Sat.Mar 02, 2013 - Fri.Mar 08, 2013

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3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Fundraising Campaign (and free ebook!)

Amy Sample Ward

I’m honored to be included in a new ebook about marketing, fundraising, and social media. You can download the ebook, check out the various topics, and much more from: https://www.blackbaud.com/npexperts. —– When was the last time you were approached by a stranger in the store asking for you to donate to a cause they cared about? Well, sure – it does happen.

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Why You Don’t Want this Job!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Almost anyone from the human rights field will tell you that the work can be as rewarding as it is challenging. When you look at the barriers faced by those defending and advocating for human rights—from the danger of hostile governments and perpetrators, to victims who are naturally suspicious of any support, to the lack of funding necessary to carry on your work—you can see how overwhelming it can be.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about. From 10-paragraph editorials to 2-paragraph commentaries on breaking news, when you use the ideas given here, you should have no problem publishing the required minimum of one blog post per week (less than that and your blog starts to look abandoned).

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One Email Tactic Nonprofits Need to Steal From Brand Marketers

NetWits

Sending the right email message to the right constituent at the right time can be almost impossible to organize manually. But, what if it didn’t have to be that way?

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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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More nonprofit software mergers and acquisitions

Robert Weiner

Last year the big news in my industry was Blackbaud's acquisition of Convio and the merger/acquisition of Datatel and Sungard Higher Education (now called Ellucian). 2013 is off to a bang with Accel-KKR's acquisition of Sage's Nonprofit Solutions Group and iModules acquisition of Harris Connect. The Sage staff I've talked to can't comment publicly until the sale is final, which they hope will happen this month.

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Want Influence? Eliminate Blind Spots

Wild Apricot

In this guest post, Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies offers insight to "help nonprofits and volunteer-led groups of all sizes navigate a trail of influence by identifying—and eliminating—blind spots before they sabotage change strategies.".

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The Science of Email

NetWits

Successful use of email for communication is both an art and a science. Let's focus on the science behind how email metrics work and how you can use them to measure your results.

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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Toddy. Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. David is based on Austin — wanted to share with you a post about crowdfunding to celebrate Austin Giving Day #AmplifyAtx that raised over $2 million earlier this week.

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8 Steps to Prepare your Facebook Page for Graph Search

NTEN

John Haydon. Partner. Socialbrite. Facebook’s new Graph Search is very different from Google search. With Graph Search, you combine keyword searches with friends who’ve shared content on Facebook related to that search. Facebook Page SEO isn’t new Google has been indexing Facebook Pages for quite some time now , so Facebook Page SEO (search engine optimization) isn’t anything new.

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What are you doing for Arizona Gives Day?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Jill Christiansen. Arizona Gives Day Nonprofit. Outreach Coordinator. Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits. Join the hundreds of Arizona nonprofits who are combining forces on the one day that the people of Arizona have the power to raise as much money as possible for the state’s nonprofit sector through the fastest growing method of giving: online fundraising.

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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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Cooking Matters

Have Fun - Do Good

One of my favorite quotes comes from an episode of the TV show, Brothers and Sisters. One of the daughters, Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), tells the mom, Nora (Sally Field), to stop chopping carrots for the family dinner as if everything is OK, and to instead focus on all of the bad things that are happening to their family. Sarah says, "Carrots are not important right now.

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Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Let’s say you want to improve engagement with stakeholders and your KPI is an increase in the number of comments on your social platforms.

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7 Ways for Nonprofits to Make the Most of Google Hangout

NTEN

Renee Alexander. Take advantage of real-time collaboration with your team, constituents, and your community. Google Hangout is a super easy way to hold video conferences with multiple individuals or groups of people. In addition to being easy, it is accessible to all of your employees, constituents and volunteers as anyone with a Google account can take part in a Hangout without having to download any additional software or sign up for anything new.

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Help Wrangling Your Nonprofit Data

Wild Apricot

Here's an overview of NTEN's new workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making.

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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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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Engaging the board of directors in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Anne Byrne , Professional-in-Residence, ASU Lodestar Center. Question: My board of directors is not effective at raising funds to support our organization. Many members seem afraid of the issue and say things like “I will do anything but fundraise.” How do I get them involved? Effectively engaging board members in fundraising is a very common challenge for nonprofit organizations.

