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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. End-of-year fundraising is important but you don’t need to over-engineer your message, especially for the final days of the year, if you’re short on staff or time. Not if you keep it simple! Here is a fun EOY Fundraising Campaign Mad-Lib that you can use to create your campaign in just 15 minutes!

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JULY 21, 2014

On the other hand, nonprofits produce and use content all the time in order to connect with their supporters! We’d really appreciate 10 minutes of your time. If you could, take a few minutes of your time to fill out this survey. – Frank Barry is the Director of Digital Marketing at Blackbaud and blogger at npNGAGE.

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MAY 15, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Creating a Blog within your Community - Why send the traffic back to Word Press and Blogger? What’s the sure fire way to make certain your constituents continue to volunteer for your cause – ensure they are emotionally invested to the organization.

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JULY 24, 2014

On the other hand, nonprofits produce and use content all the time in order to connect with their supporters! We’d really appreciate 10 minutes of your time. If you could, take a few minutes of your time to fill out this survey. – Frank Barry is the Director of Digital Marketing at Blackbaud and blogger at npNGAGE.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Whether they’re bloggers, budding Instagram stars, or running Facebook groups for active alumni, influencers help you reach your prospective students and position your institution as a top choice online. You’ve identified your top influencers, now it’s time to reach out and get your influencers interested in you.

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JUNE 7, 2017

And this culture cannot be achieved if the only people pushing for it are fundraisers—the very people whose time and resources are already stretched thin. Beth Kanter, Master Trainer, Author, and Blogger, Beth’s Blog. Jann Schultz, Senior Director of Individual Giving, Project HOPE. Katrina VanHuss, CEO, Turnkey.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Pay attention to the monthly forecast, so that you can schedule mailings, events and other activities for times when they will have an optimal chance for producing successful returns. Raising more money makes you better looking. Well, maybe not. But you’ll feel like you are better looking.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Long-form journalism is finding new legs through social recommendation (#longform, #longreads) and time-shifting apps. Many readers are using time-shifting apps to collect web content and read it later. Author: Seth Merritt. E-books and e-readers are a growing part of the attention ecosystem. What content makes sense?

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MARCH 1, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. It’s that time of the year again folks! If our happy hour wasn’t enough time to get the creative juices flowing, or other juices were flowing too much, our Social Media Marketing Specialist, Cheryl Black , will be hosting a nonprofit meet up in the Beacon Lounge March 10th from 1:30pm-2:30pm.

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JULY 9, 2009

writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. The teams are currently conducting outreach and organizing, and on Friday from 7am - 6pm Eastern time, you can vote on which candidate you'd like to elect.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Well, here we are in December again, and most nonprofit organizations find themselves with mission critical fundraising to be managed and a staff who need time off with their families for the holidays. We know how important this time of year is to you, your organization and your constituency.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

The kids had a fantastic time seeing the animals up close and learning about their habitats. Guest Post by Andy Welkley , Product Marketing Manager for Blackbaud’s Peer to Peer solutions. Recently, my daughter attended a birthday party at the local aquarium.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Blogger, which turns 10 this year, was covered in depth, and I have to admit, I was quite impressed with the features and functionality it offers that I was totally unaware of. This is great way to get extra visibility, better distribute timely content and provide notifications of new content across websites. YouTube Nonprofit Program.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. In traditional fundraising, having great name recognition and devoted fans can generate increased awareness and raise funds if a celebrity cares about the cause and invests time. Last month PayPal and Zoetica Media announced a white paper about the effectiveness of celebrities in social media fundraising.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The National Partnership for Women & Families used a QR code and built a simple landing page with limited staff time and resources. We're going mobile crazy here on Connection Cafe! From mobile payments to the great app debate , mobile is a red-hot topic in the nonprofit sector. 1104 mobile where to start.

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JULY 22, 2013

For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Time spent on the site. What’s Next.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. This is not the time to wax on and on about your organization. After all, their time, talent and treasure powers the work that you do. As your end of year donations roll in, remember, showing gratitude for donations is different than recognizing them. Be donor-centered. Make your thank-you about ME!

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JANUARY 28, 2014

She shares her marketing expertise—developed over 15+ years of guiding organizations like yours—as a strategist, speaker and blogger at Getting Attention.org. It’ll save you and your colleagues time and frustration. I’ve seen this approach work, time and time again, in organizations just like yours. . Give it a try!

