Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

In my book, I show you the tools that will boost efficiency in all three of these domains and I provide you with a detailed blueprint for the most effective ways to use them,” explains Sonnenberg. Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. what tools is the team using already? how willing to adopt change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

AI is a uniquely powerful set of technology tools for making sense of enormous amounts of data. An AI-powered tool can accomplish it in minutes—and doesn’t get interrupted for meetings or a phone call or a birthday party for Toby the newish office manager who just turned 27. Persado is another online fundraising tool using AI.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. About : Create Good is a 2-day conference to inspire nonprofit communicators to amplify their missions with the latest tools and techniques. SXSW Civic Engagement & Climate Change + SXSW EDU. Where : Austin, TX & Online (Hybrid).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Marty Kearns has a diagnostic tool over in his Advocacy 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. I also gave them a summary of recent research from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute about giving motivations for women’s and girl’s causes.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

This of course suggests organization-wide use of a very smart software constituent relationship management (CRM) tool.) And finally, consider low-cost donor cultivation techniques: Your board or top staff should each be able to call 3-4 top recent donors once a month to thank them. This also helps board members feel more engaged.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa. New (To Me) Nonprofit Tech Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here’s a summary. Many of the submissions from bloggers included posts that shared their personal approaches, tips, tools, and secrets to productivity: Nonprofit blogger and consultant, Marion Conway , shares some gems in her blog post, “ Be More Productive Online – Blue Chips and Monkeys. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Getting Started.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Using this valuable tool, you can extend the reach of your organization’s message and forge meaningful connections with existing and potential donors. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just like Idealware, we're interested at TechSoup in the tools of the trade to make it possible to track the right data, so that reporting on impact is accurate and defensible. Doing this work defensibly involves arcane techniques like applying probabilistic equivalence techniques to insure that groups being measured are equivalent.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

The tools you choose will depend on your nonprofit’s unique needs! Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals. This means identifying effective and capable tools to help you make strategic moves based on accurate, updated data. . Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. While the internet is an incredibly popular way of communicating with alumni, classic direct marketing techniques such as Direct Mail and telemarketing continue to form the backbone of many fundraising programs.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. While the internet is an incredibly popular way of communicating with alumni, classic direct marketing techniques such as Direct Mail and telemarketing continue to form the backbone of many fundraising programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. A Cool Free Tool for Monitoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Picking the right measurement tool for the job and how to use it. Does not know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But as digital media matures as a tool for cultural organizations, groups are using it as a gateway to connect people with art. For example, Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, Montana told us they have found ways to use digital tools to cultivate their neighborly spirit and are having success promoting events online.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Ready to learn how practical AI tools can make your life easier? AI-powered tools can make your workflows more efficient. Your organization probably generates and collects a lot of data, and AI-powered data analytics tools can help you gain insights into donor behavior, program outcomes, and other key metrics.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique. In summary, avoid becoming social just for the sake of the new features. Social learning can be a powerful tool if properly implemented and promoted within an organization. Then, encourage visitation of past posts and inspire discussion.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For brevity let’s decide that it is about technology, techniques and processes for understanding what’s in your data and driving your business practices. An organization driven by analytics requires leaders who leverage the tools, techniques and processes as a flexible, mutable guide for driving efficiency and results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2005

The workshop has provided a wealth of learning about practical techniques and theory of online community building as well as allowed some time for experimentation or action learning. The graphic above will take you a visual summary of the conversation (another technique I learned from the workshop) or if you prefer a text summary.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

Gorton’s technique arose when a former leader of his ended each meeting with the rally cry “go forth and be awesome”. Gorton explains how the tools change with remote work, but the purpose of the tools do not. The post Managing eLearning Podcast: Episode 2 Summary & Highlights appeared first on Web Courseworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2007

Here you have some of the reasons David gets to mention that should really be an eye opener to most folks who may not see just yet the clear perks of making use of such online presence tools: " it demonstrates that a Web 2.0 If you know of someone who keeps a summary or survey Web site of U.S.-oriented application that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

My colleague Geoff Livingston says that “Shiny Object Syndrome&# makes nonprofits and individuals to adopt the latest cool social tool based on peer pressure, buzz, or a strange desire to be one of the first. Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to nonprofit author Allison Fine, “Social media [in particular] fits into the lives of working women much better than traditional communications tools. Instead, we must use data to define our best donors, members and advocates and find the right technologies and marketing techniques to hit the “she spot.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

The chat window I'm reading covers up the screen if I want to reach the history without scrolling, so I have to move it around to watch what is happening in world 3) I have to translate the avatar name to real person name and relate to agenda or summary notes that I'm taking elsewhere. It kinds of gets in the way of effective facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB). link] — Matt Popke ?? Please consider passing your ideas about big trends for the next decade.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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