Sat.Jun 02, 2012 - Fri.Jun 08, 2012

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Boost Online Fundraising with Mid-Year Revenue Spikes

NetWits

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Download the report now! . Our 2011 Online Fundraising Report shows that nonprofit organizations receive over 20 percent of their total online funding in December, and nearly 45 percent in the last four months of the year.

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New Service! Social Media and Online Communications Audits for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person. With an objective eye and knowledge gained from utilizing online technology for nonprofits for more than 15 years, Heather will review: The design and navigation of your nonprofit’s website t

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Lame spam of the day: Facebook notifications

Robert Weiner

Similar to the notifications from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare I got a few weeks ago, I'm getting lots of fake Facebook notifications. According to this article , they're phishing messages. Here are a few examples: Sender : Facebook (confirm+robert@ig.com.br). Subject: Reminder: Reset your password. Text: You recently requested a new password for your Facebook account.

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2012 Grassroots and Groundwork – Social Media for Social Impact in 30 Minutes a Day

Amy Sample Ward

By using strategic methods, it’s possible to have maximum social media impact in minimal time. Participants in this session will learn that through methods such as content planning and listening online, and that by interacting rather than broadcasting, they can accomplish an impressive amount in just 30 minutes a day. This workshop will cover planning and evaluating, as well as content and engagement for multichannel social impact.

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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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10 Steps to a More Effective Nonprofit Website

NetWits

It’s official; we launched our new full service creative agency for nonprofits this week – GUIDE Creative – Where we LOVE web design and making effective nonprofit website(s)! Learn more about us at www.guidecreative.com and make sure to sign up for The Great Guide Giveaway. — Creating an effective nonprofit website isn’t easy.

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New Service! Social Media and Online Communications Audits for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person. With an objective eye and knowledge gained from utilizing online technology for nonprofits for more than 15 years, Heather will review: The design and navigation of your nonprofit’s website t

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 6th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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The #1 Way to Improve Your Event Fundraising Survey

NetWits

Are you asking the right questions in your P2P post event surveys? . This Thursday Jennifer Ashbaugh from Big Brothers Big Sisters will help answer this very important question “ are you asking the right questions in your post event survey ?”. In Thursday’s web seminar we’ll be discussing post event survey’s and how to ask questions that will help you develop strategies to increase revenue.

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New Service! Social Media and Online Communications Audits for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech 2.0, and author of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits now offers social media and online communications audits for nonprofits. The audits can be presented via a three-hour webinar or in person. With an objective eye and knowledge gained from utilizing online technology for nonprofits for more than 15 years, Heather will review: The design and navigation of your nonprofit’s website t

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Why Twitter Team Tweeting Works

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved is a state network that links resources with people who can make change happen in Colorado. They work in collaboration with health care providers, policy, and decision makers, industry experts, advocates, and individuals in communities across Colorado. Their vision is to ensure that health care systems meet the needs of the medically underserved and the needs of those providers and systems of care dedicated to caring for the underserved.

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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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2012 BlogWorld Expo New York – How to Humanize Your Business

Amy Sample Ward

Ever get jealous that the open, unstructured social media efforts of the community completely trounce your well-planned and even well-funded social media programs? Are you frustrated when your own social media efforts are thwarted by inter-departmental competition? These problems are common, and we can no longer blame them on people “not getting” social media.

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Wild Apricot's New HTML Email Templates and Mobile Preview Feature

Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot Version 4.4 release is coming up, and with it we'll roll out the first of our new features that tackle mobile browsing. Our new HTML email templates come equipped with a handy "preview" feature that will let users see how their mail will look on different devices, and we even have some templates designed specifically for optimizing view on mobile devices.

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Recruiting Volunteers: The Lifeblood of Nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Shelley Gillespie, Venture Court Productions , President. Nonprofits love volunteers. After all, they are the lifeblood of many organizations. When budgets are tight— and they always are with nonprofits— volunteers take up the slack. So, how do you recruit volunteers who will integrate well with your paid staff, perform the functions they are assigned, and stick around?

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed.

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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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Storm the Castle! Staging an IT Coup in 5 Steps

NTEN

Jeremiah Dunham. President. Design-PT, Inc. We want the IT Department to have a seat at the leadership table. You want the IT Department to have a seat at the leadership table. What about your leadership? Here’s the situation: You are the IT person in your organization, but you don't have a seat at the decision-making table or you don’t feel that IT gets the respect it deserves.

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Membership Management and More in Wild Apricot - My Experience

Wild Apricot

Here's another update on my personal adventures with Wild Apricot. I share my experience with the membership management and blogging components of the software.

