Judi Sohn
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Last Friday, my short 9 month career working on Common Ground came to an end. I'm free (sorta) and sad (sorta) and angry (not sorta). Don't get me wrong. Jobs come and go, especially in this economy. Startups fail. Companies cut back. It happens. My disappointment, sadness and anger is over the way too early death of a product that I believed in.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 1, 2012
The vast majority of nonprofits have yet to utilize the new Twitter profile design that was launched on September 18. The good news is that upgrading to the new design is extremely easy – it can be done in just a few clicks by following these four simple steps. That said, your biggest challenge will be finding a “Header” image that looks good on multiple devices especially if you are a small nonprofit without easy access to a graphic designer.
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VisionLink
OCTOBER 2, 2012
'No matter who you are, or your job title, or job responsibilities we all suffer from one universal occupational hazard - Tunnel Vision! You’re good at what you do, that’s why people pay you to do it, you have things to get done, you have deadlines to meet, and milestones to achieve. You need to focus, to keep your head-down, working - working -working.
NetWits
OCTOBER 3, 2012
President Barack Obama raised nearly $410 million dollars through individual contributions in 2008.
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.
Judi Sohn
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
"You should get back to blogging." Heard that many times. I love blogging. I miss blogging. One of the many reasons I let this blog get stale was the amount of time I now spend on iOS. I have a computer in the basement for work. Other than that, I'm on an iPhone or iPad and I blog best first thing in the morning. Even though I use an external keyboard with my iPad, when the urge hits to share something with the world it was easier to click a button and compose a simple tweet or Face
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: Free (One Time Only – Usually $50). How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. View: Fall Webinar Special. This webinar begins with a general introduction to Google+ and then quickly moves on to a brief demonstration on how to create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit.
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NetWits
OCTOBER 4, 2012
In 2008, Barack Obama used one of the most successful online marketing and …
Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Date : September 30-October 2, 2012. Location : Washington, DC. Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Now that nonprofits are officially in the throes of peak fundraising season, upgrading to the new Twitter profile design launched on September 18 is likely low on the priority lists of many nonprofit communications and fundraising staff. It’s their busiest time of year and they may not even know that there is a new Twitter profile design. The good news is that upgrading to the new design is very easy – it simply requires uploading a new “Header” image to your profile.
Robert Weiner
OCTOBER 5, 2012
I got 14 of these over the past 2 days. I'd hope that anyone who gets emails from Verizon would see immediately that these are fake. While they used the Verizon logo and colors, the logo is blurry, the font is wrong, the From: addresses aren't at Verizon domains, and the English is tortured (opening line: "CONSIDERABLE ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION FROM VERIZON WIRELESS.").
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.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Here are some of the fresh links we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week: Big Data Without Defining Success First is a Big Mistake; Finding Your Organization's Acres of Diamonds and 8 Principles for Writing a Nonprofit Press Release.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 3, 2012
@ kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/. — Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 4, 2012
For those nonprofits that have claimed their LinkedIn Company Page , today the site rolled out a new design that you’ll want to upgrade to much sooner than later. Slowly but surely company pages have been improving since their launch in November 2010, and with this new design they now have a real possibility of moving up the list of must-use social networking tools.
NTEN
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Lori Halley. Engaging Apricot. Wild Apricot. If you can use your data to better understand your audience and your activities, you can not only improve your outreach, but you can work more effectively towards achieving your mission. Thinking big about your data is about more than just looking at your member or donor database, it's about finding ways to leverage all of the data your organization gathers.
Advertiser: Digital Ocean
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.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Here are the key highlights from our recent Membership Knowledge Hub survey - offering direction for resources we'll add to the Hub in the coming year.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 2, 2012
“ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change ,” co-authored with KD Paine is getting into people’s hands! This month KD Paine and I will be celebrating the launch of the book with events in Boston, Providence, NYC, Washington, DC, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and online. This is your chance to hear us talk about the ideas in the book, ask questions, share your story, and, of course purchase a copy of the book.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. Although social media has revolutionized how nonprofits communicate online with their supporters and donors, online fundraising tools like “Donate Now” buttons and e-newsletters are essential building blocks to a successful social media strategy.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. So, here's a checklist that is primarily from sales expert and author Paul R. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization's customer service via the phone: 1.
