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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution. Top feature: Donorbox’s UltraSwift Checkout feature allows donors to quickly complete payments in just a few clicks, promoting higher conversion rates.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match. Costs & Benefits.

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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

billion text messages each day with an open-rate that currently hovers at about 90%. Compared to other vendors, their rates for ad-free, 160-character full version are very affordable. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. They also send 2.5 The Mobile Web is not the Next Big Thing. It’s already here.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Usage of videos, podcasts, micro-blogs, diagrams, images, questions, and quizzes not only helps in increasing the participation and completion rate of training courses but also engages the learners in a better way.

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HOW TO: Launch an iPhone App for Your Nonprofit for $25 a Month

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. 2010 will be a big year for nonprofits and iPhone Apps. The image must be 320 pixels by 480 pixels in.PNG format. Very expensive. They give no explanation as to why. Now, how to launch an iPhone App for your nonprofit.

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Top 6 Myths About Refurbished Hardware

Tech Soup

Consumer Reports does great reliability surveys on laptop fail rates. Consumer Reports polled 58,000 subscribers between 2010 and 2015 and found that. New Apple laptops have fail rates from 7 to 9 percent each year. Most new laptops from the other big computer makers have fail rates in the 15 percent range. spanhidden.

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