.orgSource

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Whether it’s via a chatbot, a human, or some combination of the two, dialoguing in real time is a powerful tool to build sales and loyalty. Without a human operator, just finding the right person to talk with can be an exercise in patience. I also like the option of multitasking while I am getting the information I need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. I experimented with using the polls as part of the opening exercise in the workshop. I did not have a remote audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns. To help you dive right in, this posts provides an overview of the tools available, best practices, and examples to make your chosen AI writing tool work for you.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

The good news is that you likely already use at least one marketing tool, meaning you are well on your way to building a MarTech stack. Explore the steps below to learn how to build a MarTech stack and how your team can use those tools. Are there any tools that are glaringly missing or that aren’t serving the team well?

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

“Born from necessity, the pandemic catalyzed the shift to a more digitally-driven selling process, and consequently thought leadership has become an increasingly important top of the funnel marketing tool.” Be Deliberate Thought leadership is an important top of the funnel marketing tool. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Allocate time off for exercise. The concepts can range from technology tools to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific. If you’re not ready to hire a third-party provider to customize a special initiative, these are smaller steps you can take to promote a healthier work lifestyle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Whether you are considering a new fundraising and engagement CRM, advocacy tool, reengineered database, custom integration, CMS or back office system, a separate discovery is the BEST approach to ensuring success. After all, these tools exist to help people do their jobs better, right? It’s about people.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2021

How do you keep track of all the technology tools your organization uses? As an exercise, just try to list them. You've got laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, and phones. Maybe you've got servers and a Wi-Fi router.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Using learning analytics data, they took action to redesign the module, added additional practice exercises, and provided live Q&A sessions with instructors, resulting in a notable increase in course completions and positive feedback from learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

I realized after the first week, that I needed to gather every tool from my Happy Healthy Nonprofit toolkit to try to keep calm, focused, and positive. 1: Get Enough Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise. Focus on these three activities: sleep, nutrition and exercise to help strengthen your immune system and feel better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

The discussion included some pointers to the tools as well as some clarifying questions. The key in choosing the tool is the right fit to purpose and practices. So, I went poking around the wiki and I discovered this wonderful exercise she created to get people comfortable. The work of the editors is done on a wiki.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

Input from current and potential users of Candid’s tools is crucial to building products for a more efficient and effective social sector. For example, one customer mentioned that they can review up to 500 funder profile pages in one day using Candid’s Foundation Directory , a time-consuming and tedious exercise!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

AAER claims that the foundation’s grant program—which provides grants, tools, and mentorship to Black women entrepreneurs, who often lack access to mainstream venture capital—is racially discriminatory. In December, our organizations filed a joint amicus brief to support the Fearless Foundation and protect the right to give. What is at stake?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By reading the book and completing the exercises at the end of each chapter, you’ll learn how to develop the five intertwined powers that enable extraordinary performance in a world of overload: Purpose : understanding why you engage with information enables a healthier relationship that generates success and balance in your life.

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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. Gaining alignment across multiple groups is an exercise in communication. Now ask yourself, what’s keeping you from achieving that goal?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2014

What this means broadly is the tools we develop are informed by someone outside our team. This weekend our listening exercise was observing the citywide Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) drill in San Francisco. A big part of our work with Caravan Studios is understanding a particular community's needs.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. You might not be able to pick your team, but there are plenty of circumstances that you can control. Cultivate Diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2018

A writer, consultant, and coach, Maia Duerr draws on her decades of Zen practice and training in anthropology to create powerful tools for integrating mindfulness into the workplace and in the everyday lives of the people she works with. Some of these exercises are intended for you to do alone, but others can be done in groups.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

By reading the book and completing the exercises at the end of each chapter, you’ll learn how to develop the five intertwined powers that enable extraordinary performance in a world of overload: Purpose : understanding why you engage with information enables a healthier relationship that generates success and balance in your life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials. It was fascinating to experience this tool and hear how Dave is thinking through what can brought online from a face-to-face experience. I know some colleagues prefer not to use paper , but go all digital.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

Bring Your Own App - Digital Flexibility Is Being Exercised - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : "The request led her to crowdsourcing apps at national conferences. Pilcher presented roundtable BYOA sessions at the Transformative Learning Conference in Oklahoma City, Okla., via Blog this'

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 24, 2021

The more you work to improve it and exercise it, the more it grows. Showing up prepared is one of the easiest and most effective confidence-building exercises you can do. Consistency is probably the hardest item on this list, but as with any growth exercise, conditioning is the key. My “would” became my “could.”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Packed with exercises, tools, tips and examples, the book makes for a perfect read at the start of the new year. Turn adversity into advantage. Cultivate a champion's mindset. Develop hustle. Master your body. Practice positive habits. Build a winning team. Be of service to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Offer high-quality accountability and management tools. They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They offer high-quality accountability and management tools. Make the day fun. Ask the right questions. What’s next?

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 26, 2020

That’s why our team at Blue Fox views a client audit as a management and marketing opportunity, as well as an important financial management exercise. Using the right tools and technology, we’ve reduced the tedious audit process from an average 10 hours down to just 2.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To raise the bar in digital innovation, nonprofits can explore new ways to drive more engaging, impressive, and effective digital experiences by coupling modern tools to work together through composable architecture. Explore the role of various platforms and tools in this transition, and understand the potential challenges that may arise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

You can use the online whiteboard platform Mural for the drawing tools or ask everyone to use paper and pen and hold it up to the camera. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook. Resources: Using Online Interaction Tools for Icebreakers and More.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was called the Mash-Up. Through this exercise, I came up with the idea of a time-tracking app that features video footage of nature that plays in the background. Combining a workplace necessary evil with moments of delight was an inspiring exercise.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

This challenge can focus on breathing exercises, yoga classes, or other self-care activities meant to create a positive cycle of well-being while fundraising for an important cause.  Get started today by learning how activity-tracking tools can transform your next fundraising campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The cost of prototyping and deploying new technology tools is now extremely low and data has the potential to accelerate social progress in areas ranging from poverty to human rights, education, health, and the environment. Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so. Let me explain further.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

Stories are an incredible tool for non-profit fundraising. But sometimes it can be a good exercise to write a story through the filter of a certain value. Stories are a powerful tool for non-profit fundraising. And when a fundraising appeal is easy to understand, there’s one less barrier to someone donating. The Values Story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Deciding how to handle donor recognition on social media is a complex exercise. The social media posts that get the most engagement often include strong examples of mission impact, surprising facts, spotlights on special groups like kids and volunteers, or useful tools and resources.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Use videos, assessments, group exercises, and role plays to educate and train them. The toolkit can include a fundraising glossary, an understanding of what donors want, trends in donor behavior, how to make an ask, peer-to-peer fundraising tips, and information on use of digital tools and methods to reach more people more efficiently.

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