Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

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". Survey the situation. Consider this an official "teaser" on a topic we'll cover in detail during the session: Handling a Crisis.

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Technique Management North America NTC 82

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. Our purposes for using Analytics as User Research are: To learn about current visitors to the website. Research Questions. User Research. Surveys and Interviews.

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NetWits

MARCH 10, 2012

Research by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) backs Altimiters finding up by showing that 60% of businesses indicate that they plan to increase their content marketing budgets over the next 12 months. I’m reaching a bit, but I suspect that if we surveyed a few thousand nonprofits we’d find similar results to those produced by the CMI.

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Content Marketing Online Wikipedia 201

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics?

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Reflection Practice Results Storytelling 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. These techniques will save blood, sweat, and tears down the road.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You I’m thrilled to be on a panel organized by Alexandra Samuel, Vision Critical , along with Jeremiah Owyang and Colby Flint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. What techniques are you using? A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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Case Study Social Media Conversation Studies 89

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

Research Your Donors to Read Their Minds. You research your donor as an individual, but you also have a broad depth of general research on the kinds of people who donate to your nonprofit as a whole group. In addition, we have the ability to survey our donors and examine how they talk about our cause.

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Donation Tips PowerPoint Advice 61

Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3 Mobile learning. percent of the U.S. billion smartphones were sold worldwide.

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Online Learning Trend Learning Online 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. If you use a survey ahead time, you can do more fine-tuning.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Idealware report called The Reality of Measuring Human Service Programs: Results of a Survey has some pretty interesting findings on this. It’s certainly no surprise to me that respondents to this survey seemed to be confused about measuring their impact on their communities. What Data Human Services Are Collecting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. We opened up the survey to all arts organizations in August.

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Arts Social Media Studies National 110

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The survey found that blogging and blog outreach was the most popular social media choice. Over half of the organizations surveyed reported that they do not use Twitter and do not intend to, with only 24% reporting use of the tool. Tags: issues otherblogs socialmedia adoption conversation report research social media ssir.

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Conversation Effective PDF Social Media 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data. You can view the videos and presentations on the conference materials page.

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Evaluation Generation Method Slides 97

Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews.

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Strategy Fundraising Skills Sample 52

Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Attainable: Set a challenging yet realistic fundraising goal that pushes your limits but is still achievable, using data and research to guide you to the right amount. In 2022, over 50% of nonprofit executives surveyed reported that events accounted for 21% or more of their annual operating budget. You have two donors.

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Guide Fundraising Mail Metrics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Yet few nonprofits recognize LinkedIn’s potential as a research database or a means of getting introductions, according to Ditch Digital Dabbling: How Small Businesses + Nonprofits Can Master Online Marketing , research undertaken by Ventureneer and Message Medium. Don’t think of LinkedIn as a technology, even though it is.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Continue pursuing your foundational fundraising activities such as: Prospect research. Although prospect research is often completed at the start of a major fundraising campaign, it’s helpful to conduct this research on an ongoing basis. Get creative. Keep supporter relationships at the forefront. Asking for feedback.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. Would you analyze surveys after tossing several shots of Tequilas? How much sleep does your body actually need? Is there a magic number?

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We’ll present the latest data from Pew Research national surveys to engage the politically savvy and tech-obsessed folks here in DC who have noticed this shift in political life, taking a look at the raw data behind the new political process, and how it relates to our political infrastructure.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

User Research. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Information Architecture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The concept was genius — providing an app and free cell phone to the individuals in exchange for filling out the surveys. Completing the survey would get them more cell phone time. The concept included enlisting a telco partner who would provide the phones and data cards. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

But they are different techniques. And overlapping techniques. 55% of respondents in a survey said they were less likely to make a purchase if they came across an ad multiple times. Also, consumers are four times more likely to be encouraged to make a purchase when they see relevant ads during their research phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. Monitors, listens, and researches the people in their network. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient. ” .

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Social Media Effective Media Social 100

NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

First, research creates data Data don't just materialize. They are the result of research — measuring something quantitatively or qualitatively, formally or informally; usually involving a question, a purpose, and by necessity a methodology and instrument. Different research. Same reality, different data.

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Data New York Government Digital 91

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

That''s because, according to the authors'' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don''t care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

Empowerment 57

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 57

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Major giving and prospect research support. Because of this, you must understand your goal for the partnership before researching consultants to ensure you find the right one for your team. Research top providers. Research some top consultants who provide the particular services you need. Marketing strategy development.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent. And, the employees who are frustrated are not the demotivated and disengaged employees who simply don't care enough about organizational success to become deeply frustrated.

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