Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. 85% of all emails are spam. But we have a tendency to leave our common sense at the door when we cross the thresholds of our nonprofit offices. Practical advice: How often to message people? Send email more often to better your odds. This is pretty much common sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book offers lots of great advice on using many of Facebook features like Events. Given the design restrictions on Page design, having a solid content strategy can get results and help differentiate your nonprofit. Content strategies are often the most difficult task for many nonprofits. How you break through the clutter?

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Roundtree

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Mission Increase (MI) of Portland, Oregon and Roundtree Agency of Chattanooga, Tennessee announced today they have entered into a formal collaboration as part of Mission Multiply, MI’s initiative to help nonprofit organizations clarify their story and improve their donor communications. . And we're promising not to spam you.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2021

While some advice may suggest starting with determining a channel, the reality is, if you want the best results, you need to know who your audience is FIRST—and let that drive your decision about which channel you think they will respond to. . Tip #2: Locate. Now that you know who you are looking for, you can actually go looking!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

While you may already be sending emails to talk to your supporters, everyone can use some extra advice when it comes to making donation appeals via email. . Still others are marked as spam and go to the trash folder, never to see the light of day again. . Where are your nonprofit’s emails going? Leave no doubt!

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

My one piece of advice to my daughter and son-in-law at their wedding was “never assume what has never been said.” Nonprofit leaders didn’t get into their profession to nurture donor relationships. And we're promising not to spam you. Relationships don’t grow stronger through silence. This is also true with donors. 919.601.1439.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 29, 2018

Click here for our in-depth look at the three reporting tools every nonprofit should have to improve their fundraising strategy.). Whether it’s emailing your supporters, re-engaging lapsed donors, or soliciting donations - all nonprofits rely on good emails. Did you know an average of 18.21% of emails go straight to spam?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." " So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. t taken off like Friendster because the Filipinos I am targeting there are based in the US.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As a nonprofit ourselves, we at TechSoup know what it feels like when your organization starts to grow. Following on the heels of our Software to Build and Grow Your Nonprofit. blog, we’ve put together this second toolkit based on what fellow nonprofits told us their biggest concerns were. Coordinate Your Staff and Office.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2017

It’s no secret that the end of the year presents a wealth of opportunity for nonprofit organizations. A Clever Way for Nonprofits to Prepare for the End of the Year (Before It’s Too Late!) : In this blog post, Joan Garry associates the beginning of year-end fundraising with going back to school. Preparing your database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Nonprofits online activists organized a protest on Facebook to encourage Facebook to bring back our hero, who has been the organization's spokesperson to encourage Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future. We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Especially for Non-profits. profile has.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" I would add that HTTPs Everywhere was created by two nonprofits: The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "I tend to receive a lot of phishing spam, especially to some of the generic info@ email aliases that are posted publicly. TechSoup: Safer Online for Nonprofits: Practical Advice to Keep You Safe.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Speaking of Idealware , as a fellow Mainah , I really appreciated Laura Quinn 's "snow shoveling" and nonprofit IT planning metaphor. Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

No surprise that Principle #1: Avoid being seduced by Shiny Object Syndrome generated great insights. My colleague Geoff Livingston says that “Shiny Object Syndrome&# makes nonprofits and individuals to adopt the latest cool social tool based on peer pressure, buzz, or a strange desire to be one of the first.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Founded in 1998, Care2, a B-corporation that works with over 700 nonprofits and has more than 15 million members, defines itself as a social action network. Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For most nonprofit organizations, bulk email -- email newsletters, action alerts or fundraising outreach -- is one of the most productive communications approaches there is. There’s no better way (yet) for a nonprofit to hit the communications trifecta -- reach, engagement and action. Why do you need an email service provider?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. I worked with a nonprofit several years ago, and we had the most success with donors when we actually talked to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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Qgiv

MAY 7, 2021

As a medical nonprofit, the health of your community is paramount. Luckily, healthcare fundraising can ensure the financial health of your medical nonprofit as you ensure the health of your community! Read on for fundraising ideas geared toward medical nonprofits for inspiration to help you raise more. We’ve got you covered!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. She's just the type of nonprofit tagger we're looking for over at the NP Tagovates Affinity Group at N-TEN.) I suspected she might be nonprofit techie and a quick look at her " about page " confirms it. A girl can dream can't she?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My Networked Nonprofit co-author Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about the Age of Automation with an eye towards our next book. The report also looks at the challenges for nonprofits, which are common in the nonprofit sector when adopting new technologies. Can Machine Learning Predict Social Impact?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 6, 2021

Creating a welcome email series for your new donors can help them get to know your nonprofit and learn what communications to expect from your nonprofit. Read on to learn how to develop an effective welcome series for donors to keep them learning about, supporting, and giving to your nonprofit. Tips from an actual nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2017

A few years ago nonprofit email marketers were thrown for a loop when Gmail implemented a tabbed in-box for various kinds of messages (primary, email and social). The single most important issue for nonprofit email marketers is engagement. It feels as is this same advice could have been given years ago.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can read her awesome advice in many leading industry publications and blogs, as well as her own website. She is a nonprofit founder, former ED herself, and I always like to get that perspective whenever possible. ” Lots of great advice for you on getting a kickstart for your end-of-year fundraising campaigns. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

I'm doing a series of blog about lessons learned from nonprofits in adopting social media projects as the Cute Dog Theory. (If YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. What advice would you give to other nonprofits? Skip, David's dog. From video to audio to photos. A firehose of information. Video is the future!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Digital marketing is the norm now, and today nonprofits of all sizes are expected to have professionally designed websites. Of course, few professionals out there are experts in nonprofit website design, but fortunately, you don’t need to be to create a killer website for your organization. What does nonprofit website design encompass?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. I like Vladis Krebs' advice on this fine-tuning which is summarized in a post I wrote a few months back called " If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only follow 150 people on Twitter, who would you follow and why? So is the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. I did not include spam comments or my own). Kaushik's advice is: For your blog, personal or professional I recommend a goal setting exercise. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" A year ago, I decided to tweak my blog title from "Beth's Blog" to "Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Are Using Social Media" because I had a lot of referrals from Google for the word "Beth." Maybe I need an SEO makeover and advice from Bill Snyder and Jonathan Coleman. And I think that's a good thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

” designed to help grantees institutionalize social media and networked nonprofit skills and strategies and integrate them into their broader strategy for communications on children’s health. Understanding the Recent Facebook Algorithm Changes and What It Means for Nonprofits. Report spam: user thinks your page is spam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I'm going reel off the names of some tools that I've observed you using and would love your best piece of advice or tell me a story about how you've used it in your org. This helps us be good community members and avoid issues of spamming. re doing something right whenever you can inspire people to create new meaning that didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo. Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: The most recent is a roundup of posts addressing the question of how nonprofit communicators can cut through the clutter to engage overloaded audiences. Other blog coverage here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2010

I normally try to leave politics and religion out of my work with nonprofits, but this time I need to make an exception. In just that short time it has become abundantly clear that I have been living and working in social networking bubble of nice, friendly, supportive nonprofit folks. And for most nonprofits, that’s still true.

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