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Buy Me! Support the 11NTC Scholarship Fund

Amy Sample Ward

Well, the Nonprofit Technology Conference is an amazing experience every year: people from all kinds of organizations, all kinds of backgrounds, and with all kinds of passion, joining together to talk about how we can use technology to make even more social impact – it’s just my kind of community!

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Google needs to stop treating support like it’s an add-on feature

Judi Sohn

Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners (NPSF) is a 6 year-old Google Group now with over 1700 members, averaging around 300 messages a month. Only requirement for membership is that you have a connection in some way to nonprofits using Salesforce. Even though I work for Convio, Common Ground gets no special treatment.

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My dream HTML email editor…does it exist?

Judi Sohn

We use Convio for our email marketing, and unfortunately their email WYSIWYG editor…well…sucks. Go back to nested tables (but not too many…you have to keep the code light and not get bounced as spam if there’s not enough content vs. code) and only use inline CSS styles.

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The 2011 NTC Scholarship Silent Auction is Now Open!

NTEN

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? Every year, we raise up to $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the NTC. Every dollar is matched by Convio, allowing us to send up to 57 people this year. It went into my spam filter, FYI.)

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. I have it on video). I'll look forward to hearing a report.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool. That nonprofits and companies should not set up a Twitter account to "prattle on about their products and services." Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Here's how.

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NTC Boston: Brian Reich: Online Fundraising Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get Active (best for advocacy, easiest to use email tool) Kintera (big program and lots of features are not necessarily used) Convio (fundraising) Blackbaud. Need SSL Merchant Account Nonprofit status Documentation on your site to demonstrate the rules Privacy policy ??? t Spam regulations ??? t Spam regulations ???

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