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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in det

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Is fear a prison?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This image is making its way around facebook, and on first look, I can see why most people feel like it makes sense. But I have been doing a lot of personal work around fear lately, and I have a different perspective. I think that fear is a good thing. At its core, fear is a set of physiological, psychological, and emotional responses to external threats.

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. That said, I do not cover personal LinkedIn Profiles in my upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn , but LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages are covered in det

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Is fear a prison?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This image is making its way around facebook, and on first look, I can see why most people feel like it makes sense. But I have been doing a lot of personal work around fear lately, and I have a different perspective. I think that fear is a good thing. At its core, fear is a set of physiological, psychological, and emotional responses to external threats.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Tips for Association and Non-profit Annual Reports

Wild Apricot

Here's the first in our Annual Report blog series and details on our new Getting Started With Annual Reports guide and checklist.

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Data Visualization for Social Change

NTEN

Rob Cottingham and Kate Rutter have been busy documenting the 2012 NTC in pictures. Check out the latest, a recap of a panel dicussion on data visualization: View full size. Thanks to Rally.org for making this possible!

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Myth #1 from Kivi Leroux Miller's "5 Communications Myths Nonprofit Executive Directors Believe"

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article in the current issue of NTEN's new quarterly e-journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Kivi Leroux Miller, President, NonprofitMarketingGuide.com When I speak to nonprofit executive directors about marketing and communications trends, I’ll often see a slight narrowing of the eyes and pursing of the lips, or a full-out slump back into the chair.

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Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Vinay Bhagat of Convio

Care2

Kudos to Vinay Bhagat of Convio for winning the 2012 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. Bhagat garnered the most votes from the NTEN community, from among a pool of incredibly accomplished finalists including Nancy Lublin of DoSomething.org , Geoff Handy of Humane Society of the U.S., Paull Young of charity: water and Marc Sirkin of Autism Speaks.

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Released at the 2012 NTC Today: The New eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R and NTEN

NTEN

You can now download the 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2012 NTC by M+R and NTEN. New this year and particularly interesting to me is what we learned from the study participants with mobile programs: roughly a third had optimized their emails for display on smart phones. a third had not. the remaining third plan to optimize their emails within the coming year.

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Manage Event Registration with Acteva

Tech Soup

Streamline the registration and payment processes for your organization’s events, conferences, and classes with cloud-based services from the Acteva Donation Program. Your organization can use Acteva's online interface to create a custom web page for an event, register attendees, and accept registration payments with PayPal, Visa, or MasterCard.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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The Cloud

Connection Cafe

Author: Martin Campbell. If you're too young to remember where you were when JFK was shot, you might well remember where you were on December 26, 2004 when a massive tsunami caused a deadly natural disaster around the Indian Ocean (link to [link] ). I'll remember that day well because I was on call as the manager of the British Red Cross' online donations and messaging platform.

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Webinar Recap: Mapping Philanthropy - Use Data Visualization to Do Good

Tech Soup

As you may know, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization's mission. The first webinar in this series, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , was held on March 29. If you attended, you already know that the Foundation Center's George Ford and Jake Garcia packed the event with useful information, strategies, and resources.

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Facebook Timeline: Five Things Nonprofits and Activists Should Do

Tech Soup

Nick Judd is the managing editor at Personal Democracy Media , a media. company focused on how technology is changing politics, government and. civic life. He manages PDM's news site, techPresident , and subscription. service, Personal Democracy Plus. On March 31, Facebook altered the basic layout for all brands and organizations on the platform.