Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? What is your position on the board? How long have you been a member of the board?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity AI can also help you enhance your cybersecurity measures with advanced techniques for monitoring and predicting behavior patterns to block potential cyberattacks. ChatGPT Prompts for Nonprofits: Get Started Today [Samples]. Use these prompts to effectively use ChatGPT.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you are starting from scratch, as most organizations are, finding your value prop can take the form of a brainstorming session with a focus group of your staff, board, and even a sampling of your most loyal donors. For his tips and tricks, we invite you to check out the entire conversation with Tim Kachuriak, available now on demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns - Amy Sample Ward and Allyson Kapin. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn. April 12- 3:30-5:00 pm. Two very good sessions scheduled at the same time. April 13 – 1:30-3:00. NpTech Fail. April 13 – 1:30-3:00.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. You now have a deep, thorough understanding of your goals, strategies, the resources you have to meet those goals, and some techniques that worked in the past. So, let’s touch some more on these fundraising techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. ChatGPT Prompt: Upload of Sample Giving Data Without Any Query One of our team members posted a tab-delimited dataset from our testing databases into ChatGPT’s text box, just to see what output the model would produce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Here’s a bonus link of simple techniques and tools for finding great content on social channels to curate. Fill out the form here and download free your copy of ebook: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Here’s a sampling of just a few: How do you create ideas that the crowd embraces, makes stronger, and spreads? We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques. Each profile is illustrated with an in-depth case study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here’s a sampling of these: Hold joyful funerals to stop doing stuff that doesn’t work well. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Afterwards, we debriefed on the his tool box and techniques. Caron Bradshaw with her copy of the book.

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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. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

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. The person who attended the same school we did.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

With the right tools and techniques, social media can play a critical role in your campaign. You have the perfect campaign: the right ask, the perfect target, public support. What’s missing is a way to effectively leverage FB, Twitter and the like. Social Change Anytime Everywhere Book Launch Party, Thursday, February 21st.

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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. He also identified staff who were enthusiastic and proficient in using Twitter to lead training.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Keep practicing and refining your technique. What stories can you tell about the work your nonprofit does that will paint a vivid picture in your reader’s mind’s eye AND motivate them to get involved with your organization? And THAT’S what we’re here for.

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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 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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Achieve

JANUARY 17, 2016

Others yet are capable of either or both techniques. In what methodology does the research company specialize? Some companies only provide survey research services, while other companies only offer interviewing services. To ensure the company you select will be able to accomplish your goals, do your research.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here’s a sample of the options on Coursera. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks. CV techniques identify objects and scenes in images and videos, track objects over time, and perform tasks that involve visual perception.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise. This should help you keep you on track and your objectives achievable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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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.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This enables you to get a representative sample of volunteers to ensure that you’re meeting everyone’s needs, not just a certain segment’s. Volunteer coordinators should make sure that they send the feedback survey to a wide range of volunteers with different experiences and volunteer histories.

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Forj

APRIL 24, 2018

They’re not motivated by the credit hour, they’re motivated by the applicability of the knowledge, skills, or techniques you’re teaching and the intrinsic interest of their profession. Your course should make the on-the-job value proposition up front, with techniques like quick testimonials, vignettes, and samples.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

See a sample Listening Dashboard here ]. What tips can you share with us about your listening techniques? Just hover over the title on any of the boxes, click (hold) and drag around. You can also click on the little down arrow in the title bar of any of the boxes to “edit settings”. Pretty simple eh? You may have some questions.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. When I focus on donors, it’s a matter of which program they want to support. That makes a request for donations so much easier and more painless! Pretend for a moment that the organization isn’t yours. Pretend it’s another charity you choose to support.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 23, 2010

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. I have personally shared countless forms, timelines, strategies, and plans with other fundraisers. Take a look around you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is a procrastination technique, and it works! 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. We need one more report to show us a magic piece of information. We need one more person’s input.

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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. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size. My Fan Page objective is: . It found that frequency of content posting doesn't no correalate with popularity.

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Forj

MAY 19, 2017

Attendees can get a sampling of each group’s work, then get a chance to dive deep with the presenters who especially interest them. This conference is about helping highly educated medical professionals to master advanced content and techniques that are sometimes not taught at any school.

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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

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. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use.

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