.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association, will share how APA used these techniques to innovate and set trends in the planning industry. That’s just the teaser for unique engagement strategies and persuasive techniques that you won’t learn about from anyone else. Sponsored by Multiview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. What gave me joy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” What is your favorite journaling technique? Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions. Do you keep a journal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. 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. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. I loved this question: “How do we encourage learning from nonprofits from their evaluation data when they might view it as a report card?”.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Let’s start by reviewing the STARF Method (also commonly known as the STAR method), which is a technique for answering interview questions. It gives the interviewee a straightforward approach to answering questions, typically behavioural and situational, in a story-like format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Cabral, MA, CFRE, MFIA , founder of Development Consulting Services , which serves both fundraising professionals and executive directors new to fundraising, wanting to excel in their fundraising role, or advance in their career. The question is, do most fundraisers know their website analytics ? By Robin L.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Technique Interview Skills Generation 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support. Plus, according to NXUnite , offering ongoing training and professional development opportunities is an important employee retention strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

Your professional network is your greatest asset no matter what stage you are in your nonprofit career, whether you are an emerging leader or an acknowledged thought leader in your industry or somewhere in between. I like to balance two different approaches to professional networking, strategic and serendipitous.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

Technique 50

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

Here’s a few: #1 Listen: Who are your sources that consistently provide valuable information for learning without a lot of noise? Someone will share something, and you can ask a follow up question or read the comments of others. 5 Weaving: This technique works on any platform.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Interview Technique Skills Generation 52

Nimble AMS

JULY 11, 2022

Surprisingly, association professionals continue to undervalue offering career resources, even though it proves to be a huge benefit with the power to drive a superior member experience. Dedicate specific feeds for members looking for mentors, individuals searching for new jobs, and a safe space to ask questions.

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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. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Planned Giving Group of New England. 10,000-$100,000).

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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. All of these things put organizations without professional level prospect research at a significant short and long term fundraising disadvantage. Jay Frost is a 25 year veteran of the fundraising field. Completely!

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And you don’t need to be a professional writer to craft them. . Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need to have high-resolution professional quality photos or professionally edited videos. Using the techniques of storytelling for nonprofits can make a huge difference in the results of your fundraising.

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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. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It brings together thousands of the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world. We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. Check out the sessions below and vote for them today!

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Customer personas (like mine above) are not just for marketing professionals, they are also incredibly beneficial for nonprofits seeking to understand who their donors are, why they give, how they like to be communicated with, and what their barriers to giving are. Only ask questions you cannot find the answers too.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2019

This is the question all advancement and stewardship professionals should be asking. The deepening of those relationships , though, is the raison d’être of the stewardship professional. In my own experience, I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing stewardship professionals.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” To quote Mahatma Gandhi, “The path is the journey,” and what we learn along the way as we encounter resistance, as we motivate ourselves, and as we engage others, offers great learning that supports personal and professional growth.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions. How many of us as individuals have the discipline to notice what we’re doing with our professional work or our team? It is asking the simple question of how to improve a process, project, or even the meeting itself. What could be improved?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you’ve never hired a professional videographer before, there are some important questions to consider and things to look for in order to find the right fit. Event videography is a professional, or team of professionals, whose sole job is to film, edit, and produce high-quality video recorded footage of your event. .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2014

These are simple questions but incredibly difficult to answer without spending quality time with your people – grabbing a cup of coffee , going to dinner, meeting in their home. All of this information gives you, a nonprofit fundraising professional, the ability to more effectively communicate, cultivate, and steward your donors.

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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

MAY 22, 2014

Visualizing professional and organizational networks and understanding how to leverage for organizational goals. Applying these techniques to social platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn for thought leadership, influence, and professional learning. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” ” Plus many more provocative questions. This is one of my favorite books about instructional design, especially if you are designing professional development activities for nonprofit staff or other trainers.

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