article thumbnail

Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Members are seeking usefulness at the right price tag. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Their research indicates that customers don’t want quantity.

Strategy 221
article thumbnail

We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. About the TAG study. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders.

Grant 111
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

NpTag Tag and Nonprofit Collaborative Tag Project Types

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

Tag 50
article thumbnail

A Low Tech Version of Providing the Self-Organizing Platform for Movement Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP. Tags: movement building. We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. What do you need in your social media strategy to facilitate your supporters self-organizing around your goal?

Detroit 50
article thumbnail

Six Advanced Facebook Page Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When you click on Central Michigan University inside of Facebook it goes to a a customized Tab called Unleash the Power. Tags: Facebook Online Fundraising. My fees start at $300 for a Facebook Page with one cusomized Tab using graphics and content from your website. 2) Create a customized Tab for your default Landing Tab.

Facebook 211
article thumbnail

Nine Ways Networked Nonprofits Use Slideshare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These include CanadaHelps, Npower Michigan , and Michigan Nonprofit Association. Tags: Presenting Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design slideshare webinar. The Red Cross used slideshare to share its social media policy and get feedback. (6) 6) Training. 7) Fundraising.

article thumbnail

Eulogy for my father

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dad and his friend Lee Canfield were infamous in Chicago’s Burnham Harbor for blasting out German military marches as they sailed Lee’s boat, Go Bananas, out of the harbor into Lake Michigan. Tags: Newman gentleman Fruchterman Eulogy Pawleys. Third, he inspired us to work hard and to do the right thing. Given by his son, James R.