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APRIL 28, 2009

James Young and I gave our first ever WeAreMedia workshop at this year's 2009 Nonprofit Conference on Livestreaming tools. Specifically, we taught the audience how to use CoverItLive for live blogging and UStream for live online video streaming.

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MAY 30, 2011

At the wise suggestion of my colleague, Cheryl, we thought we’d observe this holiday of freedom, respect, pride, and appreciation here on the Connection Café blog with a behind the scenes interview.

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JUNE 11, 2009

The blog Tactical Philanthropy had a great post yesterday about the perspective one could bring to the news. With an estimated two-thirds of charities experiencing a decrease in 2008 overall giving, I decided to take a look at how things are shaping up so far in 2009. from 2007 levels. See our full Q1 findings here.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

It's no surprise that every other blog post you read these days talks about how to raise money, stretch funds and build supporters in the current economic climate. But like Holly mentioned on the NTEN blog , we're going to need your help to do it and have a few ways you might be able to lend a helping hand: 1. That's right.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Here’s a little background: Since 2009, Camber Collective— the result of Hope Consulting and SwitchPoint LLC’s merger—has led the Money for Good research series to seek “the voice of the donor” for charitable giving. Never heard of the $FG report? Whether it’s a $25 gift or a $25,000 gift, our donors have to know that they matter.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Based on the Summit session she's leading right now, the following blog post is written by Judi Sohn. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009. Author: Guest Blogger.

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MAY 20, 2011

Guest blog alert: In my past life as a staffer for a Girl Scout of the USA affiliate, I met Suneil Singh, the then Chief Communications Officer for Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (for those of you with limited Michigan geography like me, think Detroit). This blog post wasn't written for you. Author: Cheryl Black. Are you sure?

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Last night while pondering what I would write today’s blog post on, I read through other recent posts on Connection Café Emma Zolbrod’s post on participant fundraising hit a personal chord. My first event was a century bike ride in Lake Tahoe in 2009 and I’m now training for a triathlon.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I had the pleasure of sitting in on the DMA 2009 Washington Nonprofit Conference session titled "New Media Channels — Adding Text Messaging, Social Networks and Media to the Marketing Mix" last Friday. HRC has had great success with integrating Convio and MobileCommons to use text/mobile messaging to move people.

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MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. Since 2009, online donations made on mobile devices have grown from 9% of all transactions to 24% in 2018. Common Best Practices Remain Uncommon.

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APRIL 20, 2015

In the Fall 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review , Gregory and Howard identified the “nonprofit starvation cycle” which they defined as follows: The first step in this cycle is the funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much it costs to run a nonprofit. 2009, Fall). © 2015, Pamela J Barden. _. References. Gregory, A.

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MAY 5, 2009

So, allow me this chance to glow in the softer side of nonprofit technology and share some of my favorite moments of the 2009 NTEN Conference. If you’re curious to learn more about what we covered in this session, check out the amazing notes that Amy Sample Ward covered live and posted on her blog.

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MARCH 11, 2009

If you haven’t already heard, 2009 is the year for nonprofits at South By Southwest Interactive ! Nonprofit poetry slam Room 18BCD Saturday, March 14th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Featuring @kanter from Beth's Blog , @ntenhross from NTEN , @ starfocus from the NFW , @wharman from the Red Cross and @daviam from the ACS.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

However, today’s webinar on Social Media for Social Good provided some great insight and answers to the questions and concerns the nonprofit technology industry as a whole still have about social and new media, which gave me a better idea on the areas that still need work or additional education to help the sector move forward in 2009.

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MAY 16, 2011

A few that I have collected or thought of are: Getting staff comfortable with micro-blogging : Chatter feels very similar to Twitter or Facebook but is safer because it’s internal only. Chatter has been around since late 2009, but it was only early this year that Salesforce made it available to anyone for free.

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APRIL 13, 2011

percent) and the second being the recent blog post by Roger Craver questioning whether the top 83 direct response fundraisers should be fired. If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be You may have used the same acquisition lists for several years.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Check out what we all have in store if the thermometer tips $10K below (originally posted on the NTEN blog earlier today by Holly). Over 900 of you have already registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Warning: be prepared to laugh outloud if watching this in your office as I was when I first viewed the video.

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MAY 13, 2009

Example of this being used effectively and in meaningful way: the White House opened Twitter during swine flu outbreak to take questions from the general public and the next day had expert answer questions on the White House blog. Women Wired Tweet LiveStream for 2009-05-13 (via Women Wired In).

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