Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. How they use this technique : They anticipate the visitor’s emotional journey. 3) Bushfire Help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2011

I’ll start off with the basics, but then we’ll get into some advanced techniques. If your focus is primarily or entirely on US constituents, you’ll likely see the US in dark green, indicating a high percentage or visitors. It can be eye opening to see the complete picture beyond a simple average.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Q: We’re a green recycling organization and we don’t like a lot of paper mailing. You can use a combination of an event, mail, and in-person requests, or other techniques. Step back from the day-to-day details long enough to see the big picture and make some good choices about where to spend your time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. In the following test we had two photos.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

That's a technique in which you let the battery run down or discharge to below 20% and then fully recharge it without interruption. This technique works for computers but not for most cell phones, which don't provide a reading on the percentage of the charge on the battery. How well do you maintain your mobile batteries?

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