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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Raise the Roots Brandon Fuller, chief strategist For starters, we always encourage partners to go ahead and create as much content as possible at the start of an advocacy campaign to ensure copyediting, reviews, approvals, and production can happen all at once. Protecting the environment or cutting taxes for billionaires?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Key Takeaway #2: Spotlight Your Mission as the ‘Hero’ In the book, Ogilvy realized in a flash of insight that taste was irrelevant for whiskey – it was brand image alone that motivated purchases. Review tactics like monthly giving programs and recurring emails that generate habitual support.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Staff performance reviews incorporate how well the organization is doing on KPIs. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. I've been asking nonprofit bloggers to tell me what they think, point me to examples on their blogs, and of course, I took a look at all the widgets in the various widget directories like Widgetbox (see Marshall's review here ).

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. I'm so excited!

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Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The complicated design involved the use of text or online flash polls that could be shared on the screen and have the audience take the poll. This works well your discussion is going to be linear and ours ended up as a non-linear format, so I decided to ditch the live polling.

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