Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

adjusted), presumably due to growth in the S&P 500 in recent years and how the 2020 market recovery positioned foundations to respond to the impetus to distribute more during a time of pressing needs. You can find a sample script here. Giving by foundations jumped 17% (15.6% Corporate giving, cash, and in-kind fell 6.1% (-7.3%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Because social media requires an immediate response, a common script will pay great dividends. Luke’s, StoryCorps, NPR, and Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Federal Government has made digital communications a priority. Government. People want to know that you are listening.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

If you work with animals, press a paw on a nontoxic ink pad and then onto the card for a “pawsitively” perfect signature! A simple script might sound like this: “ Hey, I heard from our Executive Director that our program would not be successful were it not for you, and I wanted to say thank you.” This is the same idea.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He did this by: Scripting a short introduction that kicks off each episode. Our goal was to create an audio episode that provides a useful, amusing, and brief answer to a pressing technology question. This intro explains the purpose of the podcast, and sets expectations for what listeners are about to hear.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 29, 2016

Give them a sample thank-you script, background on the donor, details on their gift and a few discovery questions they can ask to learn more about them. Or, send a follow-up on press releases to media outlets. Set your board members up for success. Name Your Organization in Their Will.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s generally a good idea to create a specific campaign announcement for the public phase: that could include social media, website, emails, or press releases. Most of the communication at this point will be one on one, so it’s a great time to work on the pieces you’ll need for the launch to the public phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covey notes that these views of life have been deeply scripted within us, suggesting this mindset goes beyond the nonprofit workplace. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. Scarcity captures the mind.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Hardware switchers allow you to press one button to get a different angle. . If you want to add any graphic elements, you can, but they will require some digital finessing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. Not the press release. Write the truth.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Hardware switchers allow you to press one button to get a different angle. . If you want to add any graphic elements, you can, but they will require some digital finessing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2013

What path would someone take to find a recent press release about the organization? Once we identify what questions we want to answer, I’ll fashion a script for a moderated usability test to guide the conversation during the course of the test. Where would someone look to register for an event?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read. I had a script, and it was on paper and actually like stuck it up to my ring light, and it took me 18 takes to get a 2-minute video done because I was literally. I was so scared.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read. I had a script, and it was on paper and actually like stuck it up to my ring light, and it took me 18 takes to get a 2-minute video done because I was literally. I was so scared.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. In November I want you to set up all of your acknowledgments, your email autoresponder, your thank you cards, your thank you scripts. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The streams worked great– except for Alan’s goof of forgetting until about 2/3 the way in, to swap the script we use to push the URL to the 10 sims we had set up, so our SL audience was likely turned off. As an alternative, we created a Cafe Press shop with many more kinds of t-shirts then we could normally provide, plus other goodies.

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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. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). But the stats. are very different. I still don't think navigation matters much though.

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