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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. And they cannot simply just fold these new people into their regular email and direct mail communications.

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Should You Ever Delete Donor Records?

Tech Soup

While there are ways around it, that typically ends your ability to communicate with the donor, invite the donor to events, re-engage the person, steward the person, or understand why a subsequent gift or bequest came from that donor. I just wanted to see if you had any insight you could offer regarding this subject." Others Who Agree.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learn Trends Digital Habitats View more presentations from Nancy White. Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Communities take time to grow and needs change over time.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So with that, what we wanted to do is start our conversation by understanding your understanding of key trends in philanthropy. Huge lost opportunity by not communicating fundraising expectations when you are bringing people onto your board.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. 4) Learn the basic business skills that are essential to success and sanity: - communication (timely, clear, complete, appropriate method: sometimes a phone call, sometimes an email, sometimes a memo, sometimes a meeting.