.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark. If your membership numbers are marching into the red, you and your team are probably focused on trying to identify the cause of the bleeding. Is technology tying your audience in knots? Maybe stale programming is stopping the love? What if the usual suspects are not to blame?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Delivering relevant content to your audiences, though, can significantly increase email click-through rates. *. Personalize or die.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

All that said, if you have found yourself frustrated because your communities are growing slowly, but you know you are posting good content, just know that it’s always the slowest in the beginning. We worked so hard to get to 5,000 and then we took off!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In this guide, we’ll share our top tips for creating an auction catalog that engages participants and elevates your event with both its content and its format. Live Auction Catalog Content Tips Prominently Feature Your Nonprofit’s Mission Generally speaking, there are two main groups of people who attend nonprofit auctions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. We believe China and the IOC should be held accountable to the promises they made during Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics."

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program. Drove list growth and great results, in part through having a newsletter with all of the content being short and snappy and above the fold. Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Nonprofits have become intimately familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS). Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

DIOSA Communications has been offering social media webinars for nonprofits since February 2008, but the content of the webinars and the time schedule mostly accommodate nonprofits in the United States. Approximately 20 charities in the U.K., The webinars are also well-suited for nonprofits in Eastern Canada.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

When creating content, make sure you identify the action you want your reader to take and clearly communicate it (without adding several other asks!). This, in turn, means more dollars for your mission. Everyone wins. Use clear calls-to-action. Have strategic follow-up procedures. Once someone registers, how do you communicate with them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 3, 2011

Table of Contents. She presented a social media training to our affiliates at our annual conference in 2008 and as one of the most popular sessions, our affiliates are still talking about it – 60% of which now actively use social media. Book Tour Fundraiser. Book Tour Sponsors. 141 Nonprofits Mentioned. 149 Tools and Resources Covered.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Soledad O’Brien led a thought-provoking discussion with Beth Kanter and Allison Fine , co-authors of The Smart Nonprofit , and David Brown , senior vice president of strategy at Knotch, a content intelligence company. If you missed the event or would like to revisit the highlights, check out our on-demand content and resource library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. I have a confession. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data. Total grants made by all Arizona-based grantmaking entities (including corporate foundations) in 2008 amounted to a bit more than $653 million, with 72% ($470 million) going to Arizona nonprofits. How's our blogging?

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark » Wednesday Jan 16 2008 So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 03:57PM | by James OMalley Help us help you by taking the frogloop 2008 Reader Survey ! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Main | Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The Rapleaf Business blog also has some great advice on incorporating user generated content instead of working from scratch. If you haven't read Seth Godin's seminal " Flipping the Funnel ", yet, you should start there. What's that you say?

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

82 Million User-Generated Content Creators and CountingMore than 82 million people in the US created content online during 2008, a number expected to grow to nearly 115 million by 2013 according to numbers released by eMarketer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

It’s about the content and how it’s written—and sadly it’s usually the piece of a website that gets the least amount of attention. Remember, content is still king. Here’s a list of 10 best practices you can follow when working on your site content. What are your best web content tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. Four or five years to adoption: 3D Printing (K-12/Higher Ed), Remote/Virtual Labs (K-12), Wearable Technology (Higher Ed).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Stephen Blyth, a nonprofit capacity builder who I met when I keynoted Connecting Up in 2008, hosted my trip to NZ and arranged for this workshop to take place on Makaurau Marae which is the land of Maori. Too many times I have observed trainers simply launching into the new content without honoring what participants already know.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2009

"2008 is going to be a challenging year." While I don't think anyone anticipated that the end of 2008 would be as ugly as it was, the content of the article is probably even more valuable today. He wrote that: "In addition to the recession, we are also seeing some other troubling indicators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

A tie varies in its strength, direction, and content, all of which depend on many independent factors, such as reciprocity and intimacy within the relationship. The type of tie depicted in a social network map depends on a study's content and purpose (Knoke and Yang, 2008) [3]. American Journal of Sociology. 78(6), 1360-1380.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

All content must be verifiable. The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. It helps to get a copy of a book like Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , but you don’t need it as much these days as you used to back in 2008 when it first came out. Don’t kill the messenger! So, your blog?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. Everyone brings something unique to the table, whether it's content, tech skills or social media know-how.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Jennifer: I was doing marketing for a theme park in 2008 and due to a series of unfortunate events I found myself without a job in 2009 (anyone else?). Every employee is encouraged to share knowledge and ideas that could improve our product and content offerings , and no one is ever made to feel like they’ve had a “silly” idea.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Colalife: make it real This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world. Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at 11:05 am.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2008

You do not have to have any particular expertise beyond ability to write and interest in the content (and perhaps, a healthy skepticism to go with it)! Please send me a note at nina@museumtwo.com if you are interested in this opportunity.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Flickr for Good I led a Flickr for Good workshop in London on Friday. Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Filed under flickr. Bookmark the permalink.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2010

Establishing benchmarks helps organizations better leverage supporters, engage activists and keep websites dynamic with compelling content that drives people to take action. Even in this dismal economy, online donations grew 14% and 69% of nonprofits raised more in 2009 than 2008. Online Fundraising.

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