Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” The last thing people from Staten Island or New Jersey needed last week was an ill-timed fundraising ask. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Be specific. Partner up.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

It’s flabbergasting how much fundraisers will opine about what moves their donors and do it with zero input from the donors themselves. Some fundraisers suggest it’s not necessary to give the mid-level program a name. You’re in the fundraising business so I won’t insult your intelligence by telling you how to make a plan.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. Advancement Services Best Practices Donor Databases Fundraising Prospect Research' A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. Are data-storage limits the concern? No sense in removing records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Listservs: Participate in listservs that align with your nonprofit’s mission and where your organizations’ issues are being discussed. Listservs provide great opportunities to not only promote your organizations initiatives but to listen to what other people are saying about your issues. YouTube Nonprofit Program: YouTube.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. As with all popular communications channels, sometimes social media gets a bad rep.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.” Online Advocacy Online Fundraising Online Marketing'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. This is an example of virtual grassroots fundraising. Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. The timing or stage at which you create a proposal is truly up to each nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. YouTube Nonprofit Channels Now, even the Queen of England of has her own The Royal Channel on YouTube. What are the benefits of a YouTube Nonprofit Channel?

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See3

APRIL 22, 2009

When I left my position at Easter Seals , I had seven-plus years of research covering the field of nonprofits online flowing (more like gushing) in daily via email newsletters, listserve digests, etc. NPAdvisors e-Fund News: Thought provoking weekly articles on online donor development written by Rick Christ and Heather Fignar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

I came across CharityBlog while lurking on the UK Riders listserv. (I Not too long ago, I also received another query from a colleague, Mary Joyce on behalf of someone in Nepal wanting to fundraise online. So, ramble along with me as I think outloud.and blog it. I tagged John Howes of CharityBlog for Nancy White's NGO meme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

to track personal fundraising campaigns. Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

And not just fundraise. Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. " He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Educate about your cause. Mobilize: Give people something to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

To answer Deborah's question, I don't think Facebook is yet the default front end for nonprofits, but it has become an increasingly important fundraising channel give the impressive growth statistics (not just users but in the age 35 plus category). NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. tools in their web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Nancy White got herself an early holiday gift ) It's November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to take advantage of the holiday giving. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 " Marketing and Fundraising Charitable gift catalogs ignites blog buzz notes the Donor Power Blog, providing context and a roundup of blogosphere reaction.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And that’s what you’re here to do today because it’s such a fast moving, wild space of the fundraising pie. And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Fundraising presentations. Fundraising Campaign - Street Kids. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. When you try to move data from online fundraising software into your fundraising or volunteer database, it isn't a one-click process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Well, we're gonna have to think about other types of metrics, particularly for awareness raising and blog fundraising. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? How do we think about those?

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