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AUGUST 2, 2012

A few years ago, Cause Marketing was all the rage. Nonprofits – small …

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JUNE 15, 2011

3) National Park Field Guides App. description : The most versatile and interactive mobile field guide app available, NPCA’s new National Park Field Guide provides a complete view of a park wildlife, as well as a comprehensive ecosystem review of 50 national parks. link : [link].

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Join me next week as I co-host an in-depth look into strategic web design during our free GUIDE series – Register now! Do these elements highlight content or actions that are critical to your organizational goals?

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JUNE 23, 2011

Put together a style guide that contains the organization’s logo, font types, font sizes and specifications around the use of the logo. This gives staff an easy-to-use reference guide and reduces inconsistencies. Branding: No matter what communications are going out – everything should be consistently branded!

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. Send too many “one size fits all” emails and you risk decreased interest, lower attention levels and, ultimately, less engaged constituents.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Guest post by Bill Connors , author of Fundraising with The Raiser’s Edge: A Non-Technical Guide. >> Join his free webinar on 4/17/12 @ 2pm ET - Making a major impact with your major gifts program. — Larger and larger gifts are being given online. Do your online systems support the needs of major gifts fundraising?

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MARCH 3, 2010

This is Part I of my guide to creating a Facebook fanpage for nonprofits. We’re going to use a fan page that I recently set up as an example of how to set up a page. So stage one – Register and make it clear what you are about.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Check out our Holiday Campaign Guide . Thanks to Mom and her donations, I’m able to sport my favorite organization’s umbrella, water bottle, shopping tote, etc… Looking for more ideas?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Based on those themes Sargeant and Shang compiled a list of 32 recommendations to help guide the nonprofit industry in growing philanthropy in the coming years. Identifying new audiences, channels, and forms of giving with strong potential for growth. Improving the quality of fundraising training and development.

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JUNE 18, 2009

As Creative Director at Blackbaud Internet Solutions , I have a certain vision, or some might say, mantra, that I like to follow and guide our creative work with. Well, it’s time to change that.Let’s start with the basics.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Devendra Shrikande and I are creating a year-long curriculum — a step-by-step DIY guide — to developing an in-house social network for nonprofits (a private online community for constituents). We want to broaden our thinking and I know that you can help with that.

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APRIL 23, 2012

Learn more about building an objective website through strategic design during our free Guide webinar Series the week of April 23 rd. Register now!

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Guest post by Bill Connors , author of Fundraising with The Raiser’s Edge: A Non-Technical Guide. Make sure to check out his upcoming webinar where Bill will talk about Making the Most of Recurring Gifts with The Raisers Edge — 2/22/12 @ 2pm ET — Register Now ! — Recurring Giving - The #1 way to create steady fundraising revenue.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

His new book, Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals , includes practical tips and tools from 50 recognized experts across 35 topics, and he recently launched a nationwide Social Media for Nonprofits conference series and his Advancing Social Impact blog on Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge.

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MARCH 27, 2013

The Acumen Fund has made scrolling their site a visual adventure, guiding the user down through a timeline of accomplishments, all the while highlighting the ways in which they are making a difference. Lets look at a compelling example of this: The Acumen Fund. This site represents the exact point I was just trying to make.

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JUNE 6, 2011

For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide. These could be articles, resources or documents. Remember not to make it difficult to access resources, but I suspect every organization has at least some content that could be secured.

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JUNE 13, 2011

It’s a great guide for making the most of your channel-surfing donors. . • Fundraising Success writer Joe Boland, penned the article Direct Mail Still Rules the Day in Fundraising. Where to go from here. Blackbaud’s Allison Van Diest published an accompanying commentary focused on improving overall giving through a multichannel approach.

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JULY 27, 2011

Once you’ve got that answer in place let it guide the rest of your decisions. It’s focused and we know exactly why we created it and why people would subscribe to it. Figure out the answer to “why” (why are you creating this list) before you do anything else. Keep a laser focus on growing your list.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

You’ll gain some interesting and actionable insights that will help guide how you create content and manage your website with a focus on SEO. This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But Cameron’s already written up a guide for that , so I suggest you read that and follow his advice. (As a bonus, you can see how the extra table information that’s generating the preview text looks in the actual message, up there at the top.). All it took was the CSS @media query. What’s Next?

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AUGUST 2, 2012

A few years ago, Cause Marketing was all the rage. Nonprofits – small and large – were scurrying to create “meaningful” corporate partnerships NOT sponsorships. Some did it well ( Pink Ribbon anyone?? while others struggled. No one disagrees that proving a company’s Social Responsiblity is very important to consumers.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Your brand isn’t as simple as a logo or website. It’s a living, breathing and ever evolving thing that must resonate throughout all aspects of your organization. It’s intangible and emotional while at the same time tangible and based in real life.

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JULY 12, 2012

School’s out for summer and you’re catching up on work, planning for a new school year and making some much needed, long overdue updates to your website, right? But the overwhelming question looms…where should you start?

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Your website has a lot to say. If a person from each department …

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

This means you should be thinking about every element on the page and asking your self … does it guide each person on the page towards the action I’m trying to have him or her take? If you hold out the point above as your guiding light then this one is simple. Things like total dollars raised or number of volunteers signed up.

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JUNE 1, 2012

It’s official; we launched our new full service creative agency for nonprofits this week – GUIDE Creative – Where we LOVE nonprofit web design! Learn more about us at www.guidecreative.com and make sure to sign up for The Great Guide Giveaway. Your website is a great place to say it publically. Was this helpful?

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APRIL 17, 2012

— Learn more on how to Successfully Brand your NonProfit in our first FREE Guide series event on April 24 th. You should also ask for a set of files indifferent color modes just so you’re fully covered: PMS, CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale. Register for the Series Now! .

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APRIL 30, 2012

Email communications are a critical piece of every nonprofits engagement strategy. Maximizing the effectiveness of your email marketing includes understanding and leveraging the latest email design strategies and best practices. But how do you keep track of them?

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MAY 10, 2012

Part two of our four part series on Effective Nonprofit Websites. Make sure to read part one if you missed it: Create a More Effective Nonprofit Website Using These 2 Simple Suggestions. — “The Web is a world of first impressions, and quick ones at that. Users form an opinion of a website within the first few seconds of loading it.”

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