Advertiser: Syncrony
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.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 4, 2012
In this guest post, Erin Palmer explains how to find and motivate retirees as volunteers.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Beth and KD at the Boston Tweetup organized by Joselin Mane. Earlier this week, KD Paine and I started our “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” book tour with solo and duo events in Boston and Rhode Island. Next week, we will be in NYC for these book events: October 11: 10-11:30 am- Foundation Center NYC Meet the Authors Book Talk and Workshop.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Date: Thuesday, January 15, 2012. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Fall Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with an introduction to the Mobile Web and its rapidly increasing role in nonprofit communications and fundraising. Next the webinar covers in-detail how to easily launch a mobile website and group text alerts on a shoestring budget, and then moves on to explore current trends mobile f
ASU Lodestar Center
OCTOBER 3, 2012
posted by Alex Gomory , Lead Editor of loans.org. It doesn’t matter if you’re a teenager, a parent, a business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or a nonprofit organization: money can be difficult to come by these days. Even in times of economic prosperity, many nonprofit organizations have to fight in order to maintain a steady flow of funding. While most nonprofits find funding from a variety of sources, one of the staples of charitable support comes in the form of grants.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Mary Grace Bateman. Market Manager. IBM. To truly understand the power of a predictive program evaluation solution, let's first discuss three common misconceptions that many nonprofit organizations have. Any type of program evaluation tends to be reactive: something went right, so we keep on doing it, or something went wrong, so we try to fix it.
Care2
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
If your nonprofit is just getting started on Pinterest or struggling to use it effectively check out this infographic that offers some great tips or what the creator of this infographic calls the “Ten Commandments.” For example: Plan for Thy Pinning Success. After setting up your account make sure that you add pinit buttons to your website and blog so people can share your great photo, graphics and infographics.
Get Fully Funded
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Step one in the Simple Success Fundraising Plan is to identify your assets. An asset is defined as a useful and desirable thing or quality. It can also be described as an item that can be converted into cash (real estate for example). So what does this have to do with your nonprofit? As an organization, you have assets that you can leverage in your fundraising plan that can make your case for support stronger.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 3, 2012
"[W]omen playing big is a large part of what is going to bring the world out of the mess it’s in." ~ Tara Mohr Tara Mohr is a wise lady, which is why I asked her to share a guest post with you about Playing Big. I know that many of you have big visions for a better world, and that some of you are looking for guidance about how to "play big," so that you can realize that vision.
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NTEN
OCTOBER 5, 2012
By Michelle Warner, Director, Mobile Citizen. Today’s nonprofits always need to be connected, even when they are not in the office. And their tools need to be too. If the goal is to work more productively and cost-effectively, nonprofits using a laptop or netbook and their own personal Wi-Fi network for use wherever and whenever they need it, have more options.
Care2
OCTOBER 5, 2012
The World Hunger Relief Project is actively engaging in a social fundraising giving day on World Food Day this October 16 to get 10,000 people to raise $200,000. World Food Day's philanthropic goal encourages people to participate in small acts like a social share or a $10 or $25 donation. These small acts do make a big difference. The World Food Program is the beneficiary, and the effort is sponsored by Yum!
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Nonprofit leaders, impact investors, and philanthropists from all over the world gathered in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center this week for SOCAP12. The theme of this year's conference is "Making Meaning Matter" with panels and discussions on community building and digital media. The panel "The New Connectivity: Storytelling for the Digital Age" focused on best practices for nonprofits and other social good organizations to spread their message over social media.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Negative feedback is part of growing as a leader -- both delivering that feedback and sometimes receiving that type of feedback. Keith Ferrazzi , CEO of Ferazzi Greenlight , a research-based consulting and training company, suggests practicing " caring criticism ," as he recently explained it in the Harvard Business Review. "Negative feedback can hurt, but usually it's a gift aimed at helping the recipient improve performance or avoid mistakes.
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