Sat.Nov 19, 2011 - Fri.Nov 25, 2011

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22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I joined Google+ a few months ago as an individual, but it hasn’t been until the recent launch of Google+ Pages that I began investing time in the exploring the Google+ community and tool set. Google+ is a bit more complicated than Facebook or Twitter, but already a significant source of traffic to this blog, and like most communities that get a lot of initial buzz, the growth rate of new followers is exponentially much faster during the early adoption phase.

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10 Expert Strategies and 500 Minutes of Free Event Fundraising Consulting

NetWits

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

As many know, knitting is “my thing.” When I’m stressed I can knit something in my head and it relaxes me. I can stare a picture of beautiful yarn the way a foodie would study a picture in Gourmet Magazine. I know, it’s strange. Only my fellow fiberaholics can understand. I knit on and off through college and after I got married.

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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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Lame spam of the day: weight loss blog comment

Robert Weiner

Some of the lamest spam I see comes in the form of comments on my blog posts. Some sounds convincing, but my spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) are incredibly good at catching them. (It's particularly entertaining when the spam is trying to link to one of my spam of the day posts.). Here's an example. This one's a transparent ad for a weight loss program, but often I have to look harder to figure out what's going on.

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Occupy Transformation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As you might have noticed, I haven't blogged much. Partially, it's because I've gotten out of the habit, and I'm going to work on changing that. Partially, though, it's because I have been trying to figure out what to say about Occupy. I've been only peripherally involved in OccupyOakland, and other Occupy efforts. I helped start OccupyTechnology , and I've been to OccupyOakland a couple of times.

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Time to Review Your Membership Database?

Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot has created a Guide to help small organizations identify your membership database needs; understand your options as well as offering tips and tools to help you make an informed software or system choice.

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National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering Results for Arts Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. The full report was published this week and Rory and Mary Trudel agreed to do a guest post summarizing what they learned.

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Occupy Transformation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As you might have noticed, I haven't blogged much. Partially, it's because I've gotten out of the habit, and I'm going to work on changing that. Partially, though, it's because I have been trying to figure out what to say about Occupy. I've been only peripherally involved in OccupyOakland, and other Occupy efforts. I helped start OccupyTechnology , and I've been to OccupyOakland a couple of times.

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Six Reasons It’s Time for Nonprofit Board Management Software

NTEN

Steph Dlugon. Marketing and Project Coordinator. Streamlink Software. Six ways nonprofit board management software can streamline communication, improve efficiency, ensure compliance, save time and money, and make a real difference in your organization. Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance.

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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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Saying Thanks

Wild Apricot

To celebrate American Thanksgiving and support the Nonprofit Blog Carnival - this post is about giving thanks and saying thank you.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s that time of year when we are ready to open our hearts in gratitude and do good things for others. I’d like to highlight two wonderful campaigns that could be wonderful ways to show your gratitude. While some folks may be out shopping the day after Thanksgiving, the Case Foundation would like to invite you to go #GoodSpotting.

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Daily DoGooder: Food Insecurity, how it happens and what you can do

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Food Insecurity, how it happens and what you can do | 2:59 British Red Cross Why are some communities more vulnerable to hunger and famine? There are many reasons, which together add up to food insecurity, the world’s no.1 health risk. On this Thanksgiving day we present a [.].

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Tips to Create a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation

Care2

Love it or hate it, the real-time web is forcing nonprofits to change the way they do business. Organizations recognize that they must be more transparent with their successes, their failures, as well as their finances. They are also learning how to better handle public criticism of their brand and instead view criticism as opportunities to listen to valuable feedback from their constituents and to be responsive.

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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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Food For Thought At Thanksgiving

Wild Apricot

Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends. Here are some thoughts on how some non-profits are spreading the bounty.

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The Internet Domain.NGO Should Serve Best Interests of Nonprofits Worldwide: Sign An Online Letter of Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Within a year new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) will be launched worldwide, joining the likes of.ORG,COM, and.NET. Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. PIR is the non-profit organization managing.ORG – the domain that has served the non-profit community for more than 25 years – making it the natural choice for managing the.NGO

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Daily DoGooder: Guide Dog Interviews

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Guide Dog Interviews | 1:01 Guide Dogs Imagine taking a job that took 10 years of training, demanded 24/7 of dedication and that paid only love. Sound good? Watch real people being interviewed for the job of a guide dog and laugh as you see how they handle [.].

