April, 2014

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Infographic: 5 Things To Check Before Posting To Your Blog

TechImpact

'“Does your nonprofit have a blog?” This is a question that’s been asked since the dawn of the internet. The blog is no longer a sign of prosperity, but a necessary addition to every nonprofit’s arsenal of online weapons. It can also leave your nonprofit open to criticism. If everything is not where it needs to be, if it’s riddled with mistypes, dead links, or other blemishes, you could soon come under attack!

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Top 5 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Owned by Facebook, Instagram is the largest mobile social network in the United States. With more than half its users outside the United States, Instagram is well-positioned to become more broadly used worldwide. The predominant age group of users is 18–29.

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The Librarian of Marrakesh

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

'One of the joys of my role is meeting other social sector leaders: people with a powerful passion for good. We learn from each other, and try to help each other when we can. Jamila Hassoune Ten years ago, I started corresponding with a fascinating woman from Morocco, Jamila Hassoune. Over time, I learned more and more about her work and background.

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

'If you’ve migrated donor data from one CRM to another, no doubt you have dealt with a lot of difficult decisions. In fact, our donor data migration clients often express surprise at the number of decisions they have to make. In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions. By way of qualification, our intent with this article is to be CRM agnostic.

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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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Protecting Community Resource Data

VisionLink

'We believe that organizations should be compensated for the creation, organization, maintenance, and updates of community information data, especially in the nonprofit space. In this nonprofit space, there are no discretionary profits available to allocate toward community information management. Moreover, raising money specifically for data management is much more difficult than raising funds for particular causes.

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning the new or what’s buzzing. But, a big part of content curation is organizing and presenting your collection. I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training.

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4 Must-Know Features of the New Twitter Profile Design for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'This week Twitter began its roll out of a new Twitter Profile design and at any moment your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile could have a completely different look and functionality. The new design is obviously more visual, but it also places more emphasis on the content that your followers have engaged with. If you aren’t getting engagement on Twitter (retweeted, replied to, mentioned, favorited, and listed), then your nonprofit must dramatically change its Twitter strategy.

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Work on the Biggest Social Challenges of Our Time!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

'Are you motivated by the power of technology as a force for good that can directly help the world’s poorest communities thrive? Do you believe ours could be a world in which the benefits of technology touch the lives of all people, not just the wealthiest and most able five percent of humanity? Are you driven to make a real difference from a leadership position in the open source community, at the heart of Silicon Valley and at the unique intersection of technology and social change?

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

'Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a data management webinar with Debbie Snyder , VP of Sales & Marketing for Adcieo. The topic – “Why don’t you have a data management plan?” – focused on why you need, and how to create, a nonprofit data management plan. We had also blogged earlier on the topic. Debbie and Gary Carr , CEO of Third Sector Labs, co-presented.

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Using Geospatial Maps in Time of Disaster

VisionLink

'Geospatial mapping is an increasingly hot topic in large-scale natural disasters, including Hurricane Sandy and the Oklahoma Tornadoes. As technology continues to advance, data mapping is moving from being a powerful tool for specific cases to being a new norm in all disaster relief. Collecting and distributing critical information graphically helps both the responders and the millions of victims each year.

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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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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Note from Beth: Last year, 30% of the $5 billion crowdfunded went to social causes according the “ Cracking the Crowd Funding Code “ Nonprofit’s use of crowdfunding is growing at an exponential rate with many nonprofits jumping on the crowfunding bandwagon attracted by the potential of finding new supporters.

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8 Ways To Avoid Nonprofit Work Burnout

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of idiva.com. The commute to work. The work. The commute home from work. All too often nonprofit employees fall victim to the daily rhythm, and allow it to dictate their mood and their effectiveness at work. It’s an easy trap to fall into. Seeing the same people, driving the same roads, or taking the same public transportation can grow tedious.

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5 Trends in Nonprofit Infographic Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'As the fiscal year comes to a close and nonprofits are currently crafting next year’s budget, adding a line item for infographic design would be a very wise investment. From print fundraising appeals to digital annuals reports to compelling storytelling through tweets and status updates, the social science of online behavior confirms again and again that messages are most effectively communicated through images.

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29 Free Non-profit Webinars for May 2014

Wild Apricot

'Here''s our free non-profit webinar round-up for May. Topics include: mobile impact; finding and keeping donors; telling your stories on social media; volunteer interview strategies; and much more.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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What’s in your data management plan?

3rd Sector Labs

'If your data isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse. – TSL data expert. Those are words we live by. And no, we aren’t simply advocating some chaos theory about data. Unfortunately, it’s true … and the only way to combat the problem is examine what’s in your data management plan. What’s going on? Organizations in every industry today dependent on good data to be successful.

