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Brush Up your Tech IQ: Free Idealware Seminars

from Common Good Vermont Blog on Jul 21, 2010 3:23:03 AM

Author: Nick Carter

Our friends at Idealware are offering  free on-line seminars in July: Website Domains: Getting, Keeping and Working with a Website Address Thursday, July 22, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern.  FREE! In this free one-hour seminar, we’ll talk through the important things you need to know about setting up and maintaining control over a [...] More...

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

from Beth’s Blog on Jul 29, 2010 4:58:09 PM

Author: Beth

Note from Beth: It’s vacation week for me, not publishing much this week or next accept for guest posts and a few book reviews or if I find inspiration.  This guest post was written by Rob Reed. He is the founder of MomentFeed, a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. Location technologies are [...] More...

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#CitizenGulf - Unfolding a Social Media Strategy

from Frogloop on Jul 27, 2010 2:30:34 PM

Author: Geoff Livingston

The CitizenGulf project was just unfolded last week. A national event on August 25 with would-be meet-ups throughout the country designed to create awareness for the Citizen Effect project, seeks to raise funds and awareness for fishing families. The effort also fits the nonprofit's citizen empowering philanthropy philosophy, which is identifying actionable problems and solutions amongst major problems, such as this one -- the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. How does one go from an oil spill to a national meet-up event? What strategies and tools will be deployed? Here's an inside look on how we scaled from a nonexistent program to a national effort in just three months.

Strategy Begins with Research

We began our effort with a very visible citizen…

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Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation

from Beth’s Blog on Jul 27, 2010 1:13:46 PM

Author: Beth

I’m on vacation this week and next!   We’re visiting family at the Jersey Shore, but stopping in DC to take the kids to the Smithsonian and other DC highlights.     You might see a few blog posts or tweets but don’t expect a fast reply via email.     Playing tourist in DC,  it is interesting to see [...] More...

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2010 Overachiever’s Guide to Year-End Fundraising

from Frogloop on Jul 26, 2010 1:37:54 PM

Author: Alia Mckee

Like crime, procrastination doesn’t pay. Literally.

For many organizations nearly half of online fundraising revenue comes in during the month of December. But in actuality it takes months of preparation – building and stewarding an online community, inspiring donors, cultivating them, testing in advance of year-end and analyzing your metrics -- to really make the most of your year-end fundraising opportunities.

The good news is you’ve got several months – four to be exact – to get your fundraising house in order.  That’s why Eric Rardin and I co-wrote this Overachiever’s Guide and presented a Care2 webinar on…

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The basics: Raise awareness and funds with video

from Philanthropy Journal - Marketing/Communications Articles on Jul 26, 2010 9:05:27 AM

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For many nonprofits, the thought of making a video can be scary. But by sticking to four basic steps, it’s possible to create a video to enhance a larger campaign.

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Online Fundraising Contests: Effective or Digital Litter?

from Frogloop on Jul 24, 2010 12:38:02 AM

Author: Allyson Kapin

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

from Beth’s Blog on Jul 23, 2010 12:21:02 PM

Author: Beth

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit.    It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice. I’ve had the pleasure working with one of [...] More...

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Social Media Nonprofit Benchmarks

from Frogloop on Jul 22, 2010 5:13:58 PM

Author: Allyson Kapin

One of the biggest questions nonprofits have been asking for the past couple of years, is what benchmarks should they be using for social media? The 2010 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report released by NTEN has some great data that nonprofits can use for guidance.

Nonprofit Social Media Benchmark Data You Need to Know

According to 1200 nonprofits surveyed:

  • Facebook is the number one used commercial social network by nonprofits. 86% said that they have a…
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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

from Beth’s Blog on Jul 22, 2010 1:43:48 PM

Author: Beth

Becoming A Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to deliver a half-day training workshop for staff members working at Junior Achievement Offices at their worldwide conference.    This workshop is called “Becoming A Networked Nonprofit:  Using Social Media Strategically.” The learning objectives: To understand what a Networked Nonprofit is and [...] More...

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The Networked Nonprofit Has Arrived In Australia

from Beth’s Blog on Jul 22, 2010 6:52:15 AM

Author: Beth

I’m so thrilled that the Networked Nonprofit has made it Australia! A few years ago, I had the opportunity to keynote Connecting Up, the national gathering of Nonprofit Techies hosted by Connecting Up. I’m thrilled that they shared a photo of themselves eating tim-tams and their #squirrel mascot! I just had to blog [...] More...

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