Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2011

Author: Michelle Shefter. Hardly a month goes by when I don’t find myself impressed by one of WCS’ advocacy or fundraising campaigns. Hardly a month goes by when I don’t find myself impressed by one of WCS’ advocacy or fundraising campaigns.

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NetWits

MAY 20, 2008

The Challenge: Bread for the City wanted a new website that would create a more professional image, drive more support for the mission, and allow the organization to better integrate its online and offline marketing activities. If BFC is mentioned in a news item, blog, or website, she sends a thank-you communication to the author.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

Author: Michelle Shefter. Two recent advocacy victories this week by PETA and my former colleagues at Defenders of Wildlife are a great reminder of a little practiced truth: organizations are seeing greater (and often easier) success in leveraging online advocacy to change policy at the state and local level.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Integrate – as in, integrate social media with other channels such as email, direct mail, web content and offline activity to maximize success. Measure – look at social activity data to learn who you are influencing, what is causing activity, what content is effective and what you can optimize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

24 Hours for Darfur , a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. Use a webcam to record a video right in your web browser, or upload a video you've recorded offline. Check out the hundreds of videos already submitted!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Author: Sally Heaven. What do you get when you cross a bunch of activist Convio employees with some other techie Convio employees and a product manager who is really excited about the new Convio Advocacy API ? Point 4: what’s an advocacy example without an actual target and action? Let me explain.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Author: Miriam Kagan. Let's say your development director owns offline marketing and your director of communications owns online marketing and online giving. Or, bring together your communications and development teams to align offline production schedules with online message planning. Did you really just read that??

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

Author: Sally Heaven. Online advocacy doesn't work in a vacuum - it works best when it's part of a thoughtful integrated campaign that combines offline and online actions. Some people will have you believe that online advocacy doesn't work, or that Congress isn't listening, and so you should abandon your efforts entirely.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Author: Sally Heaven. I already told you what to expect on the advocacy front , so now it's time for a little self-promotion. Steve, Amy and Chas are going to look at sustainers through the lens of a multichannel approach, and will focus on both online and offline programs. We're just 9 days away from the start of bbcon !

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Here's what the author said: "Funny, I clicked on this post from Twitter expecting a realistic conversation about the limitations of social media tools. But in the long run, these tools also do a good job of hoovering up potential participants for offline actions that will make a difference. Mad props to them.)

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Author: Alan Cooke. He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. Conventional wisdom has always said that nonprofits should focus on either service or advocacy, but not both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

But first, let me share the description and what I’m planning: This interactive session is based on a key theme in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership. What are they good for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

KD Paine, my co-author of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, has the best way of explaining it in this post about the continuum of engagement. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. And more importantly, engagement has a purpose or larger goal.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2012

Author: Robyn Mendez. Traditionally, most orgs have only provided support to these types of events using offline channels alone. In recent weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more interest from event fundraisers on providing online tools to support their third-party or Independent Fundraising Events (IFE.)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. ’ This takes more time initially, but it produces the levels of support and advocacy we really want for our organization!” That’s shocking (and pretty scary).

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Care2

MAY 29, 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) 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. How much is your online fundraising augmenting offline efforts? In the same way key performance indicators are outlined for website metrics, fundraising goals or advocacy efforts, define successful outcomes from social media and keep these top-of-mind while building a social presence and/or campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. The aforementioned Greater Greater Washington. They may be few, but it’s still early.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on the philanthropic and social advocacy action, here are some of my recommendations on sessions, events and activities that have gold stars next to them on my personal event agenda.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

But, take it offline, too. . Look how Selfies With AEDs saw their social media ambassador was posting from the city where a partner organization is located and took the opportunity to tag the partner (and share their advocacy campaign in the process). Turn your ambassador program into a club they’re proud to join. .

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John Kenyon

JUNE 25, 2019

Authored by John Kenyon & Max Pearl. You can think of a static site generator as an “offline CMS.” Other good use cases are one-off project websites – fundraising or advocacy campaign specific, domain specific, program or project specific, where you’re able to create sites quickly and easily.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

In the edited transcript of my September 1st interview with co-author Lisa Witter for the Big Vision Podcast , she discusses how nonprofits can use four principles from the book, Care, Connect, Control, and Cultivate to get the word out about their cause. That sort of humor is really important to women. Now, the second C is connect.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Took action on important advocacy actions when we talked about them on social media. Looked to us as an authority on climate change across social media. Shared our advocacy actions with their friends and colleagues on social networks. You can’t divorce offline influence from online influence. It’s subjective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Everyone else must work harder to spark a true grassroots movement (online or offline) and realize the results that the technology world, including Causes, have promised through their platforms. The successful causes on Causes seem to start out well known, or bring in a high profile or strong brand. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

In addition to Social Change Anytime Everywhere , Amy is co-author of Social by Social : A handbook in using social technologies for social impact. Amy has worked in private philanthropy, advocacy nonprofit organizations, web design companies, and as a consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

As part of our ongoing research project into the future of membership-based advocacy organizations, we’ve been talking to folks from “new” as well as “older” groups focused on issue-organizing. They are working to combine online and offline organizing. Running MomsRising is as much a science as it is an art.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Reprinted here by the author. . Tracking offline and online behaviors in a single database is either a reality or an imminent goal for every nonprofit I’ve worked with. The following article was originally published in the June 2014 issue of User Experience Magazine. Stories and/or News. Get Involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

If they give online, and again, obviously, a lot of direct mail is going to get people online, but it’s still about 12% of donors that are going online, so a lot of money still comes in offline. So that still means that there’s still a lot of money coming in offline. So absolutely use whatever you have. Erica: Great.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. It’s also worth noting that they have an excellent mobile website which enables nonprofits to make their online advocacy campaigns mobile. Change.org :: change.org. Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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MAY 26, 2008

An organizer on our team, George Goehl, went to help the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition in anyway he could. I'm currently co- authoring a guide to these tools for organizers like myself available at the end of this month. The key to our success is integrating offline and online organizing relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! " The Network-Centric Advocacy blog explains. Have you signed the petition yet?

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