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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

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Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. Get practical advice on live-streaming an activist event and making an all-star meme for your nonprofit. Pacific time. TechSoup is keeping busy this July. Here's a roundup of what we've been doing.

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How to Thank Your Donors: Stop Focusing on the Money!

BoardAssist

That’s the advice we got this week from guest blogger Amy Eisenstein, a top fundraising consultant who has generously shared her terrific advice with our readers this week. They feed the hungry and house the homeless. Take a little time to write a new thank you letter. Thanks Amy! They save lives.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. March: March is beginning of the spring and spending more time outdoors. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. I wasn't timely with an e-mail response but I did give when I was able to speak with the coordinator in person.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Why bother having a web site at all?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice.

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