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JANUARY 5, 2015

This revised project included the conversion of books into accessible formats and working with multiple schools. Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. What is your blog conversation strategy? Calling on the Twitterverse and Connie Reece Answers First. $10 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

The awards committee praised Lambda Legal for using conditional content very well. NARAL won the “Integrated Fundraising Campaign” prize for a multi-channel (email plus direct mail plus telemarketing) campaign that acquired 11,300 new contributing members at a 20% to 30% conversion rate. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 18, 2008

What I hope it will do is start a conversation we often don’t have in this country about race and what it means to be American. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! You can read the transcript here or see the video below. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

At the ending "All Star" panel, there was a moderated conversation with 7 luminaries, including Ami Dar and Steve Wright. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. The Challenge raised $1.8 million from more than 71,000 donors, benefiting thousands of causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay.

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APRIL 24, 2008

Heres what youll find: Email Messaging: Current benchmarks for open, click-through, response and page conversion rates Email List Size: How much churn should you anticipate and how quickly are email lists growing? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Can we please have a conversation? This year’s best of class award went to VIA3 from [link] , followed by GoToMeeting and WebEx. I understand from your post that one the issues you faced while using Dimdim was the inability to show Linux desktops. I would love to talk with you and get your feedback and thoughts on Dimdim.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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JUNE 5, 2009

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Competitions, Awards, and Recognition. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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MAY 17, 2007

Amy Gahran - a conversational media consultant, content strategist, and freelance writer/editor - showed us some really cool sites about the exciting, ever-developing world of citizen journalism that we wanted to share with you, our Frog Loop readers. May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I think it went really well!!

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

link] October 10, 2008 | FChristie I think that this is a great contest. v=cb71fk-79Uc Also, full details of my idea can be found at: www.quidproquohealthmanagement.com October 11, 2008 | Jonathan Barry my name is anandbabu and iam from vishakapatnam in india.i October 14, 2008 | N.anandbabu Hi Friends. I have submitted my idea.

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MARCH 26, 2009

For example, between 2006 and 2007, online donations grew by 26% but between 2007 and 2008 online donations only grew by 14%. Dave Steadman Hamilton College March 26, 2009 | Dave Steadman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Given the slow down, nonprofits should continue to track their own quarterly results and plan accordingly.

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MAY 29, 2007

Amy Gahran - a conversational media consultant, content strategist, and freelance writer/editor - showed us some really cool sites about the exciting, ever-developing world of citizen journalism that we wanted to share with you, our Frog Loop readers. May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I think it went really well!!

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APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. www.MHPonline.org April 22, 2009 | Rick Bernardo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. All rights reserved.

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MAY 8, 2009

So far, so good, as a fair amount of conversations have started on both platforms. May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com We did create a group on LinkedIn and a Twitter account. Were in early stages for both, and the point for us was to raise awareness of the organization. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Only a small handful of grantees, such as WITNESS , the ACLU , Breakthrough , and WNYC Public Radio , significantly use social media to converse with constituents. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? world, using the Internet for information, not interactivity.

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APRIL 14, 2009

If Twitter is hosting a lot of the conversation, then you should start an account and reply to all those who are talking about you by searching for conversation on search.twitter.com. So make sure to have an idea of how much conversation is going on in the beginning, middle and end of a crisis. Monitor the Results.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Some basic KPIs that would be useful to most nonprofit websites: Visitor-to-donor conversion ratio Unique visitors per day/week/month Cost per visitor Bounce rate Abandonment rate Average time on site For a more complete listing of KPIs, broken down by type of website, check out this post by analytics guru Bryan Eisenberg. Excellent post!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. She was also awarded their annual Ida B. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office. It would be great to have as many as two to five new offices in 2008 as our goal. BB: How can listeners help?

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MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Think Like a Designer: Viral Video and Paradox | Main | Web Metrics Wilderness: Find Your Site Conversion Pages. 60) Search « Think Like a Designer: Viral Video and Paradox | Main | Web Metrics Wilderness: Find Your Site Conversion Pages. May 31, 2007 | Amien Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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JUNE 21, 2007

The higher the number of clicks an ad gets doesnt necessarily equate to a higher number of conversions. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Regardless of whether people click-through or take action, as long as they can see who you are with respect to a cause, its important and leaves an impression. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.” and had a CTR was 2.17% and a conversion rate of 4.40%. March 9, 2009 | Abigail Hirsch Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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JULY 26, 2007

April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. Please feel free to email me leslie@ppca.org July 18, 2008 | Leslie Good day im happy to received this Glorious message in my box as a matter of fact am very excited. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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JULY 17, 2007

April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. Please feel free to email me leslie@ppca.org July 18, 2008 | Leslie Good day im happy to received this Glorious message in my box as a matter of fact am very excited. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Conversion- There are two levels of conversion. The second type of conversion is converting your subscribers/activists into donors. Retention- As with conversion, there are two types of retention; keeping people subscribed to your list and obtaining multiple gifts from first time donors. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 3, 2009

60) Search « 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards | Main | 10 Best Web Content Practices » Friday Feb 27 2009 Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly Friday, February 27, 2009 at 06:43PM | by Daniel Bennett Daniel Bennett To Tweet or not to Tweet is not the question. March 3, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” May 22, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com ” Think about it.

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JULY 11, 2007

Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 02:57PM | by James OMalley Award-winning author Allison Fine chats at length about nonprofits use of social media, her book Momentum , and how the Connected Age technology links everyone to your organization. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Whats next?

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MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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AUGUST 16, 2008

Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? July 31, 2008 | Jordan Viator Hatef, Your article is very informative, especially for new social media users like my self. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com It depends on what your goals are.

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JULY 14, 2008

Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? July 31, 2008 | Jordan Viator Hatef, Your article is very informative, especially for new social media users like my self. Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com It depends on what your goals are.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. Please feel free to email me leslie@ppca.org July 18, 2008 | Leslie Good day im happy to received this Glorious message in my box as a matter of fact am very excited. December 11, 2007 | çad?r

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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. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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