3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk. What’s that proverb? Now you want to explore solutions.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

And even though it may be more work in the short term, it will save you time in the long run by focusing your attention on the things that matter most. For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

This is what builds thought leadership and attention. News discovery tools are important for those who are creating content as well – especially if you’re covering breaking news or using the technique “ newsjacking.” But I’ll save that for another blog post.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 24, 2015

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. We have all heard the proverb: Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk. What’s that proverb?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

You need a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) to attract tons of attention and support for your cause. Or that it costs you 27 cents to feed a hungry person. Here are 8 fundraising tools that should be sharpened and ready to go in your fundraising toolkit. Clear, magnetic BHAG.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2011

It is a great technique to keep up with your field. Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

If your organization is fundraising without donor data to support it, then you have a problem that needs your attention. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk. What’s that proverb? Now you want to explore solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Simply put, we are living an era of content abundance. A content curator offers high value to anyone looking for quality content because finding that information (and making sense of it) requires more and more time, attention, and focus. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). They are hoping to start conversations and hear feedback about the competitions, the fundraising techniques and more. This is the latest in the series.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. There is a huge need for adequate medical care and attention for for those struggling with mental illness. Fundraising is not about you. See how that works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Here's one way you might celebrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you’ve been through weight watchers, you’ll immediately make a connection to some of the techniques he suggests. For example, keeping a journal of what you consume and taking incremental steps towards reducing it so it becomes a lifestyle change. 11-12: Email. 4-5: Email. 10-11 pm: Book Reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. techniques -- blog, viral video, etc. Fight Hunger is using a lot of new web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

marketers use them to get attention. Some tools and techniques follow below. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

marketers use them to get attention. Some tools and techniques follow below. Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. News Feeds. s Quick Guide for RSS Feeds for Educators - has advice on setting up search terms. How do you listen carefully? Ego searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Flickr 101: Techniques Basic Guidelines for Tagging on flickr Flickr for Beginners: Tips from LifeHacker. Getting Attention on Flickr.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like. However, there are numerous benefits of using better personalization techniques to combat digital weariness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. . The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network. Do you know anyone who's working specifically to draw attention to the "holes" in our networks? You need a good set of URLs to feed it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. As someone with limited time and attention, I don't want to think about how much money to donate. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. While direct mail is often thought of as an old-school outreach technique, it can also appeal to younger audiences like millennials. Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed. What is this affliction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." Tis the Season These sites may not be of interest to participants of " Buy Nothing Day ," on November 23, but what better way to feed your consumer urges and desire to good by shopping for charity! " You read an excerpt here.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You can do so through sending out ads, collecting text messages, and even calling to chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

TechSoup has RSS feeds too! Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Also, our collective attention span is evolving. In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. Will it feed a family for a week or provide clean water to a village? One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Visual storytelling does exactly that.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, I would pay attention to the titling and tagging of videos when you are uploading them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Some of the key takeaways are not surprising, for example, millennials are likely to buy products that appear in their feeds , but older generations are not. This is not a new technique. You also to have the content basics in place as newsjacking won’t feed your 100% of your content strategy. In a word, Newsjacking.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

In a world where billions of people spend hours each day scrolling through their news feeds, social media is ripe for cultivating generosity. By mapping out your content in advance, you ensure a consistent presence on your supporters’ feeds while maximizing the impact of your messaging to align with specific campaign timelines.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

We live in a multi-media world, and there is a lot of competition for people’s attention – a lot of ‘noise’ Fundraising campaigns used to be characterized by a single message to all prospective donors. GARY: Ditto. But as we mentioned, the fundraising paradigm is shifting.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

You can use a combination of an event, mail, and in-person requests, or other techniques. Don’t pay attention to the news. I recommend asking for a gift 3 or 4 times per year. That’s roughly quarterly. And it doesn’t all have to be through the mail. Don’t just show up with your hand out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This post covers some simple techniques to give your fans the content they want most and inspire more engagement. Many times we’re on the hunt for the tips of what to do and when we find them, we just implement them. I also pay attention to and test these variables: Time of Day, Day of Week, Content Type.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

100% of the $1.75M in proceeds they raised went to Feeding America. In addition, these streams are akin to live performances in that they keep people’s attention and allow for the message of the nonprofit to be amplified. Thank Frontline Workers. Virtual Challenges. challenges in exchange for donations.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Try to represent different aspects of your brand in your logo like in this example: The Feeding America logo is a great example of how to use graphics to optimize your brand identity. The connecting letter I in Feeding and America represents the network of food banks around the country. Email Newsletter.

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