Sat.Nov 05, 2011 - Fri.Nov 11, 2011

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HOW TO: Create a Google+ Page for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Exciting news! Nonprofits can now create a “ Page ” on Google+. If you are new to Google+, then first please read carefully my Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits to become familiar with Google+ so that you make sure that you set up your Google Account and Google+ Profile correctly before following the instructions below for creating a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. 1.

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End-of-Year Fundraising Campaigns that Will Rock Your World

NetWits

End-of-year is a very busy time for fundraisers. Lots of ideas are bouncing around, campaigns that have been run for years are spinning up, and new end-of-year fundraising campaigns are coming to life. Many will eventually be pushed out the door with the hope of great results. (free 50 minute webinar recording at bottom of post). Competition. A huge portion of fundraising revenue comes in during the last two months of the year, which means those who are hoping for great results will get exactly

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Getting Meta: Inviting the Community to Drive the Community Builder Chats

Amy Sample Ward

For about a year, I moderated a monthly online chat focused on community building, community management, on and offline engagement, and the technologies that support those connections. The chat used the #CommBuild hashtag to pull regular and new participants together on Twitter and elsewhere, though we found that having the chats take place on a platform like CoverItLive helped people jump in and follow the conversation and create instant archives people could share and review asynchronously.

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Lame spam of the day: USPS Delivery Confirmation

Robert Weiner

Like the American Airlines spam , this one didn't bother to include any graphics to make it look official. Further, it shows plainly that the link goes to www.usps.com.ww062.com (note that the domain is ww062.com). Some scammers are just lazy. Sender: auto-notify@usps.com. Subject: Delivery Confirmation. Text: Dear Customer, We attempted to deliver your item at 11:02 am on November 5, 2011 and a notice was left.

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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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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Your first step is to create a Google Account and then set up your personal Google Profile (which also becomes your Google+ Profile).

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Tips for Improving Board Effectiveness

Wild Apricot

Is your Board spending time looking back instead of moving forward? Here are some tips and resources to help improve Board effectiveness.

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Thinking about a donor database selection workshop

Robert Weiner

I'm planning a new workshop on selecting donor databases, focusing on the question, "Why is this so friggin' complicated?" Some initial thoughts: The maxim "Fast, cheap, or good -- pick two" is true. You want the technology to be forward-looking but also want to avoid shiny object syndrome. You want to make a reasonably quick decision, but also need to get input and buy-in from stakeholders.

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Google + Nonprofit Brand Pages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why does Google + launch new stuff when I’m on a book deadline !! The long awaited brand pages on Google + are here. I put a post out on Google + asking what nonprofits had set up pages and was able to identify 88 from all the responses and placed them in a open circle here. I browsed through these nonprofit brand pages today, and it appears many grabbed the tip sheet Google nonprofits and set up their pages – some more fully than others.

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Need Some Help Getting Started?

Wild Apricot

Here are some new resources for Wild Apricot users. Our new Start-up Guides offer overviews of our Membership Management Software as well as all of the individual modules including: Membership Management, Website and Events.

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30 Super Useful Nonprofit Hashtags – Twitter Chats, Too!

NTEN

By Kerri Karvetski, Owner, Company K Media. Twitter really shines as a communications tool when you use it with hashtags. Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the hash symbol (#), #justinbeiber for example. Hashtags have two major benefits – they help your tweets get found (by people who are searching for your subject), and they help you find good content.

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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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Lame spam of the day: Acquire new EIN

Robert Weiner

This one seems both farfetched and lazy. They didn't bother with graphics or try to disguise the sender's email address or the destination of the hyperlink. And how many people would think they need an EIN (Federal employer ID) in the first place, much less a new one? I'd hope that accounting staff would see right through this, but I guess one should never underestimate people's gullibility.

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Nonprofit Social Media Mavens Are Curators of Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. Peterson is the founder and senior partner. The book is wonderful and before I share some of what I learned I have to tell you a story. I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ).

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Daily DoGooder: Long-term Affordable Housing and Why Rhode Island’s Economy Depends on It

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Long-term Affordable Housing and Why Rhode Island’s Economy Depends on It | 3:13 HousingWorks RI Rhode Island has been plagued with high rates of unemployment and foreclosures, and continues to be the most housing cost-burdened state in New England. This retro style animated short depicts these problems in [.].

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Bringing “NOW Generation” Leaders to the Forefront

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Jessie Singer , Executive Director. Dysart Community Center. As a proud young nonprofit professional in the Phoenix valley, I believe it's important to remember that age is not a qualifying factor in one’s professional abilities. I can testify that, on behalf of my young peers, we are investing in ourselves through professional development opportunities and networking, and many of us even share common higher education degrees.

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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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Lame spam of the day: Your Tax Payment ID [various #s] is failed.

Robert Weiner

I got four of these today. No graphics, butchered syntax. Several mentions that you can call the EFTPS for help, but no phone number. Do people really fall for these things? Sender: message daemon (message.daemon@eftps.com) -- does that inspire confidence? Subject: Your Tax Payment ID 05674565 is failed. (Other variants had ID = 38543692, 56989098, and 69452501).

