Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage?

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Choose images that show interactions between people, whether it’s your volunteers and constituents or your donors mingling at previous fundraising events. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Improve your UX by ensuring that your site has: ? Motivational imagery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Introduction to Microsoft Clarity Microsoft Clarity is a cutting-edge behavioral analysis tool that empowers organizations to understand user interactions on their websites. Microsoft Clarity offers a compelling solution by providing real-time analytics that facilitate data-driven decision-making.

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Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Information from their fundraising efforts and traffic to their site is not sent to the CRM, leaving critical information behind. In the example above, the organization recently adopted HubSpot to fill the role of email marketing and CRM but still needed to integrate it fully into its processes.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Use Patient Journey Mapping Patient journey mapping exercise helps healthcare leaders understand how patients interact with their providers by outlining each communication touchpoint. Post-visit behavioral and lifestyle adjustment: The patient follows treatment instructions and makes lifestyle adjustments to facilitate healing and well-being.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Think about the information that visitors to your site would be seeking first and foremost.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When parents want to know if a movie or TV show is appropriate for their kids, they visit Common Sense Media’s site to get an expert opinion. But Common Sense is more than a ratings and review site; it’s a robust set of resources to help parents feel empowered to raise kids in the digital age.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

The user journey encompasses every step visitors take when they interact with your healthcare website, from when they first arrive on the site to when they click away. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Tell your organization’s story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Note from Beth: Your web site is your home base is the heart and soul of your content strategy. But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Personal interactions. At an in-person event, attendees can easily interact with one another and socialize during these breaks, keeping them engaged. Not only will attendees be able to interact with one another, but they’ll also be able to connect with members of your nonprofit’s staff and witness the impact of your story firsthand.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

A virtual event, however, will never replace the joys of an on-site event and interacting with others. . Have venue or event staff on hand to help enforce and facilitate this flow. Be sure to check the site more frequently as the date for your hybrid event draws nearer. Virtual social events are now common.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Is your site well organized and easy to navigate? . If you haven’t navigated through your site for a while, you may be amazed at how unfriendly the experience is.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ensuring optimal video quality will require that event planners have the right video equipment, the right streaming services set up, have high-quality wifi on-site, and have properly coordinated videographers with the physical and online schedules. . Networking can be facilitated by an event platform through segregated networking sessions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I spend some amount of my Drupal and WordPress development time, both for my clients and for myself, in setting up one or two-way integrations between websites and social media sites.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These interactive, live sessions help to ensure that our clients understand how to use our software and how to leverage it to drive their mission forward. We have streamlined the process for clients to connect with our technical support specialist through our support site, its as easy as submitting a support ticket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Neglecting site design. TikTok has always been about video, but platforms like Instagram and Facebook are now also prioritizing this interactive content—because it works! . The better the content, the more interaction it will receive. Neglecting site design. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. The key is to find ways to engage with off-site participants so that they feel like they are part of the event. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Follow accessibility guidelines such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background colors, adding alternative text to images, putting captions on videos, and making it possible to navigate the site with keyboard controls. This way, site visitors can access your donation form from any page in just one click.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

Sponsors are investing in your event, so it’s your job to maximize this investment and ensure they are getting what they desire out of your event, whether it’s name and logo exposure, brand lift, or the ability to interact with attendees.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

South by Southwest ( SXSW ) Interactive is a conference, that takes place each Spring in Austin, TX, with over 20,000 web influencers, emerging tech, and creatives. Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

The user journey is the way visitors interact with your healthcare website. It encompasses each step they take, from when they first arrive on the site to when they click away. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

A virtual event, however, will never replace the joys of an on-site event and interacting with others. . Have venue or event staff on hand to help enforce and facilitate this flow. Be sure to check the site more frequently as the date for your hybrid event draws nearer. Virtual social events are now common.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. This method was used because the facilitator needed to speak into the mic so I could hear the questions.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

Be prepared with on-site personnel as well as virtual IT support staff. . You’ll also need to send out preliminary materials to your attendees (and presenters) so that they know how to access both the in-person site and the online app. . Be mindful of functionalities available both on-site and online. Hybrid Event Ideas.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For example you will now be able to see how many active visitors are on your site at that very moment, what platform they are using to view the site and if they are using a mobile device ? You'll now have access to see what kind of mobile device, and even click a camera icon to see how your site appears on their particular device.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. Create a dedicated page within your site to those opportunities, and include a clear button to it within your main menu or as a call-to-action on other pages.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ensuring optimal video quality will require that event planners have the right video equipment, the right streaming services set up, have high-quality wifi on-site, and have properly coordinated videographers with the physical and online schedules. . Networking can be facilitated by an event platform through segregated networking sessions.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

A virtual event allows for a more diverse audience and it will be important to bring them together in an interactive way. Event management capabilities will allow you or the event organizer to manage the presentations and Q&A for a keynote speaker, as well as fully control the video, audio, and other interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I recently took a workshop on visual facilitation with David Sibbet. As part of my learning journey to put these ideas into practice, I’m integrating visual techniques into my facilitation repertoire. Two things I did. I usually get fantastic answers from FB page fans – and the content encourages interaction!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

There’s an assumption that people know what happened, and they can interact with that abstract memorial in a really powerful way. When I was a little boy, everybody went to DC to see the Capitol sites. I want everybody to come to Montgomery to see our sites. Take the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On top of all that, it allows you to better collect data to understand donors and how they interact with your organization. These insights can be used to improve your operations, increase dwell time on your site, and perfect future campaign strategies. A poor payment processor can easily change your site visitor’s mind.

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OneCause

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For example, check out these 10 useful interactive tools for hybrid events to see what it takes to host an event that is both in-person and virtual. . TV, Cameras, and WiFi: To facilitate a remote auction experience for everyone around the world! . These pages are less complex than regular sites and focus on event-specific content.

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