Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

Emphasizing diversity strengthens your association by enriching your learning program, developing your cultural competencies, and fulfilling your mission to provide the best member experience. . O nline communities are a fantastic platform for individuals to discuss relevant volunteer experience or industry information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Describe the “feel” of the online experience. Focus on the experience you want to offer, and list the ways you can bring that experience to life for attendees. For example, how can you make the online learning experience interactive? Design and develop the event website and begin promotions. Create a timeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Empathy or discover walks are designed to build skills in relationship building across disciplines and understanding another person’s point of view. Kick The Sit Out of It: This is a healthy workplace initiative in Canada called “ Sitkicker,” designed to get people standing up at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. I designed and facilitated one panel, I’ve Found My Free Agent, Now What? Click to see full size image.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

That experience stuck with me and over the next few weeks I designed a way to take advantage of a similar psychological cue on GlobalGiving. Eventually I decided to have a small, unobtrusive box slide out from the page’s lower corner a few seconds after the it loaded, and make a similar appeal. The Big Question. Our Method.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Then one of the last arriving students, typing their name into the designated row, somehow deleted the whole roll sheet. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Moving to Zoom, the simplest way to adapt would be screenshare my slide deck. We weren’t sure.

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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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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

When you can identify who you’re speaking to, what their perspective is, and the knowledge level they bring to the table, you can design your presentations to be more appealing and relevant. This can help you think intentionally about how to lay out your presentation without getting distracted by the design elements. .

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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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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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. We hope that you enjoyed your experience [describe the nature of the event’s activities]. Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions A survey filled with binary “yes” or “no” inquiries can be an immediate turn-off for survey recipients. Send out surveys in a timely manner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience. Design a fair auction and thrilling, inspiring Fund-A-Need. If hosting in two separate locations, designate a point person to coordinate between them.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The world’s most talented designers are inspiring others, provoking change, and even saving lives for nonprofits. In my new series Designing for Good , we’ll chat with these innovators about their inspirations, challenges, and favorite tools. Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer. My favorite tools for design?

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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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CauseVox

MARCH 16, 2021

is designed to walk you through the ins-and-outs of virtual fundraising to help you go from an event concept to a fully built-out event plan. How to optimize the event experience so you get more attendees, sponsors, and participants + raise more. Access to slides (PDF) of the course. Thank you for creating this online course.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

BeSpeake clients have: Paid closer attention to the content and slides. .” But with virtual, more thought has gone into the quality of the sessions to make sure people stay engaged and don’t log off. Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. Coached speakers to become better presenters.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

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' ” So we had several back up plans. Photo by Be Chandra.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to showcase new tech designs and products is through an industry event. Dubbed by Qualtrics to be “the greatest gathering of experience management professionals on the planet”, the Qualtrics X4 Summit was almost canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . HPE Discover Virtual Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Achieve

APRIL 15, 2015

From the experience design to logistics to technology to coordinating with speakers, sponsors, partners, media … so many details are involved, which can make an event a huge time suck if you let it. Description of the stage, technology and how their slides will be presented. Example of strong slides from past MCONs.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’ Chicago 2022 was a brand-new opportunity for the Salesforce DevOps community to connect and share expertise at a designated conference. This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. It frames and personalizes the exhibit experience. instead of what is?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. Map the data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

The overlay of an inspirational quote further drives home the message, with rhetoric that perfectly mirrors the oversized slide show. With an eye-catching slideshow of breathtaking images featuring remote villages in Kenya, it is clear whom AHA benefits and where their focus lies. The Saratoga County Animal Shelter.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2008

I'm presenting on a few panels, coordinating the Day of Service (have done this since 2002 as a paid consultant), and designing a panel on Social Media and ROI. 10 powerpoint slides (visuals only) with each slide on the screen for 30 seconds. " I can't believe NTC is two months away. s part of the fun.)

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. Here are a few things that I think helped make this experience valuable: We started from communities' needs, not the museum's.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. Should do once you’ve had several thoughtful experiments using Listen, Learn, and Adapt not on the front-end. Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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