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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

There’s strength in numbers, and you need to build a base of educated and engaged advocates to raise their voices with you. Their diversity in experiences, skillsets, passions, and viewpoints ensures that good missions get the brains and heart they deserve. Learn more and get connected at MediaCause.com !

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Write that.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. The era of winging it in social media is over. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This grant will allow us to deliver a set of major enhancements and new language translations for Martus, as well as expanded development and broad deployment of Mobile Martus , our brand new Android-based mobile documentation app. Jim Fruchterman President and CEO, Benetech.

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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. Speaking of the Internet of Things, LG introduced Internet capable refrigerators, ovens, and washing machines that respond to voice and text messages.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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Designing for Good: Pratima Mani + Josh Tabb

Connection Cafe

Even if we don’t go in those directions, the challenge of figuring out how to push something new whilst staying true to our voice is enjoyable. You need to be open to new ideas and willing to let go of what’s in your brain, so open mindedness is key. Mobile isn’t the future anymore; it’s the painstakingly obvious present.

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