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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. and to keep supporters informed and engaged. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications.

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Connections

NCE Social Media

Online applications are very helpful tools. The programs are based online and can allow you to do work just by plugging in basic information. Once example is Mention Map. It is an application that shows you current connections for any Twitter username (including your own). Here’s an example: Mention Map for ACHIEVA’s Twitter feed. It works by looking as hastags you use and connections your Twitter account has to create a visual image of your “map&#.

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Your Organization in Eight Words or Less – Go!

NetWits

One of the key messages your organization should convey when fundraising is clearly establishing the need – or the solution to a challenge you’re trying to address. As nonprofits have gotten increasingly creative with fundraising, some pretty amazing marketing has emerged. With increasing competition for limited dollars, getting attention for your cause is more important than ever.

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Let Freedom Ring

VisionLink

'Happy 4th of July! As we have before, we''re passing on some great writing and insight from Stan Stahl. You can check out more of his writing since 2005 on his blog: [link] -- “We are in the very midst of revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world.” John Adams July, 1776 The Fourth of July parade. Oil City, Pennsylvania.

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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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One-Page Social Media Strategy

Wild Apricot

Overwhelmed by the task of developing a social media strategy for your non-profit organization? Don’t know whether you ought to “friend” or “like” or tweet” to get the best mileage for your message in the social networks? Jumpstart the planning process with Jay Baer’s smart one-page Social Media Strategy Worksheet.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Social networking Non-profit Communications social media.

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Twitter Tip for Networked Nonprofits: Follow the Few To Get To the Many

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Valdis Krebs. For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. Networked Nonprofits are not only experts in using social media, but they know how to streamline their work flow often based on an understanding of applying network theory to their practice.

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Peer-to-Peer Funding Portals

Tech Soup

Pundits and technology analysts have talked about the disintermediating effects of technology for years. In a nutshell, disintermediation refers to the Internet's tendency to cut out the middle man. Amazon and similar e-commerce websites provide the classic example. When customers can buy products online, the supply chain often becomes much shorter, resulting in added convenience, lower prices, more choices, and better-informed decisions.

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32 Free Online Tools to Create Infographics

Wild Apricot

A while back, we looked how your non-profit can use visualization tools to help tell the human story behind your data and statistics, along with some free tools and inspiring examples to make your own infographic. If you’re still seeking that one perfect free tool to transform your numbers into pictures, however, take a look at the 32 online tools for creating diagrams, flowcharts, charts and graphs from designer Daniels Mekšs.

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Bridging Offline/Online: Tweetups

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networked Nonprofits know how to close the loop between social media and offline actions. They understand that it is a scaffolded process. Whatever channel they use, they’re building a bridge from online to onland. They’re masters at meeting their audience where they’re at and bringing them further along the ladder of engagement.

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What every nonprofit should know about marketing

Get Fully Funded

I interviewed Kivi Leroux Miller today about her new book “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide.&# There were several nuggets of wisdom that popped out of our conversation, and I thought I’d share them with you. Tell stories. Learn how to tell a story about a person your organization has helped. A good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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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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Nonprofits: Make Your Voice Heard

Care2

Make Audio a Vital Medium for Your Non-Profit. Using audio files may be more powerful than you think. The term multimedia brings to mind flashy video presentations. However, going lo-fi with your media can actually suit your needs more directly than video, text or still photography. Jill Foster , a communications consultant in DC, recently spoke to me about the virtues of stand-alone audio.

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Bullying in the Non-profit Workplace

Wild Apricot

You’re working or volunteering with a non-profit organization, not in the dog-eat-dog business world. So the dynamics in your office should be all about happy teamwork and selfless cooperation towards a common cause, right? Not necessarily so. The reality is, any workplace will bring together good guys and trolls alike – people of differing strengths and weaknesses, all types of personalities, each with her or his own personal and professional agenda to pursue as well as your common mission.

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Are the Claims About the Death of Email Greatly Exaggerated?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Wells Created This Tombstone for Email. I asked the above question on Twitter after reading what Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said at the Nielsen’s Con­sumer 360 con­fer­ence. If you read only that, then you might think email is on life support. (A change from a few years ago when people were saying “ Email is for old people.&# ). As much as we’d wish it was so , read Aus­tin Carr’s recent Open Thread art­icle on Fast­Com­pany.

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The Slacktivist Debate Continues

NTEN

Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. Dozens of articles, a slew of conference sessions, all devoted to a discussion of, essentially, laziness. The best part is, we're not just talking about this in our little corner of the universe. The debate has hit the mainstream media. I was tickled to see Nancy Lublin -- author of " Zilch ", and a person with whom I would really like to have a cocktail -- take up the topic in F

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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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Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards!

