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Social Media Marketing White Paper: Key Findings and Nonprofit Lessons

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I came across a great white paper about the use of social media by marketers. Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. You can download the whole report for free.

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Guest Post: Next Generation of Donors Meet the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leadership at NTEN

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Chart 1 below shows that the next generation of donors, Gen X and Boomers are truly multi-channel. As you can see in chart one, the channels for giving are broad for the next generations of donor (note that even Matures report giving through many channels, but at 77%, "check by mail" is dominate for Matures).

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

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Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Make it portable.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Symposium has several brief white papers about future techologies and education to jump start the discussion: It's Easy To Fall in Love with Technology by Danah Boyd. This is already happening to some nonprofits as a by-product of their participation on social networks and using simplicity. Will nonprofits in the future: 1.

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Book Review: When Millennials Take Over and the Fluid Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

As more and more users have come to rely on these online services, synergistic “network effects” have added both value and profitability to several dominant platform companies. 35 The Open Food Network, an international platform cooperative, has a focus on helping local farmers connect to customers with sales of their organic harvest.

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