M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Until recently, cell phone carriers allowed organizations to get people to manually send millions of texts to folks who may not have opted-in (aka “peer-to-peer texting”). In 2020 this helped get tons of voters registered and out to vote…but it also led to consumer complaints about being spammed with too many texts.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As the intimidation factor ratchets up, you stop talking to your donors like human beings; instead, you end up addressing them like they’re a mass of nameless, faceless people. But remember: You’re a person talking to other people. And not just any people! People love to talk about themselves.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 13, 2017

As wonderful as the WordPress content management system is, by its very nature—capable of supporting hundreds of different themes, thousands of plugins and so much more—it can be quite slow at times. Too many people try to save money by choosing a shared hosting service, but this can be a big mistake. How’s your hosting?

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. The post It Takes A Village: Joining and Participating in the WordPress Community appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. This week Idealware released the much-anticipated 2012 edition of our free Consumers Guide to Low-Cost Nonprofit Management Systems. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many non-profits have embraced features such as forums, blogs, user profiles, and photo/video sharing as a means to extend their reach. If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

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). Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ Doing Good.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Attacks aimed at taking over networked systems, gathering data or both are a constant reality. Your technology systems are under attack daily at a minimum. These robots don’t care if you are a nonprofit or how much money or data you have, their only task is to try breaking into your systems. For almost two weeks.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Thirty-eight percent of people who donate to charity already say they are more likely to give during the holidays. Getting out a holiday email campaign to remind people about the good you do year-round is vital. The system will pull articles from your blog and send them out on a set schedule. Email Spam Test.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman DEC 12, 2007 Why you need social media marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

As he writes on his blog : One of the great things about the Internet (other than the obvious) is that it enables people to collaborate in new ways, and each contribute little bits of their time and knowledge. I've created a topic on Google Moderator where people can submit and vote on ideas.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog. His post originally appeared in his blog. But is that the end of the story?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.) It is a great blogging tool. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

If your nonprofit already has a system in place, check to see if it supports mobile giving. Your organization should be able to track the traffic to these links to see how many people are looking at your campaign. While you don’t want to spam your supporters with long texts, you still want your messages to be compelling.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

By getting people to share through online items that would become viral, like e-cards, petitions, contests, and so on, Care2 was able to and continues to grow its community; the proof is in their membership of 15.9 Care2 started with e-cards that gave back and webmail in 1998.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. In this guest blog post, Richard argues that cloud-based services aren't inherently less secure than in-house servers, and may be much more secure.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 goodiness. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Are you frustrated with your current email system, or find it’s costing too much to maintain? This post was written by Tierney Smith, community manager of TechSoup Canada.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

In addition to the strict regulations around the world that prevent marketers from sending emails to folks who don’t want them, this is especially important to ensure people are signing up for the content they want. You have a list of people who have opt-ed in, and your list is engaged. 3) Email Your Most Engaged Supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

For this week's bloggerview, we caught up with Michael Gilbert, who writes the Nonprofit Online News, which is not only the oldest nonprofit-oriented blog, but one of the oldest blogs altogether. Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Read more posts on our blog. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. Terrific visual representations of data.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Also posted on the Frogloop blog for nonprofits here. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Your website should tell people who you and what you do. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Does it say what you really want it to about your organization?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now here’s the bad news: if you don’t get on board with the new requirements, you’re likely to see your emails going to spam. Open that email, click the three horizontal dots on the top next to the spam button, and select “View raw message.” Google and Yahoo have announced that they want to keep user-reported spam rates below 0.3%.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

These partners deployed Azure services to create a system for helping to more quickly and reliably rescue missing children. Outdated or invalid addresses, deceased supporters, missing phone numbers, and more can cost your organization time and money by sending out appeals for donations to people who can't receive them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.). Clearly the people in the room were del.icio.us You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. When I took it out, people complained. There 2-3 spam incidents a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

s catching people off guard is Quechup : we???ve spamming??? Hopefully the bad PR on this one will force them to change the system. Most social networks these days let you to import your email address book in some way ( Twitter is the latest), but most make it clear if they???re re about to mail your contacts. One site that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Mobile tools are the future of how people will get information. People were calling cell phone 5 or 6 times to make a donation. People that buy ringtones are heavy users. Defined CRM as a tool and a piece of technology that allows you to collect and manage people in your universe. People tune out if they don???t

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

If you're registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , congratulations on being one of over 1000 amazing people coming together for 3 days of awesomeness, April 26-28. (If Go to the tab 'People' and find folks that share your interests and friend them. At this point you should have received your login to NTConnect. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

There is enough secondary research published either via blog posts or research hubs about who uses these tools. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). The rule of threes: Identify and explore a tool and commit to learning three things about it in three weeks with at least three other people in your organization or your peers.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it. Neither is a good option and makes you look lazy. Save the date. Get involved.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. Today, an interview with Shelley Bernstein , the Manager of Information Systems at the Brooklyn Museum, and the engine behind that museum’s fabulous forays into Web 2.0. We use Wordpress to power our blogs.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Donor segmentation also saves time for your team by helping you reach out to the right people for each of your campaigns rather than trying to reach every single supporter for every project. You’ll also minimize the risk of spamming your supporters with messages they’re unlikely to respond to.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Do you need to integrate the ESP with third-party databases such as your fundraising or CRM systems? Make sure your e-newsletter provider tracks how many people (and who) get it, open it and/or click through to your website. She is the publisher of the Getting Attention e-update and blog. With your list size?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Main | Lean, Mean Blogging Machines » Thursday Nov 16 2006 The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis. 6 Comments | by Share Article in Guest Blogs , Social Networking Reader Comments (6) Justin, thanks for publishing this.

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