NetWits

AUGUST 8, 2012

The Importance of Moving Donors Offline. However, this only holds true when the online donor has been converted to offline giving. Our study also found that when online-acquired donors move to an offline giving channel, they tend to do so soon, in their first renewal year. They then continue to give offline in similar proportions in subsequent years, although the amounts are typically not as large as the initial online gift.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

When we discuss peer-to-peer fundraising our focus often is on the online components; however, the offline activities surrounding our event allow us to improve relationships and connections with our supporters, thus potentially improving our online outcomes. Below are some ideas on how your organization can engage your supporters by paralleling some offline activities with those online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Networked Nonprofits know how to close the loop between social media and offline actions. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up They understand that it is a scaffolded process. Whatever channel they use, they’re building a bridge from online to onland. They’re masters at meeting their audience where they’re at and bringing them further along the ladder of engagement. Take Twitter for example.

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NetWits

AUGUST 8, 2012

Such messages are able to reach large audiences, present … Online Fundraising 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report Blackbaud direct mail fundraising multichannel fundraising offline fundraisingOnline donor solicitations are powerful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

What this created was a chance for people who use Twitter to come together offline to create community. This month’s Net2 Think Tank asks: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns? And I hope they help you think about the way your organization uses opportunities online and offline to create community. Space : This is both online and offline. This past Saturday, I participated in an experiment: Tweetcamp !

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NetWits

JUNE 14, 2012

Online acquired donors are significantly younger, more affluent, and more generous than their offline counterparts. While the number one reason for giving, both online and off, is for emotional reasons, the online donor is more likely to respond only once to fulfill that emotional need, whereas the offline donor is more likely to give repeatedly. Follow-ups to initial online giving should be designed to move online donors to offline giving.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2011

However, it’s really interesting how integrated online and offline marketing has evolved into in 2011. Ten years ago online/offline integration meant sending similar messages at similar times to a direct mail list, complimenting with a single email and maybe a landing page and special donation form. Author: Cheryl Black. Guest blog alert : The following post was contributed by Donna Wilkins of Charity Dynamics , a Convio Solution Provider. Thanks for contributing Donna!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At ACS CAN, we’re seeing this newly inspired level of activity reflected in our offline recruitment as well. While the effort to recruit offline volunteers is never easy, the timing for such a campaign has never been better. If your organization has been waiting for the right moment (or perhaps the extra motivation) to invest the staff and financial resources necessary to build your offline infrastructure, this is that moment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2015

With proper planning and execution, a stronger online fundraising and marketing strategy can grow all of your avenues of offline support. Last week I kicked off the Blackbaud Power Hour series with a webinar on tips to get donors into the pipeline. For me it all comes down to a renewed focus online. While I could have easily come up with 20 ideas and tactics for building a sustainable pipeline of support, I narrowed it down to 6. Optimize your website for conversion.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. Guest post by: Laura Iancu, 123ContactForm. Online fundraising has seen a remarkable rise in the past few years. Being able to give with a minimum of effort and enabling donations with just a few mouse clicks or taps on a smart device has changed the way we want to act.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I’m amazed that after all these years, no one has come out with a killer offline blog editor for the Mac yet. As I see it, if you want to use an offline editor on a Mac you only have 3 choices, each with its own strengths and overwhelming weaknesses. Tags: Geek Posts Blogo Ecto MacOSX MarsEdit offline blog editor WordPress It seems like there’s more development energy going towards iPhone blog editors than desktop versions.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 19, 2010

Ivan Boothe posted a link to this story recently on the Progressive Exchange list. It’s been a busy week so I just clicked through today and thought it was an excellent opportunity to start integrating more conversation starters into this blog (as suggested in the Blog Redesign thread).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. Some of the examples and recommendations from this month’s chat included: UN Food&Ag Org (FAO) has done a great job with their Share Fairs – sharing the discussions and training on and offline.

