September, 2011

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10 Recent Upgrades to Facebook Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook has been making a flurry of changes to the functionality of Facebook Profiles, Facebook Pages, Facebook Community Pages, and Facebook Places Pages over the last two months. And though some individual users are upset over the changes, most of the them are good news for nonprofits. That said, technology is now constantly in flux. If the changes below leave you the least bit confused, then you may want to consider taking my upcoming Facebook and Facebook Apps webinars because you might not

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Fostering Innovation and Enterprise: Thoughts on supporting the sector from #giveandtech

Amy Sample Ward

I’m quite excited to participate in The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development Conference in London, UK, put on by Indigo Trust , Institute for Philanthropy and the Omidyar Network. I have the pleasure to participate on a panel with some smart, experienced folks: Chris Locke (GSMA), Jon Gosier (HiveColab), and Bosun Tijani (Co-creation hub).

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Why You Need to Game Your Supporters

NetWits

This is a guest post by Jesse Noyes. He’s a Corporate Reporter at Eloqua. Make sure to follow him on Twitter at @noyesjesse and check out the Eloqua blog – they’re doing some great things! — Maybe you’re satisfied with your communications strategy.Perhaps your nonprofit was recently featured on TV or saluted in the local newspaper.

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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Schools are back in session, and with them millions of American children who struggle daily to learn using traditional printed books. Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. This includes accessible educational materials, such as e-books that can be used with computers, or mobile devices that display enlarged text or read the book aloud while also highlighting text.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Moving on to my next adventure

Judi Sohn

This is a post that I’ve both been looking forward to and dreading. It’s likely going to be another long one, so for those of you who just want it short and bittersweet, here it is: I will be leaving Fight Colorectal Cancer at the end of this year to join Convio’s Common Ground team. Do you know anyone who lives in the Washington, DC area and reminds you of me, professionally speaking?

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Michael Brackney's Legacy

VisionLink

'Family, friends, the American Red Cross, and the field of disaster relief lost an amazing man this past weekend. As one of his colleagues said of him, "he was one of the most generous people in an organization known for its generosity." From VisionLink''s perspective, Michael was unusually able to transfer and communicate operational vision to guide our technical work in support of the Red Cross and disaster relief overall.

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Lame Spam of the Day: Please stop sending spam messages onto our email

Robert Weiner

The text of this message made me smile, but the RAR attachment turned my smile upside down (no, I didn't click and don't you click, either). Here's info on rar attachments: [link]. Subject: Please stop sending spam messages onto our email. Sender: CorpTech (contact@corptech.com). Attachment: Attached_Document_INC#69397.rar. Text: Hello. Your email is sending spam messages!

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What Internet Topics are Nonprofits Most Interested In?

NetWits

The internet has been around for a long time now (sort of). Back in the early 1960s is when things really started to take shape. What we know as the internet today is actually the by-product of a few visionary people who saw great potential in allowing computers to share information for research and development in scientific and military fields. “Hypertext&# came about in 1989.

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Zerofootprint: A Cool Approach to Sustainability

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ve been exploring the area of sustainability a great deal lately. We have some new ideas for software Benetech could be developing. But, one of our core values is to see what’s already out there and to not duplicate great work already being done. That means we frequently run into cool projects (and mentally check the box: taken care of!). In this exploration effort, thanks to John Danner, the incredibly connected entrepreneur who hangs his hat occasionally at the Haas Business School in Berke

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7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mindmap by Jane Genovese. This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail!

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Submit Posts on Improving the Volunteer Experience

Wild Apricot

Submit posts on tips, tools and tactics for improving the volunteer experience and effectiveness to the Nonprofit Blog Carnival for October. Carnivals are fun - so find out how you can participate! ( read more ).

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Newly Released With “Look Inside!” Functionality! Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is now fully released to the public in both print and digital format. You can now also “Look Inside!&# to preview the first 11 pages. For those new to e-books, it’s also worth noting that Amazon offers a suite of free Kindle Apps that allow you to download the book in digital format to most smartphones or tablets, or as a.PDF to a PC or Mac.

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Last 100 Days of 2011: How Will You Make Time for What Really Matters?

Have Fun - Do Good

"As long as there's not an airplane crashing into this building, you're having a good day. You can always take care of whatever problem you're having today." - Richard Fern "I don't worry about the future. Because you can make plans, but you can't predict with any certainty what is really going to happen. So, I just let it happen. So, I don't dwell on the past, I don't worry about the future.

