Sat.May 26, 2012 - Fri.Jun 01, 2012

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

If you’re in the US today, there’s probably little chance you didn’t know it was Memorial Day – from the specials on TV, to local events, to remembrance stories, and even community gatherings, it’s hard to miss the message of today’s holiday. I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community.

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Increase Open Rates and Click-Throughs with 5 Follow-up Email Techniques from Top Nonprofits

NetWits

If you run your nonprofit’s email communication program you’re likely always thinking of ways to get better. You probably think about things like opens, clicks, conversions and unsubscribes. Wrapped up in all that is the issue of sending too many emails. Most people who’ve been doing email communication for any length of time understand that too many emails equals increased unsubscribes, lower open rates and lower click through rates.

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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The rise of for-profit social enterprises has been quite exciting. Although I'm firmly on the nonprofit side with Benetech (because we focus on big issues where the market is failing), it's definitely easier to get funded sustainably if you have an exciting and invest-able business plan. Evan Haigler is a social entrepreneur I've known for years. He's made a big difference in the area of clean cook stoves and carbon credits, spinning his nonprofit group ImpactCarbon out of UC Berkeley years ago.

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Visual Internet Traffic to Quadruple in Four Years

VisionLink

'Here is a projection about internet use that will amplify the caffination in your coffee this morning. The projection comes from Cisco, and while it is in their interest to offer these projections to sell more hardware, recent projections over the years from Cisco have actually been low. Remember that, and ponder this: Akamai Real Time Web Monitor Cisco projects a massive increase in IP traffic worldwide from 369 Exabytes in 2011, to approximately 1.3 zettabytes in 2016.

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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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Lame spam of the day: Money

Robert Weiner

This is about as lame as it gets. I hope no one would click on a message like this. Even Outlook recognizes it as phishing. Sender: yomrgoo@yahoo.com (no attempt to make it look real). To: robert@rlplumbingcompany.com (not me). Subject: FW: Money. Text: Click Here Shared Online News Article. (That's the entire text. The link leads to [link].

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. I have been interested in visualization techniques, visual facilitation, and visual thinking since 1991 when I read Tony Buzan’s book, “ Using Both Sides of the Brain: Mind Mapping Techniques ” that started me down a very slow and leisurely learning journey. This year I’ve been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits – and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills becom

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Anne Byrne , Professional-in-Residence, ASU Lodestar Center. Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom.

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Call for Submissions: What Are Fun Ways Nonprofits Can Use Pinterest?

Have Fun - Do Good

my pinterest boards Did you know that Pinterest is the third most popular social network ? As the host of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival for June 2012, I want to tap your collective wisdom to explore the theme of: Fun Ways Nonprofits Can Use Pinterest You’re invited to submit your blog posts for consideration any time before Monday, June 25th. On Wednesday, June 27th I'll post a round-up of some of the best posts on Have Fun, Do Good.

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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

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Tips For Integrating Direct Mail and Online Strategies

Wild Apricot

Is direct mail still relevant in our digital age? Here are some tips on integrating direct mail and online strategies.

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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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Research Friday Board Engagement: Thinking Beyond the Wallet

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit. scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. nonprofit practice. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

Folks from every aspect of our society, and every profession are involved in the food system. As I vision ahead, I see this being a situation where hundreds of thousands of young people want to do this, but we have to quantify a lot of things to make this a reality for folks. There's lots of excitement, but now we have to prove that this works. ~ Will Allen Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populatio

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5 Tips for Nonprofit Leaders to Engage Online

Care2

One of the biggest challenges nonprofit Executive Directors face, besides raising money of course, is finding the time to engage with their supporters and community online. I often meet with Executive Directors who are interested in working more transparently and more fully utilizing blogging and social media. However, they find it too daunting to make online engagement a priority with their intense schedules.

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5 Freshly Filtered Posts

Wild Apricot

Here are 5 posts we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week that offer great tips and ideas for associations and non-profits.

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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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Knowing When To Say "Thank You" To Your Customers

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In your leadership role, it's vital that your team members know how to deliver excellent customer service. " Knock Your Socks Off " type service as book editor Ann Thomas and Jill Applegate would say. Part of delivering excellent customer service is saying "Thank You" to your customers and knowing when to say "Thank You". Thomas and Applegate recommend telling your customers "Thank You" during at least these nine situations : When they do business with you.every time.

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New to TechSoup: Adobe Creative Suite 6

Tech Soup

Adobe has released the long-awaited sixth version of Creative Suite, its set of popular design and production tools, and eligible organizations can now request donations of them through TechSoup. Both Creative Suite packages offered through TechSoup, Production Premium and Design & Web Premium, include updates to all of their applications, including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Premiere.

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Nonprofits Must Tear Down Their Marketing Silos

Care2

Since the last era of integrated communications during the 90s, we've seen two economic crashes and the rise of social (and now mobile) media. Nonprofit marketing tactics have become siloed with different disciplines strategizing and executing programs autonomously. Nonprofits have become less effective communicators across the board. Consider fundraising.

