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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Will clean up later.

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Social Media Snack Facts: 74% Use Social Networks To Manage Peer-to-Peer Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Universal McCann International Social Media Research Wave 3 The PDF Version is available here. The most recent find is this slide deck with lots of detailed usage information about global social media usage over the past 2-3 years from Universal McCann International. US saturated growth stalls at 41%.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

To do that, companies are building an ecosystem of tools that support this new "appified universe." Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. Theirs are called Zapps.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context.

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Direct Mail Donor Acquisition Strategies

Allegiance Group

The slide below shows two important things: The first-year value of a new donor acquired in FY18 was $89. Updating your suppression file criteria to avoid over-suppressing will increase the available universe for your acquisition mail. Compare this to the cost to acquire. Reactivate lapsed donors to increase your donor file.

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