NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Have you ever felt trapped by your email provider -- dissatisfied with the features and/or service but daunted by figuring out how and where to move? Why do you need an email service provider? Here’s how to find the right ESP for your organization and to manage them to get the most from your bulk email campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? "We're using social media because the technology is here and it's helpful, but if it weren't here, we'd make a newsletter and Xerox it for everyone we know.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Constituent, starting a newsletter or services. Strategy: increase consitutuent awareness of our accompliments by distributing a monthly email newsletter. Initiatives: start montly newsletter. Takeaways: 1. Financial, revenue focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) GoogleEarth launches Nonprofit Outreach Program via the NTEN blog and NetSquared community blog. NpTech Talk. Looking for a primer?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

That's one of the reasons you soak up all NTEN has to offer about technology and engagement. Is the message in next week's email consistent with the direct mail and the website -- and what the heck are people saying about us on Facebook and Twitter? Is it all consistent? Yeah, more people to do fundraising solicitations!

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Brett Meyer, NTEN. "Campaign Medium" is the type of message, such as email, banner ad, or, if you're daring, post card. In the screen above, "comm_mem_act" refers to Communications staff who are Members of NTEN and active in our community. note: Actually, they have.]. Find the Data in Google Analytics .

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

Or, for those of you who can't be bothered to open another link -- that's how I roll, so I feel you -- here are some highlights from this year's report: Social Media is hot, but email is where it's really at. Email still performs incredibly well across all categories -- from fundraising to advocacy. Integrated campaigns matter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. There are also a variety of content management systems (some that are free) that can help you vary your online copy and emails depending on segmentation and conditionals. Geographic location.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Holly Ross, NTEN. [Ed. note: This is Holly's introduction to our August Newsletter. The kind of of bubble so cushy, I can check my email in the bathroom if I want. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. If you aren't subscribed yet, you really should be.]. I was floored. It's a fine place to be.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Steve MacLoughlin, Blackbaud. Online Giving Continues to Grow.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

All of the port blocking, proxy servers and point to point tunneling on earth won't protect you from the person who clicks on a malicious link in an email. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning Security IT Staff.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. The return of technology as a national priority. Economy still got you down? Try entering "inauguration".

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

She now uses Google Search, reads her news online, sends and receives email, and even uses Facebook to check-in with family and friends. Email - If Grandma can write, she can email. Tags: NPTech NTEN. Claire Sale, NetSquared. Over the years my family and I have worked together to help my Grandmother get wired.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Does your fundraising campaign use the same donation page for both email messages and website promotions? If you're using the same donation form everywhere on your site, you won't be able to tell if that spike in donations came from the great email you sent or from the well-trafficked blog post that linked to your website.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Give them pass-along content like short videos and sample email text that they can share with their friends. When they mention you on Twitter, comment on a Facebook update, or reply to your email newsletter, respond with a thanks or some other kind of encouragement.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Steve MacLoughlin, Blackbaud. Online Giving Continues to Grow.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Mobile sites are most commonly accessed via sent links (primarily text messages, Twitter, Facebook and email) and secondarily, through mobile search. . Tags: jed alpert Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. The mobile web is big today and will be huge tomorrow.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Targeting a highly technical session to an NTEN audience is kind of like cooking a gourmet meal with one entrée for 1000 randomly picked people. Servers that do a lot of transactional processing such as database & email servers can also be virtualized but require a more thoughtful network architecture.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails. The foundational elements of effective online communications are your website and email communications. and Trackable (of 60 people who opened the email, 25 clicked to the donate page and 12 donated). Maybe that includes yours? I know I would.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program. Cloud computing offers us all the same freedom for our information infrastructure.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

A well-developed email marketing campaign is essential to fundraising success. In your first email, introduce your mission, goals, timeline and achievements. Then highlight progression toward that goal in following emails to leverage donation momentum. Segmentation is another powerful tool with email marketing.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Filter our personal blog entries by using the tag "linkedin" in the settings of your WordPress blog post. Just as organizations have rules on surfing websites and using email for personal use, your organization must have a guideline in place for usage of social media sites.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Recently, M+R Strategic Services — in collaboration with NTEN — released their own report , and also gave a presentation at the Human Rights Campaign on some of the report’s findings. They also pointed to specific testing done on their email campaigns, to determine the best copy to send to their constituents.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

More than $250 million was raised online for Haitian relief efforts in the first 21 days after the quake through Convio powered emails, websites, and other campaigns (up from approximately $120 million in the same period during Katrina). A webinar on lessons learned will be held in Q2 to share some of the key findings with NTEN members.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And once member lists, actions and events, emails and documents are collected and stored by an online service, outdated electronic privacy law is failing to keep this information safe from inappropriate access and potential misuse. (And Tags: Advocacy Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

At its most basic level, it’s a system that manages information about donors and gifts so you can understand how much you’ve raised, keep track of all the useful information you know about your donors, manage mailings, emails and campaigns, and print reports on all this information. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

For instance, we like email and SMS. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. These efforts have met with mixed success. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. Tablets/Touchscreen devices. Wikis/Blogs. Voice Recorders. Floppy disks/CD-ROMs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The arrival of the Internet in the mid-1990s plus advancing communication technology means children of the current generation are growing up as native users of the Internet, email, text and instant messaging, blogging, tweeting, gaming and a host of other cyber vehicles. They've always been connected.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

email signup, contact us, donation, petition, etc.), Audience Overlap : Use Rapleaf to sort out what percent of your Facebook audience is also on your email list. A big chunk of your repeat site traffic is probably coming from the emails you send out. Use bit.ly to create short urls, because it supports source code tracking.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Websites, Email & Constituent Management from Laura Quinn: Your website is you, online. Email is a critical channel. Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. The details of your emails are critical. After 10,000 emails, prices are reasonable.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Can’t wait!

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Add sharing functionality to your email templates and signatures. "Find us on Facebook") on direct marketing pieces (including both mail and email). Tags: NPTech marketing NTEN Newsletter maddie grant lindy dreyer web2.0 Make all of your stuff easy to find and share. That's a very good thing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

In life, these small things might be learning how to master email conversations (see How I Tamed My Inbox ). Tags: chris brogan Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media. In games, especially early on, there are repetitive tasks that bring you early victories. In Super Mario Brothers, it was acquiring coins.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

To optimize the potential for integrated marketing, it is essential to collect as many email addresses as you can for current direct mail donors so that you can engage them online. Ask for email addresses through all forms of communication, including direct mail reply devices, online registration, special events, and telephone contacts.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Just send that link out through email, announcements to your cause members, and include it in your email signature. Tags: facebook facebook causes Fundraising Newsletter NPTech NTEN susan gordon. Go to [link] to get started. Thank you for using Causes!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Visit the Google Apps marketplace for a good view of hundreds of applications doing a myriad of things from email to accounting to project management. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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