Get Fully Funded

My friend Nancy Schwartz is hosting her annual Tagline Awards. Here’s the scoop: Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award (a.k.a. The Taggies ) winners! And this year, for the first time, you can submit your organization’s program, fundraising campaign and special event taglines, in addition to your organizational tagline.

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

Tech Soup

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. Any good soup is like a scientific experiment — a mix of chemistry, biology, and earth science. For three days in New York City we experimented with new types of social media integration with Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS for short, which runs the AmeriCorps programs) and the Points of Light Foundation 's National Conference on Volunteerism and Serv

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wendy Harman from the Red Cross wished me a Happy Fourth of July with a Joey Chestnut reference which reminded of a post I wrote almost a year ago. Let me explain. Photo by Dietrich of Joey Chestnut, Winner of the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest in 2008. His total for the day was 64 hot dogs.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 9 2010

NTEN

HaitiAidMap from InterAction (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . I noticed that this post from Beth Kanter was re-tweeted quite a bit. yesterday, so I think it qualifies for nptech awesome online.

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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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What you can count on (or not) from your Board

Get Fully Funded

Today’s post is from my friend Gail Perry, who is an expert in nonprofit fundraising and Boards. Visit Gail’s website at www.gailperry.com. Whenever I bring up the subject of boards, so many fundraisers roll their eyes. Why are our boards such a huge pain point and what can we do about it? I say we have to face reality about some sensitive topics: people, motivation, volunteers and commitment rather than chasing after some myth of the ideal board.

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Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and the Cloud

Tech Soup

Microsoft's new version of Office 2010 is interesting in several ways, especially in its approach to green IT and cloud computing. It introduces a hybrid approach in which MS Office users can use "on premises" based software that is loaded on your PC for tasks that require full-featured tools, and you can also create, store, edit, share, and co-author office documents online at no cost so that they are accessible to you anywhere with an Internet connection.

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The Networked Nonprofit in Holland!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For me, one of the joys of the publication of Networked Nonprofit co-authored with Allison Fine is seeing people in my network reading it and discussing. I’ve never met Joitske Hulsebosch face-to-face, but we have collaborated and learned together through the wonders of the social web from US to Holland. I first met Joitske back in 2005 through Nancy White’s online facilitation workshop.

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Top Five Tools for Listening on the Social Web

Care2

Moving from a 1.0 world to a 2.0 world can be very scary for nonprofits. Senior leadership, in particular, isn’t comfortable giving up power and fear that they will lose control of their core messaging. It’s critical that nonprofits face their fears and take control. Why? Because conversations about the issues you work on are consistently happening all over the web.

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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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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." "Great!" "We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." "Fabulous!" "But our traditional audience doesn't come for that, and we have to find a way to do this without making them uncomfortable.

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Free Webinar on July 14: Fundraising as a Career

Tech Soup

On Wednesday, July 14 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern time , our donor partner Mission Research (which donates its fundraising and donor management software GiftWorks to eligible nonprofits and libraries) will host a free fundraising webinar with Linda Lysakowski. From Mission Research: Are you wondering if a career in nonprofit fundraising is for you? Are you already in the fund development field but need practical guidance on how to advance?

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Is your site optimized for mobile?

Connection Cafe

Author: Sally Heaven. Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. I'm not going to tell you HOW to do it - the nuts and bolts are for others to discuss. Rather, I want to convince you of the NEED to do it. First - some stats.

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Webinar: The Overachiever's Guide to Year End Fundraising

Care2

Think it's too soon to start preparing for year-end fundraising? Think again! Earn your overachiever’s gold star and get cracking with nine steps you can use now to raise more money in December. You might know that 40 percent of all online donations come in during December. But did you also know that year-end fundraising doesn’t just happen in December?

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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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Top Five Tools for Listening on the Social?Web - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

AFP Blog

Top Five Tools for Listening on the SocialWeb - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop: "f your nonprofit wants to start engaging in online conversations, first you need to start by listening to what people are saying about your organization and the issues you work on. You will want to analyze the competition too. Here are some of my favorite online listening and analytics.

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Have You Recently Requested Adobe CS 5 Design Premium Through TechSoup?

Tech Soup

We've heard from a number of users who recently requested Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Win ESD through TechSoup. Some are seeing an "invalid key" error message when they try to install the Acrobat 9 portion of the suite. If you're experiencing the same problem, please contact Adobe Creative Suite Installation Support at 1-800-642-3623 (open Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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It's ok to be wrong sometimes

Connection Cafe

Author: Amber Wobschall. I’m a huge NPR fan and not afraid to admit it. What I am often afraid to admit is when I am wrong - just ask my friends and family. Perhaps you are like me and are wondering if the Paul the oracle octopus will be right on his prediction for Spain to win the World Cup. He’s been right on so far. But he could be wrong.

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Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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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.