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Don’t Roast a Hen for Every Meal: Making Nonprofit Marketing Doable

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Your cause is worthy. Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Reviews - books, movies, other organizations' strategies. Your work is courageous, compelling, groundbreaking. It's okay to serve spaghetti with sauce from a jar or even frozen pizza now and then. Have more time.

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Sprout - A Flash Editor - Let's You Customize Your Own Widget

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter wondered about the ability to incorporate a chipin payment widget linked to other providers and how it may integrate with Facebook Causes. Marshall over Read/Write Web had this rave in his review: It is going to explode the world of widgets on the web. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. And, yes they did !

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact. If you participated in the voting process to select the 21 Featured Projects going to the NetSquared Conference, and want to see what happens next, take a look at the Conference Agenda.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations. Generation.

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Optimizing Event Outcomes

Connection Cafe

Most of the time these causes are addressable, and could represent an opportunity to dialog and engage with constituents on a deeper level. If you have disappointing results from an event, don’t despair! Try to understand what went wrong: a conflict with another event, a lack of awareness…or something more concerning?

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to consider a continuum of engagement activities or what we has been traditionally described as the “Ladder of Engagement” going from passive observer to active donor to champion for your cause. Social media has disrupted in this traditional linear model which is now being called a “Supporter Journey” visually depicted as non-linear.

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