Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. Exploring FriendFeed. And if you???re

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Summary of ROI. There are times I learn of new social media outlets, 3 rd party technologies or methods, and if I want to apply something new to the organization, I do my due-diligence and experiment with it, strategize how it can add value to the organization, and lastly I propose it to our executive team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

Traditionally, fundraising has relied on old methods. In summary, AI’s role in fundraising initiatives goes far beyond automation. They do so through donors’ preferred methods, like email, social media, text messages , or direct mail. AI is becoming increasingly important in fundraising. Nonprofits can embrace AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

We make tweetable summaries for wonky reports. We do this all in the course of 1-2 days, adapting our methods and incorporating insights into the next campaign we run. Does your organization have a method for rapid experimentation and learning? We write the great tweet to go with that video. We pair actions with news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Dashboard design should also inspire buy-in and continuous improvement by using “ human centered design ” methods. These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

Rather than largely relying on stochastic methods to provide an answer, the o-series models are trained to "refine their thinking process, try different strategies, and recognize their mistakes." Plus, some rely on different benchmarks and methods to test accuracy and hallucinations.

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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. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Executive Summary. The Executive Summary is the first thing that any potential partner or supporter will read, and it introduces the mission and purpose of your nonprofit. Because this section of your nonprofit business plan is a summary of the facts contained throughout the whole document, it is often written last.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Executive summary. Method for evaluating your success. The cover letter, executive summary, and organization information (1/2 to 1 page each). While the cover letter introduces your grant proposal, the executive summary provides an immediate synopsis or abstract of what a reader can expect to see when reviewing the grant.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To collect a representative sample, we recommend administering surveys using multiple methods—in person, via text, by email, etc.—and At L4G, response rates vary by collection method, from a median of 64% for in-person surveys to 32% for emailed surveys. and explaining why you are gathering the information.

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Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

You need to understand who your donors are, what motivates them to give, and what methods they prefer for donating. Fundraising Methods There are many options for effective ways to engage donors and raise funds for your organization. Take a close look at your fundraising methods and evaluate their effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Katya's Nonprofit Marketing blog asks "Do you ever you're mindlessly repeating the same outreach methods? Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Travelertrish rants about the World's Worst (nonprofit) Web site and asks for estimates of how much it cost to build it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

YouTube has begun experimenting with AI-generated summaries for videos on the watch and search pages, though only for a limited number of English-language videos and viewers. Certainly, the summaries could be useful for discovery — and accessibility. Not every video creator can be bothered to write a description.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is considered an implicit data collection method. This is considered an explicit data collection method. As you think about the current methods you’re using to ask members questions, consider one question you could add to one of those forms that would return highly valuable data. Observing is the most valuable type of data.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

The task output is the desired outcome for the target tasks, e.g., a screen summary or an answer to a user question. They can generate more accurate summaries than the Screen2Words benchmark model that we previously introduced using UI-specific text, as highlighted in the colored text and boxes below. 1-shot LLM (cross-app) 74.69

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Neon CRM

MARCH 27, 2025

This includes their donation amount, your organizations name, the date they made a gift, and their payment method. Nearly a third of giving happens in December , so sending year-end summaries earlier can result in some gifts being missed. You should send your year-end receipts in early January.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 19, 2022

The best methods to use when surveying your staff. Face-to-face interviews: This survey option is a great method for when anonymity isn’t needed. When you design staff surveys, you’ll want to practice discretion, ensuring the nature of the subject matter fits with the survey method. Learn more about employee engagement.

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Google Research AI blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In “ Confident Adaptive Language Modeling ”, presented at NeurIPS 2022 , we introduce a new method for accelerating the text generation of LMs by improving efficiency at inference time. Our method, named CALM, is motivated by the intuition that some next word predictions are easier than others. Example of a generated news summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? Most people felt inspired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

She also recommends using the “fail fest” method that DoSomething had been using for years! (Wouldn’t a failfest be an awesome session at the NTC 2013?).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

As you can see from the summary sheet above - click here for larger - the sequence was: we all brainstormed the characteristics of a south London borough, with its share of unemployment, health and housing issues, transport problems plus some very positive community activity on the arts front. More on that here.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 21, 2023

There are 235 cities across the world currently supported by BBBike, and you can get access to the full list easily by calling the “sources.cities.available” method. Parting Thoughts This was a short summary of what pyrosm can do for you in your geospatial work!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

While recent research suggests that the first method may not be as effective because of “ group think ” and produce fewer ideas, you can combine the best of both approaches. Send out a summary of the ideas generated. Other Brainstorming Methods and Techniques. What materials, methods, and steps, can be eliminated?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Skype text chat would be our main method of communication, but I was sure to log any important files in the “Files” section of Elance’s “Workroom,” which is basically the area within their website where you manage your project’s payments, communications, milestones, files, and agreements. In Summary…. I sent the.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Bloomberg reports that China is considering removing the VIE loophole that allowed Chinese companies to list in the United States, closing a method by which local companies could access foreign capital. But legal group Winston & Strawn has a good summary of why they matter, which will do for our purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building. Click to see larger version.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

app description) to generate a summary for the screen. For the screen summarization task that the target region encloses the entire screen, the attention heatmap shows the model attending to various locations on the screen that contribute to generating the summary.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

During the pandemic, virtual meetings became the de facto method of collaborating and connecting — both inside and outside of the workplace. ” Headroom uses AI to power features like automatic transcripts and meeting summaries, which remain indexable after meetings with search filters for attendees, notes and topics.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 5, 2024

Donors can manage payment methods, upgrade their giving, and download tax summaries independently. Now, you can empower donors to give in seconds, creating their own logins to make future one-time gifts or set up and manage recurring donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Synthesis: Combining ideas and themes or boiling down a lot of information into a summary. .” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Validation: Knowing your sources and their level of expertise.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Good practices include quickly sending an email summary of the discussion and next steps, and, my personal favorite, sending a handwritten note conveying gratitude for their time and interest in your nonprofit. Recognize that being turned down isn’t the end of the world. This list is not exhaustive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Because the taking the assessment in full would require a lot more time than we had for the workshop, Jo prepared a high level summary. You also need a method to get people’s attention – ringing chimes, clapping, or talking loudly. We kicked off the session with a brief overview of the framework by Jo Wolfe, who created it.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, the diverse preferences of donors, from donation frequency to payment method, can make managing recurring gifts a challenge. Make the post-gift acknowledgment struggle-free for your team by using built-in communications tools to thank donors for their recurring gifts and provide them with a summary of their year-end giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, being a content curator is a method to help you stay informed about your field and be more effective at your job. It is also good to learn from experienced curators and how they hone their craft. Netsquared recently published this summary of tips from nonprofit content curators.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

After numerous widespread breaches through the past few years, tech companies have been working together to develop a standard that would make passwords a thing of the past, replacing them with more secure methods like biometric or PIN-based logins that do not require transferring data over the internet.

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sgEngage

MAY 5, 2023

Fund accounting is a specialized accounting method that focuses on the allocation, management, and reporting of funds that carry a donor or government agency restriction. Fund Accounting Best Practices Fund Accounting vs. Traditional Accounting Summary FAQs What Types of Organizations Need Fund Accounting?

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