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Will Nonprofits Move Away from One Big Gala Every Year?

Greater Giving

Aggregated, nonprofits held an average of 3.94 To test the hypothesis that virtual events produced a better cost-to-revenue ratio, we asked fundraisers in the State of Nonprofit Fundraising report how their event costs changed between their live events and virtual events, in relationship to their fundraising goals.

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The Unanticipated Benefit of Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.

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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

sgEngage

The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget. How To Calculate Your Operating Reserve Ratio. However, this is not a universal benchmark.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. It appears that the lurker to participant may also hold true for various Web 2.0

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.