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8 Actionable steps for any nonprofit RFP

EveryAction

About half of the 100+ consultants I’ve interviewed this year alone say they will skip an RFP if it doesn’t share an available budget—including one helps you make sure you’re capturing the attention of all the potential knowledge and partnership that’s out there! Share your ideal outcome. disclaimer: I am a co-founder of Prosal.).

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Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Or if Google Analytics is a pain for you, you can track the traffic to each page through a shortening tool such as Bit.ly, which shortens each of the separate URLs and then allows you to view the clickthroughs on each.

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. I would hate for you to delete those records and lose all that data and institutional knowledge that you have been collecting along the way. In this day and age, storage is cheap and data is one of your most valuable tools. Are data-storage limits the concern?

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

It''s surprising (and a bit embarrassing) to realize how little I engage with tools that appear ascendant broadly and are in constant use by my colleagues. I appreciate these tools--the attractiveness of Instagram, the usability of Vine, the utility of Pinterest. A trend in which I take almost no part. I''m supportive of all of this.

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. "I need a tool that does xyz for abc purpose. Sometimes clarifying questions.

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Should You Ever Delete Donor Records?

Tech Soup

Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. " "In this day and age, storage is cheap and data is one of your most valuable tools. Others Who Agree.

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