September, 2010

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10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan

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Author: Jordan Viator. Last week I had the opportunity to speak with Judy Chang of PayPal and Debbie Swider of the ASPCA on “ 10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan ” with examples of some of the amazing success the ASPCA has seen through growing its social media plan. I started off laying the groundwork for developing a social media plan and strategy with the first 5 tips, and then Judy shared the last 5 tips, focusing on nonprofits and raising funds.

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Convio Summit? There's an app for that.

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Author: Bruce Keilin. Prior to the end of the summer and sending my kids back to school, my family went on a short vacation to Truckee, CA. When I wasn't busy rafting on the Truckee River , biking to Nevada City , hanging out with friends and family, or eating , I was playing around with Titanium Appcelerator , a cross-platform application development system.

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Welcome to the neighborhood

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Author: Taylor Shanklin. When you move into a new neighborhood, you’re likely to be welcomed in some way to the community. Perhaps a neighbor stops by to introduce themselves and brings a basket of fresh-baked cookies or muffins. Or maybe the neighborhood association drops off an information packet to let you know about neighborhood meetings and what is going on in the area.

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Is Social Media Right for Your Organization?

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Author: Jordan Viator. Guest post from John Chen, @ johnYSchen , DC-based nptechie and nonprofiteer. It's evident that social media has become ingrained into our daily lives. Social media has the power to bring your organization up in an instant (see Social Media Campaign Gives NBC’s Chuck a Fighting Chance ); it also has the power to bring you down just as fast (see Skittles Twitter campaign) if not done properly.

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Recipe for (Measuring) Success

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Author: Noel Beebe. Recipe for (Measuring) Success. Event season is in full swing which means three things to me… reports, reports, reports. If you’ve got an event (or many events) taking place this fall, and are using an online fundraising tool like TeamRaiser, you are probably up to your elbows in reports as well. Today, I’d like to share with you my favorite event report, in the hopes that it might save you some time and provide some insight into what you should be tracking

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A Better Approach to Monthly Giving

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Author: Lacey Kruger. Recently, some colleagues and I started an email exchange about best practices for monthly giving. The question was whether or not, on a recurring donation form, to ask the user to determine the duration of their gift. The default configuration for a recurring gift form in Convio looks something like this: The suggestion was to simplify the form, making it look something like this: Truth be told, I’m a marketer.

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Quality, not just quantity

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Author: Sally Heaven. Another day, another new feature of Gmail. This one is called Priority Inbox. It's a new feature that will promote messages to the Priority level based on your behavior around certain types of messages - like whether you open them or click on them, read messages with similar keywords, and so on. It also allows users to designate which messages should be treated with importance.

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