Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I have one note: I feel a little strange giving tips – a lot of the blogs I really like are way better than mine. My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. My tip: JP, write more !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together. Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. And further, there is an amazing integration of Elgg with Mediawiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. Olivia Mitchell 's guest post on Pistachio Consulting offers some good tips: 1.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

With the help of 4 nonprofits (including NTEN members Easter Seals and The Wilderness Society ) who tested premiums against control campaigns during December 2008, they found that premiums can increase both response rate and donation amount. Read the report for tips on doing it right.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The last few donations that put this campaign over the top came from Justin Kownack who paid it forward from his own group donation experiment using Twitter as a test of good deeds. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

They also pointed to specific testing done on their email campaigns, to determine the best copy to send to their constituents. Some of these were: Online fundraising grew in 2009 as compared to 2008 but the average gift size was smaller. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

You've gotta test things for yourself. Case in point: I shared some results from M+R Strategic Services' work with the Human Rights Campaign, where we've repeatedly tested online premiums as a way to get that all-important gift from first-time donors. The bottom line is, you've got to test it for yourself. With the U.S.

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See3

MARCH 14, 2008

Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Anyone else out there experimenting? Heather will be demonstrating the new MySpace Apps in a webinar in April. You can learn more about her webinars here.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

Not illicit, hacky apps like people have been writing so far, but authorized, tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap into all the features of the iPhone. I mean, we have Windows and OSX everywhere… 18 Mar 2008 daniel hartman does this mean you’re finally gonna get one?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

Campaigns push staff, vendors, and consultants to stretch and test the limits of best practices and tools in communication, fundraising, advertising, branding and targeting. As the 2008 campaign was heating up, internet based tools, especially social media, were really taking off. Lesson Two: Social Networking.

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Care2

JUNE 16, 2009

» Monday Jun 15 2009 Converting New Activists into Donors Monday, June 15, 2009 at 05:05PM | by Allyson Kapin Last week Frogloop talked with Madeline Stanionis and Jenn Smith of Watershed about their top 5 tips for engaging new activists who recently signed up for a nonprofit’s email list. All rights reserved.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire when they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach. During his first five years he’s been tested. Nonprofit Fundraising #tbt fundraising ideas fundraising tips peer to peer risk management' Thanks Robin!

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

But here at M+R, we've seen hard data contradict brilliant theories often enough to know that testing is essential, so we put personal stories to the test for a major national health organization. This test isn't an anomaly. The institutional version raised more than 4 times as much from almost twice as many donors.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

While gut-based decision-making is as natural as choosing your breakfast, I'd like offer some tips on how to recognize the patterns, and ultimately change the way your organization makes strategic decisions. Here area few tips to avoid your own Bandwagon Effect: Perform a pilot study. Sometimes we've led trends.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

The project started in 2008, and they’ve raised over $50 million doing these types of things for sick and injured kids through online gaming fundraisers. We strongly recommend you test your setup first because, pro tip – you’re probably going to need to mute others to avoid feedback and general off-key singing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Main | Care2 Helps in Law of the Sea Win » Monday Nov 05 2007 Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur Monday, November 5, 2007 at 05:21PM | by Karen Taggart Ill admit it. Test different categories of folks (recent donors, non-donors, renewed donors) and test different treatments. Great tips.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Main | Care2 Helps in Law of the Sea Win » Monday Nov 05 2007 Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur Monday, November 5, 2007 at 05:21PM | by Karen Taggart Ill admit it. Test different categories of folks (recent donors, non-donors, renewed donors) and test different treatments. Great tips.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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