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Angels as Assets: The Importance of Volunteer Management Software

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Indeed, only seven percent of small non-profits use dedicated volunteer management software to coordinate data (nine percent use no software at all) resulting in a disturbing statistic: some 62 percent of said non-profits lose volunteers due to poor data keeping. What sorts of problems does poor volunteer management cause?

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Growing Your Email List: Seven Tips for Success

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Consider this statistic from Internet marketing professionals: the average email list degrades by nearly 23 percent each year due to opt-outs, changes in addresses and more. That statistic may seem insignificant until you consider how many people visit your webpage, attend an event or engage your organization on your social media pages.

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The Numbers Game: Understanding the Statistics for Non-Profit Giving

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Among Mark Twain’s more famous quotations is this: “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” And yet, despite the writer’s keen observation, we place an unbelievably high premium on statistics in virtually every element of our lives. Volunteers give twice as often to charity as non-volunteers.

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Time is Money: Solutions for Monitoring Problems With Your Website

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Pingdom.com, with services that start at around $15 per month, is another good choice for up- and downtime monitoring, and it also provides performance statistics that clearly display how your site is doing in terms of speed, click through rates and more.

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Cutting the Cord: Converting Your WordPress Site Into a Mobile App

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Indeed, it’s this statistic that has created such a boom in the “responsive design” movement, where a website is built around the mobile-first philosophy that dictates that a website should appear and render perfectly no matter the device on which it’s being viewed.

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Missing the Mark: Why Legitimate Emails Head Right for the Spam Folder

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Another type of automatic email sifting is called Bayesian Filtering, which utilizes statistical analysis to “learn” what spam looks like. The words could be “cheap medication,” “dating sites” or something incredibly lewd, and the filter assumes—correctly almost all of the time—that the email is junk.

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Tapping Intelligence Tools: Using Big Data for Big Success in the Nonprofit Sector

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Of course, considering that non-profit access to big data information is still relatively limited, for the time being organizations should concentrate on obtaining that information from local, state or federal government databases related to education, public assistance records, crime and transportation statistics and the like.

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