NetWits

JUNE 29, 2012

Download the Nonprofit Social Media Influencer Whitepaper for recommendations on how to best connect with, empower, and involve your social media supporters. The question today is not whether you should use social media (the 901 million Facebook users answered that for us), but how you should use social media to engage with your supporters, advance your mission and make your fundraising efforts more successful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2012

* Currently only available to U.S. mobile subscribers. . Thanks to MobileCause , I have a new group text messaging service to explore and experiment with. I am not comfortable blogging about 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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 27, 2012

Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio , a weekly online radio show that Tony hosts, is Big Nonprofit Ideas for the Other 95%. Trusted experts and leading thinkers join Tony each week to tackle the tough issues facing small-and mid-size nonprofits. In just a few weeks, Tony is celebrating the 100th episode and has invited me to be the guest! I’m so thrilled and can’t wait to join him on the air – I hope you’ll participate!

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 26, 2012

Wow, strangers want to hire me -- not. Sender 1: Scott Pina (tani40@wonderware.com). Subject: Re: Re: Employment Opportunity Followup. Response Required. Text: Dear job applicant. Thank you for submitting your information for potential employment openings. We look forward to reviewing your application, but can not do so until you complete our. internal application.

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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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NetWits

JUNE 26, 2012

As fundraisers we are always looking for new and innovative ways to increase donations. We don’t want to miss out on opportunities that help us reach our goals so we watch the industry, what other nonprofits are doing, and even the for profit world to get new and fresh ideas. It’s not surprising that one of the questions I get asked most from the nonprofits I work with is “ what’s next in fundraising ?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 25, 2012

Here's our monthly round-up of free non-profit webinars. There are some hot topics coming up in July, including naked meetings, organizational drama and content curation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2012

I can't wait to start cooking from July's VegCookbook , Wild About Greens by Nava Atlas. I hope you'll join us. To get you excited about eatin' your greens, I asked Nava if I could share a recipe with you from the cookbook. She sent over her recipe for Very Green Avocado-Tahini Dip. Yum yum. Enjoy! Very Green Avocado-Tahini Dip Makes about 1 1/2 cups Kind of a marriage of guacamole and hummus, and infused with a good amount of leafy greens, this rich dip makes its own unique statement.

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NetWits

JUNE 27, 2012

Google’s over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world handle over 1 billion searches per day. That amounts to 7.2 billion daily page views, 620 million daily visitors and 87.8 billion monthly searches. Making Google the largest traffic driver on the web. Oh, and they own 85% of search traffic on the web. Having a good understanding of search engine optimization at your nonprofit is key to achieving online success.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 28, 2012

This month we go in-depth into our thoughts and strategy regarding mobile development. This will have an impact on our future development -- we're looking for insights from you. Please share your thoughts with us as we plan for the mobile future!

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Kevin Wolfe. Social Instigator. DonorDrive. For a nonprofit, the real question is not “Should we engage Millenials?”, it’s “How do we engage them?”. Whether you call them Millennials, Gen Y, Generation Next or Echo Boomers, today’s high schoolers, college students, and young professionals are proving to be the most important generation for causes. Many nonprofits have evaluated this group on the thinness of their wallet and written them off.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2012

posted by. Jessie Singer , Executive Director. Dysart Community Center. Being an Executive Director of a small organization, I often get asked how I recruit board members and where I find them. I think my tactics can be applicable for any geographically-based nonprofit, a start-up organization, or any smaller nonprofit seeking new members. When I am seeking new board members I start with our own volunteer base.

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2012

Millennials often get a bad reputation for being slackers and self absorbed, but they can actually be quite passionate about social justice issues, especially when the right causes resonate with them. Make no mistake, if you are trying to reach Millennials you're organization is going to need spend time and resources developing meaningful campaigns that they feel connected to, and use their prefer methods of online and mobile communications.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2012

We're launching a new guide - How to Manage Membership Renewal - to help small membership organizations with their renewal process.

