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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Members are seeking usefulness at the right price tag. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Their research indicates that customers don’t want quantity.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. If you are an infomediary.

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America’s Giving Challenge Gets Another $75,000 To Give Away

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Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan to help mobilize participation in the last week of the Challenge. America’s Giving Challenge, presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications, launched on October 7, 2009. Tags: Uncategorized fundraising. For more information, visit www.parade.com.

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This and That

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. Amy Kincaid, whose blog on fundraising is always worth looking at, points us this week to a great list of fundrasing and grantwriting resources hosted at Michigan State University. Tags: nptech , net2 Well worth a read. I do like to look wise.

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How-to: Manage Your E-mail Campaigns (and Be a Good Guest)

NTEN

Over 70% of the public also prefers to receive marketing or promotional messages via email, eclipsing even postal direct mail (a distant second with only 26%). Tags: E-mail NPTech NTEN Communications. Clearing up Some Common Misconceptions. Email is not "dead" or "dying."

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m a product of the Great Lakes and have a degree in technical writing from Michigan Technological University. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. I grew up in Michigan and folks from the Upper Peninsula are called ???Da