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10 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There are now over 143 million blogs on the Internet and when I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. I wasn’t convinced at all that the world needed another blogger. But within a few months it was clear that blogging was the missing piece in my online communications strategy. 80% of my ROI (Return on Investment = webinar registrations, new clients, speaking engagements) comes from my e-Newsletter, and thanks to blogging my e-Newsletter list has jum

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The 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This has been a really exciting week in Washington, DC, with the focus of today's 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It's hard to imagine a world without the ADA, which was passed during my first year in the disability field. It became a model of civil rights legislation for people with disabilities, and I'm sure paved the way for the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

This afternoon I had the pleasure and honor of spending a few hours with members of the Charity Technology Trust/Charity Technology Exchange team, part of the TechSoup Global network , exploring their options for creating programs or services to build and foster community throughout their network. Below you can find notes and ideas from today’s session – would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

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Three months without Twitter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As you know, I left twitter 3 months ago today. I figured it was a good time to do a reflection of my experiences over this time – what I miss, and what I don’t miss. What I don’t miss. Distractions: I find myself more productive, for sure. I never was very disciplined about turning twitter off, so I was constantly distracted. The lack of distraction has been a really good thing.

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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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3 Simple Tips for Turning Good Web Pages into Great Ones

NetWits

You may have inherited a vast pool of web content written “before your time” … or you frequently receive lengthy “expert” articles and other contributed pieces to add to the web site you now manage. Not every expert who contributes to a web site is also an expert in writing for the web. Fortunately, in most cases it’s easier to “clean up” existing writing than to create the original piece.

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Doing Your Part: Supporting 2-1-1 Legislation

VisionLink

'We have launched a new page on our website which you can find here supporting the national call for 2-1-1 legislation. Quick summary information, and a really easy tool offered by the United Way to contact your representative are waiting for you. All you need is your Zip Code to get started. Great momentum is building behind this effort to help make 2-1-1 available and sustainable across the United States.

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Git

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I became sold on version control fairly far back in my programming life. Back when CVS (C0ncurrent Version System) was the standard. I learned it, although there were varied gaps in my use of it, so it never became second nature. As I learned more about newer version control systems, I tried them out. For a while, I was using SVN (Subversion), which is similar enough to CVS, but has some nice improvements.

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HOW DO I … Promote my Video Through Email?

NetWits

The question “how do I put a video into an email?” comes up from time to time in discussions with clients. This question inspires me to set down some basic “how to” recommendations (since a full video really can’t/shouldn’t be put into an email!).

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Facebook recommended pages are brain dead

Judi Sohn

I don't know exactly what they're called, but I hate those new Facebook auto-bot-stupid generated pages. No one creates them, they're just generated by Facebook around a term or idea and it auto--bot-stupid aggregates content around the topic or idea and it auto-bot-stupid suggests to folks (who are neither bots nor stupid) to like the page. . Long ago I submitted the official page for the auto-bot-stupid page created for C3.

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Social Media Contests a Big Risk for Small Non-Profits?

Wild Apricot

A tweet or status update is so easy to publish – and “Please vote” is such a small favor to ask of your social network. It’s just a quick click, right? But as Chris Brogan points out, in The Problem with Social Only Nonprofit Campaigns,there’s a cumulative effect of all those social media requests.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Social networking crowdsourcing social media contests.

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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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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. I’ve had the pleasure working with one of grantees in the Local Program, the Arts Council of Silicon Valley , to coach them in making the trans

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Nature vs. Nuture, or Why You Should Follow Your Gut on the Social Web

NTEN

Photo: johncabrerea@att.net I've been crafting the "official" NTEN Social Media Strategy. (What makes it official? It has its own Google Doc.) The majority of the time I spent thinking, I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch our own webinars and listen to our own advice! I scoured the internet for resources. Turns out, there were plenty in our own backyard.

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Looking for older momathome.com posts?

Judi Sohn

After my old self-hosted WordPress blog hosted by MediaTemple was compromised over the weekend ( one of many )*, I exported the content (and removed the malicious injected link that started all the trouble) and redirected all traffic to judisohn.com and momathome.com to come here to my Posterous blog. It was a hasty decision that I don't regret, but I had some debris to clean up that I didn't get around to doing until today.

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Movie Mondays for Fundraisers

Wild Apricot

Movie Mondays is a free weekly series of video interviews with fundraising professionals – a mix of practical tips, in-the-trenches experience, and creative ideas to help you meet all kinds of fundraising challenges.( read more ). Tags: Fundraising nptech training Videos.

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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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The Networked Nonprofit Has Arrived In Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Networked Nonprofit Has Arrived in Australia. Connecting Up Office has Donnie the Wombat (Aussie Squirrel) and Tim Tams by their computers along with the book! I’m so thrilled that the Networked Nonprofit has made it Australia! A few years ago, I had the opportunity to keynote Connecting Up, the national gathering of Nonprofit Techies hosted by Connecting Up.

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Mind gone blank? 12 ideas to get you thinking about blog content

Get Fully Funded

Have you started a blog for your nonprofit organization and then got stuck trying to come up with content? If you don’t consider yourself a writer, it can be daunting to pull something together a couple of times a week. Here are some ideas for content: Tell stories about people you are helping. A story ALWAYS works! Remember to keep it short and compelling.

