Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? What is your position on the board? How long have you been a member of the board?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the end, testing creates pathways for learning and evolution, making it the best risk mitigation tool in your arsenal. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

For this post we’ll highlight a few examples from our own experimentation, explaining what we see going on and what we’ve learned. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. Finally, we’ll identify some viable use cases for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Report The Nonprofit Email Report Learn More 4. Here are 10 nonprofit conferences in 2023 and 2024 you shouldn’t miss!

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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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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. You now have a deep, thorough understanding of your goals, strategies, the resources you have to meet those goals, and some techniques that worked in the past. So, let’s touch some more on these fundraising techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I shared an overview of the central thesis in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , and we took a deeper dive into social culture , learning from mistakes , simplicity, and transparency. Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. Failure is imminent if you don’t learn how to master this skill. You can always add more, but start here and learn to master them for your needs. Pretty simple eh?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Learn to tell your story in a way that really affects your donors, tugs at their heart strings, keeps them on board, and even inspires them to give more. Keep practicing and refining your technique. Emotional impact is where the rubber meets the road and causes people to reach for their wallet. And THAT’S what we’re here for.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. What happens when AI has even more vast libraries and generations of human learning to draw from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique.

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Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

As consultants and providers of learning technology to organizations that do CME (continuing medical education) and GME (graduate medical education), we’re often faced with this question: why is it so hard to get physicians to pay attention to (a given client’s) learning? Help them find the time to learn. Respect their time.

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Forj

MAY 19, 2017

Where else can you meet an MD who will hook you up to a stress detector that fires the data to a learning record store via xAPI in real time? As a learning technology company with a strategic focus on the health professions, we could not do what we do without technology standards. MedBiq is a place to learn about influential projects.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether your program is relying on outdated volunteer scheduling software or you simply want to learn more about volunteer scheduling best practices, we have a solution for you. This enables you to get a representative sample of volunteers to ensure that you’re meeting everyone’s needs, not just a certain segment’s. Wrapping Up.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

We all grew up learning that it wasn’t polite to talk about money and it definitely wasn’t right to ask your friends and family for handouts. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. In writing, you can address common questions that people have about what you’ve asked for and provide a link where they can learn more.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

I caught up with Rob Wu, co-founder of CauseVox , the platform used to support this fundraising effort, to learn more about the process and campaign. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? What did you learn, what would you have changed, how did you find the campaign? How did you co-created the campaign?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

In this way, I have found most nonprofit professional to be more collaborative than combative, very willing to speak candidly about techniques that work for them.&#. They can get you samples of just about anything. Are you in a mentoring relationship with someone you can learn from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. 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. We knew it wasn’t going to cost too much.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s impossible to process everything I am learning from these four psychologists in just one blog post. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school. In the case of the Stanford study, I was fascinated to learn that the content of the music video was significant in terms of signaling change in prejudice.

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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. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Learn from nonprofits and other organizations that have shared their social media case studies. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

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. To recap: we took advantage of popular techniques for sharing and networking conversations including URL shorteners and hashtags.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. Help them learn from the experience. Start with and continuously identify your communities.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We’ll look at examples, but note that they reference predictive intelligence, meaning they use machine learning models fed with data to predict something. Each of these disciplines seeks an understanding of what it is to think and learn. The Vietnam War and Big Data: A Case Study in Machine Learning Robert S. Fair question.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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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. You can learn a lot about that more through this informative interview by The Buzz Bin with Steve Bridger on the Buzz Director. Here's a good list of micro-media tools , although they are labeled as mobile learning tools. " You read an excerpt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The papers points out the benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including peer-to-peer learning, changed attitude toward intellectual property, skills valued in the modern workplace, etc. Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. Performance ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

I feel that David Armano's " Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt " process is something that you don't stop doing. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. Communicating the results. ROI Process.

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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. Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid!

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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. Sometimes the desire to be perfect from the get-go can block opportunity to learn what works directly from readership.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Organizations should: be specific in the sample letter about the bill number and the position your organization is taking (pro or con). We used various techniques like rotating subject lines for the letter to Congress, rotating a carousel of letters, and not naming our organization in the text of the letter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Allow enough time for sharing samples of his work and for Q&A.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Let Employees Learn From Their Mistakes Mistakes happen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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