The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This helps improve your volunteers’ experience and maximize the impact of their contributions. Cybersecurity AI can also help you enhance your cybersecurity measures with advanced techniques for monitoring and predicting behavior patterns to block potential cyberattacks. ChatGPT Prompts for Nonprofits: Get Started Today [Samples].

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Potential criteria include but are not limited to: Skills, credentials, and professional experience. Years of relevant experience in the field. Years of consulting experience. Personal lived experience – Do they come from, or do they have meaningful experience with, the population you serve?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While testing may seem risky, the fear of a failed experiment should not be a deterrent. If you are starting from scratch, as most organizations are, finding your value prop can take the form of a brainstorming session with a focus group of your staff, board, and even a sampling of your most loyal donors. Watch the full webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Knowing how, when, and where to break down the system of responsibilities for your volunteers will determine the quality of their experience as well as the success of your events. Skills and experience. These are just a few simple steps you can take to improve the readability and experience of your email messages for mobile users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Getting Personal with Mobile Optimization by Ben Wong, Director of Digital Experience at Blue Ion. Mobile Fundraising by Jeff Patrick, President of Common Knowledge. Happy Friday!

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Website: www.tnpa.org/summit2023/ Who Should Attend: Senior nonprofit leaders with 15+ years experience, a title of Vice President (or equivalent) and higher, or other distinguishing experience. The conference also includes two experiences available at an additional cost.

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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.”

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that. Keep practicing and refining your technique. But do you really understand it? What do we mean by storytelling? And how do you tell a good story?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Do we actually “invent” or are our inventions the result of cumulative information and experience? Yes, encourage your staff to experiment with AI. Here’s a sample of the options on Coursera. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique. Please share your experience in the comments below. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story.

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JANUARY 17, 2016

Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. In what methodology does the research company specialize? Some companies only provide survey research services, while other companies only offer interviewing services. To ensure the company you select will be able to accomplish your goals, do your research.

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APRIL 24, 2018

With a lot of competition for their information needs and with very little time to invest in it, physicians need to believe in the value of your learning experience before they will engage with it. Your course should make the on-the-job value proposition up front, with techniques like quick testimonials, vignettes, and samples.

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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 ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. As long as you’re giving donors a great experience ( thanking them well , communicating consistently, telling heartwarming stories, etc.), When I focus on donors, it’s a matter of which program they want to support. Pretend for a moment that the organization isn’t yours.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful. Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. It’s been a very fun experiment and a great way to spend a Monday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. Goodwill considered their first year an experiment. Another experiment with mobile is also mission-driven.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

Mattel company spokesman Alan Hilowitz told HealthPop that the company will produce a friend of Barbie that will have wigs, hats, scarves and other accessories to give children "a traditional fashion play experience." " The kids will have the option to remove the wigs and head coverings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I asked people to share a couple sentences about their experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it. Amy Sample Ward. Techniques like this can help build momentum. Nancy White. William Nourse. Marc van Bree. Kevin Martone. Mazarine Treyz. Alex Berger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Use Time Management Techniques. Good for you!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

At my museum, we pride ourselves on developing programming in a collaborative way that emphasizes diversity and intentionally encourages social bridging by bringing people together from different walks of life around cultural experience. You can measure the change in that comfort before and after the research activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I was about to ditch the whole experiment when Zemanta recommended two excellent posts by Chris Brogan, " A Sample Blogging Work Flow " and David Peralty on Organizing a Blog Post. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). I have way too many posts in draft.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Experience working with a wide variety of age groups or teaching in general. Help them learn from the experience. Here's a sample collaborator survey from our recent Poetry and Book Arts event.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. And then circle back and tell us about your experience here on Frogloop! Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? BABY BOOMER Employees -- Like having decades of work experience and input still valued. Great Quotes "Everybodys a teacher if you listen" -- Actress Doris Roberts Become A Mentor OR Be Mentored MicroMentor My MicroMentor Experience Search This Blog Loading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. Chris Brogan points to Show in a Box , a fully packaged WordPress blog with custom themes and other features built in to create an out of box video blog experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. the capacity to experiment with one???s the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. it makes me wonder about adult learners who are not digital natives and how they acquire these skills too.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. Share your questions and your experiences! Epic Change is no different. Have you used any of these tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I shared examples of question frameworks designed for specific types of visitor experiences: personal framing of exhibits (as in Facing Mars), private sharing (like the Storycorps booths), public dialogue (as in the Advice exhibit), and so on. Bridging Online and Onsite Experiences Tamara Schwarz (Chabot Space & Science Center), Seth!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. For example, what are some of the best export settings with respect to frame rate, compression, resolution dimensions sample rates, etc? Everyone is on YouTube. Whats the longest video a nonprofit can post?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. For example, what are some of the best export settings with respect to frame rate, compression, resolution dimensions sample rates, etc? Everyone is on YouTube. Whats the longest video a nonprofit can post?

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