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Malware link makes a decision easier (updated)

Judi Sohn

So I've been going back and forth about what I want to do with my personal domains. I have two, judisohn.com and momathome.com Momathome.com is legacy. It doesn't make a lot of sense now, given what I do for a living, but it was my first identity on the web and I know there's a lot of history out there tied to it. I primarily use it now for the kids' email and it redirects to judisohn.com.

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Best Practices for Contest Campaigns: AGC Lessons Learned

Wild Apricot

Results of a detailed evaluation of the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge competition have been released in the “must-read” 2009 AGC Assessment and Reflection Report. The best part? Lessons learned can be replicated by other non-profits, both for contest campaigns and for general social media outreach.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest Fundraising nptech Marketing Best practices Social networking case studies Non-profit Communications research social media conte

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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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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Becoming A Networked Nonprofit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to deliver a half-day training workshop for staff members working at Junior Achievement Offices at their worldwide conference. This workshop is called “ Becoming A Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media Strategically.&#. The learning objectives: To understand what a Networked Nonprofit is and why it is important to become one in order to implement your social media strateg

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Win, Lose, or Just a waste of time?

Get Fully Funded

There have been a LOT of nonprofit contests going on lately. Seems like everyday I get asked online to “vote&# for some organization in one contest or another. But are these contests worth it? My colleague Sherry Truhlar at Red Apple Auctions recently addressed this trend on her blog. Sherry points out that small nonprofit organizations can easily waste a LOT of time promoting their participation in one of these contests.

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Wishful weather thinking

Judi Sohn

Weather widget in Chrome chuckle. Unfortunately, the numbers at the bottom are more accurate. Ugh. Permalink.

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Free Webinar Today! Tips & Tools for Technology Planning

Tech Soup

Starting in a mere half hour, you can join experts from TechSoup and WebJunction to learn some tips on developing (and improving) technology plans for nonprofits and libraries. Register here now! You've heard that a technology plan can help you budget and better plan for future technology acquisitions, but with everything else you do all day, who has the time?

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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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The Networked Nonprofit Roundup: Bay Area Book Party 7/23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a quick roundup of some of the wonderful reviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of The Networked Nonprofit. If you’re in the Bay Area and didn’t make it to our launch party at TechSoup , there’s a book party in the East Bay on Friday, July 23rd. The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are throwing a #netnon book party. Join us on Friday, July 23, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at Pro Arts Gallery ( [link] ) at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, a stone’s throw from the Oakland City

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You CAN Teach an Old Spice New Tricks!

NTEN

" I'm on a horse. " Those are the words that turned the once-stale Old Spice brand into something refreshing and new. The folks at Proctor and Gamble, who make Old Spice, took it a step further last week when they launched an Old Spice Guy response campaign, creating dozens of personalized responses to the tweets, emails and Facebook posts from his many fans, including George Stephanopolous (presidential abs!

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Social Media Nonprofit Benchmarks

Care2

One of the biggest questions nonprofits have been asking for the past couple of years, is what benchmarks should they be using for social media? The 2010 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report released by NTEN has some great data that nonprofits can use for guidance. Nonprofit Social Media Benchmark Data You Need to Know. According to 1200 nonprofits surveyed: Facebook is the number one used commercial social network by nonprofits. 86% said that they have a presence on Facebook, a 16% increase from 2009.

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How to Choose a Green Website Host

Tech Soup

Green does not always have to cost you more, especially when it comes to technology. As you have probably heard, datacenters are the biggest green house gas generators in the IT world. Most small to medium size nonprofits and libraries don't have a data center, so you don't even need to think about it. But, where is your website hosted? Unless you have your own web server, I would bet your website lives in a datacenter owned by someone else.

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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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August 25 – CitizenGulf’s National Day of Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Geoff Livingston. Mark your calendars! Citizen Effect’s CitizenGulf project will become a National Day of Action on August 25th, in alignment with the week of the fifth anniversary of Katrina. The benefit — to be promoted by Gulf Coast Benefit — seeks to help fishing families find a new, more sustainable future by providing education resources for their children.

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Submit Your Tips for How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog by July 27th

Have Fun - Do Good

Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit your post about How to Create a Juicy Nonprofit Blog to this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival is Tuesday, July 27th. Your post doesn't have to be long (100-200 words). Some possible post topics are: Examples of juicy nonprofit blogs How to choose juicy post topics How to build a juicy community How to host juicy giveaways and contests How to use juicy images and video effectively How to use a juicy "voice" in your writing 10 tips for creating a ju

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Help Test the New NTEN Member Directory

NTEN

Flickr: Lutz-R. Frank. NTEN is in the final stages of updating our Member Directory, but we need a handful of volunteers to help us test it out before it goes live. If you have an half hour to spare next week (7/26 - 7/30), send a quick email to karl@nten.org to sign up for a user testing slot. (If you need more of a reason to help, we'll also be offering an NTEN Prize Pack, filled with books and other NTEN goodies, to all our volunteers.).

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Set Your Monitor to Sleep

Tech Soup

Even if you don't want to set your entire computer to sleep, consider turning off your monitor at night and set it to sleep during inactivity (after two to five minutes) during the day. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory tested dozens of monitors and found that the average LCD (flat screen) display uses over 27 watts while on, but only 1.38 watts while in sleep mode.

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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.