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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Tips for testing your messages: From field – do your messages currently come from “Your Organization&# ? View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Associated Recreation Council of Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

The Associated Recreation Council (ARC) was one of our test sites. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, 64-bit version, for all stations. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. One USB hub. Five new iMicro keyboards.

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The Differences Between a 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) and Other Tax Exemptions

NonProfit Hub

In fact, there are 29 different types of 501(c) organizations including cemetery companies , Teachers’ Retirement Fund Associations and Black Lung Benefit Trusts. Two types of organizations fit into this category: social welfare organizations and local associations of employees.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We’re an association, so our membership list and directory, a resource directory of vendors and providers to our sector, and lots of member services and programs are all integrated into Drupal via the Salesforce API. The codebase is mature, has many unit tests, and has been used in production for months. 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  If I were an organization like the American Heart Association I could come up with a way to give points to people for checking into locations that were “heart healthy”). .   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In my tests it was buggy (some parts of it just didn’t work), and the interface was still a bit crude. And, boy did I just fail the Richard Stallman test!) Through our Partnership with the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, many nonprofits have access to rates as low as $.06 It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP.

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Why Conversion Is A Better Objective Than Traffic Referral

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Make-A-Wish Foundation monitors analytics, does tests, and tweaks its website ( www.wish.org ). Wish.org saw a doubling of site traffic coming from mobile phones in 2010, with upwards of 10 percent of site traffic coming from handhelds. Guest Post by Petri Darby, Make-A-Wish Foundation. Optimization for Mobile Platforms. Next Steps.