NetWits

APRIL 5, 2013

Fundraising email click-through rates dropped 27 percent and response rates were down 21 percent from 2011. 5 Follow-up Email Techniques from Top Nonprofits – Five effective and efficient approaches for sending follow-up messages within an email campaign. percent to 4.5 percent over the past year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

2011 - it's a new year and a new Congress! There's a great article on Frogloop about facilitating grassroots activity to enact social change and moving grassroots supporters up an "engagement ladder" - similar to the tried-and-true techniques for moving a donor up the donor ladder. Happy 2011. Author: Sally Heaven. DO go local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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Care2

JANUARY 8, 2013

I collect hundreds of nonprofit email messages every year for use in research projects and to keep tabs on what different techniques organizations are using. Last year I decided to unlock the email vault and do some analysis on "80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising" from 2011. Common language words were removed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Robin Good picked up on the theme of sense-making, and identified five more techniques to help sharpen your sense-making skills as part of your content curation skill set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I’m especially looking forward to learning from these sessions by colleagues: April 11, 2011 – 10:30 – Noon. Building Movements – with Ivan Boothe and Rachel Weidinger. April 12 at 8:30-10. Keynote by Dan Pallotta. April 12 – 10:30 – Noon.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

They have a different approach and outlook on life than previous generations, as such traditional marketing and fundraising techniques will be less effective. Millennial Donor Report, 2011). Nonprofits must look at establishing new marketing techniques and revamping traditional ones to capture the hearts and dollars of this generation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

They have a different approach and outlook on life than previous generations, as such traditional marketing and fundraising techniques will be less effective. Millennial Donor Report, 2011). Nonprofits must look at establishing new marketing techniques and revamping traditional ones to capture the hearts and dollars of this generation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares? South by Southwest ( SXSW ) Interactive is a conference, that takes place each Spring in Austin, TX, with over 20,000 web influencers, emerging tech, and creatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

Whether your organization is local or national, with the right tools and techniques, you can tap into the rising tide of advocacy and make your voice heard. Session ideas that attendees have already posted range from “New Media Techniques in 2012” and a public narrative training around storytelling to build movements.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. The London Symphony is a master of this technique. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 26, 2012

Another client started 2011 with a cash surplus because they did so well last year during the holidays. The success in fundraising happens when you use best practice fundraising techniques with a positive outlook, and you expect good things to happen. I’m here to tell you that you are no different. You can do this too.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2012

If you happened to have attended the incredible Drupal Nonprofit Summit at the 2011 BADCamp , the format and structure of the event will be familiar: 9:30-10:00 am: An optional "Introduction to Drupal Terminology and concepts for IT professionals new to Drupal.". Email Brendan to add it to your registration. 10:45-11am: Break.11-12

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 26, 2012

Another client started 2011 with a cash surplus because they did so well last year during the holidays. The success in fundraising happens when you use best practice fundraising techniques with a positive outlook, and you expect good things to happen. I’m here to tell you that you are no different. You can do this too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As part of the workshops I have facilitated to teach nonprofits to become networked nonprofits, I created an exercise called “Creating the Me to We Network.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” “New venture journalism has been incubated thanks to nonprofit and foundation support.” According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. foundation support for media has increased by 21%, rising from $568.2 million in 2009 to $687.6 Sherry questioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. This personalization technique can be used to insert the donor’s name, asking them by name to step up an increase their gift in 2010. Why is 2011 even more important? Explore Personalized Video. Why did it matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. I love the checklists, her thoughts about the impact of social media and behavior change, and the DIY market research techniques. The book is available on Amazon or as a free download. The book is available on Amazon.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways. For others it was not so clear.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

And 60 Minutes recently did a segment on it as a technique to counterbalance our obsession with electronics devices. She told me that when the organization started in 2011, "We were doing our accounting on handwritten spreadsheets and then graduated to Excel. The organization also does lots of fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

When Goodwill was planning their mobile site, they knew from their web analytics that their most popular feature would be the store locator; more than 7 million visited the Goodwill website in 2011, and more than 6 million of those visited the locator. Some techniques and resources that the panelists shared: What is responsive web design?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader. So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest speaker at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Now let me say upfront, this blog post isn’t going to be about those techniques for diversifying an office culture. By Terry Booth, Media Director, PLUK. It all started back in March of this year. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. To incorporate the level of functionality and customization they wanted for the 2011 campaign, Epic Change recruited a volunteer developer to redesign the site in PHP.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. but I didn't have numbers to back it up. Or at least preliminary ones.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. I met Julie almost ten years ago, when she was leading the Agents of Change project at the Ontario Science Center , and I have admired her ever since.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

In a similar finding, the Pew Research Center reported in January 2011 that among the general public the Internet has now surpassed newspapers as a primary source of news and is steadily closing the gap with television. What's new is the communication of those data, completely transformed by the latest digital platforms and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Another example comes from grist.org’s food and sustainable agriculture coverage sparked by commentary about an article in the New York Times that younger farmers are more likely to shun industrial farming techniques and embrace more sustainable practices. Source: grist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 I heard this advice quoted the other day and wanted to share it. All great advice for leaders and managers as we start 2011. Its from William Arthur Ward , one of Americas most quoted writers of inspirational maxims: Do more than belong: participate.

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