Sat.Jun 19, 2010 - Fri.Jun 25, 2010

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Three Things That Happen When Facebook Pages Reach 10,000 Fans

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Last week the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page reached the 10,000 fans milestone. It took 2.5 years. In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. One website may lose its popularity for the next, but I have found that your friends, fans and followers move with you to next one.

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Social Media Strategy: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

NetWits

Our social media strategy for nonprofits series continues by taking a look at how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network ( www.pancan.org ) uses social media to enhance their online efforts. This organization is dedicated to advancing research, supporting patients and creating hope for those affected by pancreatic cancer. As you can imagine, building a great online presence that creates a community of support and connects people with each other plays a key role in carrying out their mission.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Statement of Benetech to the 20th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 23, 2010, Geneva, Switzerland • My nonprofit organization, Benetech, operates Bookshare, the largest online library for people with print disabilities, with the mission of bringing accessible books to all people with print disabilities around the world • We have roughly 100,000 members in the U.S. with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 c

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Interview: Kivi Leroux Miller, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed Kivi’s work for years and am happy to call her a colleague and friend. She’s a go-to resource for nonprofit marketing and her new book is called The Nonprofit Marketing Guide ( get your copy here ). I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments!

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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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Last 10 delicious.com links

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Again, a little peak at what I’ve been up to, reading, and thinking about. You can also see what I’ve been reading by looking at my shared items on my google profile. Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Documentation | Mule ESB Community – an interesting and intriguing data integration tool built on the Java stack. SoqlXplorer – a Mac OS X tool for browsing Salesforce.com data.

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2 Minute Influence Test

NCE Social Media

Every wonder how your Twitter postings influences others? Free online tools such as Klout analyze your use of Twitter and gives you recommendations to be more influential. Try it out and see what ideas it may spawn… Influence. Tags: Education and Training Marketing and Awareness twitter klout influence.

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Is Facebook Right for your Nonprofit's Community?

NetWits

My college sorority and millions of others definitively did not participate in Quit Facebook Day ! They actually took the opposite approach. I received an email that stated they would be shutting down their online community that resides within their main site and moving their online community to Facebook.

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BRACE Luncheon

VisionLink

'BRACE, "Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergencies," is sponsoring it''s annual luncheon next week, June 29th, downtown Pensacola Florida. Dr. Steve Picou will be presenting on the sociological impact of disasters. Yours truly will also be presenting, focusing on the efficacies of multi-agency partnerships, and their ability to leverage resources--all the more important in the current economy.

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Free Facebook Guide for Small Non-profits

Wild Apricot

If your organization is struggling to figure out Facebook – and who isn’t? – social media consultant John Haydon has a free ebook for you: "The Complete Guide to Facebook for Small Non-Profits" is a comprehensive collection of strategies, tactics, tips, and tutorials to help small non-profits get more out of using Facebook.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Marketing online community Facebook social media.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm here in Geneva for the 20th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting. This is the international forum for discussing copyright issues, and it is the body considering the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (TVI). Jamie Love of KEI took the above picture of ACB's Eric Bridges, NFB's Scott LaBarre (and his wife Anahit Galechyan) and me at the meeting: I was busy tweeting what I was hearing at my Twitter handle of @JRandomF.

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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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Let’s Talk About Networked Nonprofits: TechSoupGlobal Book Party

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marnie Webb and Charlene Li: Two of My Social Media Role Models. Today Allison Fine and I celebrated the launch of the Networked Nonprofit at TechSoup Global in the space where Netsquared Meetups take place. I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years. It was fantastic to connect with colleagues in SF, almost like a family reunion.

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What Does Your Facebook Funnel Look Like?

NTEN

Shabbir Imber Safdar and Shayna Englin, Englin Consulting, LLC. Everybody's on Facebook, so clearly your non-profit should be there, too, right? Probably, but given limited resources it's important to get a better handle on the specific value your organization's investment of time and resources on Facebook is delivering toward your bottom line. It's time to make it accountable.

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Report: Volunteer Levels Hold Steady in Canada

Wild Apricot

The new Not-for-Profit Pulse Report on Volunteering, just released by the Association Resource Center (ARC), based on a survey of 74 Canadian not-for-profit organizations, looks at the changes non-profits are seeing in the way people volunteer their time and what, if anything, they are doing to adapt.( read more ). Tags: Associations General non-profit interest nptech Volunteers surveys research.

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The Keys to Fundraising on Foursquare

Care2

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After all, location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla were the breakout technology at SXSWi just a few months ago. Following SXSWi though, Frogloop questioned if apps like Foursquare are a novelty or buzz worthy , particularly for nonprofits.

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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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Thank You For Making The Networked Nonprofit Launch A Hit!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter on Launch Day June 21, 2010. It was a special launch day for our book, The Networked Nonprofit , thanks to you! On June 21st, the book was in the top 200 bestsellers on Amazon for the past five hours. During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries , #19 in the overall business segment , and # 108 overall in America !

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Go Beyond the Dashboard Report

NTEN

Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. I love details. I could write a three-page specification for an "Email this page" button. I challenge myself to find new and exciting OS/Browser combinations to test. (Yes, I do still have Lynx on my computer). And when it comes to cutting HTML, I'm a total pixel-pusher. (Shouldn't that column be one pixel over to the right?).