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How To Recognize Great Content Curation: Curating Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content curation: Best practices. View more presentations from Trafalgar Communications. (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this deck). Dilbert characters are talking about content curation. Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta. In my own curation of content , I’m discovering many more content curators out there.

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How to Find the Audience You Want (When They’re Not Necessarily Coming Your Way)

NTEN

By Lauren Bacon, Partner + Lead Strategist, Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. One of the recommendations often given as a part of any digital strategy process is to take a good look at who your current audience is to find out more about them and what they want, but what about identifying and serving a target audience that you know isn't finding you yet? There are a few ways to go about attracting new visitors to your website, the challenge of finding that new audience, can in many ways be broken into t

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Digital Communications: A Wise Investment

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Abbie S. Fink , Vice President /. General Manager. HMA Public Relations. Do you have a fan page? What’s the hashtag for that conference? Did you see that great blog post? Will you write a LinkedIn recommendation for me? These phrases and others are becoming increasingly more common among marketing, development, and communications professionals at nonprofit organizations.

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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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Daily DoGooder: The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity| 1:01 The One Campaign Bono, George Clooney, Jessica Alba, Idris Elba and more unite behind ONE’s new campaign to help focus the world’s attention again on the famine and food crisis in the Horn of Africa. Obviously, star power helps, [.].

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Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by PeterJBellis. Guest post by Jesse Noyes. The outlook for the Statue of Liberty was bleak in 1885. Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated.

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What Do You Do When You Reach 1,000,000 Facebook Fans? Try to Get Some More!

NTEN

Congratulations to NTEN Member the Humane Society of the United States for reaching 1,000,000 Fans on Facebook! That is quite an accomplishment – and since it's Member Appreciation Month here at NTEN, I'd like to let them know how much we admire the examples they've set in social media outreach. As an aficionado of cute animal pictures, I of course admire their mastery of the art.

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How Will You Remember?

Wild Apricot

Today is a day for remembering and honoring our veterans. Is your organization paying tribute?

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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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Daily DoGooder: Return of Ben Ali in Tunis

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Return of Ben Ali in Tunis | 1:30 Engagement Citoyen A “Stunt” Video is a clip in which the producers pull a stunt in real time and in a public space to elicit and capture reactions from passers by. This is a great example; A huge Banner of [.].

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Infographic: Which Nonprofits are Rocking Social Media?

Care2

Want to know which nonprofits are exceeding in social media ? So did we over at craigconnects. While a lot of nonprofits working on similar issues such as Animal Welfare and Veterans, have been doing social media for a while, we wondered if certain nonprofits issues areas were doing social media better than others. From August to October of 2011 the craigconnects team reviewed nonprofits by areas of focus to check out how they do social media and found out some great information.

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Use Social Media to Boost Success for Events and Conferences

NTEN

By Bob Alves, CEO, Advanced Solutions International. "Very rarely is a new invention so innovative that it replaces what came before," says Tom Lehman, founder of Lehman Associates and author of the Lehman Reports™ industry studies. This is certainly true for social media. While it is a powerful tool that is transforming the way associations do business, it is best used in tandem with -- rather than in the place of -- their more traditional marketing and communications activities.

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Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Did Abraham Lincoln really say, " Get out of the office and circulate among the troops ," back in 1861? He did. But, not in those exact words. What he said, according to author Donald T. Phillips , is this: "His cardinal mistake is that he isolates himself, and allows nobody to see him; and by which he does not know what is going on in the very matter he is dealing with.

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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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Daily DoGooder: Team Rubicon

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Team Rubicon | 1:51 Team Rubicon As most of us know veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afganistan face many challenges in returning to civilian life. Team Rubicon is an innovative and dynamic example of positive veteran reintegration and a lesson that sometimes the law of unintended [.].

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Steal My Idea, Please! Why An Open Source Attitude Can Make Apps Go Viral

Care2

Last week I got ripped off, but for the first time, I’m happy about it. They didn’t just steal my wallet and phone—they took something that me and a team of people spent months to create. Earlier this week, the world turned 7 billion. Yes, 7 billion people. It’s a strangely large number that can freak people out and put them to sleep at the same time.

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Cloud Security: Don't Confuse Security and Control

NTEN

By Tal Frankfurt, CEO, Cloud for Good. Recently, I received an urgent call from the director of a small nonprofit organization. I had spoken with her almost 6 months ago about the possibility of migrating their organization to the cloud. She was specifically interested in Salesforce as a tool to manage their members, track donations, and send mass newsletters and Google Apps for emails and joint calendars.

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User-Generated Content: Ask Your Questions on Nonprofits Live!

Tech Soup

Nonprofits Live: User-Generated Content Thursday, November 17, 10 a.m. Pacific time Hashtag: #NPLive RSVP. Are you considering a photo or video campaign for your organization? If you have ever asked your members to post photos on Facebook or asked for stories from your clients, you have tasted the abundance that user-generated content (UGC) can bring to your organization.

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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.