NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Listen to his or her feedback, since it might include valuable information that your organization is not yet aware of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. ” They set up daily messages on their web site and social media channels to let everyone what was going on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Channels include Latest News, Pets, Wildlife, Animal Rescue, Factory Farming, Animal Fighting, Fur-Free, Horses, Protect Seals, Wildlife Abuse, International, Investigations, Press Room. Updated: May 6, 2009. Released: November 16, 2009. Humane Society of the United States :: Download. App Name: Humane TV. App Name: AiCandle.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. "Where you should start with online video is to make a commitment to using this new medium to connect people to your work."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

From email blasts to Facebook pages, in many cases it’s now nonprofits that find themselves with channels in need of content. Now your nonprofits is the publisher managing your own communications channels, an Editorial Calendar can be a great way to manage your content pipeline. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Content is King.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

You need to know basic HTML to utilize the Static FBML App on Facebook, to correctly design your Twitter and MySpace profiles, your YouTube channel, and to create and maintain a blog that is visually appealing and professional. I launched this blog in September 2009. My Top Five are below: 1. Learn basic HTML. Launch a blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

When it comes to fundraising, though, one of the areas of most interest is motivation – this can help fundraisers and organizations align their message and delivery with the points of interest and the channels that are the most influential to the target audience. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Learn why they are involved, what motivates them, and engage them through different channels. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. You could also ask if they would like to become more involved by receiving news alerts, program information or event invitations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Today’s nonprofit donors, volunteers, and fans are living a complex world, have busy lives and probably receive more messages and information than they can deal with. (Don’t Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). Does your organization have a ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

First a little background information. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. There are so many opportunities to put this channel to good use. What worked for your organization in 2009? Author: Emma Zolbrod. And who better to push them along than the organization behind the event! The 5/50 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. Throughout the summer, we worked hard to provide organizations with ample information about how the new site works, what would feel different and how to get help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

I wanted to find out more about how Seafood Watch integrates its mobile strategy across its communications channel, including social media. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Can you tell me how the channels support and enhance each other? What were some of the results? What is different?mIs

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. There’s another benefit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam Causes may even want to consider alternative mobile channels for communications and fundraising.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

from 2009 when giving was $280.3 While a large majority of donations are still made by check (79 percent), online fundraising is the fastest growing donation channel. Be sure and also provide clear donation information with options for different types of donations - one time, recurring, etc. . – Charity Navigator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. For more information, visit www.GiveMN.org. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

His total for the day was 64 hot dogs. In 2009, he won again, beating his own record by consuming 68 hot dogs. Doesn’t listening require plowing through mountains and mountains of unstructured information? They also need to get past the concern about information overload and too much unstructured information.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

Back in the day – you know, 2009 – we had to search these things out. Or do: maybe they'll make another video like this one (complete with integrated marketing channels ). FarmingFirst has also done a nice job packing a lot of information into a small space with some dynamic code. Keep them coming. They make learning fun!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Even if that’s all the information we integrate into our appeals, surely that’s got to do a better job of securing additional support than a crude “Dear Donor” letter or email! And since it’s so simple to gather even more personal information from at least some of our donors, what’s stopping us? Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

If we were to look at the engagement channels and the transactional channels, we are likely to see a symbiotic relationship between online and offline. Do not confuse the channel of engagement with the channel of the transaction. Social media will continue to be a channel for both engagement and giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. Because of the project’s scale, we opted to use Twitter as our communications channel instead of Facebook. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They (whoever "they" are), were spot-on when they named this the Information Age. Let's say your development staff shows you something like this: 782 first time donors in 2009. Donor demographic information. What channel (direct mail, email, social media) the gift came through. 129 have donated again in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. The concern about information overload and too much unstructured information. No downright sick in the stomach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession ended in June 2009, and fundraising historically takes three years recover from a recession. Flickr Photo by Su Lin.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

3) keep stakeholders informed? And it only makes sense if the connections that can be made, the communication channels opened, the voice heard is worth that investment. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors? Good analysis.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Nonprofits must see these marketing efforts in the eyes of users—as one big, endless flow of information from many indistinguishable sources. Of course, your NPO likely doesn’t have a multi-million dollar marketing budget, but the message in this campaign was clear and consistent across all of these media channels. Get Started.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. Planned Parenthood had success using the tool for a thank-you call to President Obama in 2009. 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones. However, the mobile market is rapidly growing and evolving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. Here some basic information from TechSmith. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. Here some basic information from TechSmith.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

The New Year has officially begun, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the year past, or for most people, look forward to see what resolutions and initiatives can be planned to make the new 2010 better than 2009.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. MacArthur Foundation and Humanity United , held their second Human Rights and Technology conference at the new David Brower Center.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

An XML sitemap can provide search engines with important information about your site and improve your search rankings. Many Content Management Systems can automate this process, keeping the sitemap up to date and informing search engines of the changes. March 23, 2009 | Hatef Yamini Excellent list! It will be a great aid!

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