Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

A general timeline of moments involved in this experience includes: thinking about a trip, considering options, booking it, traveling to the airport, checking in, going through security, boarding the plane, arriving at your destination, and picking up your checked luggage. Think back to a recent time you’ve taken a flight.

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Design Service FAQ Interaction 80

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? Maybe they heard about you on Facebook, or they signed a petition and you sent them an email. Maybe a friend shared the link with them, or they found your charity by Googling a topic you’re campaigning about. Tell me all about attribution.

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fusionSpan

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s all about the policies and procedures businesses put in place to safeguard personal data against unauthorized access, data breaches, cyberattacks, and unintentional or deliberate data loss. An external policy educates clients, customers, and shareholders about the types of data the company collect. Conclusion.

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Data Difference Policy Law 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. Clearly “seeing” those systems is important for success.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. By: Yolanda F.

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Strategy Fundraising Philanthropy Nonprofit 82

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Archivists, librarians, and museum curators understand this in a very personal way because this is what curation is all about. Content strategy reframes a collection by creating an overarching structure that defines how its content is organized, positioned, and made relevant. What does your collection represent?

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Library Museum Content Digital 73

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. The first step is to understand how your organization is structured, and how it views technology.

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Tech NTC Listserv NTEN 86

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google answered these challenges with a system that ultimately became GA4, and announced no further development of UA. GA4 will still capture the pages your visitors view, but with configuration, it has the capability to track much more about what your users are doing. Which visits lead to engagement?

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI systems are composed of modules that can be independently developed and replaced. Humans are influenced by biases and emotions, while AI systems are objective. I’m not so sure about this one. AI’s bias may not have emotional origins, yet there is both evidence and fear that human prejudices are inherent in AI systems.

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Language Problem Knowledge System 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. And I’m really excited about this topic too. This webinar is about my podcast actually.

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People Community Video Podcast 79

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. The loss is that a good program provides a broad base of understanding about the field, and provides a holistic view. IThe whole system is nauseating. Or, I should qualify that.

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Museum Guinea Tech Studies 45

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. Well, it is simply an exercise to bring users back to the site and increase activity by complaining about it. Establish user profiles in your new system and associate those posts with the previous social accounts in question.

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Program Learning Social Learning Environment 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Analysis Social Network Network South Africa 71

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Expanding to meet global need brings a number of new challenges, including collection development for new audiences, gaining author and publisher permissions for worldwide distribution of materials, and forming partnerships with organizations that can spread the word about Bookshare and manage membership and customer support outside of the U.S.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Work with your team to compare and analyze your shortlist of candidates. Review their proposals. Donor list rentals.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it! I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. We're about 6 months into trying a system for this called OKRs (objectives and key results). For a long time, I had a split consciousness about our growth. The reality is that growth has meant more structure.

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Collaboration Tools Build Organization 20

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

Every time that I talk about how arduous grant writing is, inevitably someone will say something like, “That’s why you should focus on individual donors! The unfamiliarity of the nonprofit structure affects all sorts of stuff, from board engagement to hiring, and it often makes giv- ing to a nonprofit a bizarre idea.

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Community Giving Work Strategy 20

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

If you're going to do something sophisticated, like integrating your grants management system with your grantee community, be sure you have very solid management support, a healthy budget, and a very patient stakeholder group. You can learn a lot, especially about the needs and behaviors of your end-user community, by taking this approach.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. In the end, it comes down to leadership. Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start. Use measurement pilots.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Getting Started With Your Nonprofit Business Plan The most common question we get about business plans is “where do we start?” Your nonprofit’s business plan will then expand on those, going into detail about what you’ll do and what it will cost. Organizational Structure. Do you have (or will have) a facility?

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Does it make it easy for new supporters to learn about your work and then get involved? It’s all about removing unnecessary steps, anticipating your users’ needs, and making sure they can complete their tasks quickly and easily. Is it performing well?

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Websites Design Site Web 35

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. She had revealed things I’d never known, and I kept coming back to it.

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Jane's and have been writing about her work since the early days of this blog, so I was thrilled to learn that the CFM was bringing in Jane to speak live and then opening up the lecture to a wider audience of about 300 online. However, I'm wary of the limitations of game structures to support human happiness.

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Museum Game Structure South America 21

Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

And if you’re a nonprofit, there’s a lot to think about when you’re about to launch a crowdfunding campaign. Both on the acquisition and retention fronts, you’re going to have a ton to account for and worry about. It takes most nonprofits about two weeks to research and prepare for their campaigns. Be transparent.

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Tips Nonprofit Campaign Student 41

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Did you know that more than 30% of U.S. farm operators are women? What brought you here?

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Interview Authoring Change Oakland 72

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Crafting content around these specific educational topics not only positions your nonprofit as an expert in the field but also attracts an audience genuinely interested in learning more about the intricacies of environmental issues. Authoritativeness: Authoritativeness is about the perceived authority of the content or the website as a whole.

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International Strategy Search Structure 90

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise. Basically, we’re here to talk about dirty donor data and how to prevent that. So you are in the right place, if you care about this topic. She’ll tell you about that. How do you structure your database?

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Database Donor Video Mail 67

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2019

the Processor who insists on putting every detail through a system, slowing things. A Synergist, who can take all three--the bold dreamers, the pragmatic realists, and the systems designers--and knit them together into a dynamic, well rounded team. down the Operator who just wants to end the meeting and get back to the "real work."

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Journal Technique Structure Teach 40

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Accounting / @nysscpa.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

the Processor who insists on putting every detail through a system, slowing things. A Synergist, who can take all three--the bold dreamers, the pragmatic realists, and the systems designers--and knit them together into a dynamic, well rounded team. down the Operator who just wants to end the meeting and get back to the "real work."

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Team Journal Authoring Technique 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Two of the articles that most influenced me were written by Don Carson, Disney imagineer turned video game designer, about "environmental storytelling." (You

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Recently, I got to talk with Priya Haji, the CEO and co-founder of World of Good about their work and her advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs. The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world.

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Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

the Processor who insists on putting every detail through a system, slowing things. A Synergist, who can take all three--the bold dreamers, the pragmatic realists, and the systems designers--and knit them together into a dynamic, well rounded team. down the Operator who just wants to end the meeting and get back to the "real work."

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Review New York Team Journal 53

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

This is the first in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. Sustaining Innovation is a thoughtful, comprehensive book that has helped me think more concretely about these questions and their answers. This post is my review of the book.

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