Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As Drupal 7 and 9 prepare for their end-of-life in November 2023, migrating your organization’s existing Drupal website to Drupal 10 is definitely something to start digging into in more detail now. Automated tools to check for compatibility. We’ve put together this handy guide to preparing for Drupal 10. When to upgrade to Drupal 10.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

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. A technology intervention is only a tool, a seed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. Yes, yes… I know.

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Achieve

APRIL 4, 2017

The dictionary definition of activism is “a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action, especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue,” and synonyms of the word include “militant,” “zealot” and “protester.”. Today, those tools are digital. Not exactly a positive connotation.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

While acquisition is definitely a worthwhile goal, a sensible fundraising specialist will tell you that another top priority of any given fundraising project should be retaining the dedicated supporters that you already have. . A prevailing myth in the nonprofit sector is that traditional mail has been phased out by the internet.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I had the chance to sit down with Executive Director and Co-founder, Lisa Maldonado, and Development Officer, Rosanna Montilla-Payano, to talk about their incredible work advocating for reproductive health in the primary care community and how using EveryAction’s best-in-class tools have been instrumental to their mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

tools that they need to help their workers become more efficient at their jobs. This lack of tools can prevent individuals from learning from their previous missteps and reaching full productive work potential. Here are some background definitions to stir your thoughts about this months topic. lack of success.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

It can also be helpful to run your statements through a testing tool like Bloomerang’s communications audit to ensure readability and audience-centricity. These supporters can give your nonprofit the boost it needs in your crucial start-up phase. Plus, the value of one hour of volunteer work is an estimated $31.80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

His definition of the problem is that it gets in the way of sustained mindfulness in order to get something meaningful done. What is the solution? Robert Scoble outlines different categories of filtering tools that can help you swim through the ocean of noise to find the good stuff. Tools: Flipboard , Paper.li , and Instapape r.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

A negative first glance at your letter can keep your members from even reading your renewal request—and you definitely don’t want that! Your membership management software should have some marketing and communications tools—like mail merge—that will help you keep communications personal but accurate. Get To The Point—Ask Them To Renew!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. We may want to move toward treating reporting as a compliance tool to public reporting as an articulation of shared desires and advocacy. Philanthropy loves “new” things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

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 after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

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. Information Architecture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Make it an indispensable tool for people with disabilities, their families, educators, rehab professionals and the assistive and mainstream technology industries. It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects." But that doesn't mean everyone else sees the world, and words, the way I do.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Each phase will vary a lot depending on the type of project, timeline, budget, etc. Personas are a tool that we often use right in between User Research and Information Architecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To understand moves management, you first need a working definition of “moves.”. With this definition of moves, we can now define moves management. Similarly, you’ll pursue gifts in the cultivation stage much differently than in the stewardship phase. Are you ready to perfect your team’s moves management strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The whole is a phase change from the sum of the parts. Stepping back and seeing patterns is an important skill when you use Twitter, particularly as a listening tool. But, if you wanted to be monitoring in real time and you lived in your email - then this would be a good tool for the job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

I was curious and started a conversation asking these questions: What is your definition of success on Google +? When in the phase of learning a new social media platform, you’ll need to block creative immersion time (a few hours) for set up and learning the daily work flow. What’s your definition of success?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Use these tools to streamline your planning process. While you might be in a planning phase for your annual fundraising goals and plans, don’t forget that you could also create one of these for every campaign you run – it’s a great tool for many uses. You just wrapped up year-end appeals. Fundraising Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

One of the most important measurement tools for nonprofits is the spreadsheet. In this post, Mashable reviews five free awesome social media spreadsheets. ” 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. I tested each one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

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. Definition of needs. Scenario describing how they might use the site/tool/etc. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. The second one that I commonly see organizations struggle with is rushing through or rushing out of the quiet phase. We always advocate that you hit that threshold right around 65% before you move out of that quiet phase. Check them out. That really is neat.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

In comparing installed versus hosted services, respondents noted staff training as important but not likely to have a difference in their selection (contrast this to the results in NTEN’s annual Tech Staffing & Investment research, where respondents indicate that they have the tools they need but not the training to use those tools well).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools. For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. 4 James Young 04.15.08

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

If you’ve invested in professional-grade fund accounting tools for your nonprofit, you have to safeguard that investment. Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices. One last pro tip: Make sure you have a reliable text fundraising tool to make your text campaign successful! Plus, your supporters can make a difference from wherever they may be. Encourage social sharing.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, there are definite costs associated with operating at the state level, filing with the IRS, and registering for charitable solicitation. Paperwork requirements are significant both in the incorporation phase and every year until the organization dissolves. We also recommend using the nonprofit startup assessment tool.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. So definitely knows what she’s talking about. It sounds cooler anyway.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. The second innovation was crowdsourcing.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2009

No, my brother and sister are probably typical 40+ year old Americans who use technology that has entered the Late Majority phase, by Geoffrey Moore's definition. My brother and sister are not the kind of people who complain constantly that their "email doesn't work" or that their computer "is out to get them." That is my mom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into. That's basically the tools that we're going to be using for our campaigns. A really good tool is movie nights.

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