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MAY 8, 2019

Adam traced the history of how fundraising practices, from face-to-face, direct mail, telemarketing, digital, mobile, and AI. Send a paper survey to people asking what they care about, engage with them, share information they are interested in, and ask them to give.”

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Everyone let me know what month you pick to stop asking for money so I can double our direct mail sends. . — Yoda, CFRJ (@FundraisingYoda) September 20, 2013. Big Scary Fortress Nonprofit with a Command and Control Culture. 12NTC — Big Scary Nonprofit (@fortressftw) April 5, 2012. Don’t press me too soon on #plannedgiving.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

The books are starting to arrive in people’s mail boxes (the Kindle version is coming in a matter of days) and folks are sharing photos of themselves with the book, like the one above from David LaPiana and the one below from Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2015

You can sign up for e-mail reminders about the Non-Profit Blog Carnival at [link]. Remember – to be included in this month’s round-up, send me your post/article by January 26th– you can e-mail it to me at nonprofitcarnival@gmail.com. To learn more, check out What Is the Nonprofit Blog Carnival?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. This isn’t always practical, especially with direct mail, but give it some thought and prioritize it when you can.). Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Hitting "Mark All As Read" in a reader is much, much easier than declaring e-mail bankruptcy. Subscribe with your reader or by e-mail, when you are satisfied with your results. If you are listening already, I encourage you to step it up: refine your key words, add a new source, or move your e-mail alerts to a feed reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

The study reports that many of these organizations recognize the need to innovate and experiment with social media, but still rely on direct mail, email, and web sites for fundraising. Most do not have a replacement strategy for these tried and true methods. This is troubling given the changing media landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Over e-mail, we brainstormed for bloggers, food justice activists, doctors, child and family advocates – anyone we thought would be interested in the theme of healthy snack foods in schools. Then we each went at it, e-mailing our contacts with sample Facebook and Twitter messages to see if they would share with their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

When we say video works, we don’t mean every video works, any more than we mean every email works or every direct mail piece works. If you spend a lot of time and money on one video, and that video has poor results, it is no wonder that you hesitate to do more. The same is true with video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

” I was honored to write a book blurb after reading an early draft, but my copy just arrived in the mail and wanted to share review on my blog as part of my preparation for doing an interview with her next week. She has packed all that into her new book, “ Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership.”

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MARCH 29, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers and direct response agitators, online fundraising experts and direct mail gurus all in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2016

Individual donors, major gifts, events, and direct mail. With tips and tools, expert advice, and real-world insights from almost fifty industry leaders, this robust resource addresses the entire spectrum of fundraising for nonprofits, including: Planning, hiring, and tracking progress. Board and volunteer engagement. Corporate partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2008

An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast." The Times articles covers one technique - e-mail bankruptcy ,??? or getting so far behind in responding to e-mail messages that it becomes necessary to delete them all and start over. Photo by Will Lion.

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JULY 31, 2008

Sorry, I missed your e-mail, but I am not in the office. I thought this vacation message from Holly Ross was the best ever. But Thomas Taylor just forwarded me one that tops that. --. due to an "emergency." " I received a call from MADONNA that she needed to see me. immediately. I assumed that she came to her senses and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2010

If you’re a nonprofit with a mailing address, you may have already received the card in the mail from Facebook: An invitation to claim your organization’s Facebook Places page. He agreed to write a guest post. Guest Post: Don’t Merge Your Nonprofit Facebook Page With Places Page by Ivan Boothe.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We sent e-mails to our personal contacts and the GOH database. Finding the right balance of using Twitter, e-mail, and newsletters is important,” she notes. E-mail to personal and professional contacts seems to be the most effective channel. and measurement of our tweets. Twitter appears to be a good avenue, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2016

Then we play that out across every part of the campaign—from the stories we tell to the design of the email template and copy in the direct mail piece. But as an agency that does branding (or what we call “brandraising”), we also ask whether that hook fits into the larger narrative that is the organization’s brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Since the game launched, more than 9,000 people have been asked to play via e-mail, twitter and Facebook and more than 2,700 have made commitments and tagged others. You can leave a comment below or I can be reached by e-mail at connect(at)handsonnetwork(dot)org. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game. Is that good?

