Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

SinCode AI Prompt Library : A collection of AI-generated prompts for various creative projects, including image generation. Test and iterate : AI-generated images may not always meet your expectations on the first try. Test different prompts and variations to find the best results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I like to use a combined method. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. The synthesis – in the form of a presentation is shared with partners and more broadly.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Wikipedia supports donations in more than 70 different currencies and 16 payment methods. Always Be Testing: Wikipedia does a tremendous amount of testing that has helped to improve their online fundraising results. Last year, they tested more than 800 different banners that influenced this year’s online campaign.

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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

Quantitative methods will likely use a survey as the data collection instrument, whereas qualitative methods might necessitate in-depth interviewing. And mixed-methods will, in most cases, require both kinds of data collection tools. Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. The Millennial Impact Project.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

If you’re hosting a text fundraising campaign for the first time, make sure you run a few test text messages once you choose a fundraising platform. Create your goals using the SMART method. One common method is to use humor in your text fundraising appeals. Another method is to utilize urgency in your messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had the pleasure having lunch with Avinash over at the Googleplex. The chapter that caught my curiosity was Chapter 7: Failing Faster - Unleashing the Power of Testing and Experimentation and we discussed it in the video above. I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

” One method that some nonprofits engage in to improve an event or campaign is an “ After Action Review.,” ” An AAR is an assessment conducted after a project or activity that allows everyone the team to discover and learn what happened and why. What actually happened during implementation?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I like to use a combined method. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. The above shows the methods. I am too, just a little.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with a practice model that I’ve been using over the years and was able to crystallize some of my thinking into “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly&# that I’ve been testing for designing training workshops and peer learning projects. Also, as with all frameworks, the reality is messy.

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Social Media Practice Media Social 101

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Discuss the project with your board.

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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. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 10, 2007

But it's also the secret of effective technology project management. When I first started out building software, one of the books I read was Tony DeMarco's Controlling Software Projects. But it seemed that no matter how hard we tried on each project, the road always took an unexpected turn somewhere. It was futile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

What are some techniques and tools for interactive presenting? There are different methods of incorporating audience feedback depending on the format of the panel or session. I'm presenting in August at a conference and I'm so going to test it out. But what happens when you go into the real world and attend conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Another fun role is “Rabbit Hole Monitor” that uses a technique called “ ELMO ” (enough already let’s move on). Many platforms have a technical testing page and good tech support, include those links ahead of your meeting.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. The Bamboo Project Blog. a slogan, perhaps, or a compelling human-interest story â??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

Note from Beth: Both my kids have worked on projects for their school’s science fair. They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. Flickr Photo by the Consortium. Note fishhook in right wing. What works for you?Kate

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Measure Social Media Project California 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I want to take a deeper dive into the techniques for real-time monitoring and see if there are methods for rapid learning opportunities. Network Vibrancy adds to the many challenges of measuring the social impact of networks. Real time monitoring and rapid learning opportunities are key to creating vibrancy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. But ROI was not really intended to measure a technology project, program, or tool or any other isolated aspect of an organization. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method.

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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.” 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli. Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. We have been testing these workshops for the last few months and have had some interesting early results. This tool is called ImpactKit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Test your technology before the meeting and resolve any technical issues. Many platforms have a technical testing page and good tech support, include those links ahead of your meeting. Establish a method you can call in participants. Here are some more techniques to ensure that your virtual meeting participants are listening.

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Facilitation Virtual Effective Practice 109

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing? Neither Click!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations.

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Los Angeles South Africa United States Statistics 100

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. By implementing these methods and strategies, your nonprofit can retain its donors and build a loyal and engaged donor base. There’s no one right answer.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

Each and every fundraising method comes with real-world examples to spark creative ideas for your own organization! This one comes from Pat Flynn, who hosted a “Wheel of Fortune” -esque YouTube livestream, which he uses as a platform to help raise money for nonprofit COVID-19 relief projects. Live Stream Giving. karaoke songs!

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

Value proposition – Here I’m using a broken link building technique with the promise of providing a list to help webmasters fix URLs that aren’t redirecting properly. Are too busy working on other projects. This reference could be a link, the name of an article, or a topic the webmaster might find interesting.

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Results Digital Strategy Chapter 82

sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

In a nutshell, creating a social media strategy that can stand the test of time. It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Identify Objectives.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

You Don’t Have A Dedicated Project Manager. With this tool, I can track specific pages on my site that I want to test: Below is a heat map experiment I ran for a week to test the relevancy of my page: As you can see, the majority of people (about 60%) scroll halfway down the page. Your Content Lacks Direction.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Safe Zone: Politics Medical testing on animals… leading to death. and displayed in the museum. Why do homeless people smell bad?”

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