Sat.Jan 26, 2013 - Fri.Feb 01, 2013

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Josh, a new indie feature film set in Pakistan

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last night, Virginia and I were in a packed auditorium at Stanford watching a preview screening of a terrific new indie feature film, Josh. Josh ??? (Against the Grain), the first feature film by director Iram Parveen Bilal, is set in modern-day Pakistan. Although the movie touches on many social justice issues, Iram made it clear that she didn't want to make another documentary about Pakistan.

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Thinking Mobile in 2013 – Being Responsive

NetWits

The mobile buzzword of the year is "responsive design." Let's dive into this term and discover what responsive design is all about, why it is important for nonprofits and what your alternatives are if responsive design is not the best fit for your organization.

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March 26 Webinar: Facebook and Facebook Apps for Nonprofits :: Beginner/Intermediate

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief explanation of the difference between Facebook Profiles, Groups, and Pages and then quickly moves into a short click-by-click demonstration on how to successfully create and manage a Facebook Page for your nonprofit.

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Free Non-profit Webinars for February 2013

Wild Apricot

Here's our round-up of free non-profit webinars for February 2013. This month we've found 28+ webinars on topics such as: streamlining through the cloud; “brandraise to fundraise”; "Rockstar presentations" and much more.

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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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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital

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2012 Year-End Fundraising Email Analysis

NetWits

Despite the trend that additional emails have helped increase the total number of transactions without compromising open rates, the 2012 results told a slightly different story.

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How To Make Content Creation More Efficient: Use An Idea Dashboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Been thinking a lot about of the work processes around creating content and measuring its against outcomes this week. One idea that came up in my post earlier this week about creating and measuring content , was the concept of an idea dashboard. This post takes it a bit deeper. Sustaining a content strategy requires establishing a good pipeline of content and engagement across channels.

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Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last November, Mayrie ReNae, a beloved colleague and part of our Bookshare extended community, passed away after a battle with cancer. Mayrie was a Bookshare member, volunteer and staff person, who contributed hundreds of books to the Bookshare collection and provided invaluable guidance to our volunteer crew for many years. This week, in remembrance of her birthday, we are pleased to announce the creation of the Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship.

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Wild Apricot Software News January 2013

Wild Apricot

Frank, our Fresh Apricot from the product design team, shares a preview of the development of new mobile back-end capabilities we're planning for Version 5.1.

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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

NTEN

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.” That workshop focused on the data and “story” side of the equation: how to translate the data you have into a snapshot of the work you are doing today (and yesterday).

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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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Why I Use Pen and Paper Notebooks AND Digital Tools To Take Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, wrote a provocative post on the HBR blog titled, “ Dear Colleague, Put Down Your Notebook ” where she makes an argument for switching to digital note taking tools like Evernote is more efficient than taking notes on paper. (She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote ). I agree with Alexandra’s point about efficiency, but I don’t always think that digital note taking is always effective for certain situations.

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Seeds for a Future Part 3: Creating a sustainable future

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Suzanne and Earl de Berge , Founders of Seeds for a Future. This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 2: Understanding communities and traditions. “Our goal is to provide the community with a “sustainable” program.”. This may be the most overused and least accurate phrase we hear nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) utter in Guatemala.

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Membership Round-up From Apricot Jam

Wild Apricot

Here's a round-up of 5 posts we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam - offering membership insight and ideas.

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Things We Like (and Will Miss About Brett)

NTEN

Did you know that in his six years at NTEN, Brett has sent more than 6 million emails? It's true. It is with the same combined emotion of being impressed and knowing it's true that I announce today that Brett will be stepping down from his role as NTEN's Communications Director at the end of February. Beyond sending emails, in Brett's time at NTEN he helped create a community of nonprofit leaders who were excited to learn and share with each other, he wrangled a website with the best of them, an

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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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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. I followed up with Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director) to learn more about how they went about this first very important first step for measuring social media – defining results.

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Be A Developing Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

One of my favorite lessons from the book, The DNA of Leadership , is the importance of being a developing leader. Developing leaders: Create the next generation of leaders Are great listeners Grow talent by challenging others to take on more than what they think they can do Are open, honest and direct Model the behavior they want to mentor for others If you haven't read Judith E.

