3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Once we got past that uncomfortable moment, we opened the door to opportunities to both reduce fundraising risk and improve fundraising results … through better data. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 24, 2015

We have all heard the proverb: Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Once we got past that uncomfortable moment, we opened the door to opportunities to both reduce fundraising risk and improve fundraising results … through better data. What’s that proverb?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

It takes some work to create a hooky elevator speech and the result is well worth it. Or that it costs you 27 cents to feed a hungry person. For example, Habitat for Humanity might say “we make sure that everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live.” Notice there’s no jargon. Heart-warming human-interest stories.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Once we got past that uncomfortable moment, we opened the door to opportunities to both reduce fundraising risk and improve fundraising results … through better data. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. This is the latest in the series.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It is said to have the potential of feeding all of East Africa. They depended on price as the chief stimulant for planting--producing large fluctuations of prices and resulting in lower prices to the farmers. The farmers maintained beliefs that home-saved seed was best to use for planting instead of higher yielding varieties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

A popular piece of content will stay for a longer period of time in the News Feed of your fans. It was particularly high this week because I’ve been a/b testing different engagement techniques and some of them seem to be working! Are you measuring your edgerank score to improve results on Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. And Facebook added that it will load new stories quickly, eliminating interruption in how users scroll through their news feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Create Good Social Media Habits.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For the best results, target your most engaged and well-connected supports first as they will have a higher propensity to respond to calls-to-action and get others involved. Facebook is considering moving all organic page content to a new, segregated feed. You can also motivate supporters to engage with you over social via email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. I would really LOVE to hear about stories about what keywords you've used and how the resulting listening brought some value.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Management by walking around is a proven and effective technique, but it relies on employees being physically located together with the manager. We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. If we expect productivity and results, we need to measure them. What do you think?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. The 4 W’s in Your Request for Donations A strong Ask is the key to results. Fundraising is not about you. It’s about those you serve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

She told the story of how she created the videos herself initially, but when they started to catch on, she documented the results. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media. She was able to go to her boss and get some more resources in the budget for social media. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Allison Fine in her book Momentum notes: "Listening requires genuine interest in what that person is saying and a willingness to change as a result of what was said." Some tools and techniques follow below. Click on the RSS button in the results page. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . The maps are used to improve the results of your network. The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. What is the best use of the resulting diagram? What are the features?

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Here, you’ll connect with hundreds of experts, gain valuable professional development, and learn the latest trends and techniques. It uses special facilitation techniques to stimulate conversations among guests and unleash the potential for guests to emerge as leaders. The result is often greater leadership and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook. The flickr pool of photos is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

Anyway, I noticed that Sonny had his "Read/Write" lists as RSS feeds going down the left side of his blog. It involves all our ways of analyzing the meaning of the connections we make -- analogy, symbol, story, pun, visualizing, and other techniques for connecting one thing to other things. Now I have found way too many.).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

And how do you check results? I review both fundraising and friendraising techniques and how to take them, to varying levels, online – from email solicitations and events to social media and websites. It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. First, let me repeat the caveat that my smart colleague, Katya Andresen points out: These results are not typical. I'm going to call it AMORE. It replicable?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Are the results different? Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? Consuming Reading Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. Tis the Season These sites may not be of interest to participants of " Buy Nothing Day ," on November 23, but what better way to feed your consumer urges and desire to good by shopping for charity! " You read an excerpt here.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Evaluation explains the effects [on the recipients or the environment] that are expected as a result of transferring or exchanging knowledge.". The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. Evaluation. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online charity raffles help, also.see [link] for a local example out of Loudoun County, VA.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Second, high fees of 40% or more make mobile fundraising unnatractive to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising. CEO Kintera steps down.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Online charity raffles help, also.see [link] for a local example out of Loudoun County, VA.

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Demographics Social Media Advocacy Online 34

Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I have used Youtube in some of my projects and so far I seen great results. All rights reserved.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Will it feed a family for a week or provide clean water to a village? One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. This is the true measure of success that ties tangible impact back to individual donations. What can $50 do?

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Using statistics and modeling techniques, predictive analytics helps predict future outcomes. Google Cloud Natural Language Google Cloud Natural Language is a text analysis tool that allows users to extract insights from unstructured data, such as social media feeds and emails. Here are some AI-powered tools to get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

4) Calm Not Busy: How To Manage Your Nonprofit’s Communications for Great Results by Kivi Leroux Miller. The book also outlines principles and techniques for impact measurement. Learn more about it in his TedX Talk. I’ve know Kivi for over a decade and we often follow each other on the nonprofit conference circuit.

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