ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. Disclaimer Friday, March 18, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunteer?" One in three.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Yes, there are licensing fees, but they pale in comparison to what it would cost if we had to rely on an open source product and maintain it ourselves. In the end, the vast majority of non profits simply do not have the technology resources to use most open source solutions. Other companies in the NP space are similar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. More Resources (I’d go through them in this order): Nonprofits on Facebook by Facebook. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Looking for a primer?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just because organization 1 gets 45,000 unique visits per month, and organization 2 gets 3,000 means nothing in relationship to the impact that organization has in the world, or in relationship to how it uses its resources. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. Use your RSS reader like a rock star. Can the conversion be accomplished with minimum resources? Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Use of metrics to measure your results. Communicating the results.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Most custom CMS that I’ve seen lately are sorely lacking in features and/or usability, in comparison to what’s out there, and available. The other 15% might want or need a more specialized CMS (like OpenACS, or a proprietary one,) or might need some modules developed for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. url when they ask for additional resources.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Survey participants will form a panel over time, allowing for trend comparisons among the same organizations. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. sectional studies. All Rights Reserved

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either. RSS reading patterns are changing. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The survey was conducted in partnership with L’Association Française des Fundraisers , the Fundraising Institute of New Zealand (FINZ), the German Fundraising Association , Philanthropy Centro Studi , and the Resource Alliance. cited direct mail as the top driver. All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Charlie brings up an interesting point – the number of customers that Blackbaud has pales in comparison to the leagues of nonprofits who use other solutions. It all depends on the individual set of needs and resources available to an organization. Instead, they will have to rely on consultants, or unfortunately volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this. Are you really getting off your soap box?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Check out the articles, blog, and resources. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. ICT in the Developing World.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction. Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. And, if you have a minute to offer some advice.

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