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Personify Blog: Hosting a webinar can be an anxiety inducing experience for many people. Here are some of the top reasons why… and some tricks to turn your next webinar into a treat.

LinkedIn is Great...But Not as Your Community Platform — Mizz Information

LinkedIn is Great...But Not as Your Community Platform — Mizz Information: I know this topic has been discussed to death, particularly in the association community, but I just can't help weighing in again after seeing it come up yet again in the ASAE LinkedIn group. The topic? Killing a private community in favor of using public social media platforms--in this particular case, LinkedIn groups.

Tips for Virtual Fundraising Success | npENGAGE

Tips for Virtual Fundraising Success | npENGAGE: While most of us were planning our July 4th barbeque, Valencia College Foundation was preparing to launch their First ONE campaign. This year the foundation took their six-week fundraising campaign online using peer-to-peer fundraising to supplement their offline campaign activities. At the end of the day the foundation raised $203,817 which included a matching grant, recruited 152 fundraisers on 36 teams, and attracted 170 first time donors.

11 Flavors of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising | npENGAGE

11 Flavors of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising | npENGAGE: Peer-to-peer fundraising isn’t just for cause and cure organizations anymore. The rise of crowd funding coupled with a changing donor demographic has led to a surge in nonprofits of all types building do it yourself (DIY) fundraising programs.

Beware! The Scary Truth About Widgets [Infographic] | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog

Beware! The Scary Truth About Widgets [Infographic] | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog: ith visions of holiday campaigns and jolly green dollar signs dancing in their heads, many marketers overlook the most important part of a successful online holiday campaign: Web performance. It’s where speed and user experience come together.

For example, websites that take longer than three seconds to load immediately lose 80% of site visitors, and 40% never return.

Big Data Era Will Help Mass. Nonprofits Thrive and Tell Their Story

massnonprofit.org ::: Big Data Era Will Help Mass. Nonprofits Thrive and Tell Their Story

October 29, 2013 — Nonprofits are at the threshold of a new era in which, using extensive, detailed data and data analysis tools, they will be able to more fully and accurately measure their effectiveness and tell their story to key constituencies, Massachusetts sector leaders were told today.

Hyperlocal Bets On Nonprofit-Focused Retool | NetNewsCheck.com

Hyperlocal Bets On Nonprofit-Focused Retool | NetNewsCheck.com: A Massachusetts-based hyperlocal has relaunched this month, betting on a unique nonprofit-focused content model to drive Web traffic.

As the debate rages on in the local digital media community as to whether hyperlocal news ventures can scale, Xtraxtra.com’s management team says they’re confident the site’s niche play — charities and nonprofits — and minimal expense structure (contrary to the corporate overhead of AOL’s Patch) will equal succes

Twitter Helps Intel Foundation Plan Grants - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Twitter Helps Intel Foundation Plan Grants - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: The Intel Foundation plans to award $100,000 in education grants to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and it turned to Twitter for advice on what programs and organizations to support.

“We thought it was a great opportunity to engage in a conversation with people who don’t usually have the opportunity to have a voice in donating that kind of money,” says Wendy Hawkins, the fund’s executive director. “We also thought we might get some really good ideas that we just wouldn’t come up with on our own.”