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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. Also: Do you think I’m overstating the case about the need for nonprofits to find alternatives to Direct Mail? All rights reserved.

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Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. Also: Do you think I’m overstating the case about the need for nonprofits to find alternatives to Direct Mail? All rights reserved.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

NTEN

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Creating Your Organization's Social Media Strategy Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. This is mostly email marketing -- crafting and putting out solid email newsletters and communications which includes having an adequate CRM (constituent relationship management) software and email broadcasting software. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect?

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Live Video Streams.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

Museum 2.0

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." She can choose to "send" her favorites to individuals, or to broadcast them to the whole network of people using the system.