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3 Bad Nonprofit Marketing Habits to Stop Right Now

EveryAction

'In case you haven''t heard, it''s Inbound Marketing Week ! Across the world, marketing pros working in every industry, public and private, for-profit and philanthropic, are gathering to discuss the past, present, and future of inbound marketing. Our team attended the Mid-Atlantic Inbound Summit hosted by the folks at Quintain Marketing + learned a whole lot about how nonprofits can do a better job at inbound.

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How To Find (And Remove) Fake Followers On Twitter

TechImpact

'When it comes to Twitter, it’s not uncommon for fake accounts to clog up your social media channel. They might be following you or you could even be following them without realizing it. These fake followers clutter your stream, reduce engagement, put you and your real followers at risk for scams and could get your […]. The post How To Find (And Remove) Fake Followers On Twitter appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

Have you watched the A&E television show Hoarders? The clutter and garbage in some of the homes on that show are unmanageable. It makes you want to shout at the tv: “Throw that trash away!”. Now, let’s talk about your donor database. When was the last time you cleaned it up? Got rid of dupes? Threw the trash out? Perhaps this story is familiar. Year after year you gather information about donors.

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'This month’s theme for the nonprofit Blog Carnival is “ Breaking Through the Noise ,” calling for tips and ideas about how nonprofits can reach their audiences with the right message at the right time given the clutter of online information clamoring for their attention. Last month, I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Ben Parr’s new book, Captivology : The Science of Capturing People’s Attention that is packed with research, insights, and tips abo

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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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These 6 Hacks Will Revolutionize Your Events

Wild Apricot

'Here are highlights of our recent Revolutionize Your Meetings & Events Webinar where Jeff Hurt outlined 6 event “hacks” and some paradigm-shifting ideas to help us harness disruption to revolutionize events.

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How To Use Twitter Lists For Nonprofits

TechImpact

'While many organizations use Twitter to further their mission, utilizing Twitter lists often falls by the wayside. Twitter lists are a great way to organize your non-profit’s Twitter experience by helping you find, monitor and engage with your target audience. Here is how to best use Twitter lists to aid your non-profit. Monitor the competition […].

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Measuring the Impact of Your Nonprofit Program

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping.

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Link Round-up: “All About That Base”, Membership & Wine

Wild Apricot

'Wine and membership plans, all about your base (database that is), fundraising trends and more. Here is a link round-up of the five top posts we''ve bookmarked on Apricot Jam lately.

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Infographic: The State Of Digital Marketing 2015

TechImpact

'Digital marketing is a major portion, if not the only, form of marketing the majority of nonprofit organizations engage with. Building a successful and sustainable marketing program is one of the most difficult, long, and expensive projects for any organization. As a result, staying up-to-date on the latest trends, techniques, and information is imperative to […].

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The Mobile Design Takeover

See3

'In today’s digital age, there is one major channel now to get information: the screen. And of the screen – the smaller the better; in essence, clients want information fast, and they want it to be accessible. There’s no better way to do this than through the mobile phone, and in much of today’s world, that means the smartphone. The post The Mobile Design Takeover appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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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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Reflections from #15ntc Session Walking As Work and 20/8/2 Rule

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Photo by Jim Nickerson. I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called “ Walking is Work: Don’t Call It A Break ” with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections.

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1-On-1: Eric Sharpe On Running A Business Association

Wild Apricot

'Eric Sharpe from the Savannah Downtown Business Association shares his insights on events, membership and leadership.

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How To Build Trust

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'You can''t lead if your employees, team or followers don''t trust you. Building trust takes energy, effort and constant attention to how you act. To help build trust, follow these 16 tips , recommended by author Susan H. Shearouse: Be honest Keep commitments and keep your word Avoid surprises Be consistent with your mood Be your best Demonstrate respect Listen Communicate Speak with a positive intent Admit mistakes Be willing to hear feedback Maintain confidences Get to know others Practice emp

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Skype: the Link Between the UK and Uganda

Tech Soup

'Alongside Africa is a tiny nonprofit: half a dozen people generally working from their homes in the UK to support an even smaller handful based across Uganda. The nonprofit's mission and ethos is very specific. Rather than donating aid to the communities that it serves, it works to provide opportunities for people to take charge of their own development, with a view to creating self-sustaining communities in which everybody is able to make a living.

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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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Driving Toward Impact With Data Science #15ntc

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Photo by Lee Haywood. Note from Beth: I’m attending and presenting a session about Walking As Work with Ritu Sharma. As luck would have it, one of the sessions that I really wanted to go to is scheduled at the same time as ours. It is a session about being Data Savvy featuring colleagues from Crisis Text Line, Global Giving, and DataKind.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

'This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success.

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My Career Insights Into How To Create An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. If I put together the best of each, here is what made those environments effective: • Leaders led by example on a consistent basis and were willing to roll up their sleeves, particularly during tight deadlines or challenging times. • Employees clearly understood how what they did made a difference and how their contributions made the organization either more profitable or more effective. • The workforce included a blend

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Three Reasons Why It’s Necessary for Philanthropy to Engage Black Americans

Connection Cafe

'It’s 2015 in case you missed the memo. We’re fifty years past the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and The 1965 Immigration Act , two monumental acts of legislation that changed the way black Americans and immigrants of color were recognized in this country. Fifty years later when just 62.6% of Americans are non-Hispanic whites , Americans of color still struggle for their voice in many areas of society, namely philanthropy.

