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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

Almost everyone in this country who uses the internet at all has an email account, whether they access it by phone, tablet or laptop. . Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox.

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10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What looks good on a mobile device often looks even better on desktop and laptop computers, and all email marketing services offer responsive email templates. The email itself contains eight underlined text links and one button link – all go to NWF’s primary donation page. There are no other CTAs or distractions: 3.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos. but wouldn???t