Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Getting started with personalization can be broken down into three phases: Crawl, Walk, Run. Start by selecting areas where you can execute impact and story-driven design refreshes that better tell your story. Crawl: Audit, assess, and establish your strategy and segments.

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Impact Channel Audience Content 77

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 16, 2009

And that’s the leading tag for a new campaigning platform called Louder. uses a straightforward process to set up modules and then drag/drop to design your page. LOUDER is in a “progressive beta&# phase now and is working fast and furiously to built out more and more functionality for campaigners. It’s true!

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Collaboration Platform Campaign Module 111

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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Org Raise Tools Help 80

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing world accessible through the Internet and by harnessing the power of individual donations. The February chat focused on cause fatigue, but if you missed it, Zero Strategist has done a great recap of the conversation and highlights. Check it out!

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Web ROI Bookmarking Phase 108

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

A little over a year ago, we unveiled the first phase in a series of improvements to the site, including a new home page design and enhanced search functionality. We’ll also start Phase 3 which will improve our registration process and implement a site-wide navigation, taxonomy, and design. Tags: TechSoup Help.

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Change San Francisco Taxonomy Phase 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

GA4 is designed to be far less reliant on cookies, using AI and data modeling to help fill the gaps in data caused by privacy restrictions. The next five months can be your learning phase. Another complication of continuing UA was that it works through cookies. What are the differences between UA and GA4? Implement it.

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Robert Weiner

MAY 4, 2010

Finally, I’m often witness on the client side to the returned RFP information languishing for weeks beyond their own deadlines (and/or this being characteristic of earlier deadlines in designing the RFP). Techsoup article: Nine Tips for Navigating the RFP Research Phase. Techsoup article: The RFP Process: An Overview.

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Software Database Phase Proposal 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design. Next Stop Design Process. Tags: crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing the Genome . Nitrogen Wiki .

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Training Train San Jose Wiki 78

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A critical leg of this journey includes the decision phase, where a donor commits their support to your organization. This might include fine-tuning your user experience design, tweaking your page’s meta tags, or reaching out to donors in a more inviting and dynamic way.

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Process Donation Tips Retention 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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.

Social Media 93

Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

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. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software. Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business."

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Ning Alternative Free Profile 66

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. These tags would be added to the books in the catalog to build a kind of recommendation system. This design inspires me because it creates new value out of what visitors already do.

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Participatory Project Library Netherlands 40

NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

Part of making our content more compelling has to do with design. Lots of you helped us with Phase One: The Card Sort. This week, we moved on to Phase Two: The Wireframe Test. We got lots of great feedback and are looking forward to the next phase -- turning it into a new navigation scheme for the site. .

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Test Phase NTEN Rate 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

How does designing (and implementing) a social media strategy easily support and enhance the overall communications mix? With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation.

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Social Media Strategy Communication Remix 97

NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2010

That left us with only one more step before launch, the User Testing Phase, but this quickly showed us we still had some work to do. Tags: NPTech NTEN. The next two months were spent wrestling with our database and coding a useable front end for the new directory. Incidentally, this is the launch. Haven't done it yet?

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Test NTEN Org Drupal 59

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. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. GivingMail – Direct Mail Design. Nonprofit web design and custom projects. Getting Attention – Google Grants.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 24, 2009

This is Phase 1 and only affects the home page--most links take you to pages on the old site, with a the old design and the old navigation. While these upgrades should improve your experience on the site, the phased approach also has its challenges. Here's to Phase 2. Tags: Nonprofit Technology TechSoup.

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Site Design Phase FAQ 148

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

For some campaigns, the theme can be as short as a tag line, like “serving hope.” As you craft the emails and design the layout, make the call to action multiple times. Start talking about these early in the planning phase so you know exactly how you will weave them into your campaign. Add a spokesperson. Gift premiums.

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Fundraising Gift Audience Story 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. Courtesy of Jon Husband, publisher of Wirearchy.

Story 79

Story Action Model Adopt 79

Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

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. You don’t have to pay for a venue, food, decor, or any of the other high price tag things that come with a typical gala. Take Summit Assistance Dogs for example.

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Ideas Raise Design Fundraising 98

NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

Our main distribution point for these directions was the session designers, and while this is can be very successful if the speakers help promote the evaluations, it's becoming clear that this can't be our only point of communication with attendees. Tags: 10NTC Data Mobile NPTech NTEN IT Staff.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We're still in the additive phase of making museums equitable. Design thinking, agile, human-centered design: I like problems that can be solved in different ways, but I'm not always good at following systems. Design-thinking, for example, offers museums a method of including empathy in their work.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

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). There are some things I don't like only because as an artist-type, I want more control over the design.

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PDF Blogger Typepad Images 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

Currently, this happens in two phases. After this first phase is approved, the second phase is building out a basic Google Ads account, and submitting that for approval. Have Google Analytics installed on your website (ideally, we recommend installing Google Tag Manage r as well). This means that you: .

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Google Grant Guide Adopt 332

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

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. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors.

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Practice Nonprofit Avatar Social Media 363

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I used the tag #packnet and asked for the "Poor Man Dummies Guide to Social Network Analysis and Mapping Tools." Vladis Krebs and other Twitter users pointed to some great resources which are listed below along with others that I discovered. Tags: network effectiveness. builds network as it needs it. Click to see larger diagram.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

John: I think you sort of have to phase it in. The phasing in is beginning to communicate that being a member comes with privileges, but those privileges are not necessarily free. Tags: interview membership visitors business models. How would you recommend that museums transition in this direction?

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Interview Museum Phase Reflection 32

Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

This year, one of the keynotes at the Interactive festival was delivered by Will Wright, legendary game designer who created Sim City, the Sims, and now, the forthcoming Spore. As Wright points out, the more agency you give the visitor, the less controlled, linear, and designed the experience will be. To me, that seems chaotic.

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Game Story Museum Movie 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2007

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the question of whether or not it is useful to create project-specific blogs for big museum initiatives during the development phase. It helps them establish deeper relationships with the content as they understand what went into the exhibit design. What about at your institution?

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Project Develop Museum Reflection 20

Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

To help further advance the social sector, we also offer an immersive experience called the Collaborative , which is our annual nonprofit conference designed exclusively to help nonprofit organizations gain insights, strategies, and inspiration to elevate their impact. Enable a culture of environmentally conscious stakeholders .

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Companies Social Product Children 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They end up keeping the templated language and design on the page. Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. The honeymoon phase is over and we’re in that mid-campaign slump… Have no fear though, it happens with every peer-to-peer campaign. People need that reminder and extra nudge to take action!

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Goal Fundraising Help Africa 306

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial. Tags: exhibition web2.0 The internal team is led by a non-curator. Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. At the end of 2020, internet browsers phased out Adobe Flash and many organizations needed to adjust their courses accordingly. Format conversion tools.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Steve Backman, Database Designs. Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. For some projects, that may still make sense.

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