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NetWits

JULY 15, 2010

We recently released a pretty cool resource for the nonprofit industry – The Blackbaud Index ! It contains both The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving. The charitable giving index reports that overall revenue increased by 6.2 percent for the 3 months ending May 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009 while the online giving index reports that online revenue increased by 23.0

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John Haydon

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Donors that are acquired online eventually become off-line donors ( 32% switch to offline in year two ). Strategy blackbaud direct mail fundraising offline researchOnline fundraising is still one of the fastest growing ways of collecting donations for nonprofits (a 34% increase in 2010). It’s relatively inexpensive, can piggyback on the surging trends of online and mobile use, and is easy to measure. Online donors definitely give more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2010

But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media. In the nonprofit world, we've been focusing on the online to offline connection, or more specifically how to turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media. to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 30, 2009

But I’m talking major mind shifts here, stay with me… No longer is the world of independent schools separated into segments of online/offline communication. In the past year, I’ve come to a realization. The independent school arena has changed. Yes, you will say (and you would be right) it is constantly changing and has been for years!

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Find the free stuff

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The post Top 10 Free Offline Games: No Wi-Fi Games & Free download to paly everywhere! There may be times when you aren’t close to a Wi-Fi connection but still want to beat boredom paying games on your handset. What do you do when caught up in such a situation? Well, such are the times you wish you had some no Wi-Fi games in your handset. If you don’t have any. appeared first on PhreeSite.com. Gaming

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. It's offline fundraising tools were built for development pros. No more data silos - your offline and online fundraising, events, advocacy, email, and organizing data can be all stored in one place - and EveryAction helps make that data actionable. #22.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 17, 2009

The Challenges of Allowing Offline Usage in a SaaS Based System | CloudAve: "So I was reading an article recently about the latest Google Reader and how it still can’t be used offline with full features. In particular the article focuses on its inability to allow you to read articles offline and then flag those articles as already read, such that when you get back online Google Reader doesn’t

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AFP Blog

JUNE 30, 2009

What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community? NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org: "This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

New data from Target Analytics , a division of Blackbaud, reveals key insights into online and offline donors. The findings are based on analysis of online and offline giving data from sixteen large national nonprofits in the United States during 2016 and represents more than 6.5 The giving data examines demographic and donation data for donors that only gave online, donors that only gave offline, and donors that made both online and offline gifts in 2016.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Nonprofits can use this at a staff meeting or other gathering to help people improve their content creation skills as well as their skills with looking at social media data. The equipment is mostly analog: the index cards and colored dots pictured below, plus a place to record the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

As he shared the story, I had some questions about weaving offline/online collaboration within networks. We most typically think of the offline/online as a sequence somewhat like this: Small group meets face-to-face - builds trust. How can you effectively weave offline/online work in a network? Eugene Eric Kim pointed to the presentation above, plus this post further explaining online/offline collaboration differences. Collaborating Via Artifacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2007

I've been doing more and more presentations that are dependent on having Internet access and I've learned over the years, to always have a backup. I'm glad I went to the trouble of having a backup plan, particularly for the Screencasting Session at NTC which include showing some screencast. What I did was download local copies. Michael Stein (East Coast), who attended the session, emailed me today and asked how I managed to download the screencasts on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the slides that struck me was a map that look at the full range of their activities offline and online (including social media) using two data points (numbers of people and ladder of engagement ). The levels of engagement included: stranger, friend, supporter, member, activist and leader. He talked about the balance between "atom-based" work -- staffing, offline activities, showing up at hearings, etc and "bit-based work" their work online - Facebook pages, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. “The two interactions — infrequent passing interactions offline and our near daily reading of each other’s thoughts online — seem, to borrow and slightly twist a phrase from Tufekci, “one of complementarity and support.&#

