Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. 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

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques. She was brilliant!

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our goal is to be a source of inspiration and to offer the tools that make for outstanding careers and associations. Nor could we have imagined the rapid development of new AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. That’s just the teaser for unique engagement strategies and persuasive techniques that you won’t learn about from anyone else.

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Elevation

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In today's digital age, online marketing has become an indispensable tool for nonprofits to achieve their goals. When it comes to nonprofit organizations, one of the most crucial aspects is attracting donations. Thankfully, there are specific strategies and platforms that can help nonprofits effectively boost their fundraising efforts.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Clearly explain the purpose and benefits of AI tools. Clearly explain the purpose of AI tools. Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, relying on legacy data and outdated tools can hamper your fundraising efforts and keep you from meeting your fundraising needs. Fortunately, with the right tools and practices, nonprofits can tap into more nuanced information and use data to more effectively screen and segment donors.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s how to apply those same techniques to your nonprofit omni-channel fundraising at year-end. It’s easy to understand why brands use direct mail: in the nonprofit world, mail can be an especially powerful tool for educating your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 2, 2022

Using the right tools and techniques makes it easy to get more out of your association’s online community. . You just need the right tools and techniques in place to take it to the next level. . Here’s how Nimble Communities can help you take your online community to the next level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

As technology continues to advance, new fundraising techniques and trends are emerging. How can you use VR and AR as a tool for nonprofit donations? In the last few decades, telethons were a valuable tool for raising money for nonprofit organizations. 1) Virtual and Augmented Reality for Donations.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if there were some tools or techniques we could use to reduce our experiences with them? It’s also a collaborative technique to engage subject matter experts in identification of the true root cause of the problem. Something you thought you fixed keeps having errors? These are frustrating situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She provides proven fundraising strategies, tactics, and tools including coaching, training, and content for fundraising success. Surely, we should be looking at social networks as a “cultivation” and “relationship-building” tool in the same sense that we do offline in person. 3) Capture social media followers that visit your website.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

This means your website is one of your nonprofit’s most valuable tools for staying connected to your supporters and bringing in end-of-year donations. After helping hundreds of organizations prep their own sites for year-end fundraising, we have a few key recommendations: Use integrated tools whenever possible. Let’s get started.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here, I'm offering three specific and simple techniques that can help you become better at staying focused, and also recover more quickly when your mind drifts into unrelated territories or someone interrupts your focus: First Technique: Use a Countdown Timer. Second Technique: Micro-Planning™ Each 40-Minute Session.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Budgets are barely budging, staffing is scarce, and there’s a growing arsenal of tools & techniques to be tinkered with. Julia Reich Design. The more communications technologies change, the more they stay the same.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. Be sure you’ve done the prep work to establish roles and responsibilities, prepare supplies, and bring in tools to facilitate your brainstorming session. Here you can review a comparison of virtual tools. Well, almost.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 20, 2024

Off-the-shelf AI tools are being touted as the solution to all our content woes, promising to churn out blog posts, social media updates, and newsletters at lightning speed. The Pitfalls of Generic AI When you use a generic AI tool to create content, you’re essentially feeding it a diet of pre-existing data from across the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. 2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. Virtual Meeting Tools. 111 Tools To Get You Through Pandemic. Robin Good’s Mega List of Online Collaboration Tools. Icebreakers for Teams Collection Select from over 300 icebreakers based on how well the group knows each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp. The first step is to get organized. Shonali Burke has a terrific tip.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Digital marketing is often a cost-effective option for organizations because there are many free online tools to help you create content and track your campaigns. With how many people use social media, it’s a great marketing tool to maximize the amount of people your nonprofit can reach.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, researchers can use data augmentation techniques to balance the training data and ensure that the model is exposed to a diverse range of perspectives. These include techniques such as debiasing and adversarial training, which aim to reduce the impact of biased data on the model’s output.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

News discovery tools are important for those who are creating content as well – especially if you’re covering breaking news or using the technique “ newsjacking.” Is your organization using news discovery tools? But I’ll save that for another blog post. Which ones?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2021

And still, creative people around the world found ingenious ways to use new tools and techniques to build capacity and continue serving their communities. For many nonprofits with small budgets, the pandemic tested the limits of what was possible with the resources they had. Technology played a key role in these adaptations.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. Explore the role of various platforms and tools in this transition, and understand the potential challenges that may arise. Vote for this session!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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AccelEvents

JULY 23, 2021

No matter what this year brings, event marketing is an effective marketing tool for brands to have in their arsenal. This also helps you to find event planning tools that make sense for that goal. . However, if increasing leads is the goal, you can find a virtual event planning platform with lead capture tools and integrations.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You’ll receive basic tools and techniques that will ensure that you have the donors, staff, and methodology to back up your assumptions – it’s a win-win for everyone! See how active vs. passive fundraising will set you up for success.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Effortless Pledges & Recurrences: Acquire hands-on techniques and the latest tools to streamline the setup and management of automated, pledge, or recurring contributions.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

AI tools for fundraising When it comes to AI for fundraising, there are many tools that can help you succeed in your mission. Some fundraising software, such as Qgiv and DonorSearch, offer AI tools to help you with your fundraising strategy without leaving their platform. AI-enhanced editing tools. Other chatbot AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Undoubtedly, the tools we use to shape the world end up shaping us. imagine indeed… Join me and my colleague, Hiram Cuevas of St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

I learned so much about the taxonomy of innovation and really practical techniques, that I took the facilitation training. I started incorporating facilitating design labs as well as the techniques into my training practice ever since. Or you can simply access their campaign planning/design tools. I admit it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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