NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Flickr photo: ibarir I know only the biggest nerds have favorite white papers, but we've already established my nerd street cred, right? The study confirms what we already know: online donors are younger, have higher incomes and give larger initial gifts than offline-acquired donors. That doesn't mean online doesn't matter, however.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. The study involved 94 nonprofits and 33,000 people.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? We're tracking open rates, web site hits, blog comments, people served, high-dollar donations, staff productivity, and thousands of other things across our organizations. Let's take the scenario of first-time donors who aren't making second gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. He contended that investment—whether it’s in a major gift campaign, a planned giving or special event program, or the expansion of development staff—consistently generates a positive return. The case for fortifying nonprofits’ fundraising capability seems like a no-brainer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

loses 70% of donors after the first gift. And to make matters worse, the probability that a donor will make five consecutive gifts is only 10-15%.These Frankly, I believe developing a robust gratitude program is the most important thing you can do if you want repeat gifts. It communicates that the gift will be used immediately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? Is there a downside to gift economies? Go read it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. It isn't dumb dumb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. Or, it might open the door for a teachable moment about Creative Commons and the share economy. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. It provides a huge return on investment. It gets your work out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

And while for some giving regularly is a matter of time and attention and for others it may be a limited budget and giving in micro-donations, cash gifts of very small amounts made with one or two mouse clicks like the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign or the Wellwishes Campaign. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The biggest buzz here is about the API and the initiative they call Open. “The proof&# of the success of the Open initiative, Gene Austin said, will be 12-18 months from now — when we see what people are doing with it. He said, “we got religion&# on the issue of openness.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. Lesson 2: Reward with Shareable Take-Aways Each of the project teams gave participants some kind of gift for taking part. People revisited the Stringing Connections map several times to see what had been added, and Xavier participants came back to watch the Flickr sideshow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. Note from Beth: I hope you are enjoying summer break as much as I am! Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. by asking its supporters to send pink panties to the Sri Ram Sena as Valentine’s Day gifts. However, some of us recognize that conversations are a mere stepping stone for co-creation. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by the Consortium. ” How much does a photo in an email influence click-thru and gift giving behavior?By Because we don’t always trust “email open” reporting, we always check our statistical significance against both the reported opens and the entire delivery population. Conclusions.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? One common measure is if the email hard bounces, unsubscribes, or does not open in 12 months. Q: Does this include offline giving too?

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? One common measure is if the email hard bounces, unsubscribes, or does not open in 12 months. Q: Does this include offline giving too?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. You leave the opening dazed, relieved, and happy to see people enjoying the pieces.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

How have you made me feel for the monetary gifts I’ve made and the non-monetary gifts? Gifting if you know they would like, right, right. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. Thank-you cards from our kids, personally delivering a gift.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Embedding a YouTube video is a widget, as are fundraising widgets , Flickr photostream, Photobucket, Slide and many others. First a little background. They are growing like crazy.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

Email open rates are replaced with data about first time and repeat visitors, and IP addresses are replaced by zip codes. The free access to the museum has increased visitors, but those visitors are spending money in the café, gift shop, an on special paid programs. photo credit – Flickr: Creative Commons.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

flickr: gonfishin New research, new tools, new ideas, and new opportunities to share your knowledge and ideas are the highlights of this latest Member Round Up. Prizes come in all kinds of packages, like in $60,000 dollars worth of CITGO gift cards.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

You may want to open a window with the ScratchR homepage so you can refer to it throughout this post. But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. And the remixes are a true "gift" to participants to continue using the program. Why people participate. First, a look at statistics on user types.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. By limiting artworks by size alone, Foot in the Door is open to a huge range of content and media.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Do you know about Oxfam America Unwrapped, Oxfam America’s online gift catalog? Give the unexpected gift that does good!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We prototyped the most complicated interactives (the Love Styles quiz and Hearts to Hearts game) with visitors in the months leading up to opening. making a special gift). We cut it in the first week after opening. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

Flickr Photo by Julia Smith. So philanthropists have a huge responsibility to rethink and innovate around their relationship with nonprofits, no matter what their gift-size is. I had the honored of moderating a free wheeling plenary discussion on Day #3 of NTC on “ Innovation and Nonprofits.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2005

The links link to a few of the pictures I took and posted on Flickr. While I actually was momentarily tempted by the mint tea and the ceremony to buy a rug, I remember that Virginia was quite clear when I had asked about gifts from Tunisia, that rugs were not a part of the list. to the U.S. dollars, more like US$10. My new friends.

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