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What is your organization’s “One Metric That Matters”?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Breaking Through Language Barriers with Technology

NTEN

Liz Keith. Program Manager, LawHelp.org. Pro Bono Net. The growing language diversity in America has important implications for how nonprofits engage with, and serve, our communities. If you’re reading this, chances are you have the ability to read, understand, and act on the estimated 54% of web content that exists in English. For a growing number of Americans, though, the information they’re searching for may be online -- they just can’t read it.

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What Small Membership Groups Want to Know About Technology

Wild Apricot

Here's a look at some of the technology issues raised by the respondents in our recent Small Membership Insight Survey.

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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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5 Facts About Online Average Gift Size

sgEngage

I looked at nearly $500 million in online giving from over 2,500 nonprofits in 2012 and found some interesting trends in the data.

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Happy International Women’s Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today is International Women’s Day which has been observed since the early 1900s (here’s a good history ). On March 8th every year, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire and celebrate women. The UN highlights a different theme for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is a call to action to end violence against women.

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Serve It Up: Frameworks for Curating Content in Communities

NTEN

Forum One Communications. With information overload all the time, and fewer than 24 hours in a day to consume it, users have turned to online communities to play the role of content curation. And they’re winning out over traditional media sources. By Michaela Hackner and Leah Stern, Forum One Communications. During a recent presentation, NPR shared that their number one competitor was Pandora.

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Surefire Ways To Create An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. If I put together the best of each, here is what made those environments effective: • Leaders led by example on a consistent basis and were willing to roll up their sleeves, particularly during tight deadlines or challenging times. • Employees clearly understood how what they did made a difference and how their contributions made the organization either more profitable or more effective. • The workforce included a blend

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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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Raising Diapers with Social Media: Help a Mother Out Co-Founder, Lisa Truong

Have Fun - Do Good

This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Lisa Truong, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Help a Mother Out. Help a Mother Out is a grassroots organization that raises diapers and awareness, and advocates for long term change in the social safety net. Lisa is a social entrepreneur with over 12 years experience in technology and nonprofit sectors.

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DoGooder Awards Recognize Awesome Nonprofit Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See3 Communications and YouTube, along with the Nonprofit Technology Network, announced today the launch of the 2013 DoGooder Video Awards. The DoGooder Awards recognize the creative and effective use of video in promoting social good. Cisco is generously contributing $3500 to four contest winners. In addition to prizes provided by Cisco, contest winners will be featured on the YouTube homepage and receive free registration to the Nonprofit Technology Conference, the signature event hosted by

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Submit Your Video to the Do-Gooder Video Awards!

NTEN

Did you make a video in 2012 that had an impact in your community or around the world? We want to see it! The DoGooder Awards are here! If you or your organization produces creative, impactful videos, we think you deserve some recognition for the work you’re doing – and maybe even some incredible prizes. The DoGooder Video Awards are taking submissions starting March 4, 2013.

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How Trickle Up Animated Their Nonprofit Story

Tech Soup

(Please visit the site to view this video). "We simply don’t have the money to produce big videos every year," shares Tyler McClelland of Trickle Up , a nonprofit organization that empowers women to break the cycle of poverty by starting sustainable livelihoods of their own. So they did what a lot of nonprofits do: create a short pitch deck.

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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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Abolish These Excuses From Your Company's Vocabulary

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their book, How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things , co-authors Neil Smith and Patricia O'Connell list 20 excuses commonly heard in companies for reasons why new business transformation ideas are not considered. The authors recommend eliminating these 20 excuses from your company's vocabulary : Our company is well run; there are no opportunities.

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Measuring ROI in Multichannel Fundraising

sgEngage

Measuring ROI in multichannel fundraising campaigns can be a lot of work, but …

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6 Tips to Engage and Empower Your Community All-Stars

NTEN

Megan Keane. Community Engagement Manager. NTEN. Just as your organization is looking for ways to entice new supporters, you must also nurture your existing community champions. You know and love them. They are those vocal and well-connected champions of your cause. Eager to get involved and rally your efforts, your community superstars are vital members of your community.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. As a feminist, when I really think about this issue, I realize that it's not solely one of Whiteness.

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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.