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Tweet Chat Recap: #Office4Good

Tech Soup

Here at TechSoup, few things make us happier than helping you get answers to your tech questions, connecting you with experts in the field, and providing resources for your organization to get the most out of its technology. So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Offic

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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. In case you weren't yet convinced, I imagine this clear declaration -- which ties the concepts of business innovation like incremental improvement of steam power to making vaccine delivery more effective -- will move the needle for you. Here is a snippet from Bill Gates: Of course, the work of our foundation is a world away from the making of steam engines.

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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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Infographic: How To Create An Awesome Meme

Care2

Telling a good story is important to moving people into action. Amy Sample Ward and I talk about this in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere , which is coming out next month. We have found that people respond best to advocacy campaigns that tell stories and use calls to action that connect with them on a human level. Basically skip the jargon, and talk to people like you were at an incredible dinner party.

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A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

Have Fun - Do Good

Need a little pick me up? Watch A Pep Talk from Kid President from SoulPancake. If you've already seen it, watch it again (: Tweet Hat tip to Matt Fitzgerald & Rachel Weidinger for sharing it with me.

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A Completely Different Approach To Hiring

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"Don't Hire Jerks, No Matter How Talented," said Michael Lebowitz in an interview for The New York Times awhile back. Lebowitz is the CEO of Big Spaceship , a marketing and communications agency. He claims, and I agree, that no matter how talented the person may be, if he/she can't fit into the company culture and work effectively with co-workers, it doesn't matter how talented he/she is.

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Building Community through Twitter Chats

NTEN

Interested in learning how to build community through Twitter chats? We welcome you to join us for a three part webinar series on what Twitter chats (and building community) can accomplish for your organization, for the participants, and for the community you wish to impact. Our presenter, Hildy Gottlieb , is co-founder of Creating the Future, a nonprofit living laboratory for accelerating social change.

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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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Five Tips To Be More Influential Across Channels

Care2

No matter how big or small our organizations are, we all want to be influential and create social change in this world. Sometime we can’t help ourselves and feel compelled to measure some of our successes through vanity metrics such as FB Likes or Twitter followers. This can sometimes lead us down a dangerous path of constantly asking everyone under the sun to “like” our photos or political statements on our pages on Facebook or to follow us on Twitter with no real engagement b

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#Office4Good Tweet Chat January 30

Tech Soup

By now you've heard that the latest version of Microsoft Office is available through the TechSoup donation program. If you're as excited as we are, join us for the #Office4Good tweet chat on Wednesday, January 30 at noon Pacific time. We'll be tweeting with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com.

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Research Friday: Your story matters. Please share it with us

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Jen Talansky Vice President, Knowledge and Communications. Nonprofit Finance Fund. 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. Government funding hovers on the edge of a fiscal cliff.

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Things We Like (January 2013)

NTEN

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. 'Tis the season: the season for Google Flu Trends to demonstrate the power of aggregated search data. So, if you were procrastinating on getting that flu shot, well. maybe procrastination isn't such a bad thing. But please, at least wash your hands. Have you ever tried doing nothing for 2 minutes ?

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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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Fresh, Innovative Ideas on Fundraising

Care2

Hey frogloop readers: Next week is one of the Care2 Team's favorite fundraising conferences: the DMA Nonprofit Federation's Washington Nonprofit Conference , and we hope to see many of you there! If you're not sure whether to attend, here are some great reasons to do so, from the DMA's Toni Cumberbatch: Need fresh, innovative ideas to optimize your fundraising strategies?

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The Facts Of Business Life -- Book Review

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The fact is, if you are a budding entrepreneur, future business owner, or relatively “green” business owner, you need to read, The Facts of Business Life , by Bill McBean. Because, in his new book, McBean, a successful businessman with four decades of ownership experience, explains the essential Seven Facts of Business Life and the Five Levels of Business Success.

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Microsoft Office vs. Office 365 vs. Office Web Apps: How Do They Differ and How Can They Work Together?

Tech Soup

Microsoft Office is more versatile than ever with three different flavors of the productivity suite now available: the latest version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365, and Microsoft Office Web Apps. The latest version of Office , available through TechSoup's Microsoft Software Donation Program , is the installed desktop version of the software.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. One of the invited participants—the one who inspired the project—is a young transgender person.

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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.