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Facebook Subscriptions: 8 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Pay Attention

NetWits

Making a difference, a positive impact in the world, is the entire reason your nonprofit organizations exists. Having a voice and a way to spread your message are critical components of making the impact you’re after. Without them your ability to create change decreases significantly. With them, the sky is the limit. There’s plenty of ways to communicate, arguably more than we actually need.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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My Guide Dog Ate My Paycheck

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Brownbag lunches are a regular feature at Benetech, and one of our most popular regular speakers is Bookshare team member Liz Halperin. Liz had just gotten back from getting her new guide dog, Welton. She told an enthralled audience all about the ten stages of guide dog training and the process of being matched up with a dog. Her prior guide dog had not been all that successful and she had to switch after just two years (5-9 being more typical for the length of guiding service).

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Facebook Changes for Organization Pages: Focus On Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. So are people like me who do coaching and training on how to use Facebook effectively.

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Successfully Promoting Your Charity Event

Wild Apricot

To make your charity event a success, you need to properly plan and promote it. Guest blogger, Howard Adam Levy offers a checklist of things to consider with your event marketing to help get you started. ( read more ).

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Four Must-Haves for Your “Thank You for Your Donation!” Landing Page

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For all the buzz about new media in the nonprofit sector, it is somewhat surprising how few nonprofits have integrated their new media campaigns into one of the most important pages on their website – the “Thank You for Your Donation!” landing page. That is, the page your donors land on after making a donation. Donors pay a lot of attention to this page because it confirms their donation has been processed, so as we enter 2011 fundraising season, strategically adding some fresh conte

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Emily McKhann: Making Time For What Matters

Have Fun - Do Good

Today's post is the second in my new guest post series: Making Time for What Matters. In case you missed it, be sure to read the first post by blogger, microphilanthropy advocate, and aspiring social entrepreneur, Peter Deitz. Emily McKhann is co-founder of TheMotherhood.com and The Motherhood Creative. She's also the co-author of Living with the End in Mind: A Practical Checklist for Living Life to the Fullest by Embracing Your Mortality.

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3 Proven Ways to Wow Your Fundraisers and Keep Them Coming Back for More

NetWits

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Experience shows us that only 40% of your 2011 fundraisers will return for next year’s event. That’s a challenging number to digest. It means that keeping your participant numbers steady year-over-year requires 60% of them be new.

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Public speaking for change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I originally started this blog as a way to keep more of our Benetech team aware of what was going on with me and other team members (through guest blogs) while on our travels. Many of us spend a big chunk of our time on the road rather than in the office, and it's good to share some of the reasons our office chairs are often empty! Speaking publicly is an important part of our work.

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Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Status Updates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my favorite lines of poetry comes from TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock : “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” It comes in a spot in the poem where he talking about the passage of time and mundane events. I can’t resist quoting, bear with me: In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Free Non-profit Webinar Round-up for October 2011

Wild Apricot

This month's round-up includes free webinars on branding; email marketing; online fundraising; volunteer management; twitter basics and much more!

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33 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One in four Americans now access the Mobile Web daily, yet only a tiny fraction of nonprofits have a mobile website. I have been watching this trend for almost two years now and there’s seemingly been almost no progress in the use of mobile websites by the nonprofit sector in that time which at this point leaves me mostly baffled. The rise of QR Codes has helped some nonprofits understand the need for at least mobile-optimized web pages.

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DIY Nonprofit Technology: 5 Tips For Increasing Engagement on Facebook

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. After Hours Posting Timing is important for a communications channel like Facebook. According to a recent study , posts outside of business hours and posts at the end of the week actually increase Facebook engagement.

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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

NetWits

SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. We’ve got until Friday Sept 9th (right, tomorrow). If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. Final program is selected through a combination open voting and secret SXSW staff magic. That mean’s is WE NEED YOUR VOTES !

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Time to Give a Little

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Kayla L. McKinney , Project Specialist (Marketing/Communications). ASU Lodestar Center. Reality: I think your cause is awesome. In fact, I think your cause is fantastic. You want to help the homeless? Me too! Rescue dogs? Me too! Make sure everyone has access to clean water? I’m on board! Other reality: I don’t have the time or money for your cause.

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The Tension Between Publicness and Privacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, Facebook launched a major overhaul in the privacy settings. The changes, more than a dozen in all, were in two key areas: privacy changes to user profiles and changes to how users share content. Now with the changes to the timeline, actions, and open graph announced on Thursday , I’ve been hearing a lot of concerns, fears, and reports from nonprofit folks that their audiences are upset.

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Never Try To Reason With An Elephant

Wild Apricot

What is it about change that seems to automatically trigger resistance? Our Fresh Apricot offers an overview of Switch and some insight into how it can shape the change you want to see.( read more ).

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Announcing… Text NONPROFITORGS to 27138 to Subscribe to Text Alerts from Nonprofit Tech 2.0!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thanks to MobileCause , I have a new group text messaging service to explore and experiment with. I am not comfortable blogging about social media and mobile technology tools that I don’t have hands on experience with, and until now I have had to use free, ad-supported group texting services that frankly just weren’t good enough to advocate for.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.