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How many fundraising emails should you send a year?

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The impact of these donation appeals is also often even further blunted by infrequent engagement opportunities, such as advocacy or other storytelling and educational messages where the constituent has a chance to make a difference without being asked for money. I use a basic Breakeven/ Return On Investment (ROI) calculator that I built.

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Things We Like (October 2010)

NTEN

Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. Although Convio does come pretty close with Common Ground Man.). Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? Read more posts on our blog. At least, we hope so. Nobody upstages Grover.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. What do you think? This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

The Tools by Jordan Viator of Convio Social media tools tend to be "bright, shiny objects" with which organizations become enamored. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.