Sat.Sep 08, 2012 - Fri.Sep 14, 2012

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter.

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3 Tips that Make Every Holiday Campaign Work

NetWits

By now many of you have been working on your end of year campaigns, but if you haven’t started planning the good news is you still have time to put a plan in place to maximize end of year giving. Here are a few items to use in your end of year plan : - Optimize Your Home Page for the Holidays. - Make Every Email Count. - Tap into your Constituents’ Network.

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Lame spams of the day: Fake Facebook notifications

Robert Weiner

Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. Here's a sample of what's landed in my spam folder. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au]. Facebook [update+dxyfrdccslte@csj.g12.br]. Facebook [updateV995O9DZ34L9@facebookmail.com].

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Creators – Social Media and Gender Part 2

NCE Social Media

I wanted to follow up my last post on social media and gender by sharing some new social media and gender information. A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that of people who post online new videos and photos they created account for 46% of internet users. People who repost videos and photos created by others account for 41% of internet users.

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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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To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I wanted to give some encouragement to all the small and medium-sized nonprofits out there on the Social Web that tweet, share and post regularly with the hope of growing their communities and inspiring social good – some feedback I received last week from Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Safe Kids Worldwide : Remember back when you came to present at our conference in 2008 and told everyone that 5,000 fans was the magic number – that once we go

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2012 North Carolina Center for Nonprofits Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Date : September 13-14, 2012. Location : Research Triangle Park, NC. Topic : Finding the Right Mix: A Strategic Look at Mobile, Social, and Web. Description : Given budget constraints and growing technology demands, how can the average nonprofit keep up? The key is finding the right mix! This session will provide a strategic look at how to integrate nonprofit communications – mobile, social, and web.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The post I had originally planned to publish before leaving on a plane for Tunis, Tunisia was going to be all The Women’s Enterprise for Sustainability (WES) , funded through the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE. Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middl

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September 25 Webinar: Blogging on WordPress for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Summer Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar covers how to successfully launch and maintain a blog for your nonprofit on WordPress.com. Click-by-click, attendees will learn how to use themes, widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Faceb

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3 Tips that Make Every Holiday Campaign Work

NetWits

By now many of you have been working on your end of year …

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Dipping Your Toes into Metrics Tracking

NTEN

Jess Main. Operations Manager. National Center for Media Engagement. It's very easy to get overwhelmed when diving into metrics and measurement. So, start small. If your organization is not tracking activity on its website or social media pages regularly, getting started can feel like an overwhelming task. There's no one magic formula, but there are some great ways to get started.

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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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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“New Skills for a Complex World” was the theme of the seventh annual Nonprofit Management Institute, a two-day conference for several hundred nonprofit leaders sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) earlier this week. I had the honor of being on the faculty to do a master class on leading networked nonprofits.

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September 18 Webinar: Pinterest and Digital Photography for Nonprofit Storytelling

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Summer Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinn

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Managing Events in Wild Apricot Webinar - Sept. 19

Wild Apricot

We've added an additional webinar to our schedule for September to help with your Fall event planning - Managing Events in Wild Apricot.

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Infographic: It's About Smarter Investment

NTEN

We've been sharing the results of our annual research on nonprofit investments in technology staffing and budgets in multiple ways this year: with the full report , an infographic with the key benchmarks , a webinar – and we also introduced a dynamic benchmarking tool this month. Well, if you thought we'd stop there, think again! With the help of the design team at Lemon.ly , we created another infographic to tell the story of smarter nonprofit technology investments.

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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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Attention RSS Readers: Update Your Subscription!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you read Beth’s Blog in an RSS Reader? As part of my blog redesign, I’ve moved my RSS Feed to: [link] and changed my RSS host. You’re still getting my content because I haven’t shut down my old account which I will do next month. So, take this opportunity to click here so you’ll always have my feed no matter where I host it!

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Online Video For Nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Patrice Sheldon , Freelance Public Relations. Consultan. A recent post by Isaac Kiehl highlighted social media, and in particular the use of online photos, as a means by which nonprofits can improve interaction with the community. Online video takes this interaction one step further. A report by tech giant Cisco found that 51% of all consumer internet traffic in 2011 was video traffic.

