Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. goodiness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. 3 Dave Keays 04.03.09

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you’re getting people to your website, how are you getting them to make you a donation you can’t refuse? transaction Setup Fee: $0 Commitment: None Integration: Salesforce, MailChimp, Eventbrite, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Google Docs, HubSpot, Insightly, Stripe. We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. MobileCause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The eye bank's database has to be powerful and easy to use by many people. The organization has just two IT people to keep its systems running. It’s kind of amazing to see the data mechanism that makes it possible to restore sight to so many people. It has 40 full-time employees and has been around for 35 years.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 19, 2016

Sure there are special broadcasts that detail typical training regimens for certain prolific athletes, and I for one am quite interested in attempting to eat the 2008 diet of Michael Phelps, who famously proclaimed he was consuming 12,000 calories a day. However, I am sure that sounds a little more glorious than the actual act would be.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. [link]. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

At Blackbaud, Dennis has managed the Strategic Services Practice, comprised of consultants in Business Analytics, Design & Information Architecture, Deployment Services and Agency Services. Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Foundations have consistently remained conservative in their grant and operational spending since the financial market crash of 2008 and have been looking to do more with their limited resources. Many people have begun to ask, “how can we serve a diverse population without a diverse organization?”

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Have you ever analyzed your nonprofit organization's online donor list and wondered why many of the people listed aren’t recurring online donors? For example, 12 of the groups in the study had a median increase in online donors of 39% from 2007 to 2008, while their offline donors decreased a median -3% over the same period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Visitors are people who visit your blog. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Is there a conversation happening between people who comment? Are there any patterns? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working. Our first instinct is to give people information. Direct the Rider. Next comes the feeling.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? While celebrity endorsements have power in marketing, studies suggest that most people are more open to a transfer or exchange of knowledge with a respected peer. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working. Our first instinct is to give people information. Also new this year is the online NTC.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Have you ever analyzed your nonprofit organization's online donor list and wondered why many of the people listed aren’t recurring online donors? For example, 12 of the groups in the study had a median increase in online donors of 39% from 2007 to 2008, while their offline donors decreased a median -3% over the same period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

He writes the Web Strategy blog that I follow closely because of his analytical writing about Web2.0. 2008: How do I do it right? workshops I've done over the last six months, there are still people who raise their hands when I ask "Who is unsure what the term web2.0 2007: What does it mean to my business?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever. How many people call you to ask for help in analyzing why a relationship is not working versus working. We rarely train our analytical capacity to what is working. Our first instinct is to give people information. Also new this year is the online NTC.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. If you need a good reason to read her blog, sit down for an afternoon with this incredible talk she gave in 2008 at an arts marketing summit and prepare to be blown away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. In Google Analytics I'm closing looking at referrals. When people on Twitter responded to my questions, the reaction from people in the room was, "Isn't anyone getting any work done?"

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

I've always been of the mind that people are going to talk about you anyway, so you might as well use the tools that let you take part in the conversation. In 2008 , the lowest SXSWi badge price was $325, just $24 less than our lowest price. . And they will. Finally, SXSWi and the NTC are not even close to the same thing.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But what we’ve seen in the market out there is that people are seeing subscription pricing models as a solution to the problem of deflation in CE pricing (see the Value-based Accreditation entry, above, for more discussion of that issue). Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This forces us to create systems to deepen relationships with people that are fans of what we do, rather than just treating them as ‘the public’ or ‘our constituents.’ Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Free Agent Social Fundraising: I am very interested in seeing how people can take action on their own, outside of an organizational context, because of the connectedness that social media has facilitated. I want to do a better job of connecting people in my network to one another, the art of network weaving and building social capital.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. According to Target Analytics, which analyzed over 70 nonprofits direct mail programs, response rates have been declining over the past two years, and this decline is accelerating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Michael Smith.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

This forces us to create systems to deepen relationships with people that are fans of what we do, rather than just treating them as ‘the public’ or ‘our constituents.’ Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Be a nice human.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. According to Target Analytics, which analyzed over 70 nonprofits direct mail programs, response rates have been declining over the past two years, and this decline is accelerating.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

If theres a story that really puts your nonprofit in the best light possible, make sure thats the story people read first! Google Analytics shows you where your sites visitors are entering your site from. Google Calendars is an easy way to get your nonprofits events directly to the people. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Well examine what can and cant be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. This session will explore how to write compelling, memorable stories that get people to take action and keep them engaged. You’ve heard why you should use social media and you’ve seen what people have done.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

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. More than 85 million people have watched Barack Obama on You Tube and 22 million have watched John McCain videos—all of them include a "tell-a-friend" link. Tools you can Use.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. The meat is people coming together to design exhibits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. This year is our 5th anniversary and we’re funding a drilling rig for our partner in Ethiopia that can provide access to clean and safe drinking water to 40,000 people a year. Obviously $.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But what about all the other people who love your museum? 1stfans builds benefits onto two programs that were already successful at connecting people to the Brooklyn Museum: free Target First Saturdays and online social media outreach. There are different benefits to 1stfans for different people.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Mobile fundraising empowers people to give on the go! This ensures that people can give to your organization no matter where they are or which device they’re using. of people in the U.S ” According to the Pew Research Center , 53% of people 65 and older actually own smartphones as well! With 72.7%

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

However, we are suggesting that you consider ways to reach people who you don’t reach with direct mail, as well as to take advantage of the shift to digital channels that has been accelerated over the past 12 months. People are more likely to give to someone they know than they are to give to a hospital foundation.

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