Sat.Jan 08, 2011 - Fri.Jan 14, 2011

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube.

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List of Tools, Resources and Nonprofit Service Providers Covered in the Book

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My upcoming book about social media and mobile technology will feature more than 100 tools, resources, and nonprofit service providers. A good number of them were recommended by nonprofits during the research process. Others are the favorites I’ve used over the last 15 years in my nonprofit career. The book is shaping up to be a comprehensive, step-by-step 70,000-word online communications and development strategic plan.

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Why We Need Social Advocates

NCE Social Media

Ryan Kuder wrote a post on ZDNet explaining why small businesses need social advocates. You know what, nonprofits need them too. In fact, we need as many as we can get! If a tree falls in the woods but no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Well that’s the same with social media. If you post something on social media but no one hears or shares it is your message being heard?

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VisionLink Customers Supporting 60% of US Cities and Towns

VisionLink

'Our customers are amazing! Whether they serve the elderly, the homeless, information and referral, 2-1-1, disaster operations and relief, youth, education, or workforce needs, collectively they support clients and resources in more than 14,000 cities and towns across the United States. Well Done! (And that does not include three new state systems we''ll be launching soon.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Is the Future of Social Media Much Different for Non-profits?

NetWits

Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst with digital strategy consulting firm Altimeter Group , interviewed 140 enterprise-class social strategists for a report on the “ Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist ”. It came out last November, but both Mashable and eMarketer published articles talking about different pieces of the report today so I thought I’d call your attention to what’s being discussed.

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[Book Research] Is your nonprofit utilizing mobile technology?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. If your nonprofit is experimenting with mobile technology, please share your experiences and links (if any) in a comment below. I am particularly interested in: 1. Nonprofits with mobile websites (please share the link!).

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Using a Content Strategy to Promote Your Organization

Wild Apricot

Content Strategy is a term that is popping up more and more often in the business world. In a guest post, Ja-Naé Duane defines content strategy and shares her advice on how to promote your cause, association, non-profit or member organization using a content strategy.( read more ).

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Online Giving Continues to Rise. Are You Adapting? [INFOGRAPHIC]

NetWits

Did you know that online giving passed 15 BILLION in 2009? Amazing, eh? I’m not sure what 2010 looks like yet, but based on the growth we’ve seen since 1997 (as shown below) it’s pretty safe to say that 2010 online giving numbers went up. So, how are you thinking about your online fundraising strategy? Are you doing anything differently or adding anything new in 2011?

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Looks Like Philanthropy Wasn’t One of Apple’s New Years Resolutions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to Sign Online Petition and Send Steve Jobs A Message. Since December, over 12,000 people have signed an online petition to urge Steve Jobs to change Apple’s unfriendly iPhone donation policy. Yesterday, Vincent Stehle, in his column in the Chronicle of Philanthropy took Apple to task for its poor corporate citizen record, compared to the generosity of its competitors like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and others.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Dahna Goldstein, Founder, PhilanTech , Marc Baizman, Owner, My Computer Guy Nonprofit Technology Consulting , and Simone Parrish, Knowledge Manager, Innovation Network "Let's talk about tech, baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be Let's talk about tech" While Salt-N-Pepa had something different in mind when they wrote those lyrics (well, almost those lyrics) in 1990, they captured the essence of how to talk about technology in nonprof

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Is Social Media a Waste of Time for Your Association?

Wild Apricot

Are your members, volunteers or potential donors using social media? The answer is YES - research confirms even 20% of adults 50-64 use social networking daily. While social media campaigns can be time consuming and/or expensive, you can start small and set simple, specific and achievable short term goals.( read more ).

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Does your website make sense?

NetWits

How do you go about generating copy for your website? Do you start actively thinking about the desires, motivations and language of your community before you start typing? Can your readers easily understand what you’re trying to say via your website? Website copy can have a huge impact on how long your website visitors choose to stick around for.

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Zoetica Salon: A Couple of Good Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

January is Tune Up month in the Zoetica Salon , an online space for free peer learning about nonprofits and social media. Here’s a few good resources shared on the wall in the past week. Book: My colleague, Micah Sifry , has written a book, “ Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency.&# The theme of transparency was an important idea in the Networked Nonprofit and I can’t wait to read Micah’s thinking about the transparency movement.

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New at the NTC : StoryTeller’s Workshop

NTEN

Be a part of the 11NTC Storytelling Team! Every year, we do our best to offer more opportunities to learn and connect at the NTC, and this year is no different. We’ve recruited two rock star storytelling, social media experts, Michaela Hackner and Roger Burks , to head up a 2 hour workshop on Wednesday, March 16 (the night before the official kick-off of the NTC) from 6 - 8 pm.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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9 Questions For You - Wild Apricot's Blog Reader Survey

Wild Apricot

What type of information will help small membership, association and non-profit organizations thrive in 2011? We're asking our blog readers to tell us by completing our online Reader Survey.( read more ).

