Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2012

The new Facebook Timeline design is now available for upgrade to all Facebook users. The design was meant to be rolled out site wide in December 2011, however a lawsuit with Timelines.com is prolonging the mandatory switch – most likely only temporarily. Whatever your personal feelings are about Facebook Timeline, nonprofits would be wise prepare for it’s launch site wide including a likely timeline design for Facebook Pages.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Register Now ! Many summer peer-to-peer fundraising events will be opening registration in the upcoming months (hopefully, yours included). To get the most from your event this year, it’s important to realize that your participants are a diverse group and you need to speak to each group differently.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Lots of people have already weighed in on Blackbaud’s purchase of Convio (two of my favorites: [link] and [link] ). Here my perspective. Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I don’t invest in these or other companies that I advise on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Ann Harrison In 2006, the Benetech Human Rights Program was asked to participate in one of the most important human rights data projects in the world. The Guatemalan government human rights ombudsman invited the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) to analyze the contents of the estimated 80 million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive or the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily. Google+ is definitely a work in progress.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 24th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Source: developers.facebook.com via Beth on Pinterest. Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Three new actions were announced at the time, including: Read, Watch, Listen to help people better understand what their friends are doing online.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 23, 2012

Wild Apricot is a great fit for professional and business associations -- the Richmond Venture Forum is an association that acts as a social network to link the entrepreneurial community with venture capital to promote business growth and development in the central Virginia area.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2012

posted by Isaac Kiehl , Communications Coordinator, ICAN. When starting out with social media as a nonprofit, it can be a tricky and confusing process. It’s not like the for-profit sector where you have a goal to gain customers through deals and offering products/services. It’s about your cause. You now have supporters, donors, partners, and those directly affiliated with your organization to think about and cater to.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Just in time for tax filing season in the U.S., a phishing message purporting to come from Intuit. Intuit's security center lists lots of these, but not the two I got this week. Sender: INTUIT INC. (onlinebanking@ealerts.bankofamerica.com) -- it claims to come from Intuit, but the return address is at Bank of America. Subject: Please provide your tax information.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “ Data Smog ” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 27, 2012

Here are some best practices and tips for those just getting started with Annual Report planning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

We’ve proliferated and thrived because we never stop playing, and the way to cope with the increasing complexity of the wild new world is to play more. --Martha Beck, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World Like many of you, I know Martha Beck from her O Magazine column (it's the first thing I read), and her many self-help books (e.g. Finding Your Own North Star , The Joy Diet ).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 23, 2012

It's January, so "tis the season" is out. And the lame spammer couldn't even format the message, so there are no links or images. Sender: Melissa Griffin (melissagriffin03a@rhonda42martinez.info). Subject: Tis the Season for Warranty Sales. Here's a screenshot: Screenshot6.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2012

Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let’s be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says : There is no curation without original content. I might qualify this a bit by saying, there is no curation with awesomely addictive social content !

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 23, 2012

Our Chief Apricot reports on the outcomes of our recent Version 4.3 upgrade, and provides a sneak-peak into some of the updates for the upcoming Version 4.4: Sales Taxes, Newsletter Templates, and HTTPS.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

Daniel Atherton. Account Executive, Interactive Department. Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey. When we ask for something a prospective donor is not prepared to give, we may not be losing much real money, but we are losing a window of opportunity to convince her to give to us. Direct marketing is direct marketing – the sense of one-on-one contact that we cultivate right from the opening line of our emails is critical to establishing a sense of trust with our prospective donors.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

Nonprofits receive up to 40% of their online donations at the end of the year since the holidays have people feeling generous, and donors also want to maximize those tax deductions before year’s end. But this doesn’t happen by magic – people donate money to your organization because they feel a connection to your organization and the issues you work on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here's our "Membership Dream" for 2012 - prepared for January's Nonprofit Blog Carnival.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2012

Therese Grohman. Director of Marketing. Event 360. Knowing who you're talking to is only half the battle. What you say to your supporters and how you approach them is equally important.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2012

More business leaders today are turning to executive coaches to help them become: more personally fulfilled with their contributions more effective with direct reports, peers and other executives better able to coach their team members more flexible in challenging situations Susan C. Gatton , a Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX-based executive coach, has worked with a many leaders and she says that if you answer "yes" to any of the following ten situations , you are a likely candidate for executive coaching:

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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!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2012

A couple weekends ago I facilitated a 3-hour Tea, Cupcakes and Creative Bloggers workshop at Teahouse Studio. It was so much fun, I want to teach it again soon. I'm planning on offering it at Teahouse again in the fall, but am also looking for other venues for this spring and summer. If you know of a place that might like to host a TCCB gathering/workshop in the Bay Area and beyond, let me know in the comments, or email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg is a pioneer of the social web. Over the last eight years he’s led Facebook from a scrappy startup to one of the most powerful and influential companies. But when Zuckerberg says that email is going to die because young people prefer to text, you can’t help but laugh at the irony since providing your email address is actually how you register for a Facebook account.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you're struggling with how to use social media for fundraising, we've got a great one-two punch from bestselling author Evan Bailyn coming right up: " Using Social Media to Build an Active Base of Donors " on January 26th and " Activating Your Base of Supporters " on February 2nd. Using Social Media to Build an Active Base of Donors. Learn specific, exclusive strategies nonprofits can use to attract a large and active base of donors.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2012

Last Friday, I got to spend the day with financial expert and guru Dave Ramsey. It was his one-day EntreLeadership program and it was well worth the investment of time and money to attend. I’ve been through his Financial Peace program (and loved it) and had heard from a couple of folks that they got lots from EntreLeadership, so I decided to treat myself to a ticket.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2012

Edward M. Marshall's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2012

Change the world, one video at a time.Making the Invisible Visible | 1:23 Amnesty International This video from Amnesty International is an excellent example of synthesis between art and activism. Utilizing public spaces and angled vantage points to create emergent images of persons who have suffered human rights abuses, these street art installations have the [.].

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2012

NTEN is excited to annouce the return of IT Roadmap to Chicago on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. IT Roadmap is a regional one-day technology event that features a conference program and an exposition hall with leading technology providers. >> Register for Free Today ! This one day conference and expo presents some of technology's most-followed analysts and innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

Happy Chinese New Year, Have Fun * Do Gooders! To celebrate the New Year and new moon, here's a bee-you-tea-full Big Vision Worksheet ( illustrated by the hubs ) for you to record some of your goals for the year, season, and lunar month. You can download the PDF for free from Dropbox by clicking here. Instead of listing numbers beneath each category (like we've done in the past), we left the space open so that you can write a little, a lot, a list, or a paragraph.

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