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Crowdsourcing For Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

Here's an overview of a new Idealware article on Crowdsourcing - now available in our Membership Knowledge Hub.

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Introducing the Nonprofit Technology Benchmarking Tool

NTEN

You know there's no "one size fits all" when it comes to determining the right staffing and budgeting levels for your nonprofit. But understanding what organizations similar to you – either in size, geographic region, or issue area – are doing when it comes to investments in their technology staffing and budgets can help you make better informed decisions, as well as better make your case to stakeholders.

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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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Digital Strategies for Community Foundations: COF Knight Digital Media Center Workshop Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” The backdrop is a movement to create “ Community News Leadership 2.0 ” and community foundations are big players in this ecosystem.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional. in Residence. ASU Lodestar Center. 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. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 publis

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Vote for the Best Nonprofit Tagline

Care2

Over 1400 taglines were submitted to the Nonprofit Tagline Awards. The final voting is down to just 63 tagline finalists. Creating good taglines for your nonprofit’s brand is challenging. There are so many different stakeholders that you need to think about both externally and internally when crafting the messaging. Here are some of the taglines that captured my attention right off the bat.

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The Challenges of Disparate Data in Nonprofits (and How to Overcome Them)

NTEN

Keith Heller. CEO. Heller Consulting. While not a panacea, CRM systems have the potential to reduce many data challenges. Here are just a few of the ways that enlisting CRM technology (and the processes to support it) can help your organization. "Our data is scattered all across our organization!" Sound familiar? As a consultant for the nonprofit sector, I hear it all of the time from clients.

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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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A New Book, A New Look for Beth’s Blog!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The New Beth's Blog. The Old Beth's Blog. My blog was way over do for a fresh and new look! I thought the launch of my new book would be the perfect time to make a few changes! In May, 2010. I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine.

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Taking the Brakes Off of Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Ever wondered what kills fundraising efforts? . I see it all the time – hard working and passionate professionals doing everything they can to raise money but run head first into one (or all) of these issues that bring their fundraising to a screeching halt: 1. Not having the right permits and registrations. 2. Not having the right systems in place. 3.

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Cloud Technology and the NGO Community

Tech Soup

In 2012, TechSoup Global, in collaboration with our partners around the world, conducted a survey of nonprofits, charities, NGOs, and social benefit organizations around the globe. We wanted to better understand the current state of their technology infrastructure and their future plans for adopting cloud technologies. With more than 10,500 respondents in 88 countries, we’re pleased to add this data to our ever-evolving resources for nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and those who support the

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The 3 Keys to Designing More Effective Data Visualizations

NTEN

Matthew Schwartz. Founder, Chief Brand Strategist. MSDS. By focusing on what's essential to your audience and your brand, not only will you more effectively make your case, you'll also have greater impact. Data Visualization, or DataViz is a hot topic! More than ever, brands are relying on data to tell their stories. Each has to create clarity around their data to better connect with their audiences.

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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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Key Performance Indicators

Connection Cafe

Author: Katie Beth DeSchepper. Today, we have many things to worry about, watch for, measure, monitor and just deal with in general. With the increased social landscape, it seems like there is just so much to think about, but how do you identify what to prioritize. Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, should be quick, easily understood, and comprehensive.

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Knowing What You Don’t Know

Get Fully Funded

So, how do you know what you don’t know? That’s a funny question, isn’t it? How are you supposed to know that? Have you ever said, “I know just enough to be dangerous”? How about, “I know a little bit abut a lot of stuff”? Well, then, you understand the importance of continuous learning. You know that there is so much more you need to know.

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Got Grants? Finding Funding with the Foundation Center: Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

This post was written by Crystal Schimpf, a webinar producer at TechSoup Global. View the archived recording of the Got Grants? webinar on ReadyTalk. On September 6, 2012, TechSoup held a free webinar with two guest presenters from The Foundation Center. George Ford gave an overview and tour of the Foundation Directory Online , including tips for finding funding to match your organization’s mission and location.

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Member Round Up: Tedx, Chase Community Giving grants, new services, just another quiet holiday week.

NTEN

Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. For better or worse, it was not a zombie apocolypse, but rather a quiet holiday week. There were signs of life out there in our community nonetheless, which we've wrangled together to help you get back into the swing of things.

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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.