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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

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During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. The book is available on Amazon. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

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2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

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Visualization techniques – from note-taking to creative idea generation. .” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I’ve flirted with this, but have not written about it regularly – so expect more of that from me.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

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In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010.

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The Networked Nonprofit Roundup: Bay Area Book Party 7/23

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Join us on Friday, July 23, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at Pro Arts Gallery ( [link] ) at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, a stone’s throw from the Oakland City Center/12th Street BART station. I learned about some new techniques for measuring blog stats and Twitter. The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are throwing a #netnon book party.

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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

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.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. There were slightly less crossed-legs and arms and more curiosity and questions like, “What are the best practices?

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Guest Post by Frank Barry: Your Network Matters: Fatcyclist Raises Over 135K in 8 Days

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Note from Beth:   I'm always excited to see inspiring examples of personal fundraising and the dollars raised have come a long way since my first experiment in 2006, a testament to how much more connected we are and the rise of popularity of this technique.    And yes, airfare will be taken care of. fatcyclist responds.

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