Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.” The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. In summary, the purpose of the dot voting is to: Identify the strongest ideas and patterns of interest. Build consensus. Listen to all participant perspectives.

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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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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.

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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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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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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Linkedin Learning: Pros: Vast library with over 16,000 courses taught by industry experts.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Linkedin Learning: Pros: Vast library with over 16,000 courses taught by industry experts.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Linkedin Learning: Pros: Vast library with over 16,000 courses taught by industry experts.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Udemy Business: Pros: Wide range of courses covering various topics and skills. Based on the user reviews, here is a unified summary of the pros and cons of Linkedin Learning: Pros: Vast library with over 16,000 courses taught by industry experts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Practice giving a brief overview of the programs you offer or a summary of your history. This is a simple and effective technique to involve all people in the important discussions of the day. Summary The best board development retreat will unite and inspire a board and key staff. You may even want to include spouses/partners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

In summary, AI’s role in fundraising initiatives goes far beyond automation. Exploring Advanced Strategies AI-driven fundraising uses a wide range of techniques. It does this by finding the best timing, messaging, and asking amounts for each donor. AI-driven algorithms can help nonprofits get more donations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

What two or three of the best techniques you teach in the book can leaders use to help an employee have more influence and impact in their company/organization? It is a five-page summary of all the takeaways that managers can use to help their employees build their influence and enhance their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" " Ed Mitchell posted a summary from the online community ROI report that looks at effective communication related to online community projects. What are your techniques? I'm focusing on Part 4: Effective Ways to Make Your Case.

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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. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Opening Exercise.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 Recently the language difference jumped out at me while advising an emerging nonprofit on tools and techniques for client management software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

125,000 Subject-Matter Experts (consultants) 2 Subject Matter Experts will teach 40 hours per year on irrigation techniques and how to install the new equipment and get $15,000 each. GRANTS writing formula summary The GRANTS Writing Formula will give you the magic wand to write a successful grant proposal.

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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. Staff were asked to use a technique called “ Rose, Bud, Thorn ” to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for change. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

This technique grabs readers’ attention by putting them in Dustin’s shoes. Both posts began with a striking quote from Dustin, a summary of his story, and a call to action to read his full story and find a local service project. This hazy image draws attention to the complexity of his experience in the Marine Corps during wartime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2013

That’s the summary of a post I wrote last week for the Harvard Business Review Blog called “ Go Ahead Take A Failure Bow.” Now you have some practical techniques for learning from failure and a reward! What’s your #npfail story? 13ntcbets ow.ly/k24ok

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Filtering: Identifying groups of good sources or key words – so you can laser in on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Sean Stannard-Stockton , author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy. The NpTech Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. In Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” offers several simple principles to incorporate based on brain science, including: Movement is better than sitting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Nick Sonnenberg Play special attention to the Three Key Takeaways and Pro Tips that expertly summary each respective chapter's teachings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For a step-by-step tutorial on SEO techniques for nonprofits, Wild Apricot's 30 Day Guide to Search Optimization is a good choice, while Search EngineLand site is probably the subject matter expert of choice. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Despite what people may say in an evaluation, brain science suggests that the longer people sit the less they learn. The book offers some techniques to incorporate movement with the goal of improved retention and learning: 1. All these techniques incorporate interaction and better processing of your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I covered the basics of content curation, how it differs from social sharing, the art and practice of curation, a frameworks to get started, examples of nonprofits using curation, the tools, and some techniques for minimizing information overload and managing attention. Back in the 1990s, the overload was coming from email.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Nick Sonnenberg Play special attention to the Three Key Takeaways and Pro Tips that expertly summary each respective chapter's teachings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check out my curated list of nonprofit and LinkedIn resources here. For the executive summary, visit Ditch Digital Dabbling: How Small Businesses + Nonprofits Can Master Online Marketing.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

Note: We combined our summaries for the SXSW bonanza because, Texas. About : Create Good is a 2-day conference to inspire nonprofit communicators to amplify their missions with the latest tools and techniques. SXSW Civic Engagement & Climate Change + SXSW EDU. When: March 10-13, 2023 (Civic Engagement, Climate Change & more).

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

And finally, consider low-cost donor cultivation techniques: Your board or top staff should each be able to call 3-4 top recent donors once a month to thank them. How much time do your staff and board spend with donors? This of course suggests organization-wide use of a very smart software constituent relationship management (CRM) tool.)

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

Many summit organizations reported on virtual events and expanded uses of other techniques that they hope to continue in a post-pandemic world in 2022 and beyond. An area that was impacted by the stay-at-home orders was stewardship and the use of virtual spaces to cultivate donor relationships in place of in-person events and meetings.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2007

It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. Here's a Firefox Extension called " Post Wisdom " that acts as a blogging coach. And if you???re

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. From a dummy donor dataset with no context, no prompt, ChatGPT surprisingly came back with a summary of the data. Whatever the reason, ChatGPT makes for a fascinating human-AI interaction.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Whole Whale’s AI Cause Writing tool and service can serve as this layer in the meantime.

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