Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

Online fundraising has also proven to be an extremely effective donors acquisition vehicle. Let’s take a look at the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Doing this helps potential donors feel secure and understand that they are in the right place. 1) Go Mobile, Now!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

There's so much going on these days at Bookshare: a growing community that's getting hard to keep track of! We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. Thanks, and thanks to the generous donor! • And my thanks also to the donor who made this possible.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

On a four-inch smartphone screen, a potential donor scrolls to the far corner of the youth outreach program's webpage. New and existing donors, volunteers, and others could be frustrated with perhaps their first interaction with your organization, miss out on particular initiatives, or never return to your site. It's Here.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2009

I got the new Blackberry Bold and immediately started looking for apps that could help me in my day-to-day tasks. It just so happens that there are some cool apps that are helping me connect to my donors. This site and app allows me to track the routes that we ride and upload a link to that track directly to my social networking sites.

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Blogspot Technology Time Fundraising 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. How does one track their or the COF only letting those four bloggers live blog or are these the only four people who are attending who might be possibly be blogging? Freecharity.org.uk Where's the conference tag?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. BlackBerry has plummeted. Android now dominates.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 271

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. BlackBerry has plummeted. Android now dominates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. BlackBerry has plummeted. Android now dominates.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 216

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.) What worked?

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