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September #4Change Chat Topic: Change Failure

Amy Sample Ward

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. The workers on the front lines of the change are often the first to see signs of trouble yet, in most org structures, they have the least interaction with upper management.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

Get Fully Funded

Leaders who understand their numbers can keep their nonprofit financially healthy and easily explain their key stats to funders. When leaders don’t understand or avoid numbers, lots of bad things can happen from misrepresentation of the nonprofit’s work to overspending and even bankruptcy. Managing time.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. How do you involve the org? Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc. Have you seen examples of your org changing?

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

Connection Cafe

For more interesting industry metrics, check out these 50 fascinating philanthropy stats —Danielle . Are there EOY tips for orgs that are Science and Research focused? Then, I’ll shorten and tweak the 2 page letter for an email, knowing that email readability and structure is quite different from direct mail.

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New Gmail Tabs and Nonprofits: Don’t Panic, Don’t Assume the Worst and Keep an Eye On It

Connection Cafe

— As most e-mail marketers are very much aware of by now, on July 22 Gmail released a new tab structure to its inbox. In some cases, the new tab structure may actually turn out to be beneficial. Orgs 1 and 2 saw their Gmail open rates increase, with Org 1 getting a corresponding lift in click-through rates.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. In fact, for you, environmental folks listening, special focus on environmental orgs. And here’s some impressive stats about WhatsApp. I’m going to show you some stats in a minute. I’ve gotten to know Naira over the last.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Signals launches a podcast series with " From Org Charts to Sitemaps: How Organizational Structure Affects Web Strategy and Implementation." And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here. " Looks like MySpace is also getting sued for copyright violation.

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