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Frogloop

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The ambition of the online organizing platform never matched the success of the offline organizing community and strategy. The goal was to create a unified online community for the climate movement to reflect and spur more of the movement’s offline collaboration.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Many organizations use Gmail to manage their email, because its generous storage space, ability to use your own domain , and system of tags and filters make it easy to organize email communications. One drawback of Gmail, however — as with any web-based email — is the need for an internet connection to be able to use it.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The majority of giving still comes from offline channels, but online fundraising continues to be a significant source for acquiring new donors. Plus, revenue and household income for online acquired donors is significantly higher than for offline acquired donors. Every year, large proportions of online-acquired donors switch from online giving to offline sources – primarily to direct mail.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. Kroll’s steps to taking community from online activity to offline activity, much like growing crops, are cyclical in nature: Invite people to play : Kroll advises community managers to give their community members a reason to get physical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

Michael Gilbert of Online Nonprofit News points to Open Space User's NON-Guide (114 page PDF) as part of his observation about the popularity of open space meeting process. The best ever professional development experience use this model. It was an annual week-long arts & education workshop where I taught technology integration and half the session was open space. We organized the computer lab trainings as open space too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 7, 2012

Back in 2009 I wrote up 10 tips for managing social media burnout and taking my own advice, I am going offline for three weeks. On vacation… in remote areas in a distant land… viewing wildlife (hopefully)… and 100% offline. No smartphone. No tablet. No work. Just a camera, a couple of good books, and a journal, a pen, and a glue stick.

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2012

Online, we look for the same things we look for offline: connection to something genuine, and a way to share that connection with other people. Anne Diaz. Nonprofit Services Manager. Causes. Raising money online can be approached in the same way as you approach that lunch meeting with a potential funder, or a site visit with a friend of a board member. Online audiences aren't foundation program officers.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Those are impressive numbers on the surface,” says Jayne Craven of Coyote Communications, but it’s vital to evaluate your organization’s online activities in terms of offline actions: “If they don’t translate into more volunteers, repeat volunteers, new and repeat donors, new and repeat clients,( read more Your nonprofit’s website gets tens of thousands of hits every month.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 27, 2009

TechSoup community leader Megan has a new honorific to add to her growing list : " ultimate online party host." " Katrina at Hot Tub had a chat with Megan about online community building, and Katrina's notes are well worth the read. One of the big takeaways is the importance of hands-on leadership. What makes TechSoup's forums work is that each forum has multiple people monitoring it and making sure that no question or inquiry goes unanswered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009.

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Frogloop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Earlier this week on Frogloop we discussed how four grassroots campaigns (1Sky, Clean Energy Works, the Energy Action Coalition and Focus the Nation) tried to build the Climate Network an unprecedented online community platform. We discussed our vision, our plan of action, what went wrong and how we tried to correct it. But what could we have done differently to make this project a success?

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Frogloop

MARCH 8, 2011

The future of our media is about a whole lot more than whether another season of Jersey Shore gets made (but that’s part of it…). It’s also about whether we can organize on Facebook, or communicate with our smartphones, without cable, telephone and cellular companies discriminating against what we say or where we are saying it. It’s about whether cable news outlets and blogs and newspapers will discuss and debate important issues in a meaningful way.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2015

Adonia Lugo. Creator. Bicicultures. From building a movement to groundtruthing an organization's policies, a listserv can be a powerful tool for a revolution within and beyond an organization. I am a big fan of email listservs. They can be a great tool to bring together people virtually who will not cross paths in life. My first experiment with online networking was creating the Bicicultures list in 2012. Advocacy listserv online community Organizational Culture Program

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

s Online Giving, Offline Power ,??? WCF Foundation has just released a new report: ??? Vote With Your Purse 2.0: Women???s a study of women online donors and how the Internet is changing the nature of political engagement for women. The study (which was also featured in the Wall Street Journal , summarizes the results of a poll of 600 women. Some key findings: The Internet enhances key values that motivate women to give.

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Frogloop

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Offline or online donors? For many nonprofits, about 90% of their donations come from offline donations. If your nonprofit still hasn't carved out a good strategy for integrating both offline and online fundraising, you need to start now. 32% of online donors earn $100K+ VS 18% of offline donors. The median gift of first time online donors is almost double of offline donors - $62 VS $32. Online donors also donate more money over time than offline donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. What kind of offline events are the best fit for your community? Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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