TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'The total cost of ownership (TCO), is a financial estimate used in business to identify the direct and indirect costs of a product, system, or service. It’s a way for nonprofits to assess risk, understand the cost of something beyond the ‘sticker price’, and how it compares to an alternative solution or product. If you want to read more on how to calculate TCO, check out this awesome breakdown by Business Case Analysis.

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See3

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Ever wonder how your IP address and domain name work together? Or what a hosting server does? Our web team provides definitions and explanations for basic web lingo to help you understand what makes your website work. The post Web Lingo 101: IP Addresses, Hosting, Domains and FTP appeared first on See3 Advice for Do-Gooders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, awhile back completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies. What Branham and Hirschfeld discovered is that the best companies use six "universal drivers" that maximize employee engagement: Caring, Competent, and Engaging Senior Leaders Effective Managers Who Keep Employees Aligned and Engaged Effective Teamwork at All Levels

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'It''s easy for nonprofits to get lost in the shuffle of acquiring new donors, engaging audiences, and planning online campaigns. This makes it easy for you to forget about your website - huge mistake! Your website is where your donors will come, where your activists and volunteers will engage, and where your campaigns will live. It''s critical that you update your site, and that you revamp it when the time is right.But when IS the time right?

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'The world is changing. The landscape of communication is evolving at an exponential rate, and digital media creation is riding at the head of the wave. In the past few years, we've seen the transformation from long to extremely short-form digital content like that on Vine and Instagram, and we've experienced the rise and fall of numerous storytelling apps never to be seen or heard of again.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Blackbaud’s annual Online Benchmark report was released earlier this month at #bbcon and the results speak largely to a positive outlook for nonprofit fundraising. . Total online fundraising is up 8% YOY, with double digit growth in both repeat and sustained giving. Great news here but nothing particularly revelatory as most of us would have predicted strong growth for online fundraising in general and continued success of sustained giving campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'Click to View Full Infographic. Note from Beth: How do we build networks and movements around important social change issues. A generative social impact network links people together through relationships. They create social capital or value by making their skills, resources, and knowledge available to each other. Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'NPT Lunchtruck: Exclusive Audio Interviews With Nonprofit Leaders - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times : ''via Blog this'''

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

'With Election Day just around corner (November 4; don't forget to vote!), transparent government advocates are working hard to shed light on campaign finances and influences. In modern politics, you simply can't take a campaign at face value: those heartwarming or powerful candidate commercials might be financed by some shady sources. By using technology such as infographics and visualization tools, open government groups are making campaign finance data more accessible.

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