sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A poorly designed donation form that is hard to navigate, lengthy, or confusing may prompt visitors to leave quickly. On the flip side, a well-designed donation form is easy to understand. Website usability data suggests that users often make judgments about a web page within the first few seconds of landing on it.

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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. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They can use the ELMO technique!). There is also a set you can download on your phone. What techniques, rituals, or meeting norms does your nonprofit have to make meetings more productive? Virtual meetings are also prone to non-productive discussions. You can purchase the pre-made cards or print your own set.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

In previous blog posts we’ve discussed responsive web design, formatting mobile friendly emails , and shown you even more statistics that will convince you to prioritize mobile sooner rather than later. Daily we spend 9 minutes on email via a mobile device, that is 7,6% of the total 119 minutes we use our phone per day.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Instead of picking up the phone to call a friend, we might text them an address or a date and time to meet up for lunch or a volunteer shift. You can use mobile messaging to link to mobile-optimized donation pages, which you can design and customize so donors know exactly who they’re donating to every step of the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities . A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. How can you avoid Zoom Overload?

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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. You can also try a value exchange campaign, where you offer a free item (such as a tote bag or a bumper sticker) to gather phone leads, then cultivate them into regular givers. 1) Forget about organic, focus on ads.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While tried-and-true fundraising techniques like telling a great story and appealing to a donor’s logic and emotions are important, this year I also recommend getting personal to help your appeal stand out. Here’s how you can get personal when designing your end-of-year appeals. Segment your donors. But don’t just ask them to give!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Rheingold’s low-tech technique, a post-it note on your computer monitor, is a simple and elegant way to help train your attention. During the workshop in New Zealand, we discussed different methods for being mindful and what might apply to our practice. .” ” (Note: I created a list.ly with some useful Zen Apps). .”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Text-to-give (also known as text-to-donate, text-to-pledge, or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising that asks donors to send a keyword to a text fundraising phone number. You choose a unique keyword and are assigned a phone number for supporters to text. Supporters text the keyword to your phone number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I have a repertoire of icebreakers and always like to discover new ones. I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Materials: at least one smart phone.

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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. What’s Next.

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Socialbrite

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The average smartphone user is one their phone for more than 4 hours a day. With the importance of mobile marketing in mind, consider these fundraising techniques using a smartphone. Most of these fundraising or marketing techniques cost very little, leaving little room to argue about their overall value to the nonprofit scene.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera. A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The article describes the great lengths that Silicon Valley insiders are going to disconnect from social media and their mobile phones. These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions. Although that is not enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

How to Set Up Text Fundraising Once you have a platform that supports text fundraising, all you’ll need to do is set up a keyword for your supporters to send to a designated number with the amount they wish to donate. Text fundraising also encourages more spontaneous donations since the process to give is immediate.

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2022

One way to attract charitable young donors is through a well-designed payment processor. Donors will see your nonprofit’s app every time they unlock their phones and you can send notifications to remind them to donate. . SMS giving technique. In fact, Millennials donate the most out of any age group, with. 84% giving regularly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

Those interruptions come from e-mail alerts, instant messages, cell phones and handheld devices that constantly buzz. Try these techniques: Turn off all visual and sound alerts that announce new e-mail. Check e-mail at designated times during the day. Whenever possible, communicate by phone or face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. Our questions were: What do you need to know about web/blog design so that your blog can be read by people on a mobile phone? What video hosting platforms support cell phones?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As part of the research for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , with Aliza Sherman, I’m not just reading, but actually testing out some of the techniques suggested for mindfulness. I’m now a big fan of adult coloring books, markers and even the coloring apps you can do on your phone. Coloring Books. Coloring Apps.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? The project is a Facebook led coalition that includes phone-makers, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, and also mobile chip-maker Qualcomm. The Opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Check it out on your mobile phone. Condom use campaign: (check that out on your phone. forms are really easy to fill out on a phone). Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Lots more resources on responsive web design: - [link]. Why should you use it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The migration is not like updating an iPhone from iOS 15 to 16: it’s more like switching from an iPhone to an Android phone (or vice versa). 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. Why is Google making this change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The event, a one-day conference designed to share the world’s most successful fundraisers’ secrets to success, most valuable tips and tools, and sources of inspiration. ” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.”

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is a great way to connect one-on-one with those who represent a company rather than going through the tedious processes of connecting over the phone, via email, or on-site. Luckily, there are techniques to increase virtual exhibitor booth visits ! No matter your style, the hard part is getting remote attendees there!

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I like how he takes a designer’s approach to using his time. How do you design your work day? Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques. We debriefed on the different ways people were responding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I did it! I’m now am feeling refreshed and recharged for a new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

An AI-powered tool can accomplish it in minutes—and doesn’t get interrupted for meetings or a phone call or a birthday party for Toby the newish office manager who just turned 27. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

The connected hospital is completely designed around patients and their preferences. Mobile Phones are our intimate partners in life. biometric readings) are done through someone’s mobile phone – not in a doctor’s office. Design Thinking is here to stay. Some of our main takeaways and areas for your consideration are: .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2011

Those interruptions come from e-mail alerts, instant messages, cell phones and handheld devices that constantly buzz. Try these techniques: Turn off all visual and sound alerts that announce new e-mail. Check e-mail at designated times during the day. Whenever possible, communicate by phone or face-to-face.

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