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What Your Nonprofit Needs To Know About Machine Learning

Global Giving

Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Do you have an appropriate question in mind? Trying to create a machine learning model without a clear question in mind is like trying to take a trip without a destination in mind. If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways.

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Nonprofit Public Relations For Beginners: How To Gain More Attention In Less Time

Kindful

This blog post will help provide some quick tips and techniques for helping your mission get more attention in less time. That said, identifying when to reach out to the press and how to do it so your press release isn’t moved to the spam folder is a little more involved. The formula for PR is actually pretty simple. Who will tell it?

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12 Key Digital Engagement Trends from the 2018 M+R Benchmarks Report

Everyaction

Combining both content marketing techniques and digital advertising tools has delivered value to nonprofits. While social media platforms are in constant evolution, nonprofits are learning to innovate and experiment with engagement techniques for advocacy and fundraising. Using an out of date email list. High Complaints.

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Symbols in Subject Lines… ? Them or ? Them?

Connection Cafe

The main push back was that including symbols like stars or hearts in the subject line increases the likelihood that a message would land in the recipient’s spam folder and goes against “best practices.”. Use the technique sparingly. Overuse of a technique like this is when you start getting in trouble with spam filters.

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

Saving staffers from mind-numbing repetitive tasks and opening time to innovate are some of the best reasons to prioritize understanding AI. Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks.

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The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide

Everyaction

Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise. A final email appeal (a la “is this thing on?”) Ready, set, goals!

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Should I click that "OK" button?