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Does your nonprofit need to fish or cut bait?

Get Fully Funded

I saw a great blog post this morning from a former coach of mine, Andrea Lee. She said: “If you have been complaining about not earning enough money for more than one month – not earning enough money isn’t really an emergency for you.&#. Translated for the nonprofit world, it means if you’ve been complaining about not raising enough money for more than a month, it must not be a problem.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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2011 NTC Preview: A Scientist in Your Communications Department: Segmenting Messages, Customizing Content and Delivering Results

NTEN

Jeff Shuck, CEO, Event360 It's January. The frenzy of your year-end appeal has subsided and you're now busy tallying your results, comparing year-to-year performance, and plotting your next moves. Before you take your next step, it's important to remember that these new and repeat donors present an opportunity to start building more meaningful connections with an engaged group of people who have just raised their hand.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Version 4.1 of Wild Apricot membership software launched!

Wild Apricot

We're kicking off the new year with a new release of our membership software. Version 4.1 went live this morning, and as usual if you're already using Wild Apricot there's nothing for you to do -- the upgrade happens "auto-magically". We've added some commonly requested and (we hope!) useful features to help make your life a little easier, including: Contact and member records without email addresses - If you have members or contacts that do not have email, you can now add them into the Wild Apr

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Will the Dough Rise with Crowdrise?

Care2

One of the more exciting developments in the cause space is the rise of middleware platforms to enhance nonprofits fundraising capabilities on mainstream social networks. Middleware solutions leverage people’s inherent networks in Facebook and Twitter and add new functionality to them usually for grassroots organizing. There are several notable ones in the space, including Causes and Jumo.

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The Networked NGO: Translating the Networked Nonprofit and 1-11-11 Club

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networked NGO. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This year my birthday (Jan. 11) was very special indeed and not only because the date had all ones: 1-11-11. But, I’ll get to birthday fun in a minute. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. Tens of thousands of people participated in over 670 events in 40 states. Staff led on-the-ground efforts in just a handful of key cities, while the majority of actions were organized online and offline by activists and other

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Jon Stewart's Wise Monologue About the Tucson Tragedy

Have Fun - Do Good

I've been struggling to figure out how to absorb the shootings that happened in Tucson, and have been inclined to blame people with different political values than mine whose commentary is nasty and violent, until I listened to Jon Stewart's monologue on Monday's Daily Show. I transcribed an excerpt of it myself to share with you, so please forgive any errors.

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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. But which platform is best for your group? Some nonprofits like the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation are using platforms like the new Facebook Groups to foster ongoing discussions with their members. Here’s a list of the different types of popular platforms that offer group functionality that your nonprofit should consider if you’re thinking of g

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One man’s legacy for helping others

Get Fully Funded

It’s January 14th. My Dad’s birthday. I think he would have been 68 this year. He died 20 years ago, just before my oldest daughter was born. While there are many things I remember about my Dad, there’s one thing I distinctly remember that pissed me off so much, it had a huge impact on my life. Here’s the story. I was a teenager and our youth group at church adopted a local family to help at Christmas.

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Online Fundraising Boot Camp for Small Nonprofits and Small Fundraising Departments

NTEN

It's not true, that Hollywood tagline, "If you build it, they will come" -- at least not for organizations that can't afford Kevin Costner as a pitchman. It's not enough just to put a "Donate Now" button on your home page; it's not enough to send out a couple of emails asking for support. No, you need to integrate your efforts. You need to lay out a strategy.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling: The Challenge Begins!

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Event 2011 begins tomorrow January 13 with a webinar and the opening of a challenge. You have a couple of weeks (January 13 – 31) to create a 60-second video or five-panel picture story that showcases your library's mission and work. No production or storytelling experience is necessary. TechSoup is here to help through free webinars , tools, and strategies for creating your digital story, featuring leading nonprofit, media, and communications experts, as well a

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Postcards as a Call to Action: A Powerful, Political Participatory Experience at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Museum 2.0

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Finding legitimate ways for visitors to be of use is easier said than done. This week, I saw a great example at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that blew me away with its power and simplicity.

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Has Pepsi's Refresh Project Been Compromised By Cheaters? | Fast Company

AFP Blog

Has Pepsi's Refresh Project Been Compromised By Cheaters? | Fast Company: "All is not well with the Pepsi Refresh Project, an online cause marketing campaign that allows participants to vote on where the company donates its cash. Nonprofit groups vying for funding from the campaign are now claiming that manipulated results have propelled recent winners to the top.

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It's YOUR Choice. What Are You Going to Do About It?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Jonathan McIntosh I'm not very good as resolutions. Making big decisions, and then sticking to them no matter what is not my strongest suit. I'm more of a "let's see how this goes and adjust as we make our way" kind of a person. But I do have two hard and fast resolutions this year. First, I'm not going to travel so much. But that's not what this post is about.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.