Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 19, 2016

From Donation Dreams to Mobile Wonders, get inspired by these beautifully designed, donor-friendly nonprofit websites - browse the collection now! This template (and handy guide to using data for nonprofit comms ) is the must-send link for your communications and marketing team. The State of Data in the Nonprofit Sector.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

The ability of these tools to connect web behavior, third-party data, and CRM integrations ensure these tools pay for themselves when used correctly. Many analytics platforms like Google Analytics, Facebook Web Insights, LinkedIn Website demographics and others show aggregated and anonymized data of website users.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

To assist with your recruitment efforts , survey your members and be sure to include questions addressing basic demographic data. Try using icebreakers, gamification features, videos, a slide deck, breakout discussions, group activities, or roleplay to ensure the session is memorable. Recruit a diverse group of members. ?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Include Only One Key Point per Slide. Here's why: Slides with too much verbiage will decrease the interest of your audience. List ye ol' bullet points on separate slides like Damon Nofar does here: 2. Have a Bold Opening Slide to Get the Audience's Interest Early. Pay Attention to the 3-Second Rule!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy….

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. What charts or slides did the group focus on? Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* The Testing Whiteboard doesn’t provide some perfect, omniscient data. (As

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference is designed to be a lean, mean, digital best practices machine, which makes it a great fit for nonprofit pros looking to hone their skills, but maybe not a great fit for those looking to build their professional network. Cost: General admission is free. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. I deliver personas either as Word Documents or PowerPoint slides. Visual Design.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2013

Note: This is the first in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. No matter how big or small the design project, Stakeholder Discovery is always the first step. To transfer information from the client team to the design team. Now, if your nonprofit designs something in-house, purpose #3 is null and void.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. Implementation: Custom mash-up of site specific volunteer activity with geo data to map via Google Maps. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. Design training carefully, verify it’s working, and make it a norm in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. The above slide was used to illustrate the iterative nature of a developmental evaluation of a complex systems social change initiative. Meaning Making–Cross department interpretation of data in real-time. Based on a logic model.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The webinar was designed to offer an overview of the basics, best practices and examples of successful social media integration. You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. Social Media for Small Enterprises. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. I landed on the syllabus for a course in data visualization at Harvard University.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. Visual Design. Solution Design. Deliverables.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

In particular, post-event surveys have become a powerful tool to continue engaging attendees after virtual events , collect valuable event data, and brainstorm strategies for improvement. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. Optimize your survey design for mobile users. Automatically personalize mass communications.

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Forj

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Fixed Pixel and Responsive Design. Mobile View – Fixed Pixel Design. Mobile View – Responsive Design. In addition to viewing format (as well as eLearning publishing format, which I will touch on below), dominKnow | ONE allows designers to publish a course or parts of course out to a job-aid format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

.” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As we wrapped up the webinar we realized there’s an entire universe of fundraisers that could benefit if we shared the data and questions we received, so we’ve pulled it all together for you to share with your team. Let’s dive into the poll data. Audience questions from our fundraising friends who attended the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. The example to illustrate these points is from a panel I designed for the NTC08 on ROI and Social Media and including Wendy Harman from the Red Cross. Pick the right hard data points. Other Data. Data from system.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share Human Stories, Not Data While impact numbers and other data can be a powerful representation of your organization’s successes, your storytelling should show the impact you’ve had on people and not just which numbers you’ve hit. Utilize a few slides to share a story. This relates to our next point.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

You have your donor data at your fingertips, so put it to good use! When you’re communicating with your supporters, be sure to include the following data from this helpful solution: The donor’s preferred name. Highlighting your donors in a photo album or digital slide show. Any engagement history.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Offline : you would probably not have someone who’s had no physical connection with your organization be so excited about your work that they design and produce their own fliers about your work and then canvass their local community to raise awareness or your programs. If people are fundraising for you online, do you know about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

How to be a data nerd – I’m interested in how those of us who are not natural born data nerds can move in this direction effectively or at least partner with data nerds. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I offer this set of data points, if you will, with the hope that it will spark some thinking and perhaps discussion. On one hand, you have folks saying that moving organizational data and functions into the cloud means gaining efficiencies not possible in server rooms. Cloud computing. The truth is more complicated.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Design mindset: ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes. How do you do it?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With virtual volunteering being the current norm, technology can help keep track of key data points, facilitate volunteer communications, and organize volunteer opportunities— all while both your team and volunteers stay socially distant! For instance, create a specific group for those who are skilled in coding and web design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

” I was half-expecting to hear crickets in response, but people replied with humor and excellent advice. Someone suggested that I get a sled and slide down the chart! Another person astutely said, ”Good for you, you took a break.”

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Victoria and I designed the session together, and I presented the content for most of it. Part of my presentation was a slide that I framed as "Judi's top 5 things every Common Ground administrator should know or do that your implementation partner or Convio may have forgotten to tell you. We don't care.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

20 slides. 1 slide every 15 seconds. How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge? Data''s New Clothes Speaker: Greg Schneider, Information Systems Director, National Institute on Money in State Politics.

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