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Infographic On Social Media For Events

Wild Apricot

Here's an infographic that offers great tips on social networking at trade shows and events.

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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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Cook Through Everyday Happy Herbivore with the VegCookbook Club in June

Have Fun - Do Good

As some of you know, I have a second blog, VegCookbook Club , where each month we try recipes from the same vegetarian, or vegan cookbook, and share our experiences. This month's VegCookbook is Everyday Happy Herbivore by Lindsay Nixon. I hope you'll join us! You can learn more about Lindsay on her website happyherbivore.com , her blog , her Twitter feed ( @happyherbivore ), and her Facebook Page.

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Strengthen Your Volunteer Program with VolunteerMatters

Tech Soup

Running a volunteer program is an ongoing commitment. It involves reaching out to new volunteers while keeping track of and engaging with the ones you already have. VolunteerMatters – now back in stock with a new product offering – can help your organization manage its volunteer operations. With VolunteerMatters Pro , administrators can coordinate up to 5,000 volunteer assignments, track attendance, and send group emails, all while maintaining a comprehensive database.

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The Mother of All Infographics

Care2

Infographics are like eye candy. They can be visually stunning to look at while telling an important story framed around data. If done right, they can also be a fantastic marketing tool to reach your target audiences. They are also highly sharable across social media channels. And the press love to cover them too. If your organization is thinking about making an infographic, definitely check out the “Infographic of Infographics”below, which illustrates the most popular elements incor

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Make A Pledge To Hire A Veteran By Year's End

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As we wind up this year's Memorial Day, consider making a pledge, as Siemens Corp. has done, to hire a veteran. For Siemens, by the end of this year, they will have hired almost 1,000 vets across many of its U.S. businesses. According to Siemens Corp. President and CEO Eric Spiegel, as featured in this week's Bloomberg's Business Week magazine, "Veterans make excellent employees and leaders.

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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 to Use Twitter Better

Connection Cafe

Author: Cheryl Black. Home school your way to a more successful Twitter presence. Here’s a baker's dozen of resources that can help you wow the socks off your colleagues. I humbly suggest bookmarking this page right now. Beginner. Twitter in Plain English (YouTube). How to Use Twitter. Twitter 101 for Nonprofits (Slideshare). 20 Tips for Nonprofits Using Twitter.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2012 Discount for TechSoup Community

Tech Soup

The Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) 2012 conference is June 11-12 in New York. And lucky you! Our friends at PDF are offering a special 20% discount to the whole TechSoup community. About PDF. The PDF conference is organized by Personal Democracy Media (formerly Personal Democracy Forum), an organization dedicated to exploring technology’s impact on government, politics, and society.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 2: Museums as Battlefields in the History Wars

Museum 2.0

This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. This guest post was written by Regan Forrest , exhibition developer and visitor experience researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia. Regan was struck by the similarities between the controversy around the Dutch Museum of National History and the issues that surrounded the National Museum of Australia when it opened ten ye

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The Four Components That Create Customer Satisfaction

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Great customer service tips from author Micah Solomon's new book, High-tech, High-touch Customer Service : You provide value when you deliver the four components that reliably create customer satisfaction : A perfect product or service Delivered in a caring, friendly manner On time (as defined by the customer) With the backing of an effective problem-resolution process Micah has been named by the Financial Post as “a new guru of customer service excellence.

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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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A Chat With Judi Sohn

Connection Cafe

Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. As some of you may know, my podcasting history extends back before I started posting on the Connection Café For several years I published a podcast called the 501c3Cast which gave me some amazing opportunities to meet entergetic, smart, community-focused people in the nonprofit sector. One of the friends that I made when producing the 501c3Cast was Judi Sohn, the guest on this month’s employee interview.

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Conference alert: Get to know TechKnow. | DonorDriven

AFP Blog

Conference alert: Get to know TechKnow. | DonorDriven : It’ll be fascinating to hear Woz’s eyebrow-raising take about the future of fundraising, with his background in both tech and philanthropy. But what attendees are really coming for are the targeted sessions and workshops. This conference differs from NTen in that it has a narrower scope: it’s tech that’s specifically aimed at fundraising.

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Five Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make in Their Online Fundraising Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Last month I donated online to 25 of my 32 Favorite Nonprofits in celebration of reaching the benchmark of following 100,000 nonprofits, nonprofit staff, and nonprofit service providers on Twitter. Usually I donate to one or two nonprofits at a time, but to go through a list of 25 nonprofits in less than 90 minutes made it abundantly clear that many nonprofits still need to tweak their “Donate Now” process to maximize online donations and their social media ROI.

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Multichannel Givers: The Key to Online Fundraising Success

NetWits

Download the full Multichannel Fundraising Report. to learn more about the turn to online fundraising, the need for a multichannel approach and how direct mail is still alive and well. Download Now! In today’s connected world — where seemingly everyone is using their smart phones to update social networks, check email, and pump out hundreds of text messaging a week — direct mail can look a bit outdated to some nonprofits looking to raise money in support of their mission.

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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.