Nimble AMS

JULY 7, 2022

Is it time for your association to invest in new technology? Perhaps you’ve lost staff because of broken digital processes and slow technology. You might even notice your member retention numbers are slipping, as individuals choose other associations with better technology to provide a superior member experience. .

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Whether I’m writing about marketing, strategy, or technology, one idea always surfaces. There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone. Identify the employees on your team who love innovation and technology. Understanding members at a granular level has never been more important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”). Ask clients at the end of the project a set of questions about the process and the result.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Beth Kanter tweeted about an article by Gale Berkowitz relating to evaluation, which I found really fascinating – it is a must read. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”). Ask clients at the end of the project a set of questions about the process and the result.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 29, 2023

Your association can more easily navigate the ups and downs of your technology adoption when you leverage an AMS selection consultant. Your consultant might help you identify the answers to these questions: What does your organization hope to achieve with a new AMS? What problems are you hoping to solve with new technology?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. Technology consultants may offer services in a variety of areas.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

By investing in automation and organizational tools that let technology take over on the day-to-day tasks, your team can devote more of themselves to your organization’s big-picture initiatives. Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. 2) Training.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The CRM providers have questions that I can’t answer. Requests for Proposals, or RFPs, are often used to conduct the search for potential strategic, digital, and/or technology vendors. Your evaluation criteria and selection timeline Your RFP also needs to cover the process you’ll use to review proposals and select a vendor.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The impact of technology is huge—we can’t function without it. This is why it’s essential for non-profit organizations to embrace technology with caution. Here are a few factors that should be considered when evaluating your current and future technology platforms: Create bring your own device policies.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Are you focusing sufficient attention on that area?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Factoring in the nonprofit organization’s size, capacity, and budget – making sure that the demand for data and evaluation is commensurate.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

These powerful technologies have inherent racial biases baked into them. Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. In both cases, the racial biases of those technologies could lead to skewed, insensitive, or inadequate content.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You can’t prevent the radical transformations in employment that new technology will certainly introduce. The differentiator now isn’t only the fastest piece of equipment or technology. To keep pace with the speed of business, teams need to reinvent themselves along with innovation and technology. It’s having the best talent.”

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. But before you start randomly lobbing questions at participants, we have a few tips that will help you improve the process.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Hitch Curiosity to Possibility A strong technology infrastructure unites curiosity with possibility.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. After you define bias and harm for your use, the next step is to establish standard evaluation procedures to test AI for these definitions. These evaluations can provide usage restrictions or even mark an AI tool as inappropriate to use.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

We were living in the midst of cultural, technological, and economic instability long before the pandemic. Although the firm that I worked for was one of the leading providers of association software, when the company saw the investment in resources and time that was needed to switch to the new technology, they decided to stop production. “On

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Imagine you’re teed up for a jackpot question on Jeopardy. However, technology is a ruthless editor and could easily force a rewrite. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation. Societal shifts, such as the pandemic, are another reason to evaluate priorities. They infuse your brand with personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Over the past two decades of teaching workshops to nonprofits on the use of technology for mission-driven work and more recently on the use of online networks and data, people come workshops with different degrees of organizational readiness to embrace change that is needed to be successful.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

MarTech Ssacks, or Marketing Technology stacks, provide nonprofit teams with a vital way to create efficient and effective marketing efforts. A few questions to consider include: How do we organize information about our donors, volunteers, members, and constituents? But, how does an organization begin to piece one together?

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The technology promises to upend the way business operates. The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. AI, which once lived on the far horizon, is making a swift and dramatic entrance into our daily lives.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 22, 2023

But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new AMS technology, you still need one thing: board approval. Be sure to include examples of how the new AMS technology will empower staff. Let them know that modern AMS technology can help them too. You know it. Membership.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How often does a colleague attend a conference, see a demo of the latest “it” technology, and want to implement it as soon as they get back? Without a vetting and approval process in place, they can end up in the “Wild Wild West” of technology, with redundant or underutilized tools, wasted human capital, and unnecessary expenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“At this stage, one of the barriers to widespread AI deployment is no longer the technology itself; rather, it’s a set of challenges that ironically are far more human: ethics, governance, and human values.”— With AI, you first define some outcome, some question you want answered. What outcome are you trying to predict?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. The hype is problematic, but the revolution is real. But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 We didn’t ask.

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sgEngage

JULY 8, 2022

HBO’s Silicon Valley is a not-too-far removed parody of work at a small technology startup. The Technology Disconnect. Of course, technology alone doesn’t magically change your outcomes (in some cases, it can slow you down). People, process, and technology must interact.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? Does it ask for information that helps you measure your progress, evaluate your impact, or learn from your failures?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Sponsored Post by: Accelerist , a leader in social impact partnership technology, supporting hundreds of brands and charitable organizations in finding and growing their partnerships with each other. Good questions to ask your team: What kinds of partners have we retained/lost over the last 3+ years?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. New applications and technologies. if not free) technologies. professional learn about -- and selectively embrace -- new technologies, when it's hard to keep basic systems running? Your new iPhone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Giveffect, for example, offers online applications with options to customize fields and questions. Create opportunities to ask open-ended questions to continue learning about their skills and interests and ask for feedback within your communications to improve your programs. The information is stored securely and is easily accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To find the right product for your needs, the best place to begin is with requirements to help you evaluate alternatives. A written list of requirements is the starting point for evaluating accounting software options. You may want to use a spreadsheet to track how various products stack up in your evaluation.

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