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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. To learn this, test as much as you can in order to get to know your audience well and understand what resonates with them.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) [link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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Intermediated Conferences and Backchannels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using web/phone conference software called "Ready/Talk" which (thank god) offers some interactive features, like chat and handing control of presentation to someone else's desktop. But the word backchannel also refers to the chat in a conference where there are people in the room chatting as well as remote participation.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Perhaps if DimDim were also to release a version that integrated with Skype … I can’t figure out from looking around their site whether it is cross-platform enough to share desktops, but I signed up for the beta, so I guess I’ll test it out. I’m hoping to test it out soon, as well. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. In the interview transcript below, Elizabeth talks about the conference and offers tips for writers who want to write for change. The conference is something that is really Michael's baby.

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Internet Soup

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Since 2007, Desert Bus for Hope has raised nearly $500,000 for Child's Play , a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 60 hospitals worldwide. The conference brings together the best and brightest in the world of web design and development to talk all things HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.