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5 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Behavioral Science to Raise More Money Online

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By understanding how people make the decisions they do, your NPO can take strategic steps to raise more money and drum up more support, without running yourself ragged in the process. Here are five tips for using behavioral science theories to engage your supporters and raise more money for your NPO: 1. Here’s what you need to know.

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Social Media Through a New Lens, Part 2

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Again, keep in mind that “Tl;dr” means “Too Long; Didn’t Read” and is followed by the “in a nutshell” version of what the preceding section said. Here are four more life-changing tips about your NPO social media. If Google+ never crossed your mind whilst reading, my case is rested before I even start. Okay let’s dive in.

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[Cause Camp] The Three As of of Nonprofit Content Generation

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Keep in mind that volunteers are 10 times more likely to donate to your organization than someone with no direct involvement. Appeals don’t always come in the form of asking for donations or volunteers, Shattuck stressed that asking for comments, likes and shares is okay. Your NPO accounts can be human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, as my colleague Laura Quinn notes in a comment over here , it isn't about negative feedback - it is about sharing the knowledge to be more effective in using technology. I applaud that! The other concern that was brought up as the artificial distinctions or definitions of vendor versus consultant versus nonprofit staff person.

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Notes for Berkman Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. A post by Marnie Webb from ComputMentor on internal uses of blogs by npos. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. With that in mind, I speculate that giving up control is a big barrier.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Immediately, Marnie Webb came to mind because of her extensive blogging experience, her work with TechSoup/Compumentor, and writing about nonprofit blogging. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. In your mind, what does "readiness to blog" in a nonprofit organization look like?

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An Experiment with Facebook Advertising for Nonprofit Organizations

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I knew this change was coming and I had read that Status Updates that receive a lot of comments and thumbs up would at the very least show up in the News Feed > Most Recent, but that’s just not happening. As of February 2 Updates had been relegated the realm of “Out of Sight, Out of Mind&#.

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