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Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some highlights from our post-event nonprofit survey (Total nonprofits who completed the survey as of 12/01/11 = 380): 61 percent of respondents said social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day (79 percent said sending out email promotions worked best. 79 percent of respondents were female.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. There are lots of ways to collect data on the current practices of your organization- common best practices are surveying and interviewing.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the looks of our post-event survey data and Google traffic reports, social media played a big part, particularly Facebook. Here are some highlights from our post-event nonprofit survey*: • 55.4 And, here are some highlights from our post-event donor survey*: • 61.2 Survey remains open. About Jeff.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. 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. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Don't create all new goals — explain how the change in methods will contribute towards the objectives you have always had. One way to foster this begins with open dialogue discussions for staff to ask questions, surveys to learn about attitudes and pre-existing skill level, staff-wide training, and dedicated staff time.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest). It's very relational.

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Protecting Yourself from Malware with Better Password Security

Tech Soup

In Week 1 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) we looked at spoofed emails , cybercriminals' preferred method of spreading malware. adults, a recent YouGov survey still found that 28 percent of adults use the same passwords for most of their online accounts. Source: Digicert , May 2014). Need a little inspiration?

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