Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Integrate your fundraising and matching gift tools. Listen for matching gift asks during calls and provide guidance to improve techniques. Plus, if your request process is standardized, you’re in a better position to evaluate and adjust according to the results. Integrate your fundraising and matching gift tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Crisis communication strategy.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Web accessibility, in particular, became an intriguing topic for me as it is so integral to my field of interest (which is website development, by the way), yet before my internship, I had never given it much thought. websites, operating systems, apps, etc.) Those nine weeks were amazing, and I got to learn a ton. It’s a legal issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Data-driven fundraising strategies are always the smartest move, so make sure you have the necessary constituent relationship management software (CRM) integrations and reporting tools. These days, investing in fundraising tools with CRM integrations is more of a necessity than general fundraising advice. Personalized emails.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

There was so much low hanging fruit, it was never hard to find the next scientific system that could be gamified through adapting it as the core mechanic within a digital or physical game. The production system at the museum was not designed to make consumable games. So players got to learn by doing in a social context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consult Details: Selecting the right database software or host-site to keep track of our constituents; mine that database of information for maximum return from investors; use better on-line fund-raising techniques. Can we integrate our application process with a database application? How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti?

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. Technology can't be something that's added into the process once the plan is set; it needs to be an integral part of the process from the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. In the end, it comes down to leadership. Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

If you're going to do something sophisticated, like integrating your grants management system with your grantee community, be sure you have very solid management support, a healthy budget, and a very patient stakeholder group. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution. Be wary of big, complex visions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind." Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats. We also advocate strongly for agile development practices.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Light argues that while in business, any new idea that generates revenue can be an innovation, a new idea or technique is only valuable for a non-profit organization if it contributes to that organization's ability to deliver on its public mission. Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. You need to think about how to link or integrate your social media strategy. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

This framework is used by Google’s human evaluators to assess the quality of web pages and provide feedback on the search algorithm. Trustworthiness: Trustworthiness assesses the reliability of the information and the overall integrity of the website. Google, in particular, considers PageSpeed as a ranking factor.

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Gyrus

APRIL 28, 2016

Videos have become fully integrated into our lives and studies show that the average viewer retains 95% of a message when they watch it, as opposed to a mere 10% retention rate when they are reading it. This is why organizations are trying to integrate video learning in to their training and development practices.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. How can institutions better welcome and integrate this community into their educational advancement practices? Governance / @usdsoles. Fundraising / #caselgbt / @CASEAdvance. Fundraising.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. The key is to plan ahead and make your coding systems as consistent and descriptive as possible. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? – to create these cateogies.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. The key is to plan ahead and make your coding systems as consistent and descriptive as possible. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? – to create these cateogies.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Julia: All right, so all systems go. So how do we evaluate all of this and figure out what are the best avenues to choose? Julia: Yes.

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