Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Qgiv

MARCH 29, 2023

Structure accounts accordingly. In Summary The Google Ad Grant Program for nonprofits can be a powerful tool if managed effectively. Give Back SMART Websites was developed to zero in on nonprofit web design support and provide a professional, dynamic and cost-effective solution. Any Additional Quick Tips?

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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

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. Here’s some examples.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, a well-designed website that seamlessly incorporates social media acts as a powerful catalyst for advancing the impact of your nonprofit organization. This approach not only maintains a clean and user-friendly design for your blog and social media, but it also helps increase traffic to your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. The Session Design and Implementation. Orienting the Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

” I wondered whether or not I was just weird, so I have been looking to some of the literature that looks at learning design from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Training Design' Talking VS Listening.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you can tug at their heartstrings during those critical first few seconds, a well-designed site will lead your nonprofit website visitor straight to your donation page, where they will feel moved to contribute. Then you need to design your site to lead your nonprofit website visitor to your donation page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

If you are interested in social change and the way that networks help realize change, you must stop what you’re doing and read this report now. Here’s a summary of a few of my favorite parts and framing. Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While the look and feel of a new website is often top of mind and absolutely essential in making a resounding impression, there are also a number of non-design-related strategies that you need to take into account. In summary. There are many things to consider when planning a website redesign.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

From improvements in user experience, to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. There are many things that we need to account for when planning a redesign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Sometimes easier said than done!). Cross disciplinary teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? A well-designed feasibility study will help you learn: The community’s perception of the proposed project and your organization in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. Siembieda-Gribben structured the hackathon to maximize learning and shared knowledge. The Teams Get to Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

They must also develop their understanding of the deeper implications SIBs have for the nonprofit sector in order to emerge as leaders in the pay for success design process. If the SIB is structured with a lead organization dedicated to data collection and evaluation, a nonprofit manager needs to understand what will be expected of her team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here. Our session used the following structure. Each presenter gave a summary of their campaign as follows: The Genesis: How did it get started? The New Normal: What was impact on your organization and its fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Nonprofittech blog also has a new design and some big banner ads.) Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

For example, it provides summary views of fundraising events that are easy to understand by executives and board members. Our goal was to provide a fair and modernized pricing structure that puts nonprofits in the driver's seat, while ensuring it is accessible and affordable to organizations of all sizes. Mobile access to data.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Greenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure , Derek Lieu. Fresh from NTC 2012: Web Design Sessions Digest , Katya Issaeva. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins. Website Design Done Right , ecwwblog.org. Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio , Clint O'Brien. Wake Me When NTEN's Over , Roger Craver.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

The new structure will cut down on noise and allow for more interactive networking and socializing. Finally, there will be a couple of changes to the conference pricing structure. Here's a summary of the most common responses. We'll have a new iteration of the Birds of a Feather Lunch, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. applications have changed the rules of online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and author of the forthcoming book, Questions Are the Answer , has this useful article about designing better brainstorming questions. Send out a summary of the ideas generated. Step by Step Guide to Facilitating A Brainstorming Session. Before the Session.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2011

Consider designing your direct mail with the following in mind: 1. Avoid including elements you know will suppress response or outstrip ROI, but otherwise use everything relevant — logo, color, type, photo style, structure — to immediately* assure brand recognition across every channel. Note, please: reasonable.

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Everyaction

MAY 9, 2018

This type of trust can be structured as either an annuity trust which pays out a fixed amount to the recipient each year, or a unitrust, which pays out a fixed percentage of the trust value which is recalculated annually. At the end of the term, the remaining trust assets are transferred to the charity. Pooled Income Funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. Having a facilitator - the summaries helped make the tag stream accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. Celgene’s has five focus areas that guide its work and that our talks and discussion touched on many of these themes. .” This “Dr.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They provide a user-friendly interface with simple editing tools and pre-designed templates. With other builders, a nonprofit might have to adapt features designed for traditional for-profit businesses. Design Flexibility: Choose builders offering a diverse range of templates, customizable themes, and design elements.

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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.

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

A formal grant proposal has a longer structure with multiple components. When you’re applying for a grant with a grant proposal, make sure you’re following the funder’s instructions for how your proposal should be structured and what should be included. Grant proposal structures will differ between applications. Project budget.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Your event email campaigns will likely be structured as a drip series ( learn more below ), with the goal of securing new participants in your event. Whether we’re working on a web design project or even developing a mobile advocacy app , at Team DNL, we understand the importance of compelling content. Write Compelling Content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I wrote thousands of lines of code and designed more databases than I can count. And I also looked at this with post-implementation eyes.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Giving summaries that show the donation histories of your organization’s individual supporters. This database is designed to track every aspect of the donor journey, from their first donation through your CharityEngine-powered donation page to their attendance at your favorite fundraising event. After all, you designed it that way!

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

There are also tools and software (both desktop and mobile) specifically designed to help you organize work and enhance staff and volunteer productivity. Here you can capture ideas, create summaries, and plan your nonprofit projects. Some managers also like to use Microsoft Paint or PowerPoint or Keynote for mind mapping.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2014

Note: This is the final installment in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Solution Design is the technical planning phase where we define how the back end of the website should function. Purposes for the Solution Design phase include: Making decisions about site-wide settings and configuration details.

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