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How to Adapt Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Efforts for an Increasingly Mobile World

NTEN

'Jessica Fraser Sotelo. Deputy Director of Online Marketing. World Wildlife Fund. With the huge growth in visitors from mobile devices, it is critical for nonprofits to think of the user experience. Learn how the World Wildlife Fund thinks "mobile first" to optimize its marketing efforts on their website, email, and SMS. At World Wildlife Fund, we’ve seen an explosion in mobile visitors over the past three years.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit.

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The 5 Ways Your Nonprofit’s Website Generates Traffic

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Stable Cash Income. Driving web traffic to your nonprofit’s website is likely at the top of your to-do list. You’ve invested in it, consistently update the content, post to your blog, and market events through your website. So, of course you want people to see all that great content. Bottom line is, many, if not most, of your web visitors are arriving at your website not for the reasons you intended.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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ATTN NGOs: ?????,??, &.opr Are Now Available

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the.org domain – has launched the first registration phase, known as the Sunrise Period (beginning April 22), for three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Qualified domain trademark holders can now submit applications for each of these three new domains, which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.?????

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3 Creative Ideas for Engaging Association Board Members

Wild Apricot

'How can you ensure an active, engaged board? In this guest post, Lamees Abourahma outlines three creative ideas that associations have implemented that have been effective.

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The CEO/Board Chair Relationship

BoardAssist

'The CEO/Board Chair relationship can either propel a nonprofit to achieve enormous good in their sector, or act as a major hindrance towards accomplishing that goal. We field questions about how to strengthen this bond on a weekly basis, so we turned to Melissa Mendes Campos of La Piana Consulting - a terrific nonprofit consulting firm based in California – and asked her to share some insight with our followers on the topic.

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Mobile 101: How your nonprofit can harness the power of mobile

NTEN

'Darian Rodriguez Heyman. Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer. BetterWorld Wireless. Mobile is a critical tool for social change: How can nonprofits harness its potential to meet their mission? According to statistics from There are 3.5 billion toothbrushes on the planet, but 4 billion cell phones. And we’re addicted to these devices: 58% of smartphone users can’t go an hour without checking their phone, and 91% have it within arms reach 24/7.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know

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10 Ways Nonprofit CEOs Get Creative

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Dieste.com. What does the word innovation mean to you? Does it mean driving sweeping changes in a completely new business model? Changing the way the entire Earth’s population consumes a service or product? While both of these are great, it might be a good idea to start thinking of innovation on a micro scale. Innovation can be as simple as changing the content in you internal newsletter.

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Translation: Video’s Best Kept Secret

See3

'There's a quick, easy way to expand the reach of your videos on a global scale, and it's possible you haven't ever considered it. Ready to be in on video's best kept secret? It's as simple as speaking the language of your viewers. Here are some facts: Adding English transcription to your videos will increase your audience […].

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Are Virtual and Micro-volunteering the New Normal?

Wild Apricot

'Here''s a preview of a new article in our Membership Knowledge Hub (by Tobi Johnson) that provides insight into and tips for managing and supporting offsite and virtual volunteers.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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What do boards need to know about IT?

BoardAssist

'One of the questions we get asked a lot at BoardAssist is how can I be an “agent of change” on my nonprofit board. For some board members, the best way to help your nonprofit may be by making sure your nonprofit is up to date with all the latest IT strategies. For guidance on this topic, we turned to one of our favorite nonprofit tech pros, Patrick Callihan of Tech Impact.

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Is it “Mobile First” or “Content First”?

NTEN

'Kristina Halvorson. CEO. Brain Traffic. Mobile is simply one more way to connect to your audiences through content. Without powerful, useful, usable content, channels don’t matter. Mobile doesn’t matter. You have to get your content right, and that requires content strategy. “Mobile first!” It’s a phrase we often hear … but what exactly does it mean for your organization?

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How Do I Get My Nonprofit’s CEO To Use Twitter or other Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'“You have to show not just tell your CEO about social media”- @carolynsave “Create a tweetorial” – @kanter #afpshift pic.twitter.com/zKggoMllYB. — Ettore Rossetti (@EttoreRossetti) March 25, 2014. Last month, I participated in a keynote panel at the AFP Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX on the theme, “ Social Media for Social Change ” with Carolyn Miles, CEO of Save the Children, Ben Rattray, Founder of Change.Org, and Ritu Sharma and Darian Rodrigue

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Infographic: How Young Adults Get Involved

TechImpact

'Everyone is chasing the next big thing. The Millennial. And they’re the toughest, and the biggest, nut to crack for nonprofits of all sizes. They’re the future. The next big generation of leaders, thinkers, and volunteers. But getting inside of their heads has been tough as their rise to power has been coupled with the rise of technology, and more specifically, mobile and social technology.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.