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258 Articles match "Newsletter","Organization"
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
tweeting powerful stats is guaranteed to get your organization ReTweeted!
IconsPedia : A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc.
Creative Commons on Flickr : A great source for images for your organization’s website, blog, e-newsletter, social networking profiles, etc.
Over the years I have stumbled across countless Internet gems, but the 10 below are those that I regularly and repeatedly return to. These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000. One thing that is a little frustrating about the Pepsi Refresh site is that you cannot Photo: Jim Harrison
Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. If not an entire site, then at the very least your organization should create select web pages that are designed to be easily read on mobile devices. Over the last month I have subscribed Here are four reasons why:
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Given the email clutter your subscribers battle daily, how are your organization’s e-newsletter open and click-through rates looking these days? Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates. The top area of any e-newsletter is prime real estate. Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. It’s a time suck, yet we are addicted to our in-boxes -- even if it’s just to quickly scan emails to stay up to date.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
"Blogs are great because you can re-purpose some of the content from your posts in your e-newsletter," I told a large group at a recent social media training. "How How many of you have an e-newsletter?"
It is amazing to me how many organizations and entrepreneurs don't have an e-newsletter, or if they do, it is deathly boring. No one raised their hand.
Uh oh.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Recently, Thomas Gensemer who led online communications for the Obama campaign said nonprofit email newsletters are “ a waste of time and effort and should be ditched ”. He instead urged organizations to send “short, personalized emails to supporters giving clear instructions for participation”. rdquo; He went on to say “Email newsletters don't get read, yet they For the Obama Campaign, “fundraising and participation tactics included sending regular, short emails to supporters asking recipients to do one thing that day. Each email also
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Nearly every organization is feeling the pull to communicate more. Quality matters, of course, but the shear quantity and frequency of communications that most organizations seek to produce has increased dramatically -- whether its blogs, tweets, commenting, web site updates, collaborations, cross posting, press releases, or good old print brochures.
To stay abreast, your organization needs to maximize its capacity for communication. Tirza Hollenhorst, ifPeople
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
your organization hasn't spent much time developing a dashboard, let our experience be your guide.
When While I'd like to think my address fixing skills were impressive enough to warrant this apparent increase in responsibility, the more likely explanation is that these two projects carried about the same importance to the organization -- which should give you an idea about the perceived value of our Dashboard at the time.
Since So, we backed up and started Karl Hedstrom, NTEN
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. One organization spent 10 hours a month maintaining an online calendar. We ask new subscribers at sign-up to indicate which programs they're most interested in, and we tailor our newsletter accordingly. John Kenyon , Jennie Anderson, AIDS.gov , and William Neuheisel, DC Central Kitchen
Imagine Imagine producing online communications you're proud to share with the world and that garner praise from funders, donors, and other stakeholders.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Principle among the appropriate metrics are number of supporters or fans recruited, number of comments on status updates, number of "likes" for status updates, number of visitors referred to the organization's website from Facebook, and number of Causes or Birthday Wishes created that benefit the nonprofit.
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When When it comes to online fundraising, an obvious tip is to meet your current and potential donors where they are.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
So, task number one is to embark on a mission to convert your organization to this new mindset. For each organization, the cliff will be at a different point, so it's important to figure out what that point is. Tags: avinash kaushik google analytics measurement Newsletter NPTech NTE Avinash Kaushik , Google
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement.
The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
Election Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Facebook provides an unprecedented opportunity for nonprofits: 200 million monthly active users, about half of whom are signing in and communicating with their friends on a daily basis, is an organizer's dream.
We developed Causes because we know what it takes to be an activist and we know how much social networking can revolutionize grassroots organizing. Susan Gordon, Causes
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