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@BBInteractive is Back, and It’s Better Than Ever!

Connection Cafe

As part of the success services team, I have the fortune of working with the very best and brightest online fundraising, web design, social media, open source development and digital marketing professionals in the world—all rolled up under one amazing team called Blackbaud Interactive @BBinteractive. BBInteractive is back!

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And so many people forget that these key elements at the heart of Silicon Valley, of the tech industry, are controlled by nonprofits created open standards, open interfaces and open source code – almost all developed collaboratively to solve a common problem.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." A number of the experts were not optimistic about a connected world at all.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it. 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

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Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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6 Tips for Choosing Effective Nonprofit Website Visuals

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To conduct an effective experiment and understand which changes actually made a difference, keep these best practices in mind: Only change one page element at a time, or you won’t be able to isolate the most impactful changes. Keep basic color principles in mind when designing infographics. Remember color theory.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. And at that moment, my mind starts writing, composing a post that it needs to make sense of the ideas, the patterns that seem to be emerging. What have I learned about the topic?

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