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How to Make This Your Most Successful Library Giving Day

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Library Giving Day is an international one-day fundraising event that could significantly boost your library’s fundraising potential. How can you plan a more successful Library Giving Day? In 2022 alone, Library Giving Day reported 12,168 total donations adding up to $1.6 Check out what other libraries have done.

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How Libraries Use Social Media

Tech Soup

Nearly all brands have a social presence, and libraries are no different. Libraries are using social platforms now more than ever before. The New York Public Library has 2.2 Social media is playing a significant role in helping libraries stay relevant in our ever-growing digital society. More than half (55.7

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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

Key types of advocacy Issue awareness Before organizations can create advocates for their cause, they need to make people aware of the issues they’re trying to solve. This is where issue awareness comes in. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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GNIP, Twitter, Library of Congress Save the Tweets

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The good folks at GNIP, Twitter, and the Library Congress are working together to preserve Twitter conversations for posterity, as announced by the Library of Congress. The work that GNIP is taking on with Twitter and the Library of Congress is at a tremendous scale--with over a billion Tweets being generated every week.

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Public speaking for change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I originally started this blog as a way to keep more of our Benetech team aware of what was going on with me and other team members (through guest blogs) while on our travels. We invest in public speaking coaching (thanks, Melinda Henning!) Speaking publicly is an important part of our work. 9/19 (tomorrow!)

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4 Easy Ways to Acquire New Donors for Your Nonprofit with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The average Facebook user has 338 friends, so if just one of your supporters shares information about your event you can increase awareness of your event significantly. In addition to traditional questions and answers, they embedded instructional videos and provided a participant resource library. Want to go the extra mile?

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The Potential of SharePoint for Nonprofits and Public Libraries - Free Webinar March 9

Tech Soup

Nonprofits and libraries are consistently challenged to collaborate with their staffs, boards, and other supporters in efficient and effective ways. Effort is often duplicated due to a lack of awareness of what knowledge or resources already exist, and multiple versions of files are being sent back and forth over email. Pacific time.