Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. User Research. Information Architecture.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Just A Little Content To Get Started . It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Another option is to briefly share some content or a framework to kick off the participant knowledge sharing. Opening Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Here are two stories about two very different nonprofits and how they approached designing their dashboards with human-centered design techniques. With a large staff producing and marketing content, they also wanted a way to capture data for ongoing feedback to improve their content. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. Here’s some examples.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. The content is carefully curated and well-paced. Content is focused on the trends and tactics in fundraising with a lot of time (we’re talking hours a day) is allocated to the sponsor exhibit hall. SXSW Civic Engagement & Climate Change + SXSW EDU.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

5 Creative Content beyond text Generative AI tools are becoming very powerful storytelling aids. Learn more about using AI tools to create creative content with our free course. As AI technology continues to advance, it’s likely that nonprofits will increasingly rely on AI prompts to achieve their goals. Descript Audio Murf.ai

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

How ChatGPT Works ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence model that generates content (generative AI) based on an amalgamation of secondary sources; early versions used written communication as a training dataset for the model and predicted the most likely next word based on the input data provided to the model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Additionally, supplementing the teachings found within the book, Sonnenberg provides you with more learning opportunities via free content and in-depth instructions at ComeUpForAir.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Additionally, supplementing the teachings found within the book, Sonnenberg provides you with more learning opportunities via free content and in-depth instructions at ComeUpForAir.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. Including social media icons on your website helps you recruit volunteers, enhance brand visibility, and disseminate content that aligns with your organization’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories. charity:water is using Persado to better understand which content and images on Facebook generate more recurring donors for its monthly giving program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. And, if your nonprofit does not have a video camera to create content, sign up to get a free one from the Flip Video Camcorder Giveaway , in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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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). You also need to post inviting content on your social channels that builds excitement, anticipation, and engagement about the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But all the content in the world can only get you so far when not paired with real life circumstances and the experiences of someone who has undergone the difficult processes in their infancy. It can also consist of reinforcement of techniques and procedures. Reinforcement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content. Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

Yes, the same technique that ultimately brought us things like space shuttles and smartphones can help you increase your online donation rates (no beakers or Bunsen burners required). Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data – Use Google Analytics Content experiments to test your new idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". Peggy Duvette of Wiser Earth wrote up a nice summary of the session including this summary of the techniques used by Brigida to publicize NWF's GreenHour.org. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other. content will be better when it's delivered in other, more appropriate. Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Stein has found “the highest levels of engagement tend to revolve around content. Content drives engagement for online audiences in social media.”. We’ve posted our summary report on our website , where all are welcome to ask questions, start discussions, and comment on our findings.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Personalized content could include different email series for alumni based on how recently they graduated, what they majored in, the field that they currently work in, and more. Personalized content shows alumni that they are valued as part of the college community, and will increase their sense of connection.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Personalized content could include different email series for alumni based on how recently they graduated, what they majored in, the field that they currently work in, and more. Personalized content shows alumni that they are valued as part of the college community, and will increase their sense of connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here’s a summary. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. Michaela Monahan, Big Duck blog, discusses the technique of tracking your time. Kiera Stein, Dog-Eared Social Blog, wrote about how to create your social media content strategy in one week. Personal Productivity Mindsets.

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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. Establish user profiles in your new system and associate those posts with the previous social accounts in question. Then, encourage visitation of past posts and inspire discussion.

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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. I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this.

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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. The Social Media Measurement Checklist.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! By integrating your fundraising tools and your CRM system, your communications team can use accurate donor data to individualize email content. Understand the Giver’s Journey. Try using these post-donation engagement methods: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

is a guide written nonprofits that shares some techniques you can put to use right away and help your organization engage in the right place at the right time. In our guide, you will find a straightforward summary of what to listen for, as well as tips on engaging the users who mention them. Your People Are Talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. There are people who just want an expert on the stage to share their wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus. (I learned so much that I enough material for several blog posts, my first post is here – it is about content curation.). I am avoiding spamming all three networks with cut and paste streams.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I've seen so many EXPENSIVE interactives (not connected to the main messages of the content) that are not future-proof and the exhibition is supposed to last 10 years+. 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 ??

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Fundraising plan summary. 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. The public.

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