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What’s in My Inbox | Thanking Your Monthly Donors

Pamela Grow

Here’s an example of monthly donor stewardship from Wikipedia that I liked. Roughly a year ago, I became a monthly donor to Wikipedia, following an email I described as “the perfect email ask” followed by a well-crafted monthly giving appeal.

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Stay Ahead of AI’s Magic

.orgSource

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Humans are influenced by biases and emotions, while AI systems are objective. Buyer beware is critical.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. His description of the robotics course -- "Lego of Your Mind." But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison?

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) One of the questions that also came up in my mind was: What's the difference between a community of practice and a network? June Holley comes to mind -- need to explore her work more closely -- but any other resources would be appreciated, too. .

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many people with life experiences unlike my own, all of us always influenced by matters like race, class, gender and age, have some intangible but very real obstacles to feeling comfortable blogging. I try to take this very seriously, and I'm just beginning to learn ways to engage in an informed manner. But no such luck, it's broken.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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