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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. Quiet phase - 6-24 months: During this phase, you’ll secure the bulk of your fundraising goal (at least 75%) through major gifts from lead donors and board members without broadcasting the campaign to the broader public.

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ve partnered with TheUpTake.org , a nonprofit, online video news gathering organization, which will broadcast live coverage of Give to the Max Day using Livestream.com. Livestream.com is a web service that enables users to create free accounts and broadcast video live over the Internet. And, we have a Tweetup planned for Nov.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated. For these types of projects, it is important to include an opening ceremony that is more structured and formal because often this is what the press and in-country VIPs will attend. Design for Flexibility.

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids). I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. Each localized event is putting its own unique flair to the event.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

And it really came because I tend to be pissed off and I was pissed off that people were talking about community and inclusion but there was no evidence in their structure for it. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. Everyone was talking about community. So if he’s serious about it, he can attract money.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. virtual worlds interview. Today, a guest post by the wise and attractive Sibley Verbeck, CEO/founder of the Electric Sheep Company.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So there’s another feature of WhatsApp that’s broadcast so you have a list of all the people that you want to share your message with and every time something important happens you can just broadcast to your entire list. And every time you want to send a message to that same broadcast list, you can do it.