Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.). Think Beyond Presenters.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

Creating specific definitions for these terms which are often used in an overlapping way will help you and your organization ensure you’re all really on the same page. Setting goals and defining messaging at the start of your process to target each group will help you plan for and engage beyond just those you know. Definitions.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Download session slides. Watch the session recording | Download the session slides. Charity Dynamics’ Donna Wilkins will help you beef up your event communication. Watch the session recording | Download the session slides. Watch the session recording | Download the session slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Guide Creative is Blackbaud 's design agency. This week, Guide Creative presented a whole series on the most important elements of web design and visual strategy. If you missed it, read on about creating and designing a successful, engaging website that inspires action. Engaging Visual Design. Audience Analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The goal of this webinar was to provide some baseline tools to help manage the incoming and the outgoing content across all channels an organization may be using to communicate and connect. Refer to the slides below for examples. Refer to the slides below for examples. Listening Dashboard. Why create a listening dashboard?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

Whether you started your nonprofit last week or five years ago, if you’re still struggling to get your mission off the ground, this two-part course will help you jumpstart your work and set you on the path to success. ” “Even though I knew the recording and slides would be available, I couldn’t stop myself from taking notes.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

Try using icebreakers, gamification features, videos, a slide deck, breakout discussions, group activities, or roleplay to ensure the session is memorable. Design a DEI volunteer module with engaging content like videos, graphs, and gamification elements to provide broad information on your association and specific details on their role.??.

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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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Byte Technology

MAY 10, 2017

So many choices in fact that everyone should be able to find a design that ideally suits their needs. Here are eight themes to check out for your e-commerce concern—some free, some premium—but all customizable (and mobile-friendly) to help you stand out from the crowd.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Presentation slides.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Fortunately there are a few questions you can ask yourself to help you craft a compelling video story. It's helpful to decide who you're trying to reach in terms of demographics like age, interests, or gender. Establish your goals up front so that each moment or slide ladders up to the goal. Add Media to the Slides.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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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. Methodology.

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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

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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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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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. NTC is designed for all roles in nonprofit technology, from board members and staff to volunteers, consultants, and vendors.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 2, 2010

Last week I announced that I’m [finally] doing a redesign of this site – and I need your help to make it as valuable as possible. I’m really lucky to be working with Matt Chevy, a designer who’s totally supportive and even into this approach of involving all of you in making this a better site.

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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. Having a framework to organize the goals you see and to categorize the types of technology integration can help to make quick sense of a social site.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 15, 2021

BeSpeake clients have: Paid closer attention to the content and slides. Maybe I’m just navigationally challenged but better signage and more thoughtful grouping of the sessions and events would help me, and, I suspect, many others. Brief but clear descriptions and help text. Coached speakers to become better presenters.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

So — given your teeny amount of available time and your equally tiny budget — here are seven easy-to-implement recommendations that will help your audience retain that 10 percent and keep them from sleeping while you speak: 1. Include Only One Key Point per Slide. This means: Cluttered data slides are not useful.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? They are charged with making the digital numbers go up, but they are never put in a position to help the broader organization listen to the data. The small experiments aren’t designed to undergo academic peer review. Data can help you make better decisions.

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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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CauseVox

MARCH 16, 2021

And now, we want to share with you a step-by-step process to help you effectively plan and execute a virtual fundraising event at your nonprofit. 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. Access to slides (PDF) of the course.

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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. You could also review each job description and add essential and helpful skills. Everyone is already so busy.

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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. Card sorts are a form of usability testing that help us understand how users group and label content. What’s helpful is to observe patterns across different participants’ sorts to influence the creation of the Sitemap. Visual Design.

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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. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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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. Except when it isn’t!

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if you need to understand how one specific user/company/email is behaving on your site these tools can’t help. Integrations : Salesforce, Zoho, HobSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, MailChimp, Pipedrive Cost : Free 7 day tracking with no integrations, sliding scale starting at $56 for 100 leads. Cost : Contact for pricing.

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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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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Developing a strategy helps guide these decisions and makes your virtual event more likely to meet your goals. While you may have multiple goals for your virtual events, narrow your list to one primary goal to help guide your decisions. Design and develop the event website and begin promotions. Build a plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Most nonprofits distribute the original source of the story to their communities (the New York Times , for example), but while that is generous, it does not help build the nonprofit’s brand recognition, e-newsletter list, or social networking communities; rather, it builds those of the New York Times. Provide Organizational Updates.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the slides! If you’re making connections and supporting conversations across the network, you’re helping the community create strong ties that will not require your time and energy to maintain. Knowing your community also means you help it grow. Would love to hear if you have examples or tips to share! Case Studies.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Budget: 55% were planning to spend less than $2,500 on end-of-year fundraising expenses like design, printing, postage etc. I worried: “Could they use help writing their appeal ? For example, “Please use my gift now to help endangered polar bears in Antarctica and other imperiled wildlife.”. 16% were sending 6-8 appeals.

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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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