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NTEN

JUNE 26, 2012

Debra Askanase. Partner. Socialbrite. Knowledge sharing adds another layer of social media value to the organization, a feedback loop for your social media efforts, an integrated approach to being social. Social media cannot thrive in silos. What is happening online affects the entire organization, not just the marketing department, or the development team, or top management.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Many social benefit organizations rely on events to raise funds and connect with current and future supporters. Pulling off a successful event requires many different tools – not the least of which is social media. For little to no cost, social media can help organizations meet attendance and fundraising goals. To help nonprofits and libraries learn valuable strategies for using social media for their events, TechSoup devoted its June edition of Nonprofits Live (NPLive) to this very topic.

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Care2

JUNE 23, 2012

I know what you are thinking – yet another social media study. How many more studies can there possibly be when truth be told, having a good social media strategy is not really rocket science, which I discussed earlier this week in the post “Tips to Humanize your Social Media.” So while social media may not be rocket science, good data, such as the best times to post updates to Facebook, can better inform strategy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 23, 2012

Isn't this One Mango Tree dress cute? Long time readers might remember One Mango Tree from my Big Vision Podcast interview with its founder, Halle Butvin , in the fall of 2011. One Mango Tree is a clothing company that uses a fair trade model to provide income-generating opportunities for women in impoverished and conflict areas around the globe. At the moment, their work is focused in Uganda.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 28, 2012

In May, we held the first webinar in our Microsoft Tips & Tricks webinar series, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. More recently, you may have attended our June webinars from this series, Creating Better Spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel and How Real Nonprofits Fundraise with Microsoft. Creating Better Spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel.

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2012

Your organization's homepage is often one of the first engagement points potential advocates and donors have with your organization. How's your homepage looking these days? Check out these great tips by Network for Good as well as their free tutorial on maxamizing your homepage to tell your organization's story and connect with supporters. 10 Tips to Improve your Website Homepage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2012

Before I started working with Upwell a couple months ago, I'd never heard of ocean acidification. You've probably never heard of it either considering that a study found that the Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage Than Ocean Acidification. Here's the skinny: burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and into the oceans.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. Which means it's the perfect time to invest in your professional development, and seek out opportunities for your organization. Fortunately, the NTEN community is making it easy this year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2012

Kelley Jarrett is market manager for Guide Creative , a design agency that serves nonprofits in creative design from strategy and branding to web and print design, social and mobile strategy to analyzing results for success. Guide Creative is the new design agency for Blackbaud. Follow Kelley on Twitter. Creating an effective nonprofit website isn’t easy.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2012

These days nonprofits are facing new challenges as online channels grow and evolve. While there are multiple channels (ranging from email to Direct Mail and social networks) to ultilize to engage constituents, managing all of those relationships and integrating social marketing effectively is no easy feat. But is it doable? Yes! Check out Care2's latest webinar where panelists Peter Genuardi of SpotRight, Heather Shelby of Environmental Defense Fund, and Justin Perkins of Care2, explored some of

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 24, 2012

Cusomter Service : Ritz-Carlton’s Three Stages of Service Warm welcome Anticipation of and compliance with guest needs Fond farewell Motivation : According to University of Rochester psychologist Ed Deci , leaders should not ask “How do I motivate people?” Instead, the question to ask is, “ How do I create the conditions in which they motivate themselves.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2012

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2012

The Business Ethics Network is holding a free webinar on Donor Disclosure Progress in Remedying Citizens United on Thursday June 28 at 1 pm PACIFIC/ 4pm EASTERN. Amidst the torrent of corporate money in this year's election, there is some good news. Post Citizens United, many corporations have spent their political ad dollars through outside spending groups, like the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 24, 2012

Leadership Dan McCarthy tops OnlineCollege.org 's recently published list of the Top 25 Leadership Bloggers. All 25 of the selected bloggers were selected because of their outstanding leadership knowledge and strong writing ability. Other familiar names, such as John Maxwell , Ron Edmondson and John Baldoni , made the list. You'll also find perhaps some not so familiar names.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2012

Author: Danielle Johnson-Vermenton. The better you steward and recognize donors, the more they will give over time - as advocates, volunteers, and through giving. So how are you weaving donor recognition into your communications? Take a fresh look at your stewardship and cultivation strategy. Think ahead and be proactive in your recognition, are you utilizing interactive tactics to thank and recognize donors?

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