Tracking Social Media Fundraising Revenue: Understanding the Challenges | AFP Greater Toronto Chapter - Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Toronto Chapter

Tracking Social Media Fundraising Revenue: Understanding the Challenges | AFP Greater Toronto Chapter - Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Toronto Chapter: What you need to start asking is “how did you track your fundraising results?” because all the keyword strategy, timing tests, creative tests or anything else is worthless, if we can’t adequately track the true fundraising results. Innovation tomorrow will come when our present-day strategies prove worthy of investment.

#CMAD 2014 Community Manager Awards | Community Manager Appreciation Day

#CMAD 2014 Community Manager Awards | Community Manager Appreciation Day: Community Managers are amazing. You know this, and so do we. That’s why this year, for Community Manager Appreciation Day, we’re going to start a new tradition. In a joint partnership with BTC Revolutions, HootSuite, Meshfire, Nimble and Sprout Social, we’re excited to announce the 2014 Community Manager Appreciation Day Awards!

Blackbaud Highlights Key Technology Trends For Nonprofits in 2014 | Blackbaud News

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Blackbaud Highlights Key Technology Trends For Nonprofits in 2014 | Blackbaud News: In 2014, technology will continue to have an even greater impact on nonprofits,” said Mary Beth Westmoreland, Blackbaud’s vice president of product development. “Tremendous opportunities exist for these organizations to use technology to deliver on their missions in a very effective and scalable way, both when engaging with supporters and when managing back-end operations.”

Leaving Donations On The Screen | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits

Leaving Donations On The Screen | The Agitator - Fundraising, Direct Marketing and Advocacy Strategies for Nonprofits: Firstly, all the media/digital monitoring services are now reporting that more than half of emails are opened with a mobile device. And mobile viewing of online video, as well as your ‘plain ole’ website, is also accelerating very rapidly. See The Agitator’s reporting here, here and here.

Second, undoubtedly, virtually all nonprofits, looking at trends to date, have built aggressive growth assumptions for online revenue into their 2014 projections. High expectations have been created for the bosses and boards.

Technology for Good Report

Technology for Good Report: Technology for Good identifies ten technologies being used in innovative ways to create positive social change.

Examples are drawn from charitable organizations working on widely varied issues around the globe. This makes Technology for Good a unique repository of inspiration for the public and private sectors, funders, and other change makers who support using technology for social good.

Five Tips for Developing a Successful Email Newsletter | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

Five Tips for Developing a Successful Email Newsletter | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS: Despite the advent of the “always-on” mentality that social media has instilled in us, email marketing is still one of the best ways to reach your audience, especially for small business.

The reasons in favor of using email newsletters as part of your marketing mix far outweigh the reasons not to,

Op/ed: Tri-county nonprofit trends to watch for in 2014 | Pacific Coast Business Times

Op/ed: Tri-county nonprofit trends to watch for in 2014 | Pacific Coast Business Times

Wearable Technology for Your Nonprofit? | Community Techknowledge

Wearable Technology for Your Nonprofit? | Community Techknowledge: It’s 2014 and wearable technology now has the capacity to make smart phones seem “so yesterday”, but probably NOT for the typical nonprofit exec. Frankly, nonprofits are generally absent in most early-adopters of breakthrough technology groups, but once they feel comfortable enough, nonprofits do find highly effective ways to apply technology to th

China’s Internet Users Increase Weibo Logins - eMarketer

China’s Internet Users Increase Weibo Logins - eMarketer: Social users interact with brands, follow popular personalities and shop

The majority of internet use in China is done via mobile devices. It makes sense, then, that among the changes in China’s social media ecosystem is the rapid emergence of “weibo,” mobile microblogging services akin to Twitter. These have been adopted so quickly by internet users in China that they have surpassed most “traditional” social networks, according to a new eMarketer report, “Mobile Social Platforms in China: Marketing Opportunities and Challenges.”

Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012 - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012 - News - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Online Giving in Holiday Season Grows 17% Over 2012

By Raymund Flandez

Online donations from November 1 to mid-December are 17 percent higher than in the same period last year, according to Network for Good, a nonprofit that processes gifts made electronically.

Donations rose to $37.4-million, up from $31.9-million during the same period in 2012.

Google's charity donation app comes to iOS for the holidays

Google's charity donation app comes to iOS for the holidays: It's the season of giving, and this year, iOS users will be entitled to share the love with Google's One Today app

Belfast Nonprofit Brings Affordable Technology to Mainers | Bangor, Maine News, Sports, and Weather - WABI TV5

Belfast Nonprofit Brings Affordable Technology to Mainers | Bangor, Maine News, Sports, and Weather - WABI TV5: We’ve helped almost 10,000 families so far in the 12 years,” said E-Commerce Manager Calvin Robbins.

Jodi Martin started the nonprofit, Information Technology Exchange, with her husband.

“We have two programs. One is PC’s for Maine and one is PC Medix. PC’s for Maine is our nonprofit. We are a computer literacy project, 501 C3, and we help get computers into the hands of underprivileged, schools, non profits, and libraries,” said Martin, the executive director.

VT Nonprofits Get Website Upgrades | Common Good Vermont Blog

VT Nonprofits Get Website Upgrades | Common Good Vermont Blog: Managing a website no longer needs to be intimidating for a nonprofit of any size. Content management systems, such as WordPress, make adding or editing content as simple as writing an email or drafting a Word document.

Since the start of the project, the Vermont Digital Economy Project has helped nearly twenty nonprofits to revamp their web presence in a way that empowers them to control their own messaging. In the White River Valley alon

HUGE! Facebook Rolling Out "Donate Now" Feature for Nonprofits

From John Haydon

HUGE! Facebook Rolling Out "Donate Now" Feature for Nonprofits: Facebook is rolling out a new feature that lets Facebook users make donations directly to their favorite nonprofits via the News Feed.

This donate now feature will appear beside posts in the News Feed and at the top of non-profit Facebook Pages participating in the program.

Digital civil society emerging � Philanthropy North Carolina

Digital civil society emerging � Philanthropy North Carolina: Digital technology and data are driving the use of private resources for public good, and the shape of that emerging social economy will depend on how nonprofits, philanthropies, business and government address critical questions about the ways that data are collected, shared and used, a new report says.

“How we use private data for public benefit will be a definitional issue for our future social economies in Europe, the United States, and across the globe,” says Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013.