Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?…

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

But on the other hand, you can’t see the person, read their body language, or establish a face-to-face connection with them. Have a script when you ask for the donation…. When they are the ones making donation appeals, the asks are more genuine and sincere as opposed to scripted and stiff. Flexible donor awareness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? It’s not your script. A slightly elevated energy level. An exaggerated energy level. Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Use AI to: Analyze successful past pitches for commonalities and tips Identify language that resonates with similar donor groups Suggest talking points based on donor interests Prepare responses to potential objections Pro tip: Record your practice pitches and use AI to analyze your delivery and pacing. Don’t use AI for everything.

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Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

In layman’s terms it’s an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file designed to store and transport data that lists the URLs (Universal Resource Locators) for a particular site and allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL, such as when it was last updated, how often in changes and its relationship to other URLs within the site.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

People are watching our hand movements and our body language. Do this by writing a bullet point script before, covering every point you want to make and add slides to match the main points. But virtual events are harder to dip in and out of, and should really stick to the script.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

For a longer video, consider writing a script. Avoid an overly sweet or flowery language or imagery. Scripting: Even if you don’t plan to read from a script, you still should write a script. Just speak directly into the camera and from your heart. Viewers will respond to a clear, honest, authentic narrative.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

The GPT of ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a group of language models trained to generate human-like text developed by OpenAI. You can ask ChatGPT to create a thank you phone script for your volunteers, create an email thank you template, thank you messaging for a specific campaign you’ve run, and more!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Adobe Story Free is a free online service from Adobe.com that you can use to create your script and help with screenwriting. " The film script format looks to be the simplest template to use. Once in the script you can then write in your script language. You can choose from a range of standard script types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

The next step is figure out the script and pathways for the conversation. There are bots that are self-training using AI language. The testing was fun and it also helped me figure out how to script the close-end conversation that happens when you “Wake Up the Beth Bot.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Practice in front of a mirror or with colleagues to make notes of your body language and any nervous gestures. Check out these scripts for requesting donations from first-time donors and from recurring donors: Donation Request Script for First-Time Donors. Donation Request Script for Recurring Donors.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

With just a script, Synthesia can turn your content into a video featuring a virtual presenter. This tool’s standout features include its ability to create multilingual videos, making it possible to deliver training materials in various languages without needing live actors or voiceovers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. ” Speak The Donor’s Language No matter how many times you ask for donations, always act as though your audience or your “askee” doesn’t know much about your nonprofit, especially your internal shorthand.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The language of your online donation forms, scripting, print materials, and any other content should center this language. To make a lasting impression, be clear and concise about how your organization is making a difference and addressing emerging needs. Dont let your brand be an afterthought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I had phoned my friend (let’s call her Maya) because I wanted to see how the indie crowd at the Sundance Film Festival would respond to my question: “You know your film is making a difference when…” I first attended Sundance in the late-80s when I was a script reader in Hollywood, and participated during the decade I was at the PBS series POV.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

These are some tools to try, which we’ll highlight in the session: Sprout Social for campaign management: It can also provide alternative message ideas Canva for creating visual content: Magic Studio is their premier AI tool Lumen5 for video creation: Allows you to convert text like blogs to video scripts Jasper for content brainstorming: Their AI (..)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. A few years ago, I started looking for meetings where I felt I knew much less about the content.

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : . Editor’s note : You can find a call script here for thanking a donor after they make a donation and another one for soliciting year-end gifts here. Does the thank you landing page contain donor-centric thank you language?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Recently purchased by Google, Word Lens is free in a handful of languages for a limited time so stop reading this for a second and download it now! You simply point your phone's camera at text and have it immediately translated into your native language. Tech Tools to Benefit the Spanish-Language Community.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. Did you recognize the five elements in our story?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

TIP: Learn: (1) Who to call; (2) Who should make the call; (3) When to call; (4) How to call; (5) What to say, and (6) Next steps by heading over to Clairification and grabbing my free “ Donor Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.” TIP: Ask donors for their phone numbers on your response devices and donation pages, and use them!

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and Effective Body Language. Body language can betray you. Asking is part art and part science.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Syntax checking in all three languages. With an integrated debugger, Aptana will leave pure script debugging tools like SplineTech in the dust. It's a major step towards bringing to web development the same kinds of tools we take for granted in java, Delphi, or C++.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

Creating messages that are geared toward them can vary greatly in language, graphics, images, and all other elements. Messages could have a bigger impact if they are scripted to address their preferred type of commitment. New donors begin at the “Awareness” phase when they are gathering information about your mission and nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Share the ultimate Ask script that has been passed from fundraiser to fundraiser, and then give them the opportunity to learn through role play: “Me” sentence: . If I were working with her as an ambassador, I would look for ways to wrap an Ask in the language of dance so she could talk to her dance friends about donating.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

After all, your donors give because they care about your cause—not because of perfectly polished language. Script for a thank you video from the executive director : AI can give you a framework, but you’ll want to personalize the message to reflect your organization’s unique achievements and gratitude.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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