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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

'The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. As nonprofits have gotten better at implementing multichannel communications and fundraising campaigns and improving their tracking and reporting systems, many nonprofits have come to the conclusion that creating a paid part- or full-time new media manager position is worth the financial investment

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Infographic: Why Video Is The Best Form Of Engagement

TechImpact

'There is a seemingly infinite number of ways for you to engage viewers online. Whether it be through well written content, deeply researched infographics presented in a visually stimulating way, a video, social media, or even a meme. Nonprofits everywhere are searching for ways to increase their exposure online to increase donations, spur community involvement, and to make the world a better place.

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

'One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. Hailed as “the Miracle in Marrakesh,” the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled paves the way to expanding access to books for people with print disabilities and provides the neces

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Data quality vs. data quantity: let’s end the debate!

3rd Sector Labs

'When it comes to nonprofit data, especially donor data, there’s a running debate. Which is more important, data quality or quantity? It’s a matter of preference, right? Like the old Miller Lite commercials, ‘ Tastes Great vs. Less Filling ‘ Your nonprofit organization needs to acquire new donors (data quantity), but you also need the ‘right’ data in order to foster better, longer term relationships (data quality).

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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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5 Hot Links For Associations and Non-profits

Wild Apricot

'This link round-up offers 5 hot links with insight into: "a big problem for associations", how an AMS can help with membership retention, tips on Post Traumatic Board Member Disorder, and more.

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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Fundraiser Help. According to a 2013 study conducted by Blackbaud , overall donations to nonprofits increased in 2013 by 4.9%, and digital donations increased 6.4%. Is this the product of Americans having more disposable income? If not, then what’s the reason? Why are Americans donating more to charitable causes more than ever before despite the severe economic climate of 2013?

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Apply for a Scholarship to the 2014 Leading Change Summit

NTEN

'NTEN is pleased to offer 12 scholarships to attend LCS with thanks to the support of TechSoup Global, who is generously providing 10 of these scholarships! Scholarship covers the the cost of LCS registration (excluding travel and lodging) and they are available to nonprofit staff working in specific areas of the nonprofit sector. NTEN is happy to announce two scholarships for organizations in the following categories: Arts Digital Inclusion Domestic Violence Faith-Based Human Services Youth Dev

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Finding the Secret to Member Happiness

Wild Apricot

'In this guest post, Lamees Abourahma interviews the founder of a non-profit membership organization who offers tips on "asking members what they want" and "giving them something to talk about.".

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How Nonprofit Use Tech To Increase Transparency

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Nonprofit Information. Technology is enabling organizations of all kinds the unprecedented ability to communicate directly with all of their constituents. Whether they be donors, employees, volunteers, partners, sponsors just someone who likes to read your blog, nonprofits are leveraging technology to allow the public a looking glass into the inner working of their organizations.

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How to Ask the Right Questions About Nonprofit Strategy

BoardAssist

'Do you feel you know the right questions to ask about your nonprofit’s strategy? Do you know what that strategy is? Molly Penn of Penn Flood Consulting spends her day advising nonprofits on strategy and governance. This week, in her guest post for BoardAssist, she has provided six great strategy questions every board member should consider. We are grateful for your input Molly!

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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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Build your best website: a guide for non-profits

NTEN

'Laura Packard. Partner. PowerThru Consulting. "Don’t let your site become a camel" and other tips for website redesign processes. Time for a new website? Read this first if you plan to work with an outside web developer for a smooth and successful process and outcome.

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Advisory Series 1-On-1 With Kim Elliott

Wild Apricot

'In this first of our Advisory Series 1-On-1 posts, we offer highlights of an interview with Kim Elliott of the Klamath Falls Rental Housing Association - who shares her experience and insight in growing her association.

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Why Small Nonprofits Are Moving To The Cloud

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Cloud Pockets. The (incorrect) conventional wisdom is that cloud computing is bringing its flexibility, efficacies, and cost saving potential only to large nonprofits. The truth is, nonprofits of all size can benefit from cloud computing. Whether it is a complete computing system, a cloud based file sharing system, a constituent relationship management system, or just a cloud based email platform, there’s a cloud option that can fit the budget and needs of any nonprofit.

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Public Allies Arizona: Burning You With the 5 Core Values

ASU Lodestar Center

'posted by Chrisal Valencia Member Events & Volunteer Coordinator Local First Arizona Public Allies has played a very definitive role in my life. It has enabled me to gain experience professionally, to grow personally and most of all—ignite my love and passion to serve. As I prepped for what I wanted to say to the next graduating class of Public Allies Arizona, I took a queue from my own days as an ally and reflected.

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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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So Fast Google Can’t Ignore You: Donations Optimized For SEO

NTEN

'Daniel Loftus. Director of Integrated Marketing. SOS Children’s Villages Canada. Daniel Loftus shares how SOS Children’s Villages Canada put its website back on the SEO map, without adding any new content. SOS Children’s Villages is a large international children’s charity helping orphaned and abandoned children in 133 countries around the world. SOS Children’s Villages Canada’s role is to raise funds in Canada to fund programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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The 14 Things Great Coaches Do

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'For those who may have missed this posting from earlier in the year, I am pleased to share again a guest post from Garret Kramer of InnerSports LLC about how to be a great coach: 14 Attributes of Great Coaches By Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life There are many, many coaching manuals and books on the market today.

