How to Truly Show Your Online Community Manager Appreciation #CMAD

How to Truly Show Your Online Community Manager Appreciation #CMAD: The following pyramid lays out a composite view of meaningful moves that you can make today and their relative importance to community managers.

It also illustrates the flip side of appreciation with a reverse pyramid of things that frustrate online community managers.

Nonprofits flunk online fundraising test � Philanthropy North Carolina

Nonprofits flunk online fundraising test � Philanthropy North Carolina: he inaugural Online Fundraising Scorecard, a study by Dunham Company and Next After, reviewed the websites of 151 organizations over nine months in 2013, signed up to receive emails, and made an initial $20 gift.

The study looked at 56 key indicators in four key aspects of online fundraising, including email registration, email communication, the donation experience, and the gift acknowledgement process.

Nonprofit Collaboration Tech: Easy As PB & J | #fundchat

Nonprofit Collaboration Tech: Easy As PB & J | #fundchat: Many nonprofits, especially small ones, struggle to find technology tools that are affordable, easy to implement, and help spur collaboration across teams, volunteers, and yes…even donors!

How to Choose the Best Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Fundraising

How to Choose the Best Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Fundraising: With all of these choices, it can be difficult to know which will be the most effective for your nonprofit. I conducted a roundtable with six experts to learn their best advice for choosing a crowdfunding platform. Here’s what they had to say.

7 ways nonprofits can use Jelly — Small Act

7 ways nonprofits can use Jelly — Small Act: On the nonprofit side, social media staff at environmental news provider Grist have started messing with the app to determine it's possibilities, posting a picture of a sandwich with the question, "What's your favorite vegetarian lunch? #MeatlessMonday"

RuffaloCODY buys crowdfunding business for nonprofits | TheGazette

RuffaloCODY buys crowdfunding business for nonprofits | TheGazette: ScaleFunder, an online engagement and fundraising business that provides integrated crowdfunding solutions to nonprofit organizations, has been acquired by RuffaloCODY of Cedar Rapids.

Duane Jasper, president and CEO of RuffaloCODY, said ScaleFunder’s emerging crowdfunding technology, developed at the University of California, Los Angeles, will complement his company’s fundraising tools for colleges and universities.

GOOGbye, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers | Re/code

GOOGbye, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers | Re/code: OMG strangers! was just one of many strong reactions to the news that Google was opting Gmail users in to a confusing new feature. