BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

That’s the advice we got from finance pro, Paul Konigstein, our guest blogger of the week. For more great advice from Paul, read on below. The homeless shelter budgets expenses by analyzing historical trends and relying on expert predictions of future trends. Budgeting for any nonprofit is no easy task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. Good luck. 2) Ask for a social media budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. We still have a long way to go in synthesizing the numerous inputs, including a large constellation of trends, grantee priorities, values, economic realities, and more.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. Ask for advice. I’ve talked a lot about Advice Visits here , here and here. You finally got an appointment to meet with your Big Donor…now what?

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Last month we turned to fundraising guru and guest blogger Gail Perry for advice on how to make your board members a little less BORED. 4) Look at trends within routine reports. For example, along with the financial report, consider a discussion of long-run implications of certain revenue or cost trends.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

The blogger, Katie Hawkes, had written this post encouraging our audience to be optimistic about volunteering. We've had a couple bloggers explore similar sentiments, too, including my fellow Lodestar staff member Laura E. I know you keep getting a barrage of advice and articles that say, "Social media is different!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Nonprofit Leadership Blogger Rosetta Thurman. Rosetta Thurman , who writes about nonprofits and leadership issues from a Gen Y blogger perspective , shared some thoughts about the generations, nonprofits, and social media. Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. Listening to Bloggers You'll want to identify and follow key bloggers in your nonprofit space, especially if you are planning to blog or doing any blogger relations program. Find Bridge bloggers alltop.com. Define Your Niche.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

That is where the Blue Key Champion strategy came in; to bring on board US-based bloggers who are active online, and cause-passionate, to help spread the word and, hopefully, get more keys ordered. Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Click Image to see larger version. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. Can you tell me where I can find out more about this trend and how/why you believe this to be the path to success? Nancy Schwartz also offers some helpful advice in 4 Steps to Moving Your Marketing and Fundraising Teams to a Productive Partnership. Can you help us with a restructuring of this sort?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." Beth has been keeping notes about what is working and what isn't on her blog.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. This micro-blogging tool puts her in contact with warm and welcoming "mommy bloggers" who repost her stuff. Track Referrals and Traffic Trends. Reaching your goals doesn't involve magic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Website grader - useful tool to search trends. Gogle trends - use it to determine what people are searching on. He gave lots of strategy advice and tips for each segment. I love her writing about social media trends. Elizabeth Dunn works for the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, but she is also a nonprofit technology blogger.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Her insightful and practical advice helped WITNESS understand the need for transparency in our mobile and social media strategies. Thanks to Heather’s advice, we’ve been able build an international brand from our tiny corner of the world. View the Mobile for Good Table of Contents. ” Marianna Moneymaker. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. I want to improve my writing.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

While people typically seek advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money, this book will help you discover how to spend money to boost your happiness. . Technology and digital trends move quickly, but there are a few fundamentals that every nonprofit needs to know. From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. What are the trends on all of the above? Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense. As you can see, either you get to define your site stats or it will be defined for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. She started the Radical Tech blog for Fast Company focusing on trends in technology and Web 2.0 Care2 Webinars Social Networking Trends Web 2.0'

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BoardAssist

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Guest blogger Gail Perry, a major fundraising pro, feels strongly that smart fundraisers need to focus here, and tells us exactly how to do that in this week’s terrific guest post. This is a huge new trend that smart fundraisers are spearheading. Are you asking your donors for feedback? What would we do without you, Gail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Counting and seeing trends in my RSS subscribers/readers was a pain because I have several feeds and only one of them is in feed burner. As with other metrics watch the trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Maybe I need an SEO makeover and advice from Bill Snyder and Jonathan Coleman. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth. And how has the audience grown overtime?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Check out this post: Nonprofit Content Marketing – Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for 2014 and don’t miss the associated Nonprofit content marketing infographic. Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Or, if you are considering a blog, find out who the key bloggers are in your topic area. Robin Broitman, How To Sell Social Media To Cynics, Skeptics, Luddites - Tips, Resources, and Advice 5. It is important to look at trend movements and changes over time, not just numbers. What questions will you ask to generate insights?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

This may seem like simple advice, and I would agree with you. . Related Article: 39 Content Marketing Trends You Need To Know (Infographic). Surprisingly, only a small minority of bloggers (15%) use a formal editorial process. After running the ad for 1 week, I noticed a trend in user engagement. Related Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Here's an instructional video about how they work on Facebook along with some advice from Jeremiah Owyang. (2) trend is wrong because we completely loose all richness of in-person interactions and relationships. Well known blogger and social media guru, Robert Scoble adds all friends. 2) the overflowing of social messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The paper provides a theoretical overview of social networks and important trends. " Through bloggers , we learn that like it did for an older version of SnagIt, TechSmith is offering a free download for an older version of Camtasia, the gold standard of screencasting editing and capture software. And if you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

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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