Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

While organizations have mainly used basic SMS for communications and fundraising, the explosion of smartphone technology and the proliferation of messaging apps have to diversify their approach to supporter engagement. The integration of multimedia capabilities, such as video and photo sharing, has further enriched these interactions.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Such subpar messages may be the reason that 63% of fundraisers feel uncomfortable using AI for personalized donor communications. While AI is often touted as a way to hyper-personalize fundraising efforts, to many fundraisers, AI can make communications seem less personal, less authentic. Add context.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

How frequently are you communicating? What’s the quality of your communication? Determine if your interactions are purely transactional or if youve built actual rapport. Think about how productive each interaction is and what follow-up occurs. Think about how often you have a chance to talk, email, or formally meet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. The pandemic has drastically altered the ways nonprofits interact with their supporters. She helps brands grow engagement and build relationships with their audience.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 1, 2023

What could be more personal than a good old-fashioned conversation? Post-pandemic, we’re seeing more businesses realize the value of conversational marketing, or actually talking with their customers and letting them respond. Consider this—the typical sales funnel puts a conversation at the end of multiple one-way interactions.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? The ability to send sound that becomes audible only at a specific location could transform entertainment, communication, and spatial audio experiences. Offices and military settings could also benefit from localized speech zones for confidential conversations.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

In a 2017 study in the Journal of Media, Cognition, and Communication, nearly half of the respondents said that read receipts made them feel either ignored (34.7 Participants said they were far more aware of read receipts in conversations with a romantic interest than with family, friends, or workers. (And

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

That runner-up book for 2023 is, The Communication Code , by Jeremie Kubicek and Steven Cockram. Effective communication is the lifeblood of every healthy relationship,” explain Kubicek and Cockram, whether that relationship is at work or at home. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In the past week, I had “conversations” with two leaders who talked too much. ” Whenever our conversation reached a natural pause, she would quickly fill the gap with another anecdote. I couldn’t help wondering how their communication styles were affecting their organizations.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 22, 2021

Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Your website is the foundation on which all quality communication and relationships are built, and you’ve likely made significant investments into that foundation. in the higher education space and only 1.0%

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Across platforms, you should be tracking social media engagement rates and conversion rates. By interacting with your content, a segment of the audience shows you they care about what you have to say. Engagements refer to nearly any interaction a user has with your content. Conversion Rate. Engagement Rate. Link clicks.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Conversely, loyal donors give 42% more over their lifetime and are 70% more likely to leave a planned gift. This requires tailoring the frequency and type of communication you do for each donor level, whether its a donor who gives $25, or one giving $50,000. You want to inform, but not annoy.

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We had open discussions about our personal attitudes toward fundraising and role-played donor interactions. These exercises helped build our confidence, enabling us to approach fundraising conversations with authenticity and enthusiasm. Engage in meaningful conversations and radical listening.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Alongside co-founder Falon Fatemi, he’s planning to launch Fireside , a “next-gen podcast platform” that facilitates live conversation, according to an email sent to possible creator partners seen by The Verge. The app idea is similar to the buzzy live audio startup Clubhouse, except with the ability to natively record conversations.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. Lazy Communicators Got a Workout Words either make or break online relationships. With limited access to body language, tone, and context, precise communication becomes an essential skill. A constant bombardment of messages causes burnout.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

We recruited seniors from the MIT AgeLabs research cohorteach around 70 years old and in the early stages of retirementand then engaged in wide-ranging conversations about their aspirations and fears about these technologies. This will require forms of this AI that are aesthetically compatible with seniors for such personal interactions.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Develop an interactive onboarding chatbot to help new members navigate the offerings. Check Bing out. Like most things, that depends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Any doubts that social networks aren’t powerful or don’t need to be prioritized in your online communications and fundraising campaigns can now be put to rest. Visuals inspire higher interaction and engagement rates. Photos uploaded to Facebook get five times the interaction and engagement rates than posted links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. One metaphor is to think of the AI as an intern that you need to clearly communicate instructions to and then check their work and revise. The post Recap: Nonprofits & AI – A Conversation with Devi Thomas first appeared on Beth Kanter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

By Abby Jarvise , writer, marketer, and speaker at Neon One – software built for small and midsize nonprofits to help them manage fundraising, communications, events, volunteers, and more. Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

2) Master the Art of Prompting Prompting is the language we use to communicate with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Communication is conducted in natural language, similar to how you would converse with a friend or colleague. This brings us to our next point.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Even going as far as choosing which organizations they interact with based on employee mental wellness and fair treatment. Therefore, you must provide personalized communications that reflect donors’ interests and even their donation history. Sustainability is an important consideration given the climate crisis.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and Canada find email to be the communication channel that most inspires them to contributebeating all other platforms. But what makes this communication channel so effective? Types and examples of nonprofit emails Email marketing is a flexible platform that your nonprofit can use for a wide range of communications.

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Singularity Hub

APRIL 8, 2025

Communication between brain cells runs along these fibers. This costs energy and the mammalian brain is therefore relatively sparsely connected, concentrating communications down a few central pathways. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. She was so protective of “her” data that she had trouble inviting anyone who she deemed less knowledgeable into the conversation. Improve communication and relationship-building among colleagues for better collaboration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 12, 2020

But, you will quickly saturate your base of supporters if all your communications revolve around fundraising asks. . Sending email communications is your chance to ignite strategic conversations with your donors, members, volunteers, and subscribers. And you need relevant, inspiring content to keep them around. .

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Posted by Greg Blascovich and Eric Gomez, User Researchers, Google As companies settle into a new normal of hybrid and distributed work, remote communication technology remains critical for connecting and collaborating with colleagues. Project Starline renders people at natural scale on a 3D display and enables natural eye contact.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Or maybe theyre disgruntled about a new policy, ruling, or direction and want you to weigh in.Because it is so easy to make a misstep, these conversations demand expert diplomacy. Understanding that everyone is on a journey of adaptation can help you approach delicate or potentially divisive conversations with compassion and patience.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

And our virtual communication skills were not up to the task of addressing those negative emotions. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen. These games are a springboard for further conversation around emotions, empathy, collaboration, and relationship building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

All accounts created after January 2018 must have conversion tracking in place in Google Ads and need to have at least one meaningful conversion per month. You should set up the conversion in Google Analytics and import it into Google Ads. Use Maximize Conversions for at least one Campaign. Use Lots of Keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

We have shifted to digital-mediated interactions for almost everything in our lives. In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. When we communicate through a video conference screen, there is a 1.2 second delay.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 18, 2025

Whether the goal is donations, advocacy, or volunteer engagement, well-designed nonprofit marketing and communications can inspire action. More than 70% of respondents said they’re more likely to donate to a nonprofit that effectively uses storytelling to communicate mission and impact.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

Bard is a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. I am trained on a massive amount of text data, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions. Bard claims that it can recall previous conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

There is a higher website conversion rate and donors stay on the website longer because of more opportunities to engage with the software. Bloomerang is super conversion friendly. They offer custom, individualized conversions and implementation assistance. Neon is a one-stop shop for communication and fundraising.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Jane Pearson ,orgSource, Vice President of Marketing and Communications Services, emphasized the importance of this partnership. Communicators are often on the front lines of coming trends and can spot challenges in the making. When strategy doesn’t filter through departments, communications lose that impact.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Jane Pearson ,orgSource, Vice President of Marketing and Communications Services, emphasized the importance of this partnership. Communicators are often on the front lines of coming trends and can spot challenges in the making. When strategy doesn’t filter through departments, communications lose that impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? An interactive online community hub – Connect with other nonprofits , review your support case history, learn new features, and discover useful tips and best practices.

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