Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Mobile Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

With smartphones now outselling PCs and tablet sales surpassing even the most conservative of estimates, the majority of your nonprofit’s supporters will likely be browsing your website on mobile devices by 2013 – and unfortunately most nonprofits are not prepared for this dramatic shift in Web communications. That said, the following is a short excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.

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Lethal Generosity and a Simple 5 Step Content Marketing Plan for Your Nonprofit

NetWits

Content Marketing takes lethal generosity if you want to succeed. If you’re a nonprofit thinking about content marketing then put the “ Lethal Generosity ” concept into your plans. This idea really is the key to your nonprofits online engagement and marketing strategy. Whats lethal generosity? Simply put, lethal generosity = giving away content that’s useful to your audience in order to build trust, respect and goodwill.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Lame spam of the day: Traffic ticket N88790

Robert Weiner

OK, this one's novel. It claims to be a notification from a red-light camera. Even though I've never been in (or heard of) this city, it's tempting to make sure I'm not the victim of a bureaucratic mistake. But I was able to resist because of the lameness of the message. The From address doesn't even try to look real, the message was written poorly, and there are no graphics, contact info, or links to a web site.

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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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Tips and Tools for Engaging Youth Volunteers

Wild Apricot

Does your organization have a plan for recruiting and engaging the next generation of volunteers? Here are some tips and tools that might help.

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5 Content Marketing Success Stories Your Nonprofit Needs to Imitate

NetWits

Yesterday we talked about the importance of content marketing for nonprofits. Hopefully you caught it. If not, go check it out. We’ll wait here for you to come back. It’s a fairly simple idea. Create content that attracts the audience you’re targeting with the goal of getting them to interact with you. Simple in theory, but actually very challenging to execute on.

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Research Friday: Social Impact Bonds: A New Tool for Scaling Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all

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Facebook Marketing for Dummies

Wild Apricot

If you are new to Facebook or wondering how to manage the new timeline layout - here's a look at John Haydon's new book and video tutorial.

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Why Content Marketing is the Key to Your Nonprofits Online Success

NetWits

I read a blog post by Joe Pulizzi the other day. It got me thinking about how content is used by nonprofits to help them connect with the right audience online. In essence, Joe points out the fact that great content is the tool that moves hearts and inspire action online. The concept of creating content to engage with your audience isn’t new, especially in the nonprofit world, but it is becoming more and more critical when it comes to creating success online.

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Doing More by Doing Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and expe

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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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Doing What You Do Best Offline, Online

NTEN

Anne Diaz. Nonprofit Services Manager. Causes. Raising money online can be approached in the same way as you approach that lunch meeting with a potential funder, or a site visit with a friend of a board member. Online audiences aren't foundation program officers. Online, people – including ourselves - look for things that surprise us, delight us, and make us hit the “forward” or “share” button.

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Reviving the Press Release

Wild Apricot

Maybe it's time to revive the press release to help you drive traffic, increase member engagement, and boost search engine rankings.

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Three Social Apps To Check Out

Care2

As SXSWi showcases the breakout apps and products for 2012, I wanted to highlight three social apps that I think are worth checking out and could be helpful to the nonprofit community. Snoball. Snoball.com allows people to create momentum around donations for their favorite nonprofit organizations. Here’s how it works. When a user creates a Snoball account, they can donate donate to over 1.6 million charities, with all of their giving managed in one central location.

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From Grantmakers to Changemakers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers.

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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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Creating Volunteers Who Are Tickled Pink

NTEN

Sandra Jensen. Co-Founder. Kell Partners. Volunteers perform tasks that can come to seem very “job-like”. If your organization can overcome this and instead channel the passion your volunteers have for your mission, they can be a greater asset than merely free labor! As I recently read about Mary Kay Ash's description of her company, its culture and the mindset it develops, I was struck by how deliberate it seemed.

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Unplug and Eat Together March 23-24: National Day of Unplugging 2012

Have Fun - Do Good

Do you need a break from technology? Has the thrill of "You've got mail!" (and a text, and a voice mail, and a Facebook update, and a tweet, and a LinkedIn request) faded? Here's a great excuse to turn off your phone and computer: The National Day of Unplugging is next week from sundown Friday, March 23 to sundown Saturday, March 24. I participated last year, and it was awesome!