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AUGUST 10, 2011

And very likely they are simultaneously doing direct mail and/ or events or PSAs etc. The problem is that most people are already doing something before they decide to measure. So THEN the problem is figuring out whether the relationships have improved due to social media or something else.

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JUNE 9, 2008

Some users have reported success getting to their mail during outages by using any number of alternative links to gmail. Your mileage may vary, but here they are: Basic HTML version: https://mail.google.com/mail/h/. Visit the gMail Google group to at the least find others in your boat and get the latest updates. Older version: [link].

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

re about to mail your contacts. Enter the password, however, and it will proceed to mail all your contacts without asking permission. According to Mashable : One controversial issue among social networks is how hard they should push for user acquisition. One site that???s s catching people off guard is Quechup : we???ve spamming???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

So, will have print it out and send via US postal mail. Here's the one I created to honor my mother, Ruth. Ironically, she isn't on Facebook or Twitter, nor does she have an email address. The heartspace also lets you create an e-card and I sent it to my Dad to share with my mom. (And,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

While it’s not a new term, a few months ago, “slacktivism” became the topic of a firestorm debate among nonprofit advocates, online marketing professionals and social change proponents after a series of media stories including an article by Warren Clements of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, “A slacktivist and his crackberry are seldom parted.”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

He offers this advice: In the future, there will be even more email, more IM/SMS/ mail/phone calls/video mail, more websites, more podcasts, and richer intranets. Here's my early curriculum and some more recent posts. Someday, maybe I'll have time to think about this more and develop a workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2016

You don’t have any stipulations about who can ask for help, and make it incredibly easy to access documentation and support staff (via chat, phone, or e-mail). But really it’s the feedback from our customers—these everyday miracle-workers—that motivates and inspires us: “Blackbaud continues to impress me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time – either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Both these newsletters are also viewed by hundreds of Latinos on LinkedIn, and for me personally, I was alerted of the mentions via e-mail. It was also highlighted in a newsletter by Latinos in Social Media (hashtag #latism) easily the largest online Latino community with 140,000+ Latinos.

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JUNE 5, 2007

Just arrived in the mail along with the new copy of Daniel Park's Definitive Guide Camtasia Studio 4! Just in time to help me with the screencasts I'm working now about SalesForce.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, a post on Foreign Policy about "slacktivism" triggered a flurry of e-mail on Progressive Exchange. A few months ago, I got to ask Joe Green, Founder of Causes, some questions. Now, you can get a turn thanks to NTEN. I just signed up, couldn't resist.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations.

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MARCH 10, 2009

And, gasp, the report lists e-mail as No. According to a report released yesterday by Nielsen Online ( download PDF ). social networks and blogs have become the fourth most popular online destinations. 5 on the list of users' preferred online tools.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Trying to provide all the proper links and information within our microsite and Facebook application proved too cumbersome, and so we chose to go with a user flow that included a pledge, followed up with an e-mail offering all the details and links to get the precise information needed for a participant’s location.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

You can’t get that kind of loyalty or enthusiasm by buying a mailing list. Having so much media coverage was huge and allowed us to go way beyond my own 2,000+ Twitter followers and the people on our mailing list. 4. Widgets work. ChipIn worked great for us last year and we’re using it again this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

According to Blackbaud’s annual State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey , the three fundraising sources cited as the most effective are gifts from major donors, special events and direct mail. New models like social networking and text messaging rank near the bottom.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The online survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations.

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APRIL 2, 2014

During the session, participants discuss some ways they plan to get more focus: Don’t use mobile phone as an alarm clock to avoid checking e-mail or social first thing in the morning or last thing before sleep. Incorporate more movement into the day.

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