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How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

CauseVox

You can always adjust it after your silent phase , and there’s no shame in that. Typically about one year of that time is spent focused exclusively on major donors (this is called the silent phase). Obviously you don’t want to include everyone who fits those definitions, so how do you choose? Making the Ask.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work.

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Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. This is one of the best examples I saw of using bots for engagement and it most definitely required some custom programming. And that brings us to the another task, testing and iteration.

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Nonprofit Web Design Process: Summary

Connection Cafe

Usability Tests : Types of usability tests you can conduct, participant recruiting, task definition and creating a prototype. Content Strategy : How the content inventory and audit serve as the foundation for the content strategy and a description of other deliverables that we might produce during this phase.

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Specifically, I wanted to see if the needle moved from hate to love. If I look at the pre and post tests, the “love” measurement increased. I tested each one. ” I took the very simple approach of thinking of it as a data that can help you see the correlation between learning activities and learning outcomes.

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Member Renewal Letters: A Complete How-To Guide (Free Template Included)

Neon CRM

A negative first glance at your letter can keep your members from even reading your renewal request—and you definitely don’t want that! Remove All Barriers Have you tested your membership renewal process? Don’t beat around the bush during this phase of the letter. To sum it up: Memberships are mutually beneficial relationships.

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Google + for Nonprofits: Invest Time or Not? Nonprofit Starter Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was curious and started a conversation asking these questions: What is your definition of success on Google +? If you want to stick a toe a little deeper into the water, the next step is create a simple plan to test the waters for your brand. You are testing to see what works and what doesn’t. How are you measuring that?

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