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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

You can give supporters truly in-depth information, particularly if you link to online articles or video. Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox. Email Weaknesses: .

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 It followed up on that success by creating the Petition Site the following year.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

They just finished a YouTube video contest. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Identity 2.0

See3

Did he answer the “Why be Jewish&# question for himself in the article? Maya 31 Jan 2008 Maya Norton Dear Michael, Don’t know if you saw it, but my last comment posted here last week was supposedly marked as spam. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email.

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5 Email Sins to Avoid (Again)

sgEngage

I recently learned it is the most read article on the AFP Information Exchange. And it’s more than likely spam, too. It could be asking to take a poll, survey, participate in a contest, or help spread the word for your organization. (This was originally written in June 2009. Reposting it in case you missed it.).

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The Frogloop Interview: Sheeraz Haji - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. I kept worrying that email would be replaced by something else – RSS feeds, mobile, IM or some other form of communication we had not yet experienced.