Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

You’re probably asking for an amount that’s a stretch for you and it’s going to bring up all kinds of personal issues for you, especially if you have a negative mindset around money or wealthy people. An in-person meeting will be more productive in terms of building a relationship. Remember that they’re a person, just like you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many nonprofits considering starting a blog should look at a team approach so the onus isn't on one person to blog. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." This is a really interesting analysis of Social Networking/Online Community behaviors or personalities based roughly on Myers-Briggs.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Not only do they allow you to land big donors in person, they also provide a chance to make an impression on important members of your community, enabling you to grow your brand along with your dollars. This page will serve as the focal point for all your outreach efforts, whether through personal outreach, social media, or email blasts.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2014

Anyone who’s ever used a phone knows that timing is everything if you want to avoid a prolonged game of phone tag. Double the Donation recommends using a standardized script with some key components (introduction, statement of purpose, first ask, gift confirmation or answers to objections and non-pledge close). The money will follow.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

I’ve been involved in web application development basically since they started – when, when a cgi-bin folder with some perl scripts to process simple forms was the norm. Tags: Consulting Database technology Development Nonprofit Tech Technology Zen opensource user experience.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Next, EDF created ad copy that was relevant to each audience and their personal relationship with the nonprofit. 47% of donors say they consume 3-5 pieces of content prior to engaging with a sales/development person. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag. This is because the closer your keyword is to the title tag the more weight it carries with search engines. You won’t always be able to include your keyword at the beginning of the title, but at the very least you should include it within the <title> tag. SEO Friendly URL.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Prompt participants visually with signs & verbally in scripts to tweet during the event. Prep your staff, board members and key volunteers to tweet & retweet from thier personal Twitter accounts. ” tag it with #WhyIRide #EventName. 40 Ideas to Tweet about on Event Day. Start the morning off right!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

He also pointed this out as an example of the powerful personal learning that blogs can offer. See my tagging and widge t screencasts also sponsored by NTEN). especially when you are vertical monopoly on your screencast -- director, producer, script writer, researcher, narrator, set designer, etc. Unfortunately, I can???t

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

In fact, according to Nielson , 92% of people claim they trust personal recommendations and other earned media, while just over half trust messages found on a company’s website or sent via email. Facebook doesn’t try to hide its overwhelming favor for personal posts over branded content. You want individuals with personalities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

EDF periodically brings our entire staff together for an in-person retreat. They threw themselves into writing scripts and filming, gathering costume pieces, and otherwise doing much more in 24 hours than I would have thought possible. Tags: change management training materials. What did we do? We went all-out.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

When encoding your mp3 file, two important considerations are the ID3 tags and the bit rate. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played. I personally recommend LibSyn.com for hosting your podcast files and RSS feed generation. Tags: corey pudhorodsky NPTech NTEN Newsletter podcasting social media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

We all knew the outcome of the experiment presented, and yet there was no way for the presenter to break from script and give us a more complex view on Galileo’s experiment. The show’s strong personality overwhelmed other more nuanced aspects of the science center. Tags: children's museums programs. But the show felt like candy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

But it is definitely a matter of personal learning styles and treating your participants as adults who can decide how they learn best. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. Tags: online communities technology training training materials. Know of any?

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2009

Tags: Online Organizing Online Advocacy Trends. Click here to check out Health Care for America Now’s Click2Call campaign as an example. What has been YOUR experience using patch-through call campaigns for YOUR organization? Let us know in the comments below, so we can learn from your successes (or mistakes)! Receive monthly updates.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

There are two big reasons why people don’t work on major gifts: They aren’t comfortable asking for money in person. The only person who might need to approve a major gift is a spouse. Start your search for major donors in your personal circle. Just think: you could work less and raise more! They don’t know who to ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Introduction.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Steven: Listen, there was only one person that I wanted to invite to do a year-end giving session. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person. “Follow the link below to personalize and send your exclusive e-card.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Here's some artists personal blogs that support their gallery sites where they sell their work -- A Planet Named Janet , Self VS Self , PaMdora's Box and Jen Lemen. The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. Can I help next time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles. Q: When did you start publishing? How did you get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I think with Oprah style "person on the street" type interview - you want to begin with someone you already know, perhaps seed a few opening stories. . I created a script of conversation starters/questions about crowd sourcing and using social media for program delivery. I identified a person to kick of the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Tags: Geek Posts. I admit it, I have a serious RSS habit. Five years ago, the fact that Fever is self-hosted would have been a non-issue.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 18, 2009

I’m always subscribed to way more feeds than any person can read on a regular basis, covering everything from Salesforce and nonprofit technology to knitting and entertainment headlines. Tags: Software Reviews. I admit it, I have a serious RSS habit. Five years ago, the fact that Fever is self-hosted would have been a non-issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). The nonprofit will most likely not have a full-time IT or web manager staff person. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. Show a date range and indicate that all those views could, in theory, come from the same person clicking over and over again.)

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

It needs to be personalized. Be thinking about your personalization. ” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. And suppression and tagging is what allows me to be taken off that merry-go-round. . One person. ” I love it.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 13, 2022

You can turn blog posts into infographics, podcasts, or even video scripts with minimal effort. Once a process is built for these steps, it can make it easier to delegate this work to someone else on the team or an outsourced person. Get creative and think about all the ways you can repackage your content. Promotional Channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Unfortunately, the most recent trend, which I have experienced all too much (and I’m sure you all have too), is to simply follow a script with the person who needs support. It was nice to feel like someone actually bothered to write it down, and for the person talking with me bothered to read it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

The young actress and teacher beat out 1,500 other applicants and spent 30 days exploring exhibits, participating in live demos, talking to visitors (both in-person and online), and romping through the museum at night. Kate was able to put a personal face on a large institution. The month has definitely lived up to that expectation.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 27, 2006

So IT staff may feel they have this monthly process well documented - but when the staff member who has been running it walks out the door, and a new person takes over, problems arise, people are billed incorrectly, and suddenly something that had been running smoothly month after month seems out of control. Tags: nptech , km

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

These interactions are motivated by overwhelming personal desire which allows the requestor to overcome cultural barriers. This situation is less dire than the above, and the interaction comes not out of personal need but social interest in "doing things properly." These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Kaushik's advice is: For your blog, personal or professional I recommend a goal setting exercise.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

In January, there was an interesting CNET article about "Generation We" --kids growing up today who are constantly plugged in, not to their own personal gadgets, but to a larger social network. They expect their computer experiences, like in-person play experiences, to be social. Or, as the Club Penguin blog would put it, waddle on!

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the case of WCC, it was personalized, showcasing how impactful their organization is to those they serve. One of the best ways to both personalize your content and dive into detail is through case studies. Alt image tag. Just be sure you ask to have your article shared within the person’s network.

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