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.) It can include a call-to-action, but the primary purpose is to educate and connect with your supporters. Embrace a mobile-first design strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Make the donor feel good about supporting your mission and even feel like they’re part of the family (connection). 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. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it. Thanks to you.

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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? . It is crucial that all of your outlets support each other and create the sense of an integrated and consistent image.

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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. To opt supporters in to your future mobile program you need to collect their mobile number and be clear that by giving their mobile number, they are subscribing to text messages.

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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. The goal is to get $1 from 350,000 people to support this program. Gabriela Tanasan – Executive Director, Orizonturi Foundation, Campulung Moldovenesc. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro.

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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? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Whether you're reporting to your board, supporting teams in different departments, or just trying to get through to a specific type of donor, we've broken down all the ways your CRM + donor software can help. Reporting to your board of directors. But wouldn’t it be nice to also count on their monetary support? One last thing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Charlene and Josh describe companies that provide custom communities—the people and the closed social network to support them—for the bargain price of several hundred thousand dollars. 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.

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Neon CRM

MAY 5, 2023

You shouldn’t have to reinvent your entire nonprofit tech stack to support the new CRM. 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%.

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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. Its pure luck too.

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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. Those same people that I was nervous about and had accountability with, they were around me helping me and supporting me. What is the value that you give to supporters, donors, volunteers?

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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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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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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our eyes were opened to our country’s racial and economic injustice. Go through the process of developing your monthly giving case for support and create a dedicated program. Such vital work, many of us are inclined to think, we shouldn’t need to make our case for support or thank our donors. 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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