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Take a Second Look at Google Wave

Wild Apricot

Google Wave's steep learning curve and "invitation only" policy made the collaboration tool less than useful for most nonprofits, when it first launched. But take another look: Wave is now faster and more stable, with quick-start templates and tutorials - and it's finally open for everyone to use.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Web 2.0 online community Non-profit Communications collaboration project management application Google Wave.

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Donor relationships are like gardens…

Get Fully Funded

This was the topic of one of my presentations at the AFP Northern Arizona Education Day last week. Here are some key points from this session: Donor relationships are like gardens. They bear the most fruit when they are properly tended to. Keep them weeded, watered, and fertilized, and you’ll be delighted with the results. 1. Good donor relationships are the key to successful fundraising.

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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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Is The Networked Nonprofit Is In Your Hands Yet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephanie McAuliffe Shows Off Her Copy. I’ve been getting word on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere that people are receiving their copies of the book from Amazon. And their sharing photos Flickr and Facebook. Please share add yours to the collection! @giveyoursole. Kristen Parrinello. Squirrel! Original Photo by Craig Newmark. Starting this week, our friends at SocialEdge have created a virtual book club where we will share brief excerpts from the book each week and discuss them.

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How-to: Use Google Analytics to Track Your Online Marketing Campaigns

NTEN

Brett Meyer, NTEN. You may already know you can use Google Analytics to track your Google AdWords campaigns. Makes sense: Google would integrate puppies into their products if they thought it would help. [Ed. note: Actually, they have.]. Because they had to standardize the system used for this tracking, you can co-opt it for your own purposes to track click-throughs from your e-mail campaigns, banner ads, links in blog posts, even paper mailings (if you use it in conjunction with a URL shortener

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Quick Photo Effects and Picture Frames

Wild Apricot

A nonprofit blog or newsletter that’s illustrated only with traditional “news release” photos can get a bit dull after a while – except maybe for the folks in the photographs! Could your illustrations use a bit of a fresh look for summer? There are lots of free and low-cost image editing tools , but for a really quick way to add a special effect or picture frame to your online images, try Tuxpi.

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Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

See3

Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award (a.k.a. The Taggies) winners! And this year, for the first time, you can submit your organization’s program, fundraising campaign and/or and special event taglines, in addition to your organizational tagline. So enter here now. A strong tagline does double-duty—working to [.].

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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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Learn to Use "Track Changes" in Microsoft Word 2010

Tech Soup

This blog post from Addictive Tips demonstrates how to use the track changes feature of Word 2010. The "Track Changes feature allows MS Word to keep track of the changes you make in a document. It is also known as redline, or redlining. Its real usage can be seen when, two or more persons need to edit the document.". It looks like the new version of Word has some nice options you can choose to format the tracking just the way you like.

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What DON'T You Need the Internet For?

NTEN

This past April, how did you file your taxes? Did you mail them or e-File? How did you pay your last parking ticket? Find your last job? Watch a funny cat video? I'm betting the answer is the same for all of these: online. Even phone calls aren't phone calls anymore; increasingly they are Voice over IP calls that happen over the internet. This all works because the Internet is one thing above all else: OPEN.

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Nonprofit Blog Tips: Welcome Woman's Day Readers!

Have Fun - Do Good

Welcome Woman's Day readers! You've probably found your way here from a shout out Have Fun, Do Good got in the article, How to Start Your Own Charity by Sally Stich in the July 2010 issue of Woman's Day : "5. Thin k social networking. Got a website? On Facebook? Get the word out. See HaveFunDoGood.BlogSpot.com for how to start a nonprofit blog." My posts about blogging are scattered throughout the site, so I've compiled a roundup of them for you below.

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Social Network ROI Calculator Update

Care2

A couple of years ago I put together the "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. It was ahead of its time and may still need some tweaking, but the basic assumptions hold true - if you're paying staff to spend time on social networks and the end goal is list-growth or dollars, then this tool is 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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Reminder: TechSoup's Fiscal Year Ends June 30 - Request Donations Now!

Tech Soup

You may have seen a few messages on TechSoup.org and in your inbox warning that our fiscal year-end is coming up soon. But what does this mean for you? Well, because most of our product donation programs have limits based on TechSoup's fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, we want to make sure your organization doesn't miss out on its chance to place donations requests.

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Making More of Your Metrics

NTEN

Steve Peretz, M+R Strategic Services. Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. But the Benchmarks Study is really meant to help you think (or rethink!) how you collect and calculate your data in the first place — since the most important metrics for your organization are, of course, YOUR metrics.

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Webinar Recap: Foundations and Online Collaboration

Forum One

Forum One hosted a webinar on June 23 on online collaboration for philanthropic organizations. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare ) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of the California Healthcare Foundation. Amy talked about a private global online community of librarians that she facilitates as part of the Gates Foundation's Global Libraries program.

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Nonprofit 2.0: The Four I's to Measure Social Media

Care2

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter keynoted a thoughtful keynote conversation moderated by Shireen Mitchell during the first annual NonProfit 20 Unconference. Fine and Kanter told attendees that nonprofits need to empower their free agents (volunteers who are passionate about your nonprofit and help raise money for your organization) to help nonprofits further their mission.

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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.