Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. Ditch the industry jargon and formal language when writing or speaking with your supporters. When posting on social media, skip the formalities and embrace your unique voice and tone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Speak at half your normal speed.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. Use jargon or industry-specific language. Don’t they deserve your voice and your passion? And YOU are their voice.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

It allows them to have a voice in your message. A bad story uses lots of insider language, jargon and “we.” Keep practicing and refining your technique. It gives dignity and context to the beneficiaries and connects their lives to the donors. Telling stories prevents your beneficiaries from being just another statistic.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message. Strong and Effective Body Language. Understanding Your Donor.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

General problem-solving techniques can also prevent intervention from senior members of your workforce, allowing focus to remain on more taxing efforts within your organization’s workflow. By doing so, employees are outfitted with the tools needed to accomplish these challenges with the least possible hindrance to daily work life.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. I’m going to weave in stories that are connected to … oops, there we go.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

This is a cardigan I plan on making soon, as an example of an active pattern page: I made my first pair of socks ever based on a free pattern and what I learned about sock knitting technique in Ravelry’s forums: Everyone uses their project page differently, but I like creating a running mini-blog as my project is going along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We were luck to have Donna Norton from Momsrising share a presentation about their approach to integrated social media campaigns and success stories using a planning technique called “Layer Cake Strategy.” Member Voice Proxy: How will you make it memorable? How will you get their voice? SMART(er) Social Objectives.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Ask for help when it’s appropriate with clear language. You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

A big pro of using the same tool is having shared language. One leader at Candid wisely uses the progressive stack method , a technique to prioritize voices less-heard in team meetings. To encourage awareness of working styles, consider using a personality assessment tool, like DiSC, Myers-Briggs, or Clifton Strengths.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

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. She explains that when they first approached this media, they thought it would be a way to amplify voices of people who weren't being heard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Go deeper — use empathy.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Avoid using too much jargon or technical language that your audience may not understand. Use active voice whenever possible. The active voice is an essential tool for storytellers, as it contributes to the clarity, engagement, and emotional impact of the narrative. Keep It Simple : Simple stories are often the most effective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Use a “design thinking” technique called audience empathy…. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Go deeper — use empathy.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Once you find a blog with a voice or writing style you like, you’ll be able to absorb a plethora of knowledge online. Take advantage of Qgiv’s fundraising blog to learn different fundraising techniques. Blogs If you learn better through reading than listening, nonprofit blogs are a great source of information for your organization.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

They have brought in a broader swath of voices to their annual conference for animal welfare professionals and shelter workers and have upped the number of subsidized attendees within the BIPOC community. Language that is inspiration seems to work better for them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

But what makes this bot most engaging is good storytelling shared in a conversational way, matching the pope’s tone of voice and illustrated with photos, video, and audio. It then uses CBT techniques to help reframe thought patterns or negative emotions associated with mood disorders like anxiety or depression. Momconnect.

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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.” They also learn professional and language skills in order to enable them to find meaningful employment. The soup is sold to women working “behind the windows” in Amsterdam’s red light district.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2014

When you set out to apply any of these techniques, make sure not to go overboard. Along with crafting a compelling subject line , your first paragraph should include motivational language (as mentioned above) as well as the one thing you want your reader to remember. Mention the recognition they’ll get. Motivating factor: greed).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Talk in your normal voice. Use real language. Keep each blog posting under 500 words. End each post with a question that encourages dialogue with your readers. Post regularly. Shoot for at least three times each week. Don’t talk over people’s heads. Promote your blog URL on your website.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. I also use the five love languages, but we don’t have time for that today. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. Kishshana: Go ahead. Steven: All right, Kishshana. I got 2:00 Eastern or is it okay if I go ahead and get this part started officially?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

These worries fall roughly into three categories: the tension between the insider and outsider, the ability of standard Western exhibition and artifact techniques to adapt to a new aesthetic, and the ownership of stories. So the direct voice got straight-jacketed into a frame of museum methods that did not exactly fit.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

You have to know who you’re talking to, and you have to speak their language, and you have to gain their trust. If it’s out of line, you’re the expert, and this is just a collection of techniques and best practices that you can select from. So we’re going to talk a lot about that today.

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