sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might be helpful to share our observations. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Use this information internally and share it freely during your search. . We strongly recommend this technique because unconscious bias can frequently lead us to give preference to people who might not necessarily be the best match, such as: The person we really want to drink coffee with. You’ll find some sample matrices here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I shared an overview of the central thesis in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , and we took a deeper dive into social culture , learning from mistakes , simplicity, and transparency. Caron Bradshaw with her copy of the book. Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique. Please share your experience in the comments below. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Develop shared language. Encourage brainstorming.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Her birthday wish is to raise money for the Sharing Foundation using Causes and we think we could help her crush her goal of sending 53 Cambodian children to school by raising $530.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. I want to share some things we are working on that you might be interested in.”. Be brief and be yourself.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Additionally, you can reassign volunteers based on important factors such as the personal interests and skills that they share in these forms, maximizing engagement for each volunteer and improving event operations. Share This Post! The content and intent of these surveys are entirely up to you. Say hi on LinkedIn ! Recent Posts.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The conference favors networking opportunities over speaker-led sessions and utilizes the “Liberating Structures” facilitation technique to spark conversation and empower innovation. We’ll give you feedback and share resources you can use to make it even more engaging. How effective is your website? Take the Assessment!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use Scientific Methods: These include having a significant sample size, randomly selected groups and some split testing. Here’s some best practices for sharing results. Share an example of your experiment in the comments. In the example above, you would test posting the same link with the embedded link tool and without it.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Share your organization’s mission, who you serve, the influence your organization has on its audience(s), and the role it plays in the larger conversation around your issue area. You can supplement this guide with some seriously handy templates and samples by downloading the Nonprofit Strategic Fundraising Plan Guide Add-Ons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Urges nonprofits to focus on sharing and using basic information about who they are, what they’re doing and what’s happening, before tackling big data. The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique. In which formats?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Does sharing link with a 2-sentence commentary work better than sharing with a question?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

This way you can share it with others internally, access it on the go and get to it no matter what computer you’re using. See a sample Listening Dashboard here ]. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? BoardTracker searches forums and bulletin boards. Pretty simple eh? Have I left anything out?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

Often, a fellow fundraiser is more than willing to share his or her ideas. In this way, I have found most nonprofit professional to be more collaborative than combative, very willing to speak candidly about techniques that work for them.&#. &#. They can get you samples of just about anything. Take a look around you.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

" Sharing photos online – a decision matrix for non-profit organizations : Social Media 4 Good – "Many non-profits, NGOs and International Organizations are of two minds when it comes to sharing photos on the internet. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is a procrastination technique, and it works! Start small, by asking them to share a campaign with their contacts. Give them sample language to include with their email to friends and family members. Sometimes we delay working on our plan for fundraising because we think we need a little more info. One more data point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. View more presentations from kanter. tags: nonprofits roi ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. Use Time Management Techniques. Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

I asked people to share a couple sentences about their experience from your nonprofit organization, or point to an excellent resource and add a sentence to describe it. Amy Sample Ward. Techniques like this can help build momentum. Alexandra suggests that you offer incentives or rewards for participation. Nancy White.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

." AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. This is the latest in the series. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design? Why should you use it?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school. While this would be difficult to do in a museum en masse, it could certainly be done with a small representative sample of visitors. These techniques are not rocket science, but none of them even occurred to me prior to my conversation with Tiffany Brannon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I was about to ditch the whole experiment when Zemanta recommended two excellent posts by Chris Brogan, " A Sample Blogging Work Flow " and David Peralty on Organizing a Blog Post. In some ways, I found using it counter-intuitive to my thinking and reflection process. I have way too many posts in draft. Why or why not?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. To make the Google Docs even easier to share, Stacey created custom URLs for the pages using Bit.ly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Source: "Execution--The Discipline Of Getting Things Done" Promote Shared Creativity With Your Employees As the book "The DNA Of Leadership" suggests, ask your employees: * How would you handle this? What resources do you need to get the job done?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. The skill set: Play ??? Performance ???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Share The Bad News Of course its much easier to share good news with your employees, but its perhaps even more important to share the bad news. Dont give them a false sense of the situation by sharing only good news. Glad you are sharing this message with your readers.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Get Interactive: Ask people to take a poll or share a story. Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. by age, interest, activism level). Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Then, we asked the panelists to pick a few to share during the panel.

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