. Create Good Social Media Habits. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

None of these things by itself will create the tipping point moment - but when combined, they can. DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition. DO go local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I was about to ditch the whole experiment when Zemanta recommended two excellent posts by Chris Brogan, " A Sample Blogging Work Flow " and David Peralty on Organizing a Blog Post. " I created a mindmap of Peralty's step-by-step framework to help me reflect on my steps. I have way too many posts in draft.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Many groups included in the report maintained blogs (either on their own site or elsewhere), but what the numbers above (and the effects listed below) indicate is that you don’t necessarily have to create your own blog to join the conversation. It’s already happening, so go there! What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Can't wait to hear what you think. Who are they?

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. To make the Google Docs even easier to share, Stacey created custom URLs for the pages using Bit.ly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. May be created and consumed using mobile technology and distributed using other social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Find The Ideal Tone For Your Emails When To Coach And When To Counsel Must-Read Book For Nonprofit Leaders ▼ September (14) Definitions Of Key Business Terms Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions How To Create A "Best Places To Work" Company How Sports (Or Band) Can Make You A Better Leader How Do You Answer These Leadership Questions?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Leveraging techniques he and his “Whiz Kids” first practiced in the Pacific Theater of WWII, McNamara devised a data-lead strategy for the commitment of American troops and materiel in Vietnam. Let’s use that Outcomes-Based Framework mentioned at the beginning and work through a sample problem. president of the World Bank.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Reaching them creates a sense of accomplishment and allows you the opportunity to celebrate! T imely: Uses a clearly defined timeline, including a starting date and a target date, to help create urgency. Here’s how you create those SMART goals: S = Set specific goals for your fundraising activities. Create a grant calendar.

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