Sat.Oct 15, 2011 - Fri.Oct 21, 2011

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[TV Interview] Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Truth be told, I much prefer the anonymity of being “Nonprofit Organizations” online ( Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , etc.) over being “Heather Mansfield,” but writing and promoting Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits has required that I step out of my comfort zone a bit and put a face and voice to human being behind the “Nonprofit Organizations” avatar.

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New on SSIR: What the New Facebook Changes Mean for Nonprofits

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the full post below. —– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all the changes to functionality, options, and analytics is incredibly overwhelming.

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Pecha Kucha

NCE Social Media

I gave a talk yesterday explaining Pecha Kucha to a group of nonprofit executives. Pecha Kucha is a variation on your typical PowerPoint presentation. I’ve seen people call it the intersection of a business meeting and a poetry slam. This Japanese style presentation ( created by a British architect and an Italian architect living in Tokyo ) was created in 2003 but has grown in popularity to be a worldwide mainstream business presentation style.

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Free Non-profit Webinar Round-up for November

Wild Apricot

This month we've found 22 free non-profit webinars. Topics include mobile marketing; press releases; email marketing; multi-channel fundraising; volunteer job descriptions; grant proposals and much more.

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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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The Power of Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr by Leo Reynolds. Guest post by Paula Goldman. The wisdom of crowds, the insanity of crowds. Mention the word “network” to most people and their reactions tend to sway between these two polar extremes. It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”.

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How to Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog

NTEN

By Roger Burks, Co-Founder, Pictographers. Creating a blog should be an opportunity, not an obligation. If it feels like solely an obligation, you should reconsider starting one — because, in my opinion, the most compelling blogs are born and grow from true curiosity, enthusiasm, and exploration. For the most part, nonprofit organizations' online communications suffer from an identity crisis: they have no identity.

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Is Your Member Data Mission Critical?

Wild Apricot

Organizations struggling to manage member data should embrace a member-driven culture and centralize data. Here are some steps you can take and resources available to help manage your membership database.

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This Week On Beth’s Blog: Growing Social Impact in A Networked World – A Grantmaker’s Gathering on Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image by EEKIM. On October 17 and 18th, I will have the honor of participating in an interactive convening , hosted by GEO and the Monitor Institute focused on how funders can increase their impact by supporting networks and embracing more open and collaborative approaches to grantmaking. Attendees will explore concrete examples and tools that grantmakers can use to tap the power of networks and increase peer-to-peer learning among grantmakers who are experimenting with networks.

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Daily DoGooder: Coal Energy Drink

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Coal Energy Drink | 1:02 REAP You gotta love a double spoof! This one lampoons both energy drinks and clean coal ads perfectly and really delivers a punch on the non-chalant manner that these groups seduce their audience while totally manipulating them into believing that something harmful is [.].

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

NTEN

Michelle Murrain , Drupal Developer, OpenIssue. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. If you want a really detailed look, please read the very exhaustive, recently released, updated Idealware report on OpenSource CMS , which includes Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and Plone.

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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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Make A Difference Day

Wild Apricot

Saturday, 22 October is Make A Difference Day! Here's some information on how you can get involved.

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Close the Triangle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Tiffany.Ann.M. Guest post by Scott Bechtler-Levin. After spending a couple days with nearly 150 smart, network weavers at the GEO/ Monitor Institute “ Growing Social Impact in a Networked World ” conference ( [link] ), I am reminded of one of my favorite quotations: “The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know…” (Socrates, according to Plato).

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Rise of the She-Conomy: Building a Base of Women Donors and Advocates

Care2

If your nonprofit doesn’t have a solid outreach strategy to cultivate women donors and activists, your organization is missing out on huge opportunities to grow your advocacy and donor base. Why? Like we have talked about before on Frogloop, women account for 85 percent of all consumer purchases including everything from autos to health care to donating money to charity.

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Research Friday: Expect to find the Unexpected!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. , Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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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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Roasted Fall Vegetables with Lentils + Your Meatless Meatloaf Recipes

Have Fun - Do Good

Meatless Monday is a nonprofit initiative of The Monday Campaigns. Their goal is to help reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal and planetary health. Each week I share meatless recipes I've tried from cookbooks and online. You can see past Meatless Monday posts by clicking here. Roasted Fall Vegetables with Lentils This week I made a super yummy recipe from Whole Living magazine, Roasted Fall Vegetables with Lentils , from the October 2011 issue.

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Evaluating Networks and their Effectiveness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Notes from Discussion. Guest post by Tom Kelly. Lists. I am a list maker. To do. To followup. To call. And at a conference like Growing Social Impact in a Networked World ([link] I made several lists–in my notebook, on my iPad, emails to myself, and on those very cool hexagonal Post-its. I will work through all of them over the next week or so but the list that will keep growing is the one of insights and new ideas I gained from hearing fellow participants share their knowledge, experience

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Webinar: Keeping up with Facebook's Changes (and 'Liking' it!)

