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September Communications RoundTable : A Social Media Sharing Fest

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The events don't always have a set topic, but are open discussions for questions, sharing, and learning from your peers. Chad recommended contests as a way to grow your fan base and pointed to the Wildfire application. Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. Descriptive analytics (hindsight): This answers the question of "What happened?" Diagnostic analytics (insight): This answers the question of "Why did it happen?" You can enter to win on this site. Good for grouping or segmentation.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm. Here is the link, [link] Let me know if you have any questions. Christopher S.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook? Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox. Of course, the correct answer is almost always “both.”

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 Following the presentation, Paynter answered audience questions that revealed more about Care2.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed.

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Numbered lists, questions, personalized subject lines, and one-word statements are the tried-and-true best practices for email subject line s , but don’t be afraid to experiment and get creative. Use A/B testing to experiment with subject lines and limit characters to 50 or less.

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