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Attracting New Donors With Content That Serves (And Scales)

Bloomerang

Source To assess what your donors desire, you can map out a persona or identity or run a survey on your existing network and ask questions like: What topics would you like to learn more about? What problems are you facing that we can help you solve? What content would you be interested in subscribing to?

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

AFP Blog

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones? Certainly, these and other questions would be a good start for a survey. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Maybe that first step is research.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Read up on "ingestible" electronic pills, cloud storage price wars, how the Star Trek Tricorder has come to life, and more. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. The Star Trek Tricorder Comes to Life.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Volunteers often have different life experiences than the people they interact with through a nonprofit organization. Is there a survey? What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Does the parent have to accompany them? A website link?

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When in Your Life Were You Most Afraid to Talk to Strangers?

Museum 2.0

One pair of girls did a survey in a grocery store about whether "the grass is always greener on the other side." For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. Has your attitude toward interacting with strangers changed during your life, and if so, when and why?

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