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Your Fun-Do List for Thanksgiving Weekend

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm a huge to-do list maker, which is a blessing, and a compulsion. My lists keep me on track, but they can also be overwhelming. I'm definitely ready to relax and have fun during the long weekend, so instead I've made a fun-do list: Have fun with the hubs (resist the temptation to tackle house fixing up to-dos!) Try a new recipe Go for a walk, or hike Write cards Go to the movies (anyone else want to see The Muppets ?

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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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Top Links on Association Jam in November

Wild Apricot

Here are the top-rated posts and articles on AssociationJam.org in November, 2011.

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Want to Go to "Connecting Up Australia" for Free? Apply for a Scholarship!

NTEN

NTEN is proud to announce a mutual scholarship program in partnership with Connecting Up Australia to share nonprofit technology knowledge across the Pacific. Connecting Up Australia is doing amazing nonprofit technology work on the other side of the world. The Connecting Up Conference will be an interactive event for learning and thinking strategically about how innovation and technology can improve nonprofit operations and outcomes.

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Create and use a “next level” Thank-You letter

Get Fully Funded

If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you give little thought to your Thank-You letter. At some point, you wrote the letter, and now you use it for every donor, every time. You know it isn’t the greatest, but you aren’t sure how to make it better, and you certainly don’t have time to think through it. Sound familiar? Then let me give you a wake-up call.

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Meatless Monday: Vegetarian and Vegan Thanksgiving Ideas

Have Fun - Do Good

Meatless Monday is a nonprofit initiative of The Monday Campaigns. Their goal is to help reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal and planetary health. Each week I share meatless recipes I've tried from cookbooks and online. You can see past Meatless Monday posts by clicking here. I didn't make any interesting meatless dishes this week, so instead of posting my photos and recipe notes, I'm including a link to my Vegetarian and Vegan Thanksgiving idea board on Pinterest.

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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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9 Tips For Delivering Excellent Customer Service This Holiday Season

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Leading a customer service team? Have the team members use these 9 tips for delivering excellent customer service this holiday shopping season: Rely on winning words and soothing phrases. A simple but sincere “Thanks for your patience” or “I’m listening” can go a long way toward defusing a holiday shopper’s frustration, anxiety, or panic. Develop a repertoire of short, easy to remember phrases around issues that are important to customers.

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With Mobile Giving on the Rise, where are all the Donors?

Care2

Last week we took a look at how easy it is to give to organizations like the American Red Cross during a natural disaster. So why wouldn't you want to make it just as easy for a donor to give to your nonprofit during a moment when their feeling really good about your organization’s work? With mobile giving on the incline, New Directions released a report depicting the growing trend toward nonprofits' adoption of mobile giving.

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Create and use a “next level” Thank-You letter

Get Fully Funded

If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you give little thought to your Thank-You letter. At some point, you wrote the letter, and now you use it for every donor, every time. You know it isn’t the greatest, but you aren’t sure how to make it better, and you certainly don’t have time to think through it. Sound familiar? Then let me give you a wake-up call.

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Daily DoGooder: This is Darfur: Guisma’s Story

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.This is Darfur: Guisma’s Story | 2:19 i-ACT This is the first in three episodes that tells the story of the horrors of Darfur, through the eyes of a real child, Guisma. The video makes it personal, allowing people to connect with something as huge as genocide by [.].

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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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Announcing the 2012 Innogive Conference

NTEN

Mobile giving is not only one of the most talked about fundraising tools, it’s here to stay. Success with this tool starts not with donations, but with donor cultivation and engagement. Innogive is returning with its 3rd annual mobile giving conference, conveniently scheduled the day before the Nonprofit Technology Conference – April 2nd, 2012 – at the Union Square Hilton.

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Round and Round: Seven Nonprofit Folks to Follow on Google+

Care2

Ever since Google+ launched, people have debated whether it can truly compete with rivals Twitter and Facebook. By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 million U.S. visitors as of last month according to Compete.com. Now that Google+ pages have opened up to brands including nonprofits, will the social platform's declining traffic significantly increase and stick?

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

This week we’d like to introduce you to a unique TechSoup Refurbished Computer Initiative. partner, InterConnection, a nonprofit computer refurbisher in Seattle. What, you may ask, makes InterConnection unique? I’m so glad you asked. InterConnection is a nonprofit refurbisher that has figured out how to do two things very, very well. It refurbishes IT equipment to very high standards with a largely volunteer workforce, and it is a model program for responsible export of refurbished I

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Daily DoGooder: In the Light of Reverence Trailer

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.In the Light of Reverence Trailer | 2:02 Sacred Land Film Project Religious freedom, a fundamental value in the USA, is not assured to those who practice land-based religion. This beautifully crafted film explores why sacred landscapes, endangered due to corporate development and recreational uses, are key to [.].

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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.