Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Note: This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Hint: one wireframe for each tier of content is a good starting point.) Visual Design. Solution Design. Solution Design. See the end of this post for a linked index of other posts in the series. Stay tuned! Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2018

The next disruptive technology phase is already upon here and it includes a technology designed to emulate human conversation – chatbots programmed with artificial intelligence. More recently, Woebot , an AI therapist bot designed to help humans with mental health issues , has had over 2 million conversations since is launch last year.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Percentage of new vs. returning users (hint: more returning visitors = higher loyalty).

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Topics covered include: automatic recurring emails, email segmentation, frequency, and design for desktops and mobile devices. In this session we’ll discuss event communication and marketing plans, event sponsorship and committees, site design, tools to drive revenue and awareness, and much much more.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Psst: Looking for other tips for designing a great online donation form? Additional steps you can take to signal to donors that you’re keeping their information secure are using your donation form on an encrypted page (hint: If you see “https” at the beginning of your donation page’s URL, you’re covered) and staying PCI compliant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

(And, if anyone in my house is reading this blog, this would make a terrific mother's day gift - hint - hint.). I love the design. To help spread the word, the site has integrated "sharing" your love for your mother and Mama Lucy both on Twitter as well as on Facebook (or should I say sharing your "like").

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Strategically designing the donor journey can make fundraising much easier (and more fruitful!). You can simplify the process by putting a few of these helpful hints into play: Automate. That provides the opportunity for communication to flow both ways. It’s critical to donor experience! Just make sure they’re warm and sincere.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

You can use templates and refer to helpful hints on how to get the most out of your message and capture your donors' attention. You can design and print direct mail pieces like letters and gift acknowledgements from within Bloomerang. Bloomerang includes the ability to merge names and other information. Manage Your Mailings.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix are do-it-yourself sites designed for people with no coding skills. It gives a person the essence and hints about the work the organization does. If you are using WordPress, your developer may offer a package that includes branding and web design. You just drag-and-drop.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

We’ve hinted at this above, but it’s important to state the importance of multi-channel communication outright. Set up your donation website to be easy to use on any device with a streamlined, intuitive design that guides supporters through the donation process. Make donating easy and rewarding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The application is really well designed, not glitches. People have been asking me what I want for my birthday -- hint hint. I voted, but it told me that since I was over 35, my vote could not be counted in the "younger voters," but I shouldn't worry because they love voters who are young at heart!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I also learned that one of the design personas was an individual who was therapist who needed to keep a professional wall between her work and clients – much the same issue that educators have in friending students or their parents. We also talked about how circles are different from communities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2008

And yet, while I've spent plenty of time thumbing the pages of the Exploratorium Cook books and the ADA handbook Everybody's Welcome , that was about the extent of my exhibit design education. Many seasoned museum professionals bemoan the reinvention of the wheel when it comes to everything from design processes to talkback stations.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Design a straightforward online donation form. . Once your donor has made it to your site through one of the above avenues, effective web design is what will keep them there. Design a straightforward online donation form. Hint: Need more help? Make it easy for supporters to give in higher amounts. .

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Tech Donor Tips Online 52

EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

Hint: it’s not for the money. it’s relevant no matter your tax designation. Why we consider making the switch. It might be a good idea to start by answering an important question: why do professionals move from the private sector to jobs at nonprofits?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Moreover, usability testing is an invaluable tool for improving your website design and increasing donation conversions. We touched on tasks in the previous designing your test post, but I will show my suggested testing tasks again below. Don’t give hints. Don’t explain your design. Anyone can do it.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Preview text gives the recipient a hint as to what your email is going to be about. Element 6 – Design. Design sparks some interesting, lively conversations in regards to email. Design, or creativity, is often subjective. But there are hard and fast ramifications for design. Element 5 – Preview Text.