Care2

All nonprofits want to maximize their Facebook presence. With more than 800 million active users--50% of whom log in to Facebook on any given day--they'd be crazy not to! But doesn't it feel like once your organization has finally figured out how to best utilize it, Facebook changes things again? In this webinar , get up to speed on all Facebook's recent changes, and how you can take advantage of them to adjust your course.

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It's Almost Here: The Nonprofit Cloud Summit in NYC, Oct 26

NTEN

The Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in New York City is almost upon us! We've filled in most of the details, so I wanted to make sure you had the latest. This is the only Cloud Summit we have planned for the East Coast. Remember, thanks to the generous support of Google, we're bringing this event to you for free – complete with breakfast and lunch!

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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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Upcoming Tweetchat: Cloud Computing for Nonprofits, November 2

Tech Soup

Tweetchat: Cloud Computing for Nonprofits Wednesday, November 2, 6 pm Pacific time ( check your time zone ) Hashtag: # npcloud. What cloud-based applications does your organization use? Do you have any success stories (or failure stories!) on moving your nonprofit to the cloud? What challenges do nonprofits need to overcome in order to migrate to the cloud effectively?

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Network Leadership: A Few Ingredients in the Secret Sauce

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guest post from Kathy Reich. For a while I’ve been puzzling over what makes a good network leader. The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? The Grantmakers Gathering on Networks provided a few a-ha moments for me about network leadership: The first leader or leaders in a network are like first responders at the scene of a crash—they’re in charge of making things happen until the structures get set up to fully address the situation.

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Southwest Airline's Core

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I always look forward to my flights on Southwest Airlines. That's because I get to read Gary Kelly's (Chairman, President and CEO) monthly column in the airline's in-flight magazine. This month, Kelly speaks to Southwest's Core , a core of values and company culture principles that leaders should emulate. Kelly explains: Southwest is a company of people.

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Daily DoGooder: A Glimmer of Hope to Fight Poverty

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.A Glimmer of Hope to Fight Poverty | 3:00 A Glimmer of Hope A beautifully produced video by A Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit organization that helps lift women and children out of extreme poverty in rural Ethiopia, with 100% of all donations directly funding projects. Beyond the [.].

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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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Upcoming Webinar on October 27: A Cooperative Approach to Web Design

Tech Soup

Interested in knowing more about web design? Join us on Thursday, October 27 at 11 a.m. Pacific time for our webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. You can register today. In this hour long webinar, Techsoup's Elliot Harmon and Pepsi Refresh project grantee Jim Walker will explore web design concerns common to many nonprofit organizations and libraries.

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Ho’owaiwai: A Network in Hawaii

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing. In the morning, each of the ten case study presenters gave a 5 minute “teaser ” about their case study or what one presenter called “showing a little leg.” After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a smal

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Webinar: Digital Teams: Your Smartest Investment to Master a Multi-channel World

Care2

The right structure and leadership for your digital/online team will impact your performance online more than any other initiative you will undertake. So how do you know if you have a dysfunctional digital/online team? What are the different models for how organizations manage digital, and which are the most effective for today's multi-channel world?

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Last Social Media Decision-Maker's Toolkit of 2011 (Starts Nov 1st)

NTEN

Because of the overwhelming popularity of our 5-part "Social Media Decision Maker's Toolkit", we're offering it one more time. The Toolkit has been one of our highest rated offerings ever – with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 from attendees – and it has sold out each time we've offered it. I guess what I'm saying is: if you're interested in becoming more strategic with your use of social media, this is the course for you.

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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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Quotes And Wisdom From Steve Jobs

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be sure to check out the October 10, 2011 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, where you'll find an entire 66-page issue that takes you through the entire life of Jobs in what they describe as a biography of a boundary-breaking thinker and endlessly astute businessman. What got me hooked on the issue are the following quotes of wisdom and leadership from Jobs that the magazine features as its intro into its impressive retrospective issue: There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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Relationship Building as a Measure of Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guest Post by John Esterle. One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks. Indeed, that was my theme for the day given that I facilitated a couple of morning conversations on that topic and then in the afternoon heard Ify Mora from the Barr Foundation ( [link] ) talk about how they use social network mapping to capture the relationships that have been built through their innovative Fellows Pro

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Greater Washington Prepares to Give to the Max

Care2

In preparation for the November 9 Give to the Max Day , nonprofits in the DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia communities participated in person or tuned into the live stream of a one-day online fundraising workshop with the industry’s top experts. Beth Kanter kicked off the event with a campfire story setting , sharing insight from her experience as a free agent fundraiser.

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Member Round Up: Watching What We Say

NTEN

Flicker:doug88888 The use of technology for social good is always changing, and NTEN Members are part of the driving creative force. This week, our members talked about online management strategies, resources for schools, and even how an unusual donation lead one fundraiser to a fundraising epiphany. Oh, and don’t miss out on the opportunities to learn and network at volunteering and software development conferences.

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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.