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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of your supporters are becoming overwhelmed with tweets, status updates, emails, texts, and print and broadcast media and because of that it’s getting more difficult for your “Thank You” message to stand out from all the noise. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary. His Google account was taken over and deleted.

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Cloud Computing No Longer A Fad For Nonprofits - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

AFP Blog

Cloud Computing No Longer A Fad For Nonprofits - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : "Every nonprofit used the cloud for at least two services during 2015, up from 80 percent in 2011, according to a survey conducted by NTEN and Microsoft Philanthropies.

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Improving Fundraising Asks: 5 Tips for Boosting Donations

Achieve

Broadcasting your marketing materials on several different platforms can ensure that your donors will see your message through at least one of the methods. . be sure that you aren’t making your donors feel like a number in a database. John founded Snowball in 2011. Use a multi-channel fundraising approach.

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Right now in digital charity

Connection Cafe

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities. They now have a rich database of new potential donors that they can engage in the longer term.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year. In any case, the service has allowed the company to build a unified database of our personal affinities to engage us more deeply. SkyDrive has become OneDrive.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Integrated Mobile Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Users can also add restaurants and retailers that sell sustainable seafood if they don’t find them listed in our database. And other people can search the location-based database to find sustainable seafood nearby. We’re also experimenting with the introduction of game mechanics. How will you measure success?

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