NetWits
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? That’s a great question. One that every nonprofits should think about from time to time. That said, we’ve compiled a few resources that might help you think through your next website redesign. Audience Analysis. View the Session Recording | Download the Slides.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
The nine reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. These reports are, however, some of the most valuable in terms of insight, useful and practical data, and how-to advice. Many of these reports are published on an annual basis, so please be sure to bookmark this post and I’ll keep the the list updated as new reports are released.
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Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
I got a dozen of these yesterday. Most of them showed the sender as "Milton Ballard" so hopefully they won't fool anyone. But the last one came from BillingOnline@fedex.com so it was slightly more convincing. The subject lines included: Please pay your outstanding Fedex invoice. New Fedex Invoice. Your Fedex invoice is ready to be paid now. Pay your Fedex invoice online.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
We're back at it after the summer season. If you are ramping up for fall events, fundraising year-end or volunteer transition planning, here are some blog posts and resources that might help.
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. Different program officers host regular program forums with nonprofit experts, grantees, authors, and thinkers. This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
When nonprofits consider launching a smartphone app, most often they automatically default to launching an iPhone app. But thanks to a strategy focused on bringing low-cost smartphones to the masses worldwide, Google’s Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012. That’s four times the 17% global market share held by Apple.
Nonprofit Technology brings together the best content for nonprofit technical enthusiasts from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Do donors want you to thank them offline if they donate online? Here are a collection of posts and videos that offer insight into what donors want.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Image from Steve Heye. Jeremiah Owyang’s post, ” Social Media Work Flow ,” offers a good taxonomy for a social media work flow, triage, or process. He defines this as “a sequence of connected steps that enables the entire organization to act efficiently with minimal overlapping tasks and resources in order to serve the market in social channels and beyond.” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negat
ASU Lodestar Center
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
posted by. Conni Ingallina. Founder and President. SOS-Association Management Solutions. "We want/you need a social media campaign—Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. and. and. and.". If you have worked with associations within the last 7 years, chances are you have heard this at some point or another in a strategic planning meeting—somewhere. In an age where everything is at your fingertips and people are tweeting about what they had for dinner and checking into their favorite places in a
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Stay out of the spam folder by employing these techniques.
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.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
If you missed the Nonprofit Blog Carnival's Nonprofit Newsletter Trends and Tips, here's a recap and some additional posts and resources.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. One practice they have mastered well is the ability to use experiments (with measurement) to mature its practice.
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Shawn Kendrick. Nonprofit Blogger. VolunteerHub. Collecting and synthesizing volunteer data may take a little time on the front end, but it should pay off in the long run. It's all about turning the raw numbers into usable tools for evaluation, decision-making, and action plans for the future. When it comes to obtaining, storing, and using data, volunteer situations are just like any other: the more data you collect, the better off your program will be.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
There’s little question that social media is growing in popularity and becoming more of a mainstream activity. According to a November 2011 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 66% of adult Internet users are using a social networking site, up from 30% in 2008. Although there’s a seemingly limitless potential for nonprofit organizations to tap into that online audience, the ability to engage successfully with the audience remains limited based on an organization
Advertiser: Digital Ocean
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.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden. Additionally, he wanted to make TechSoup Sweden's booth stand out from the crowd — and it worked!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
We may need to start wearing these here! RT @ kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe – I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4. — Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012. The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Whether you call it "data-driven", "data-informed", "evidence-based", or something else, making smarter decisions and strategies for your organization is something every nonprofit leader strives for—and what the latest issue of NTEN:Change is all about. While data about your organization's work can come in many forms—whether qualitative constituent feedback or the number of meals delivered to a population, the open rate of your email newsletter or even public census information about education l
sgEngage
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Blackbaud updates these indices each month and they are based on a three-month moving average of year- over-year percent changes in revenue.
Advertiser: Syncrony
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.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
While visiting the Orlando Science Center the other day I stumbled across a family-oriented exhibit with simple, yet powerful principles useful within and outside the workplace. The exhibit is traveling around the U.S. and it's called, Play, The Friend Game. Created by Nacho Rodriquez Bach , the display explores six universal civic principles through the use of games for children and adults.
NTEN
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Flickr: marcp_dmoz Technology aside, it’s clear that the advent of Cloud-based solutions has had an impact on the culture of our work as nonprofits. It’s changed the jobs we do, both within the IT department and in more mission-related positions, and how we’re able to do them. From collaboration to telecommuting and distributed workforces to sharing back office services, it’s changed the way we think about mobility and how we define “the office.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. Have you finished casting your votes yet? If you are a little overwhelmed by all of the great panels to choose from this year, Frogloop has you covered. Check out our favorite 10 sessions below. And feel free to shout out the panels that you would like to see April 7-11 in Minneapolis. 1.
Advertiser: DonorDock
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!
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Microsoft has released the latest server edition of Windows. Windows Server enables a computer to manage file sharing, print sharing, and websites, and serves as a platform for running Exchange Server and SQL Server. TechSoup offers Windows Server in both Standard and Datacenter Editions. What's New. In addition to the new user interface, Windows Server 2012 also features a greatly enhanced PowerShell, a recycle bin for Active Directory, and a new version of Hyper-V.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
I'm a big fan of best-selling author Harvey Mackay. He writes about business, sales and leadership and typically ends his articles with a moral of the story. Culled from his writings of the past three and half years, here are some of my favorites of his moral of the story endings: Change your thinking, change your life. It's not enough to know how to do things - you must know why you do them.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We piloted it last year as part of a "behind the scenes" event, and we brought back last month to coincide with a thematic exhibition on collecting and identity.
sgEngage
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving …
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Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
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Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Author: Sally Heaven. Spam. Nobody likes receiving it, nobody likes being considered a spammer. But as users of any email marketing tool can tell, sometimes constituents will mark your messages as spam anyway. Why? Well, it goes to constituent perception. You may have heard the expression "Spam is in the eye of the beholder." If someone doesn't believe that they signed up for your list - even if they did - and it's too hard to find the unsubscribe link, then they're just as likely to hit the "RE
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Social Media and Fundraising: The Florida Aquarium AFP Suncoast Blog : The truly exciting bit is that coverage of major gifts could be used in all sorts of ways with the digital display. Major donors could be interviewed, benefits touted and pictures displayed. Mark couldn’t resist another benefit of the digital donor recognition board – revenue! When the Aquarium hosts events the board can be rented out.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
September Issue NTEN Journal. The new issue of the NTEN Change Journal is all about data! Or rather how we all should love data! Whether you call it data-driven or data-informed , the issue has several excellent articles about how to use data for decision-making as well as lots of useful tips! It’s a must read for data nerds. As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teac
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