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email Effective Fundraising Test 28

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It was designed at an “Off the Grid” programming rally in which a group Blackbaud developers participated and came up with it. Hint: If you are an organization reading this, I recommend you claim your everydayhero profile (if you haven’t already). I’ve got it. Create an everydayhero fundraising page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

hint, hint, hint -- this is a nice idea for Mother's Day). According to the site: Mother's Day was originally designated as a day to inspire people to work for peace. I know I stress out every year about what to send my own mother -- a card, candy, flowers, or donation in her honor.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2016

Inspiring donors to give online is an art form that requires juxtaposed creative writing and design , along with a working knowledge of how altruistic human behavior is manifested and triggered online. We learned that website traffic was earned, not a given, and effective email marketing required advanced skills and forward thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I had the pleasure of designing a panel about how Networked Nonprofits use Twitter with Claire Williams of Twitter and Danielle Brigida from NWF. I love designing panels, not only the content but the interactive piece as well. Hint, drive them to a landing page on your site). How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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Las Vegas Twitter Network Learning 94

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

They are hinted at in fundraising letters. Last year , the focus was on risk-taking in exhibition design. Building a more creative workforce? Bridging cultural differences? We all have aspirational social impact goals for our organizations. These goals are expressed in mission and vision statements. But how do we measure them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

chartiy: water is also excellent at using data to enhance narratives, which they do beautifully on the landing page for their current holiday campaign to bring water to families in Cambodia (hint: roll over each tile for a fun animation). In fact, the second person Harrison hired was a designer. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Here are some helpful hints to make your Facebook group a truly vibrant platform: Maximizing group features for networking and engagement: Tagging individuals in posts. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

D ocument major and minor decisions made during configuration/design. Identify your superusers early (hint: they were most likely your superusers in your old system). You might even discover some tools you didn’t know you had! Ask your community and your inner circle what tools they think work the best. . Paperwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

He also talks about designing the workplace for optimal health – standing desks anyone? He hints at the importance of organizational culture and leadership. “Organizations need to move away from thinking that health and wellness means providing a discount to a local gym.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Hint: they don't.) Design for Web2.0. Apparently, it's simple : cheerful colors, rounded edges, and "Free, as in beer (not kittens)" We also recommend some advice from "web design from scratch" , but with reservations: their web site isn't as pretty. Write for the Web.

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Djibouti Technology Hints Tutorial 36

Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2015

So with that in mind, let's explore how you can build this kind of meaningful relationship with your supporters by taking a few hints from the best friends ever, Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Website Design.

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Community Learning Social Media Relationship 36

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum. The surfboards are beautifully hung in their new location, but they present a new challenge: we have to write very short labels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

And, that's the problem with how some online fundraising campaigns and applications are designed - they are transactional - vote for me, give me ten dollars, etc. . Hint: It’s probably not Market Research. How do you go from treating your donors like ATM machines and turn them into passionate, loyal, and constant supporters?

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Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Balancing structure with experimentation Looking ahead, we’re designing ways to put the right amount of structure around the process of experimentation. hint: this shouldn’t just be people at the top). Clarifying decision rights, e.g., who has the authority to greenlight an experiment or implement a proposed change?

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Hints Structure Proposal Challenge 84

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.” You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Immersive design. It's hardly a model for an entirely new approach to museum design. The team was highly innovative when it came to new media and national awareness-building projects, but when it came to planning an actual museum, they fell prey to existing formulas supplied by architects, consultants, curators, and designers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Another fun scavenger hunt idea is to hire a developer to alter your website’s layout, placing hints across the pages in order to provide players with clues. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition. What does it take to put on a great show for your donors?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Even as the reporters acknowledge that museums are trying to better understand and serve their visitors, there''s a hint of menace in headlines like " The Art is Watching You. " Do we need consent forms to design an experience? We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to adapt. We''re trying to be responsive. I don''t think so.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2009

Hint: use the TAB key). Note: This is also known as separating content from design). I attended an awesome session on accessibility at the UPA conference and the folks over at Fidelity Investments shared some great questions to use to test out your site: Can you navigate your site using just your keyboard?

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Accessibility Site Hints Lecture 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I was there for a think tank about the reinstallation along with a handful of designers and academics. As we flipped through the photos of the people we'd talked to, we saw hints of the curious stories that connected face to painting. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. There's no central spine or hub to anchor you.

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