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6 Ways to Make Event Check-in Convenient for Your Volunteers

Bloomerang

First impressions for any event are essential, especially when onboarding volunteers. The first time volunteers step onto your event site, you’ll want to make it as easy as possible for them to check in, find where they need to go, and how to be a fully-engaged part of your event team.

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Geo-Tagged Map Shows Impact of Hurricane Joaquin in Real Time

VisionLink

Map illustrates damage reports as hurricane hits North Carolina. 5, 2015— VisionLink , a community inspired software and consulting company, has developed a free, shareable, real-time, geo-tagged map depicting actual damage reports produced by Hurricane Joaquin. BOULDER, Colo. —

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Get Your Small Business on the Map: 4 Digital Marketing Tips

Nonprofits Source

Whether you own a pet-care business , bookstore, or flower shop, these four tips will help put your small business on the digital map. You then use email marketing to invite them to explore your other services, events, and volunteer opportunities. Doing so will help drive a high ROI for your small business.

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Social Media Data Mapping

VisionLink

Assisting the American Red Cross, VisionLink''s Community Operating System is being used to deploy a real-time national map for this Winter Storm. The view includes FEMA boundaries, open disaster shelters, social media hash tags specific to the Winter Storm, and other relevant information.

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.

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Strengthening Your “Internal Partner” Muscles

VQ Strategies

Whether delivering services, providing pro bono support, governing as a board member, or sending advocacy emails, volunteers play vital roles in mission-fulfillment. Volunteer Champion? Like most leaders of volunteers, you wear multiple hats because functioning as an internal partner requires it. Administrative Expert?

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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

As you quickly grow and engage your audience , it can be easy to lose track of your campaign plan. Which goals helped you stay on track in past campaigns? Plan for when you’ll begin to contact volunteers, when you’ll reach out to the broader public, and when you want to accomplish your goal. Rely on established relationships.

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