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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

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How much time should your nonprofit spend engaging with their “fans” on Facebook? It’s much easier for people to click a button and sign a petition online than it is to take time out of their busy schedules to attend an event. She is also the Blogger-In-Chief for Care2’s Frogloop blog. Is two hours a week good enough?

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Three Ingredients for Successful Year-End Fundraising

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Guest post by the one and only Allyson Kapin - co-founder of Rad Campaign and blogger at frogloop – Care2′s nonprofit marketing blog. This is the time of year that your organization should be raising up to 40% of its donations online. Make sure to check out what she’s got going on! —. Year-end fundraising is here.

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Channel Surfing: A News Roundup

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But they tend to make that second donation online only about half the time.”. Additional coverage. • The Nonprofit Times covers the Report in Study: Online-Acquired Donors Switch To Mail, Not Vice-Versa. The data clearly shows that integrated direct marketing is essential for maximizing the long-term value of online-acquired donors.

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How Blogging and Tweets Generate Support for a Family

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When bloggers Heather and Mike Spohr rushed their their 16 month old daughter Madeline to the hospital for a severe respiratory infection on April 6, 2009, they had no idea how quickly their lives would be turned upside down. At that time the online community provided support and read about Maddie's development on their blogs.

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Getting on The List

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New review in the Times of a restaurant you happen to be going to tonight. New post by your favorite blogger, delivered via RSS. Handwritten love note from a current crush. Obviously bulk snail mail from a charity you donated to three years ago. Latest volley in a flame war. Comment on a blog post you wrote three days ago.

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The Surge of "Software as a Service" and OnDemand technologies

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A number of companies have successfully deployed the SaaS model to hundreds of thousands of users, most notably SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright's four horsemen of SaaS , and in the nonprofit world eTapestry blazed the trail. However, these benefits often come with limitations on flexibility and data access.

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