Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. 11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices. for Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Benetech’s Human Rights Program supports critical human rights cases around the world helping to end impunity and bring justice to communities torn apart by violence. Benetech statistician Daniel Guzmán has just published his account of one legal case which set a historic precedent for human rights in Guatemala. Guzmán’s article, entitled Speaking Stats to Justice: Expert Testimony in a Guatemalan Human Rights Trial Based on Statistical Sampling , appears in the most recent issue of CHANCE, a qu

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Google has a great web page on how to add +1 buttons for your website. If you’re already using Google+ you really should consider adding these to your website, too. Facebook changed things up a bit in the past few weeks. You now don’t have to ‘like’ something to be able to comment on a page. The subscribe button allows you to be part of a page’s conversation without being previously connected to the page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photo by Stuck in Customs. What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 7, 2011

At the beginning of my webinar on Twitter and LinkedIn I always poll attendees on whether they have found and claimed their nonprofit’s Company Page on LinkedIn. The answer usually hovers around a resounding 90%… “No.” The vast majority of nonprofits have not claimed or even know what a LinkedIn Company Page is. Well, that’s going to change dramatically in the coming weeks.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Date : October 4, 2011. Location : Washington, DC. Topic : Strong Connections: Linking your strategy, to goals, to data. Description : When it comes to social media, email marketing, or even online engagement in general, we often have a feeling when things are going well or when they aren’t. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide – by Mari Smith. View more presentations from Mari Smith. Last Friday, social media guru Mari Smith offered a free webinar that took a deep dive through the Facebook changes, and how they work for both individuals and brands. You can download the slides here and listen to the recording here. The webinar was 90 minutes and she took us through step-by-step about how the new features work.

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See3

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything| 3:57 Ounce of Prevention Fund Through the voices and perspectives of children themselves, this moving video really shows why early childhood programs can make a lasting impact on a child’s life. If we invest in programs that promote learning [.].

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today's post is the sixth in my guest post series: Making Time for What Matters. Be sure to read the pieces by Tiffany Moore , Rachel Cole , Rachelle Mee-Chapman , Emily McKhann , and Peter Deitz too! Julie Daley is a coach, teacher, writer, and healer. Since 2003, she has led hundreds of people from all walks of life to take an inward journey of the creative heart, the source within each of us that guides us to answers, healing, and personal evolution.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Research suggests that membership rates are stabilizing for organizations offering member value. Here's an overview of the 2011 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report and some food for thought on building membership relationships that last. ( read more ).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. I’ve been using them to enhance peer exchanges where participants are meeting face-to-face or conference call for “water color” learning – especially if the focus of the learning is

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Michaela Hackner, Project Director, Forum One Communications. Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. People come to your website, first and foremost, to get information, so Content Strategy is relevant for any communications work you do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. The idea behind The Girl Effect is that when we invest in girls, particularly in developing countries, everybody wins.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Stories can be powerful, but hard to capture. We found a video and a post that offer helpful tips for gathering stories. ( read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Photo by lecercle. Facebook announced its new brand page metric on Sunday night, “People Talking About,” with Mashable breaking the news and analysis from Clickz. The new ”people talking about” metric is designed to measure FB engagement and a raw number of user-initiated activity related to a Page, including posting to a Page’s Wall, “liking,” commenting, sharing a Page post or content on the Page, answering a Question posed to fans, mentioning a Page, “liking” or

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

By Nasser Asif, Director of Marketing and Media, See3 Communications. I'm going to start by telling a story about storytelling. About a month ago, my fiancé banished me to my home office to research items for our upcoming wedding. Apparently, pointing to pictures of wedding things and saying "that's gross" doesn't count as feedback, so it was time for me to come up with better suggestions on my own and give her some well-deserved rest.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Are you a nonprofit or library with questions about data? Then you won't want to miss the upcoming TechSoup tweetchat on nonprofit data. Join TechSoup and SAP on October 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific time at the Twitter hashtag #NPdata to get all of your data questions answered. Contributing experts in this event will include Devin McNulty, sme sales executive at SAP Business Objects, Darrin Louie, senior program. manager, SAP Business Analytics Services and Ari Katanick, senior director, SAP Busine

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See3

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Strengthen Social Security | 2:35 The Other 98% Obviously, Social Security is at the heart of the heated deficit debate in DC and across the nation. In this clip, from other98.com, makes the case that Social Security doesn’t add a penny to the deficit and ask why the [.].

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Care2

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Blackbaud’s annual conference was this week and nonprofit staff converged on #bbcon12 to ask questions, share lessons learned, and learn together. I thought I’d share a few of the ideas I came away with. 1. "Long-tail fundraising is hard” During the bbconchat in the main expo, Geoff Livingston made the point that many nonprofits have unrealistic expectations when it comes to social fundraising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

As a leader, the time will come when you will have to speak with an employee about his or her poor performance. Here are six steps that will guide you through that process: Tell him what performance is in need of change and be specific. Tell him how his actions negatively affect the team. Let the discussion sink in. Set expectations of performance improvement and timeframe, and get his agreement on the desired outcome.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries.

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See3

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Ben Stiller announces “The Stiller Foundation” w/ Jennifer Aniston | 1:09 The Stiller Foundation A cute announcement from Ben Stiller that he is launching a foundation to promote the education and well-being of children worldwide through initiatives that focus on education. Previously, the Stiller Foundation’s Stillerstrong campaign focused [.].

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Here at NTEN, November is Member Appreciation Month. To celebrate, we let Members take over! That means the guest posts on the NTEN Blog and the featured content in the NTEN Connect newsletter come from our Members. To do that, we need your content. Simply send us original or popular content about nonprofit technology from yourself or your organization!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Meatless Monday is a nonprofit initiative of The Monday Campaigns. Their goal is to help reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal and planetary health. Each week I share meatless recipes I've tried from cookbooks and online. You can see past Meatless Monday posts by clicking here. I recently checked Vegan Express by Nava Atlas out from my local library, and have been trying out some of the recipes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. This post was written by Tierney Smith, community manager of TechSoup Canada.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.OCCUPY Your City| 1:26 Brave New Foundation People young and old are taking the streets to let our government and corporations know that we are a democracy that’s not for sale. It started in New York and is spreading across the nation to other cities. This clip shows [.].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

"Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific new book, The Enemy of Engagement , coming out this month from Amacom. Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want. Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

[Editor's note: Ontario 211 and NTEN asked Ontario nonprofits about how they were using technology – and how they’d like to be using technology – for their work. We’ll share what they told us in this series of blog posts. If you’d like to share your stories, click here.]. Organization: Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Website: [link]. How old is the organization?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Earlier this year , TechSoup Canada hosted a webinar on Google Apps for nonprofits.

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See3

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.This is Who We Are | 2:33 Animal Legal Defense Fund Last year, Americans spent roughly $18 billion dollars on coffee – and virtually nothing to protect animals from some of the worst abuses imaginable. For World Animal Day we present this dynamic motion graphics piece that shoots [.].

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