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Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform

Care2

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration. After 12 months, it folded. What happened?

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Determined to Trend - Guest Post by James Leventhal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But in many areas there will always be scope for offline delivery of a non-profit’s message. There will always be constituents who need the offline presence, just in the same way there are still shops and banks on the high street. That, however, WILL not be reflected in our webstats for a while, if at all.

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Attention All Shoppers: Online Fundraising Metrics Are In!

NTEN

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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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Offline/Online Mix This is not your mother's or grandmother's black tie dinner dance charity event! While it is an offline event, the organizers leverage their social graphs to invite friends to the event and use social media for all aspects of managing and promoting the event. events morph and change. Charity Ball 2.0

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

Connection Cafe

According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry.