Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

When that happens, your ask looks like spam in my inbox. Your development director/database manager/stewardship coordinator/grant writer/event planner/program manager/volunteer coordinator/social media manager is not a graphic designer as well. How can you add some punch to your newsletter, and make your subscriber want to open it?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" George Tilesch , senior director, strategic programs, says, "I am using two-step verification whenever possible. Frank Babbitt , director of operations, told me, "I've enabled two-factor authentication on my primary email address. [its] online banking site. I also encrypt my Android phone.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. But writing an irresistible lede is hard, and sometimes the very first thing you write isn’t the most powerful thing for your audience to read first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Sixty-two percent of email is opened on a mobile device , so first and foremost your email campaigns (e-newsletters, fundraising appeals, event invites, welcome emails, thank you emails, etc.) Personalize your email campaigns and write short subject lines to maximize open rates. Embrace a mobile-first design strategy. Emojipedia.org.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

He is director of programmes at CTT, which is our TechSoup Global partner in the UK. "I’m as big an advocate of a good firewall and a reputable anti-virus/spam package on all your systems as the next person. when asked open-ended questions about the disadvantages of the cloud. But is that the end of the story?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 goodiness. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Basically, your email newsletter is there to keep the lines of communication open and to meet the donor’s need to feel good about your nonprofit. If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. So leave these out: 1.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. It’s largely up to you, but I recommend including the following components in your donor acquisition email series: A thank you email from your Executive Director. Click here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Because social media is open and public by nature, listening is not only welcome -- it's expected. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. You might also search on the names of your speakers, authors, officers and executive director. But first, you have to open your ears and start swimming in social waters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. Diana Scimone is director of The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking, she blogs here and tweets there.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

The effort to stay competitive, profitable, and nimble will require more online initiatives -- which in turn opens more avenues to dialog with your constituents. What if they become viral or even SPAM? . As more organizations see their marketing budgets shrink, traditional media efforts stagnate. What if they're offensive?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a really great aspect to mobile communications because it keeps response rates high and as consumers it keeps spam out of our text message inbox. But it's important to be able to brand a keyword so that marketing, PR or even the executive director can learn how promote the texting campaign. Build a mobile list now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Gabriela Tanasan – Executive Director, Orizonturi Foundation, Campulung Moldovenesc. They discovered that participants were glad to have the opportunity to be open, work with computer, meet other participants, etc. Sorin Matei We Have a Blog.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

This open-source packaged solution sits on top of Sales Cloud. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. Of course, this fear stems from the uncomfortable reality that most museum communication is spam—unwanted information about events or exhibits. Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

When I opened a saveguimaras account , in less than two weeks, we had 200 people who signed up. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Friendster is a very popular social network in the Philippines.

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Neon CRM

MAY 5, 2023

The CRM still triggers all of those thank-you emails, but it also takes an additional step of setting a task for a director to call Alan and personally thank him. Your CRM shows you that your email only had an email open rate of 10%. He decides to give his second donation—only this time it’s $1,000.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Reporting to your board of directors. Your donor software should track and report on how supporters interact with all of the channels in a campaign: email opens, social media engagement, web page visits, etc. Most CRM software will allow you to run standard reports that measure typical email metrics: opens, clicks, etc.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I have to admit, I hate asking people for money and I know you’re like, “Wait a minute, I’m a development director. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam. Thanks for the comments about my girls. Appreciate that.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Even worse, if enough of them use the "Uninvite" (or "Spam") button, you might find yourself permanently uninvited from your entire email list. What subject lines get opens, and how do these look compared to industry benchmarks? In short, extensive analysis of your audience's behavior.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I like to joke that I have had every job that is a Rubik’s cube in the nonprofit world, staff member, board member, founder, executive director. So you’re going to need to send several in order to get through, and you’re going to need a really good job writing really compelling subject lines to get them to open it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2008

Neff is the Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy for the American Cancer Society. YouTube has tons of trolls and comment spam. Open source and local talent. I'm doing a series of blog about lessons learned from nonprofits in adopting social media projects as the Cute Dog Theory. (If From video to audio to photos.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

For those who didn’t see it, this project was an open conversation about development of a planned traveling exhibition on human enhancement technology (Human +). The exhibition is being developed by the New York Hall of Science , and I worked with Eric Siegel, the Director of NY Science, to initiate this project.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Haji initially stayed on, as Convios president, but stepped down from that role last month, although he remains a member of Convios board of directors. While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise.

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Social Media Advocacy Interview Online 28

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our eyes were opened to our country’s racial and economic injustice. Mandy Fischer, Development Director at Intervale Center in Burlington, Vermont, knows how important a strong culture is to fundraising success. Twenty-four percent of nonprofit emails end up in spam folders. Photo by Nadin Mario on Unsplash.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” We had success with another exhibit with an unusual format called open house in which the visitor experience is pretty open-ended.

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