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Research Friday: Ten Types of Collaboration (an alternate view)

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Craig Van Korlaar , CNP, Consultant and. Project Manager. Create Etc. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit. scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. nonprofit practice. Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nomi

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled ” Link Building by Imitation ” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well. The original image used words like “theft” and “steal” and prompted a debate amongst curators like Robin Good who selected the resource and curated it.

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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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What Are We Accomplishing and How Do We Know?

NTEN

Amy Luckey. Independent Consultant. What can the nonprofit community learn from NTEN's own journey toward demonstrating its impact with data? "What does your organization do?". That is a question most nonprofit folks can answer pretty easily. We have our elevator pitches ready to go. "What is your organization accomplishing ?". Now that's a different question, one that's not as simple to answer for most of us.

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What Is The Cloud Anyway?

Wild Apricot

"The Cloud" may be the "phrase du jour" but what does it mean? Here is some clarification and examples of cloud computing.

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Twive and Receive: Nationwide Social Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Guest post by Ifdy Perez. Ifdy is the community manager at Razoo , an online fundraising platform that empowers individuals and nonprofits to meet their fundraising goals through online giving campaigns. She's also editor of Inspiring Generosity , a blog that gives nonprofits helpful resources on online community management and social media tools. It’s truly remarkable to see when communities come together to make a change for the common good.

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Place Your Donation Requests Before June 30

Tech Soup

Make sure your organization gets all the hardware or software it needs from TechSoup before our fiscal year ends on June 30, 2012. Why the rush? Most of TechSoup’s donation programs limit the number of requests an organization can place per fiscal year – our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Don’t worry, you can request products again on July 1, but you don’t want to miss out on getting your fiscal year 2012 allotment.

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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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The Content Curation Issue: NTEN:Change Six is Live

NTEN

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January. If you’re still unsure of what the term encompasses and why it’s relevant to nonprofit work, see our “What’s Hot: Content Curation” article in the new issue for a quick

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Managing Your Membership Database in Wild Apricot - Webinar June 6

Wild Apricot

We're offering a free webinar on Managing Your Membership Database in Wild Apricot - this Wednesday, June 6th. Here are the details.

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Book Highlights: The Art Of Being Unreasonable

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Early on in Eli Broad's new book, The Art of Being Unresaonable , he reminds us of the power of a child's instinctive asking, " Why not? " Unfortunately, most adults lose that habit and Broad goes on to explain that it was his continuing to ask "Why not?" throughout his career that brought him success. " The questions you're willing to ask when others think they have all the answers are doors to discovery ," says Broad.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on June 20: Leveraging Social Media for Nonprofit Events

Tech Soup

Event planners need to understand how to leverage social media tools and platforms to reach potential attendees and maximize engagement in their communities. Brought to you by TechSoup in collaboration with our friends at Social Media for Nonprofits and Eventbrite , our next episode of Nonprofits Live on June 20 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time will explore how to effectively harness social media in driving traffic and attendance to your nonprofit's event.

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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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Report Release: The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report

NTEN

It can often feel like we're making important investment decisions in the dark. Should I put more resources towards developing a formal technology plan? Will that improve how our organization works on our mission? How many technology staff should I have if my total staff is only 5? NTEN's annual research on nonprofit technology spending and practices sheds light on these questions, and many more.

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World Oceans Day (June 8) + Water Wednesdays

Have Fun - Do Good

Hello Have Fun, Do Gooders! As part of my work with Upwell this month, we're helping to spread the word about World Oceans Day (June 8). One way you can help raise awareness about the importance of ocean conservation is to take a photo of yourself with a sign that says one thing you'll do to help the ocean + #worldoceansday You can share your photo on: Facebook: Tag the World Oceans Day Facebook Page, or post directly on it.

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Infographic: How Content Curation Fits into the Marketing Mix

Care2

Earlier this spring, NTEN surveyed readers of the NTEN:Change Journal (a quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders) to find out how they were using their various communications channels (like their website, Twitter and Facebook profiles, as well as direct email). NTEN asked them to define what percentage of their resources were creation, curation, promotion, or community building for each channel, and received responses from 256 readers.

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Today's Leadership Quote

Eric Jacobsen Blog

From Eli Broad's new book, The Art of Being Unreasonable -- Lessons In Unconventional Thinking : "Show me a person with an unblemished track record, and I'll show you a person who has dramatically underachieved." Broad is a firm believer in "let them fail as long as they learn from the experience.".

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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.