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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).

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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

And unless you’re independently wealthy with an endless revenue stream, you can’t self-fund forever (nor should you – more on that in a minute). Also, studies show that monthly donors are far more likely to leave something to the charities they support in their wills or estates.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

Diversifying income streams made sense, on a level. Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions. Is there a good comprehensive google doc, growing list of museums that are closed, closing programs, etc? As with the service sector, so our fate. It was the choice we made with the best intentions.

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Rebecca Leaman, Guest Post: What Else Can We Talk About? 10 Years Since The Cluetrain Manifesto

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ten years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. A recent Edelman Canada study. Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog. Simple as that. Hence the rise in cause marketing.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. Recent studies are finding that for-profit workplaces believe that desktop applications and office documents should not have a social life. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

And really, I would say, building a stream of legacies or an endowment from which you can draw income is not a luxury. Now we want to make sure that you’ve got other preconditions in place for showing that you really need to have some kind of endowment or stream of bequests. It’s like creating a stream of passive income.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. More on the study results from Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web and here. The results differ from a study released earlier this year.

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