Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 5, 2012

While they used the Verizon logo and colors, the logo is blurry, the font is wrong, the From: addresses aren't at Verizon domains, and the English is tortured (opening line: "CONSIDERABLE ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION FROM VERIZON WIRELESS."). For your convenience, your approval letter can be reviewed in the Account Documentation part of My Verizon.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Did you know that the average open rate for the nonprofit organization is around 25.17%, much higher than the industry average open rate, which is just 21.33%? So you must optimize email templates for mobile users to ensure higher open-rates and click-through rates. An eye-opening report authored by Brett Schenker states, .

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And there’s a lot of pressure resting on this line, especially when 35% of people say that their decision to open an email comes from the subject line alone. In the words of author Ann Handley, ask yourself: “WWYO – What Would You Open?”. Avoid sounding like spam. All of the data from your email (opens, clicks, etc.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Keep your eyes and ears open for Twitter Chats relevant to your mission and programs, save the date and time, and then jump in on the day of.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You don’t review the results of your emails. Are your audiences still opening your emails? Write your subject line before your message, as if your audiences don’t even open your email, they wont’ get to see the body text that you spent hours creating and refining. You don’t clean up your email bounces.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2017

This issue of email deliverability — the percentage of email that actually makes it into inboxes and not spam folders — is becoming a critical issue for nonprofits of all sizes. How Your Emails Become Spam. Email Deliverability Defined. Nonprofit staffers across the country are taking notice. Create a welcome series team.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. One of the areas we focused on was constituent interaction. Download it for free at [LINK: [link] ] to learn more.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. Instead, review your copy from a specific, intentional perspective that allows you to experience it anew. Is this truly a compelling starting point?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Before each training I review the Web presence for each NGO in attendance. It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers. 1) Launch a new website that is mobile-optimized. Many NGOs do send e-newsletters, but via BCC.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Email marketing softwares take the manual labor out of sending bulk emails and increase the likelihood that they’ll actually get opened and read (rather than going straight to the dreaded spam folder). They’ll then provide data on your impressions, open rates, click-through rates and more. Email marketing. Free stuff.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In this article, I’ll define each of these measurements, review what impacts them, and share some easy math tips that are guaranteed to make you smarter than most of the people around you who might be sticking their noses into your email performance data. The impacts for your click-to-open rate are the same as for the clickthrough rate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Here are some tips to help you create content that your recipients will open, read, and take action on. Some are tagged as relevant, and some are not-- these often land to the spam folder. Additionally, separating inactive donors can also help in maintaining high open rates. The Shorter, the Better. Simplicity Is the Key.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members' names. design: is it clean?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

In a nutshell, Apple announced a new privacy feature which can prevent senders from knowing when a user opens their email. This means that when an Apple Mail user activates this new privacy setting, you may have no way of knowing if that user opened your emails. For reference, the sector average open rate is 20.39%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Note from Beth: Alison Zarella is the co-author of the recently published “ The Facebook Marketing Book.&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly. In some cases you’re even hindering functionality if you don’t include open settings to allow invitees or members to post content to the Wall as well. Any guidelines?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

She reviewed these selection criteria for each and entered each element in to a spreadsheet for easy scanning: Focus on these Critical Factors. Make sure your e-newsletter provider tracks how many people (and who) get it, open it and/or click through to your website. Step 3: Dig Into the nitty-gritty with online research.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Writing last month's post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we've worked to boost our numbers. Despite the increased volume, we've managed to increase our absolute open rate year-over-year. Looking just at our webinar messaging, we saw an open rate of roughly 22.5%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. Looking at Ebay process - can measure the transaction and get user reviews. More Flickr Photos here.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? Email is a critical channel.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

review from a woman who attended an evening event at the Exploratorium and wrote: I attended the Fisher Investment party as a plus one and WOW!!! Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. I was going to write to my community.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2018

In this webinar, John Miller and I reviewed Return Path’s latest report on the Hidden Metrics of Deliverability (spoiler alert – nonprofit/educational organizations don’t fare as well) and provided a variety of tips on getting more emails to the inbox. Does an organization get notified if emails are marked as spam?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

When I opened a saveguimaras account , in less than two weeks, we had 200 people who signed up. Myspace avoids spamming so the members usually blocks people from adding them directly unless you know them personally or their email. Read Allison Fine's Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age (I reviewed here ).

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Neon CRM

MAY 5, 2023

For a more comprehensive review of some of the top CRMs for nonprofits, check out our comparison guide. Your CRM shows you that your email only had an email open rate of 10%. Maybe the subject line is turning off recipients or your emails are incorrect or maybe you’re getting flagged as spam.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. I thought it was spam. And I think people wanting to come to these sites would really be open to these kinds of things.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So if you have to bounce early, or maybe you get interrupted, or just want to review the content, don’t worry. I don’t mean spamming people. You’re not spam. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be spam. You’ll get the recording from me later on today. It’s just a fact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So you’re going to need to send several in order to get through, and you’re going to need a really good job writing really compelling subject lines to get them to open it. They only read the ones that speak to them with compelling subject lines that they want to open. No spam here. This is the reality of end-of-year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 7, 2019

We often hear from nonprofits that they are worried about spamming donors. If that is your concern, I ask you this: do you think the donors who received that same text as I did were unsubscribing as a result of spam? Text messages have a 98% open rate. Probably not. The younger generations aren’t the only ones using mobile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Newsletter Spam Check :: mail-tester.com. This free tool reveals if your website domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols. Using emojis on social media can increase engagement and when used in email subject lines, can increase open rates. See also OptInMonster.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Here’s how to approach the goal of boosting engagement in a SMART way: Specific : Increase donor engagement with fundraising activities Measurable: Increase fundraising email open rates and social media followers by 20%. Total number of social media impressions Email open rate: The number of times your email was opened.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If your donation form opens in a new window or navigates your supporters away from your main website, they may become unsure about who they are giving their hard-earned money to. Don’t have it open in a new window! Specifically, it advises organizations to review their websites for: Images without text descriptions.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Second, once you have a keyword phrase in mind, type that phrase into Google and review the content of the first page results. Here you’ll want to review each piece of content to determine: The angle covered for each topic. However, by taking that extra step I open the door to: Possible future link opportunities.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our eyes were opened to our country’s racial and economic injustice. Review your donor data with an eye to loyalty and include at least one (preferably three or more) monthly giving appeal(s) every year to your target audience. Twenty-four percent of nonprofit emails end up in spam folders. Photo by Nadin Mario on Unsplash.

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