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Can “Viral” Videos Really Create Social Change?

Care2

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. The $700K budget video is powerful, provocative and tells an incredibly emotional story about Joseph Kony, a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord's Resistance Arm (LRA).

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Can you have your cake and eat it too?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Sea Turtle. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of

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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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Panhandling or Hotspot Vendor: Which is better?

NTEN

Mark Horvath. Founder. Invisible People. What BBH Labs did with Homeless Hotspots is a harmless and fun idea that provides a positive interaction between homeless people and the rest of you. Plus, our homeless friends made a few bucks. We’ve all been panhandled by a homeless person on street begging for money. I bet every one of you reading this has even been aggressively panhandled.

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Thank the Do-Gooders!

Get Fully Funded

Volunteers can bring enormous benefits to your organization, and if you have great volunteers, keep ‘em! National Volunteer Week is coming up in a few weeks (April 15-21, 2012), so now’s the time to plan a few things to thank your do-gooders. The simplest thing you can do is to send a hand-written note to your volunteers to thank them for their service.

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Brad Hams Works To Eradicate Entitlement In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Entitlement is "killing your business," says author Brad Hams. And after more than 15 years working with hundreds of companies, Hams says he knows "that the vast majority of employees addicted to entitlement actually want to engage, want to contribute, and feel much better about themselves when they are in an environment that requires them to do so.

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This Week on Beth’s Blog: Stronger Grantmaking, Stronger Nonprofits, Stronger Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it. The GeoFunders National Conference takes place from March 12-14th.

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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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Vote for the Winners of the 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards!

NTEN

With so many incredible videos submitted to this year’s contest it was no easy task, but judges in the 6th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards have narrowed down the field of entries to 16 finalists. Now, the YouTube community has the opportunity to get involved and cast their vote for the best nonprofit videos of the past year. The 16 finalist videos can be watched on the Contest homepage.

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Upcoming Webinar on March 22: Cultivating Donor and Client Relationships with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Tech Soup

Back in 2010, NPower Northwest' s Shawn Michael wrote a blog post outlining what you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM for in a nonprofit (or library) environment. These uses include the "ability to manage relationships with your constituents - donors, funders, clients, volunteers, members, vendors, and other community partners." This blog post was created in tandem with a webinar about Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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Nonprofits and Blogging: I'm on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Social Good Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

My chat with host, Allison Fine, about nonprofits and blogging is up on The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Social Good Podcast today. You can listen to the 18-minute interview on the little audio player embedded in the CoP's post, Building Better Nonprofit Blogs , or on iTunes. Feel free to ask me questions about nonprofit blogging in the comments of this post, or on The Chronicle of Philanthropy's post.

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The Outcome of Our Outcomes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and e

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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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Take Your Activists from Online to Offline Action (Plus: the Tools You Need to Track Them)

NTEN

The pandemic success of the Kony 2012 video has rekindled the debate over slacktivism. Does sharing a link or updating a Facebook status count as active participation in a movement? It does if you think of it as the first step on the engagement ladder. As Clay Shirky famously points out in Here Comes Everybody , there used to be no way to share silly mermaid parade photos , but now it's so easy, they get shared quite readily.

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NTEN State of the Nonprofit Cloud Survey Results

Tech Soup

Over the last few months NTEN has been surveying U.S. nonprofits on their use of cloud services. Their results are now in and are quite interesting. To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?.

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Webinar: Bring It On! Getting Started With Multichannel Fundraising

Care2

As online giving trends steadily increase, nonprofits need to embrace and maximize multichannel fundraising. But what if you’re just getting started? It can be an overwhelming and daunting task! Well look no further: in this webinar, we’ll show you the ropes on how to get started with multichannel fundraising. Join OMP and Earthjustice for an exciting webinar as they share stories from their successful multichannel campaigns spanning email, direct mail, telemarketing, mobile, and soc

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Why Funders Need to Get Out of the Kitchen and Let the Nonprofits Cook More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by S. ALT. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience

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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.