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

It’s the beginning of September and, as if you haven’t already heard this about a thousand times, the end of year is really almost here. If you’re not familiar with Brandon, he’s the blogger/photographer behind Humans of New York (HONY). That means that in 115 days, the biggest giving day of the year will be upon us.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. You cannot control for environmental changes over time, but as much as possible you should manage your test sample to represent the population in your future. We often use history to predict the future. I checked wunderground.com's history of temperature averages before selecting my summer vacation destination.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. But it is a big time commitment that needs to be seriously considered if you are doing it on behalf of your brand, and it needs to be done well if it is going to be done at all. The findings listed here are from their recent research with Chadwick Martin Bailey regarding consumer interactions with Twitter.

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JULY 1, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Why We Love It For clients who need to allow users to make mass changes to their data, Grid Buddy is a great time saver and having the one screen view makes for a lot less clicks back and forth. The following blog post is by Kristin Sharpe at ACF Solutions , a Convio Solution Provider.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

I manage the Memorial Fund’s online community ( Facebook / Twitter / Blogger / Flickr ) and am also the staff photographer/videographer, designer, and handle some online marketing and messaging. Many times when I am stumped about how to accomplish or create something, I’ll search through the Community to find an answer.

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MARCH 9, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Confession time: not more than ten years ago I was one of those people who said I would never have a cell phone. And if your organization isn’t thinking about these things, it might just be time to wake up, put on the ol’ bathrobe, and smell the coffee.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. As fundraisers, how many times have we been asked to raise more net revenue than before and with a smaller budget nonetheless? They had to pull this off in record time with new staff and with a consultant who had just been engaged! This is probably starting to sound familiar. Drum roll please. The Results.

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JULY 12, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. To me, Google + combines the best things of Facebook (possible exclusivity) and the best things of Twitter (it's all out there, all the time.) And I noticed she's posting 5-6 times a day. Now she's making a cameo appearance here on Connection Cafe to share her initial impressions with you. BEAUTIFUL.

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JULY 19, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. This has me thinking a lot about timing of fundraising promotions – mail drops, events, and campaigns. Based on what we see now, it makes sense to time promotions sooner rather than later in 2011 to take advantage of a better charitable giving environment. Here's a puzzler for you.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. account and start using Timely Bitly and awe.sm They are both invaluable in and of themselves, but combined with Timely, they are spectacular. When you find something interesting online that you would otherwise tweet immediately or schedule within a tweet scheduler, schedule it instead within Timely.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. Based on the Summit session she's leading right now, the following blog post is written by Judi Sohn.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Through a lot of hard knocks & sleepless nights, I learned three important lessons that help me maximize my time and resources in a small shop that has big aspirations. I’m sure a lot of you are saying, this sounds great but who has the time! Now I ask, who doesn’t have the time?

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JUNE 6, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. In our initial blog post , we identified five key shifts affecting the environment for nonprofits that have co-mingled with the economy to create the potential for continued rough times. This post was written by Marc Chardon and Hal Williams. It was orginally featured on The Huffington Post , June 4, 2012.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. At the same time, much of what fundraisers do — especially with major gift fundraising — is really one-to-one, personal relationship building that doesn’t fall into what we typically consider nonprofit marketing to a larger target audience. What experiences do you have with making this work?

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MAY 2, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. We celebrate birthdays, redecorate people's cubes while they are on vacation, laugh at each other eating larger than life burritos, celebrate newborns (future interns), and help each other out in time of need. This week, these words have added significance. Next week, the family gets a little larger.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. When we’re first thinking about buying a new pet, our temptation can be to downplay the time and attention it’s going to require to address all of these questions. Editor's Note: Investing time in learning and adjusting technology to get it just the way you want it is both normal and important.

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MAY 3, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. Editor’s Note: This week the Convio team has reflected upon our journey: funny times, client successes, company progress and our future. We've enjoyed including you with Gene's post Monday , Sara's post Tuesday and Gary's post yesterday. First from Angie McDermott , VP of Human Resources.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

I’m excited to introduce you to a new npENGAGE blogger, Shana Masterson! Shana has been of one my fundraising BFF’s for quite some time now and I’m eager for her to share her fundraising know-how with you, the npENGAGE community. In 2015, it’s time to truly embrace your complainers! And it can be extremely frustrating.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. And doing so when you’re asking for high-level commitments in terms of time, money and endurance makes the challenge twice as hard. You work hard to get people’s attention. You hone your story and shout it from the rooftops. Enter the general interest, or “kick-off” meeting.

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