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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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Starting a Nonprofit: The Importance of a Clear Vision

NonProfit Hub

'This article is an expansion from an article originally posted in our March/April edition of the Nonprofit Hub Magazine. This is the first in a five part series on overcoming the struggles of starting a nonprofit organization. __. So, you’re starting a new organization and a community member or colleague stops you one day and wants to know more about it.

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Social Giving IRL (In Real Life) for Nonprofits - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

AFP Blog

'Social Giving IRL (In Real Life) for Nonprofits - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "Not all social giving IRL has to be tied to hosting a gala or 5K. People gather in places for lots of other reasons, and those are opportunities for the right charities with the right tools. The growth rate of U.S. adults with Internet-enabled phones (already surpassed two-thirds of the population) is huge; most donors can now give wherever they are rather than waiting to get to a desktop screen somewhere.

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The Ten Golden Rules Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'A few months ago brought the release of the new book, The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders. As you dig in, you''ll step back in time to learn philosophies of the past and how to apply them today. Authors M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas offer a fresh approach to becoming a great leader by learning from antiquity''s great thinkers, such as Aristotle, Hesiod, Sophocles, Heraclitus, and others.

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The #15NTC Sessions Online Fundraisers and Marketers Can’t Afford to Miss

Connection Cafe

'NTC is the largest technology conference for nonprofits and this week I am heading there for the first time ever. I admit it—I am geeking out. For the past 6 years my entire focus has been on online fundraising and marketing, so NTC is my mecca. If you’re attending #15NTC and your job responsibility involves online fundraising or marketing, here’s a breakdown of the must-attend sessions each day: March 4. 1.

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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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KC Ronald McDonald House Goes Online to Manage Volunteers

NonProfit Hub

'The following article is part of the March/April edition of the Nonprofit Hub Magazine, which focuses on Cause Camp and volunteers in conjunction with National Volunteer Month. To receive our next edition, sign up here. ———————– Figuring out what’s for dinner can be challenging, especially when you have to plan for four locations and wrangle dozens of servers every day.

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"Web Users Vote to Give $246K to Three Boston Area Nonprofits-massnonprofit news ::

AFP Blog

'massnonprofit news :: : "Web Users Vote to Give $246K to Three Boston Area Nonprofits February 27, 2015 — Three Boston area nonprofits will each receive a donation exceeding $82,000 from reddit, a social networking service and news website, sharing 10% of the organization’s gross 2014 ad revenue with seven other nonprofits nationwide. Last week, reddit, which that brands itself as “the front page of the Internet,” announced that it would donate the funds to 501(c)(3) organizations by asking its

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Embrace Change To Grow

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change. Here are some solid insights from Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan ''s (Liberty, Missouri) book, Change-friendly Leadership -- How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance : The kind of behavior change that results in lasting (sustainable) change must accommodate people''s feelings--feelings that involve trust, confidence, passion, and all those other intangible but very real things that make us human.

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Are You Ready for the Future of Fundraising?

Connection Cafe

'Innovation. Technology. The future. These words call to mind images of sleek inventions and hip start-ups. Sometimes, in our daily work as nonprofit professionals, it can be challenging to see ourselves in this standard vision of the future. So many of us spend a great deal of our time focused on the spheres farthest from ultramodern innovation—the remote communities lacking access to healthcare, the schools in need of funding for reading materials, the families struggling to find food.

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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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Meet Your 2015 Cause Camp Speakers

NonProfit Hub

'We’ve got 15 game-changing presentations and one day chalk-full of thought-provoking ideas. Join us at Cause Camp 2015 on April 10, 2015 either online or in Lincoln, Neb., for actionable takeaways that you can apply to your nonprofit right now. From fundraising to social media and everything in between, Cause Camp 2015 has the information your organization has been looking for.

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24 Hours To Raise $1M For Fairfield County's Giving Day | The Norwalk Daily Voice

AFP Blog

'24 Hours To Raise $1M For Fairfield County''s Giving Day | The Norwalk Daily Voice : ''via Blog this'''

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How To Use The Friendship Factor To Motivate Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'All you need is one hour to read Brian Tracy''s newest, pocket-sized guide for managers, Motivation. "You cannot motivate other people," explains Tracy, "but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation. As a manager, you can create an environment where this potential for self-motivation is released naturally and spontaneously.

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5 Tips for Grant-Gazing|How to Determine Whether It’s a Star or a Black Hole

Connection Cafe

'Maybe you’ve experienced this scenario before: A well-intentioned member of your organization hears about an ‘amazing grant’ that could fund a new project. They rush into your office with breathless anticipation of all your organization will be able to do with this new- found wealth. In a torrent of excitement, the staff member charges off at the chance to enhance their grant revenue.

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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.