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On Vacation. Offline. In Nature. Viewing Wildlife. Will Reconnect on August 27!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Back in 2009 I wrote up 10 tips for managing social media burnout and taking my own advice, I am going offline for three weeks. On vacation… in remote areas in a distant land… viewing wildlife (hopefully)… and 100% offline. No smartphone. Trust me… I am consistently in state of wonder about that fact.

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2009 Nonprofit Benchmarks: How Does your Organization Measure Up?

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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. However it’s not all good news.

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New SSIR Post: Will 2009 Bring Social Learning Spaces to Life?

Amy Sample Ward

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. Social media spaces can be supported and grown on and offline.

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Facebook is Great, but Does it Really Work for Fundraising?

NetWits

Affiliate programs, organic search traffic and even offline advertising scored higher than social. By far the most effective channel was paid search marketing, which 90% of respondents put in their top three biggest sources of acquisition.&#. Social Networking Adoption by Non-profits. Fundraising via Social Networking.

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Blog Action Day 2009: Creating Actions for Everyone on Climate Change

Amy Sample Ward

Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. I asked the organization what they were doing next Saturday for the Day of Climate Action. At the time of this posting, there are already 9,340 blogs contributing to Climate Change conversations today in 150 countries. I said, “really?

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2011 Online Giving Trends

NetWits

The report includes 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit organizations, online major giving data from 2,397 nonprofits, and both online and offline data representing $5.1 54% of the organizations in the analysis experienced results at or above this growth rate. Large organizations grew by 8.6%

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

Gen-Y Wants More Than Cool Brands – A new 16-country study of Millennials focused on brands has a lot to offer for insight to nonprofit organizations looking to connect with the same generation. But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam."

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