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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

Create a standardized script. Include matching gifts in call scripts. To illustrate our point, take a look at two possible phonathon script introductions: Phonathon Script Introduction #1: “I’m calling on behalf of University X to raise money for our annual phonathon campaign. Create a standardized script.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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The Making of "Product Demo - Mobile Beacon" Video

Tech Soup

While not every nonprofit needs to invest the resources to make scripted videos, we wanted to try the new format to better serve our audience, particularly the different learners coming to our site. I used the same microphone as the live footage to minimize any sound differences, and inserted the voice track into the the final file.

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Navigating Your Upgrade from Drupal 7

Forum One

Instead of actually configuring the site and importing content, you can run the command with an option to generate the configuration files needed to run the automatic migration. A nifty feature the Migrate suite provides is the ability to ‘dry run’ the upgrade command. This method allows you to take a hybrid approach to your upgrade.

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Online Fundraising Ideas (7 Strategies & 63% More Donations)

Nonprofits Source

Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. Let us know which strategy you plan on using by leaving a comment down below!

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

maybe he'll leave a comment here! I'd love to know: How much scripting does he do prior to the interview? Ready/Talk outputs the file into.swf format which can't be brought into Camtasia for editing. I tried to convert the.swf file into one that would import into Camtasia using replay converter and couldn't do it.

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Jon Udell Answers My Screencast Question!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

especially when you are vertical monopoly on your screencast -- director, producer, script writer, researcher, narrator, set designer, etc. I had to do a lot of background reading and interviewing. But, I blogged all my research notes.