Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Note: This is the tenth in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. The visual design details the final look and feel of the website. Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. Methodology. Deliverables. What’s Next.

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A new supplement to “ Transforming Technology Pro Bono ,” a publication from the VMware and Taproot Foundations, is designed to help. It expands on initial research, which introduced the Solution Development Framework, a phased-approach to discover, design, implement, and maintain sustainable solutions that meet nonprofit needs.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly. A professionally designed website can help establish your organization as a reputable, trustworthy institution. Make your donation and volunteer opportunities easy to find.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

Jean is also a freelance consultant who works on digital strategy, marketing and design for non-profits. For example: in a lead campaign for a homeless charity, a photo of two empty beds performed much, much better than an emotive photograph of a man living in homelessness. . It needs time to do this.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

In this case, the customer is a nonprofit, and it’s important to begin pro bono projects by taking a human-centered design approach to understand the context and need before diving into implementation. The key is that it’s in phases: Discover, Design, Implement, and Maintain. Want to learn more? Download Now.

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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. Visual Design. Solution Design. Build consensus around target audiences.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Resize your photos so they don’t appear distorted in the mobile view. ? A compelling “why.”. Inspiring calls to action.

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EveryAction

MAY 4, 2016

You might be wondering: why isn't the main course all of the inspiring photos, incredible stories, and data-driven impact numbers that I'm putting front-and-center in my campaign? Main Course - Donation Page. Here comes the star of the meal: your campaign's donation page. For extra spice. Email series.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

Why Work With A Development Agency to Complete Your Web Design Project. Before we dive into the steps your team can take to set your web design project up for success, let’s answer a few frequently asked questions that your nonprofit might have about this project. Web Design Project Step 1: Register your domain name.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List The Bloomerang app is designed to support donor management from wherever you are. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go. The first is designed for event attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum).

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Yet many nonprofit leaders are intimidated by videos and more comfortable with traditional stories and photos to tell your organization’s stories. Photo or video montage: This is a popular type of fundraising video designed to tug at the heartstrings. In short, videos make an impression.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

Personas in the Design Process. My job at Blackbaud is to help nonprofits design things. Whether it’s a full-scale website, an event fundraising site, a donation form or a mobile email template, our design process usually goes something like this: Stakeholder Discovery. Visual Design. User Research. Build and QA.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

We will phase out our free service." Admin: An easy-to-use back end, with a wide variety of customizable themes, with minimal design control. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. Additions: Photos, email notifications, email blasts, and calendaring features. www.groupsite.com.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

According to Wikipedia, a wireframe is a “visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website” If you’re going through a design project, you’ll likely see wireframes after a user research phase and possibly a sitemap phase. Photos, which will likely be placeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. Next Stop Design Process. Brabham , a Ph.D. candidate writing a thesis on crowdsourcing for problem solving. Crowdsourcing the Genome .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. When I design a training, whether a one-hour webinar or an all-day face-to-face workshop, I don't begin with the technology integration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Photo by Ben Golub. The controversy prompted some conference sponsors to consider hosting a forum to examine how these contests are designed and managed. Depending on the program design, participants may need time and support to mobilize their supporters. to help participants develop their ideas for submission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

Flickr photo from Heipei. phase of the information society. Project conducted a survey designed to classify Americans into different. The Pew Internet and American Life project has released a meaty report about Internet use profiles and types. The advent of Web 2.0 and the ability of people to use a range of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. We think that it is time to invite them to the “adults’ table”—even though this may entail a gawky “adolescent” phase. Rather than creating a new network, the Project is designed to “tune up” the networks that currently exist in the region. Identifying sources of discomfort will help.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

If your nonprofit is in the early phases of a capital campaign, you may be wondering exactly how long this period should last. The quiet phase of your nonprofit’s capital campaign should last as long as you need in order to be ready for a public campaign kickoff, which can vary widely from organization to organization.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

It outlines the steps of a technical volunteering project, from designing projects for technical volunteers to recruiting volunteers to managing a volunteer and closing out the project. The photo is from TechSoup's recent volunteering day. Here are a few tips on getting the most out of technical volunteers.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. WARNING: using an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy tool does not mean you can skip or shortchange the strategy and planning phases outlined in the earlier posts in this series. Here are a few guidelines to help you along: Do a few things well.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So how do we ensure that our online experience is designed for donors (both current and would-be)? And the photo that accompanies it?—?big, Instead of seeing one long, exhausting form, the user is asked only a small handful of questions at each bite-sized phase. register volunteers, share impact, announce events, etc.?—?but

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

The post-donation phase is when donors either feel good about their gift or totally forget about it. Use media like photos and videos to describe your mission and encourage donors to become emotionally invested in your work. Prevent donors from having to enter the same data more than once with good form design !

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior. This design inspires me because it creates new value out of what visitors already do. Tags: design participatory museum. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). I was amazed to find some photos on my hard-drive that I had totally forgotten! (Or all from one interface.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a. Third, if your nonprofit regularly shares stories on Instagram, make a strong first impression by creating custom Highlight covers using a graphic design tool or a mobile app.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

Yoga challenged their community to do one yoga pose per day and share a photo on social media. If your organization isn’t in a growth phase this year (and let’s be honest, most of us aren’t), you can still point to specific needs. The post 2021 Fundraising Ideas Designed To Help You Raise More This Year appeared first on Kindful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why. In Taiwan, I noted that many more visitors and staff members were enthusiastic about taking and sharing photos than they were writing on a talkback board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. It’s easier and more powerful to use Twitter’s mobile app to upload and archive photos and videos to Twitter.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Too much design makes it much less personal. Artwork: 80%; photos: 75%; headlines: 56%; captions: 29%, and very little text! (~Tom Eliminate every possible word – including adjectives and descriptive phases – in your copy. “If Donors will give more if they can designate their gift in some way. BE PERSONAL and INFORMAL.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. Facebook Community Pages as discussed in the book have been phased out. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why. In Taiwan, I noted that many more visitors and staff members were enthusiastic about taking and sharing photos than they were writing on a talkback board.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. It’s easier and more powerful to use Twitter’s mobile app to upload and archive photos and videos to Twitter.

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