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10 Steps to a More Effective Nonprofit Website

NetWits

Keep Content Fresh. These are actually best case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content! Remember, content is KING and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it! Add dates to content posted to the homepage. Users have short attention spans.

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10 Reasons Your Email Appeal is Being Ignored

NetWits

Sending everyone the same message , instead of delivering relevant content to different segments. Including social components like Facebook’s ‘Share’ and ‘Like’ buttons, Twitter’s ‘Tweet This’ button, and ShareThis’ email functionality make spreading the word easy. You are sending your appeal at the wrong time.

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Create a More Effective Nonprofit Website: Part 4

Tech Soup

Follow Kelley on Twitter. Best Practice #8: Keep Content Fresh. These are actually best-case scenarios – worse is if they simply leave and never come back, which is the biggest risk of stale content! Remember, content is critically important and creating an effective nonprofit website takes a lot of it.

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[VIDEO] Where to Find Potential Donors to Support Your Cause

Bloomerang

Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, CFRE, for a workshop focused on finding potential supporters for your nonprofit organization. Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. Chad, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Hope you'll pay us a visit and follow us on Twitter !

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example the Capital Area Food Bank where staff members are active on Twitter, each has their individual profile on Twitter. Drew McLellan puts it, "If you drop the f-bomb on Twitter, does your boss have a right to wince?" My policy is not say anything on Twitter that would embarrass my mother."

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. Jonathon Coleman asked "How do you know if your web content is strategic?" When a service goes down, users will complain. And if happens a lot, they may move on.

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