Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

It seems like you have to answer the same questions over and over in every grant proposal. And in longer government proposals, sometimes it seems like you have to answer the same question twice right in the same application! For example, Funder A may have a question that says “describe your location and the populations you serve.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ask if anyone has any questions. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. You can view a couple of visual idea generation and sharing techniques in a video by Jack Elkins (The idea “T” and the “Story Board”).

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

We’ve featured their work too many times to count (here and here and here, for example), and John has generously guest-presented a number of times on MotivateMonday. As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Do yourself a favor and subscribe. Very Good Copy. Subscribe here.

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Resource Newsletter Case Study Nonprofit 98

NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions I've been asked to present a session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on "Technical Management Techniques for Managers". These are all important questions, but they're not as immediately important as resolving the crisis quickly.

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Technique Management North America NTC 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. ” questions.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

We sat down with Diane Remin, the Founder and President of MajorDonors.com , to discuss techniques on making an ask and how major gift work has transitioned online as a result of the pandemic. Technique 1: Ask Donor For A Specific Amount of Money. Once you present the opportunity, remain silent. Technique 2: The Clueless Close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So, I'm excited Sarah DiJulio and Kristin Koch will address one of my pet obsessions at our upcoming webinar, " Beyond Tactics and Techniques: Email List Management Strategy ". We'll also present case studies and test results from nonprofits that have analyzed different approaches to email list management to find out what works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Ask the firms if how you present and organize information in your scoping document makes sense for them. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

The focus is getting to know the donor through a series of discovery questions that you’ll ask with the donor’s permission, of course. With the right set of donor discovery questions, you will be able to determine the donor’s needs. Do not present any solutions or programs until you have an idea of what the donor wants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Be fully prepared to answer the questions your donor probably already has in her mind. Sometimes you can ask for donations solely online; in other cases, it may be better through a one-on-one meeting, a presentation, or a phone call. Leave out the acronyms and jargon.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

This is a continuing series of 5 Questions for experts from across the nonprofit sector: 5 Questions for Jay Frost. How do you see social networks reshaping traditional donor research or fundraising techniques? Jay Frost is a 25 year veteran of the fundraising field. Completely!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

There’s nothing wrong with this kind of modeling, but the extent of its use is unclear, and the lack of clarity makes some users question the data they’re seeing. The interface already benefits from intuitive phrasing: presenting questions like “Where did my visitors come from?”

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . All event staff and presenters should be sensitive to the online audience and ensure that the event pacing accommodates their needs. . Prepare speakers and presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” It is good to begin with low-risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. When I first started to make video blog posts, I had no idea how much my shooting techniques would impact the amount of time I would have to spend editing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. Due to the vast amount of data that goes into training and optimizing ChatGPT, the AI-enabled tool can summarize ideas and answer questions with general accuracy.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" What are your techniques? I'm focusing on Part 4: Effective Ways to Make Your Case. You need stories.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Identifying your unique value and presenting it to your audience in a way that speaks directly to your ideal donors can be the #1 factor that moves the needle in your fundraising efforts. With a variety of perspectives, you can form your value prop around these key dimensions and questions: Appeal – What change are you making in the world?

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Consider the following questions. 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. Is it worth the trouble?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

There are a lot of hard questions that must be asked, however. Questions like: What potential security hazards does a BYOD policy present? It is of course referring to the large sets of data that help nonprofit organizations find trends through predictive modeling techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. View more presentations from hollyminch. Social Media Master Class. Integrated Content Strategy for CompassPoint.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Is it just a fad? ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Christie Hunter Arscott Today, Hunter Arscott shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can women address and improve feelings of frustration and burnout in their careers? Question: How can women best support and advocate for other women?

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

According to our guide to multi-channel marketing , companies that switch to integrated marketing techniques see an average 24% increase in their marketing ROI. Don’t forget to provide a specific email address that donors can use if they have any questions or concerns about their gift. Tip #4: Focus on impact storytelling .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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