NetWits
MAY 12, 2011
Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? 42.3% of the entire American population use Facebook. Twitter has over 16 million users. YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 9, 2011
Finding your Twitter voice is an accomplishment only earned through a process of trial and error and conscious experimentation. Even the best social media managers often go through an initial period of puzzlement and frustration as they try to figure out how Twitter works and what to tweet. That said, the nonprofits below have discovered a nice balance of tweets, retweets, and mentions.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 11, 2011
I’m mostly doing this last post on my tools to pimp Scrivener. I was a loyal Scrivener user on my Mac for years, and then when I moved to Windows last year, I mourned my loss terribly. But then! Then someone started to work on S crivener for Windows and Linux. Almost enough to make a grown woman cry. I do just about all of my novel writing on Scrivener.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 11, 2011
Date : May 11, 2011, 3 pm EST. Location : Online. Topic : Crowdsourcing vs Community-sourcing. Description : Have you heard about “crowdsourcing&# or maybe even tried it at your organization? Well, there’s a big difference between working with the crowd and working with your community! This webinar will explore the differences and identify opportunities for your organization to start building engagement and participation.
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.
NetWits
MAY 10, 2011
How do you get your supporters to raise more money for your cause? It’s the age old question isn’t it? The one question that keeps event directors and development officers awake at night. You know your participants are committed because they register for your event year-after year. They may even donate during your year-end appeals or volunteer for you.
Wild Apricot
MAY 13, 2011
One of the biggest lost opportunities is post-event follow-up and publicity. Don't miss out on post-event publicity, fundraising or member development opportunities.( read more ).
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Amy Sample Ward
MAY 10, 2011
Date : May 10, 2011. Location : Nebraska. Topic : Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Description : Pressing “send” on an email campaign isn’t as easy as it used to be. These days, competition for inbox space is increasing. Meanwhile, the patience and time of email recipients is. dwindling. Public relations professionals must have strategic, well-informed plans to meet their email campaign goals.
NetWits
MAY 11, 2011
I just returned from Toronto, where Blackbaud sponsored the Digital Leap conference for the second year in a row. It would be tough to relay all the great new statistics, pointers, and tidbits I picked up at the conference, so I’ve narrowed it down to my favorite takeaway , nabbed from the session led by Ted Hart on Online Fundraising Success and Social Media.
Wild Apricot
MAY 11, 2011
As a follow-up to an earlier post on volunteer scheduling, time tracking and accountability, here's an overview of a new web-based tool designed to help volunteer organizations track volunteer effort, measure the impact and share volunteer data.( read more ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 11, 2011
Wading into the social media pond … one step at a time guest post by Matt Sarre. When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. Less than two years later, the project has started, Ambassadors are exceeding our expectations, social media strategy is taking shape and we’re proving to ourselves the benefit
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.
NTEN
MAY 12, 2011
By Kurt Voelker, CTO, Forum One Data is the new black. These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And for good reason. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 11, 2011
ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Fear not, nonprofit professionals! posted by Aaron Stiner , Senior Program Manager, Paths of HOPE, Catholic Charities I am at one of the most intense, rewarding, and sometimes frightening times in my nonprofit caree
Wild Apricot
MAY 9, 2011
It's spring cleaning season - a good time to review and refresh your e-newsletter. Here are some tips to get you started.( read more ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 10, 2011
. I’ve been writing about wikis (and other social technologies) can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.” You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. .
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NTEN
MAY 9, 2011
By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. And rightly so. Data carry enormous potential. But that's all they are — potential. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 12, 2011
Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series
Get Fully Funded
MAY 9, 2011
You’ve stuck your toe in the water to see how it feels, but you remain noncommittal. You don’t want to be left behind, but you either aren’t sure what to do or aren’t willing to invest the time (or money) to do it well. After all, everyone else is on Facebook, so you have to be there too, right? Here are some surefire signs that you are an amateur Fundraiser online: 1.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 12, 2011
This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman , Omidyar Network, Jacob Harold , Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione , Director of Assessment Tools for CEP.
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NTEN
MAY 11, 2011
By Andy Krackov, Assistant Vice President, Programs & Partnerships, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health At the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, we publish data on children's health and well being in California through our own www.kidsdata.org website. The site makes it easy to find, describe, and share wide-ranging facts – millions of data points in all - about how kids in California are faring.
Care2
MAY 9, 2011
Did you know that in 2010 volunteerism increased by 11%, according to a study by Cone ? Volunteers also reported giving close to $2,600 as compared to non-volunteers who gave just $230, according to study by VolunteerMatch. Furthermore, 67% of those who volunteer say they donate money to the same organizations where they volunteer. It’s no secret that providing meaningful volunteer opportunities is a terrific way to engage activists, donors and members.
See3
MAY 9, 2011
Daily DoGooder delivers one – just one – excellent cause video to your inbox each day. Changing the world, one video at a time.Change the Story| 1:21 ChangetheStory.net Hopefully the end of bin Laden will mark a turning point in the anti-Muslim sentiment that has effected some 5 million Muslim Americans since [.].
Tech Soup
MAY 13, 2011
Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. In the TechSoup premiere our new #NPLive interactive series of video events, join us to discuss The Future of Fundraising online in the social media matrix on Tuesday, May 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific time. In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts.
Advertiser: DonorDock
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!
NTEN
MAY 11, 2011
Thanks to the generous support of Google, we're able to offer the Technology Leadership Academy one more time in 2011 – free for qualifying nonprofits. We hope you'll apply. Learn more and apply (by May 20) We believe strongly in the power of good leaders to manage technology, but we know how hard it can be. In the " 2010 Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey Report ", we found that only 40% of respondents had a formal technology plan -- and only 22% had ever evaluated their return on invest
Care2
MAY 11, 2011
We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Diverse Goals. Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 13, 2011
On our farm, we have 4 cats. Each of them was rescued from a shelter and they are all a part of our family. The fun part is that they are all very different from one another. And none of them actually say “meow.&#. I think when I was young, I learned that dogs say “woof&# and cats say “meow.&# I guess my young brain thought that meant that all cats say “meow&# and only “meow.&# But now I have all these kitties who speak a different language.
Tech Soup
MAY 12, 2011
TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. The second installment of the weekly TweetChat series offered some useful advice on nonprofit Twitter use, a tool that can be difficult to understand for many nonprofit leaders. The chat kicked off with the question, "What makes a great tweet?
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Have Fun - Do Good
MAY 7, 2011
I love to try new recipes, particularly from vegetarian and vegan cookbooks. They're like adventures that you kinda know the ending to, but not exactly. At the moment, I have 12 veggie cookbooks I use a lot, but like any good cookbook-aholic, I want more! I'd love to hear which vegetarian, or vegan cookbooks are your favorites. I also pull recipes off of the Food Network , Whole Foods , Real Simple , and VegNews sites, so let me know what your favorite veggie recipe websites and blogs are too.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 8, 2011
Handling conflict is one of the most difficult things a leader has to deal with. Unfortunately, conflict in the workplace is inevitable. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict.
See3
MAY 12, 2011
Daily DoGooder delivers one – just one – excellent cause video to your inbox each day. Changing the world, one video at a time.How to Clean Up an Oil Spill – Scamwow!| 2:06 Greenpeace USAThis spoof-o-mercial employs the low-production values of the hawker-style, late night sell to mock oil executives multi-million dollar Image [.].
Tech Soup
MAY 9, 2011
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