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Part 2: How To Generate More Nonprofit Website Traffic

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of imagecarnivore. In part 1 of this blog series , we discussed how essential posting and maintaining quality content on your nonprofit’s website is to generating traffic. In addition to quality content, we explored the reasons why your website has to be intuitive to use, and furthermore, why it ought to be responsive and load quickly on mobile devices.

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Where TechSoup Gets Its Tech Information

Tech Soup

'TechSoup is a great hive of smart people interested in technologies for good. We thought we’d give you a little glimpse behind the curtain on where we get our technology information. George Tilesch, Senior Director, Communications. We begin.( read more ).

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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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The American Heart Association Harnesses the Power of Social Media Through Innovative Display

NTEN

'Tim Sae Koo. CEO. Tint. No one puts The American Heart Association's website in a corner. Learn how a chapter of AHA took their online content on the road and to fundraising success. This is a story of how the little ol’ Kansas City AHA branch thought out of the box to create an impactful social media display hub to complement their website that led to not only reaching their fundraising goal but caused their Heart & Stroke Walk to trend on Twitter for hours during an event.

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How Do You Answer These 7 Leadership Skills Assessment Questions?

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Open Leadership book author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these "open leadership skills assessment" questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I encourage people to share information?

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Why It’s Hard to be a Volunteer (And Even Harder for You to Find Them)

NonProfit Hub

'As nonprofits we’re often focused on the difficulties we face on our end—logistics, recruiting, finding jobs suited for each volunteer’s unique set of skills, etc. But we tend to overlook the difficulties volunteers face when trying to get involved with a NPO. In understanding what aspects of volunteerism frustrate them the most, perhaps you’ll have better luck at finding them.

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Use LinkedIn to Recruit Technical Volunteers!

Tech Soup

'Get the technical support that your organization needs! TechSoup has partnered with LinkedIn to provide the TechSoup community with free postings on LinkedIn's new Volunteer Marketplace. What Is the Volunteer Marketplace? The Volunteer Marketplace connects nonprofits with skilled professionals via volunteer postings. Through the Marketplace, nonprofits can both post opportunities for skilled professionals and search for prospective volunteers by their skills, experience and willingness to v

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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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Top 5 reasons why you should attend the Leading Change Summit in San Francisco!

NTEN

'The Early Bird registration deadline for the 2014 Leading Change Summit has been extended to July 31st! Between now and July 31st, we''re offering the lowest rates to you, our amazing community members! Join NTEN as we launch this Summit on September 3-6 in San Francisco. If you haven''t registered yet, don''t miss out. And if you needed more convincing, here are the top 5 reasons why you should attend the Leading Change Summit this September!

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The Six Universal Drivers At "Best Places To Work" Companies

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, awhile back completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies. What Branham and Hirschfeld discovered is that the best companies use six "universal drivers" that maximize employee engagement: Caring, Competent, and Engaging Senior Leaders Effective Managers Who Keep Employees Aligned and Engaged Effective Teamwork at All Levels

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How To Track Your Twitter Engagement

Care2

'Nonprofits have been able to track gather important data about their audiences interactions with their website via Google Analytics. Facebook pages have also offered some insightful data on audience engagement. Twitter has been a bit late to the party, providing very limited data unless you invested in their ad platform. Just recently however Twitter rolled out their mew Analytics platform, making it accessible to everyone.

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Last Chance on Net Neutrality: FCC Public Comment Period Ends Tomorrow!

Tech Soup

'Tomorrow is the last day to submit your feedback to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during their public comment period on Net Neutrality, so there is time to have your voice heard to help reverse the dismantling of the open Internet. To back up for those who haven't been following this issue, the FCC has been receiving public comment on their ruling from earlier this year that would allow Internet Service Providers to create a "fast-lane" for Internet access and speed

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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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The Maker Party is on! Join the global campaign to teach the web.

NTEN

'Maker Party The Maker Party starts today - and you’re invited to attend, no matter where you are in the world! We’re excited to help spread the word about Mozilla’s Maker Party. Through thousands of community-run events around the world, the Maker Party unites educators, organizations, and enthusiastic Internet users of all ages and skill levels. Similar to Mozilla, we share the belief that the web is a global public resource that’s an essential part of our modern life.

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Prepare To Be Asked These Questions At Your Next Job Interview

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Many Human Resource (HR) managers have moved away from questions like "What''s your weakness?" and prefer behavior-based questions , which ask you to: describe how you handled specific situations at your former jobs If you are about to interview for your next leadership position, be prepared for questions like these (from an article in Reader''s Digest ): Tell me about a time when your integrity was challenged.

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The Secret to Unlocking Google Analytics for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

'Andrew Garberson is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the Manager of Search at LunaMetrics , a Google Analytics certified partner and search marketing consultancy. In addition to leading the SEO and PPC departments, Andrew is a GAIQ certified analytics junkie with a special interest in nonprofit marketing. Be sure to find him on Twitter. _.

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Thank You Marissa Mayer for Yahoo’s No Work From Home Policy

Tech Soup

'It’s been well over a year since Yahoo’s controversial non-telecommuting policy, which created a firestorm of reaction. We thought we’d see what the state of telecommuting is after the smoke has cleared. The Media Frenzy. I remember it well. It was the end of February in 2013 when Yahoo’s celebrated young CEO, Marissa Mayer, decided to end telecommuting at Yahoo to boost collaboration and communication within the company.

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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.