VisionLink
AUGUST 16, 2013
'We are pleased to announce that Lori Warrens recently joined VisionLink as Senior Director of Community Solutions and we could not be more thrilled! In this position, Lori will guide VisionLink’s international humanitarian efforts — an area of focus in her last position — as well as direct ongoing efforts to further develop industry-leading solutions for 2-1-1 and overall information and referral efforts.
NCE Social Media
AUGUST 16, 2013
'Ok, the King isn’t really dead but Facebook’s EdgeRank is. Facebook now uses more than 100,000 factors in it’s algorithm to determine what is in your Facebook feed. That’s in addition to the original 3 found in EdgeRank: weight, affinity and time. I’ve written about EdgeRank in the ( past. Just like Facebook, what once was simple now is complex.
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Wild Apricot
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Research confirms that immediate first impressions really do have an impact on website visitors - especially Millennials.
NTEN
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Paul Chamberlain. Senior Web Produces. MS-DS. If you're into interactive maps, it's a good time to be alive! Seems we've entered a golden era of interactive mapping, with no shortage of exciting ways to display geographically-specific data. In the last few years, we've seen exponential growth in interactive mapping software that presents data from all sorts of angles.
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.
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 14, 2013
'posted by Karen Ramsey. President & CEO , Lead for Good. Instructor. Nonprofit Management Institute. "There is one thing all radically successful people have in common: their ferocious drive and hunger for success makes them never give up.". - Bernard Marr, business author. In a recent blog post , Bernard Marr gave several examples of business leaders who have persevered to become wildly successful.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 15, 2013
'"If you only have five minutes [to craft] that''s long enough to lift your heart, to raise your inspiration." ~ Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon As some of you know, I produce the Arts and Healing Network''s Arts and Healing Podcast where I get to talk with all kinds of people about the healing power of art. In the most recent show, I chatted with Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon about her wonderful book, Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation.
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NTEN
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Tobie McPhail. Director of Scientific Programs & Advancement. Morris Animal Foundation. Our board would help us with our grants review process, but we were using a pencil and paper system that was prone to errors and could result in a thousand index cards that needed to be entered into a spreadsheet. We were looking for a new tool to manage the process when I found one at a conference I attended.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 13, 2013
'You can''t lead if your employees, team or followers don''t trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips , recommended by author Susan H. Shearouse: Be honest Keep commitments and keep your word Avoid surprises Be consistent with your mood Be your best Demonstrate respect Listen Communicate Speak with a positive intent Admit mistakes Be willing to hear feedback Maintain confidences Get to know others Practice emp
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 14, 2013
'I''m going to be 44 on August 19th (can you believe it?). The 19th is also the 8th anniversary of Have Fun * Do Good! A big thanks to all of you for reading (: To celebrate my b-day, I''ve created a fundraiser on Crowdrise. My first one! I mentioned last month that I''ve been doing some Big Vision Consulting for Rockwood Leadership Institute. I''ve been so impressed with their work, and the transformational impact that their Art of Leadership trainings have had for social change leaders that I
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 14, 2013
'Are there some member loyalty lessons that associations could learn from retailers?
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NTEN
AUGUST 15, 2013
'In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 10, 2013
'As a leader, the time will come when you will have to speak with an employee about his or her poor performance. Here are six steps that will guide you through that process: Tell him what performance is in need of change and be specific. Tell him how his actions negatively affect the team. Let the discussion sink in. Set expectations of performance improvement and time frame, and get his agreement on the desired outcome.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 12, 2013
'This guest post was authored by Nick Bencivenga, senior vice president at Dharma Merchant Services. Accepting credit cards can often be a confusing process. With so many different providers, services, and terminology, it's easy to become overwhelmed. This is the first blog post in a two-part series designed to provide nonprofits with a general overview of the credit card processing industry, otherwise known as merchant services.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 13, 2013
'A looooong time ago, in March 2007, I wrote a blog post, What Do You Think of Carbon Offsets? which led to a local magazine including me in a piece, Carbon Credit Report , in its August 2007 issue. Honestly, I hadn''t given carbon offsets much thought again until this past May. A high school student called to ask if I would be in her school project: a video about carbon offsets.
Advertiser: Digital Ocean
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NTEN
AUGUST 15, 2013
'Richard Cooper. Director of Programmes. CTT. The role of IT has historically been, “Here is your computer, and your database, and your file system, and this is how you enter information and save files.” However, it is rapidly becoming, “Here are all the ways you can work with information, now go to town and see how you can use this stuff to get our goals met!”.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 15, 2013
'Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 16, 2013
'What It Is. An acceptable usage policy (AUP) is a set of rules applied by the. owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. owners, often to reduce the potential for legal action that may be taken by a user.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 14, 2013
'One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past.
Advertiser: Syncrony
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NTEN
AUGUST 15, 2013
'In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'If you are a leader already engaging with an executive coach, or contemplating engaging one, here are four ways to make your coaching experience a success, as reported in a relatively recent issue of Fortune magazine: Find the right match. Find someone to push and challenge you. To encourage you and to hold you accountable. Be sure the person you engage with is a person you can trust and can talk to easily.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 16, 2013
'You’ve heard it before: “summertime and the living’s easy.” Finally! But relaxation and warm weather aside, summer is also a time when people are training their hardest for the onslaught of fall fitness competitions – marathons, obstacle races, triathlons. All that good (and sweaty) stuff. But few train quite as hard year-round as those who support the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) Foundation , which provides benevolent and financial support for MARSOC
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Did you know that people between the ages of forty-nine and sixty-seven contribute 43 percent of the total dollars given to nonprofits in America [ study ]? That’s right. One group of people, those known as the “ Baby Boomers ”, gives almost half of all dollars donated. HALF! That one bit of information alone should make you stop, think about your donor base, and start asking questions.
Advertiser: DonorDock
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AFP Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'A Field Guide to Mobile Payments : Have you ever had to turn a donor away at an event because you could only accept cash or checks? With mobile payment processing tools, you can accept donations from anywhere, at any time. Not sure what your options are?
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization''s work for the past year.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 13, 2013
'You're probably already familiar with TechSoup's great blog posts on fundraising, like Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need and 19 Effective Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Pros. And you have probably visited our Fundraising solutions page, where you can find donated fundraising tools from the TechSoup catalog, articles, and blog posts. The TechSoup Global Network is a treasure trove of fundraising wisdom.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 15, 2013
'Guest Post by Andy Welkley , Product Marketing Manager for Blackbaud’s Peer to Peer solutions. Andy is a regular speaker, blogger and the creator of the popular video blog series, “I’m on Team Andy”, where he shares the insights he’s gained from his work with nonprofits to optimize the use of peer to peer technology to boost fundraising results. _ _.
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AFP Blog
AUGUST 16, 2013
'One-Page Scrolling Web Sites: a Great New Way to Tell a Story - Redesigning Good - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Increasingly these one-page scrolling sites are popping up to tell stories in interesting new ways.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 11, 2013
'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 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.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 16, 2013
'It's the eternal question at nonprofits and charities: where do you find new donors? On August 22, we will be joined by Manmeet Mehta from GlobalGiving to learn how to identify your donor and support networks through exercises in network mapping. Using network mapping tools, we'll show you how you can expand your donor base and find new donors!
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 12, 2013
'npVOICES goes deeper into topics that matter in the nonprofit sector. We hope you’ll listen, comment, and share. Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in a reader. In this episode… - Jay Frost with Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners discusses major giving trends. - Jocelyn Harmon with Global Fund for Children offers some advice to new fundraising professionals. - Michael Stein with Donordigital explores the wonderful world of donation form testing.
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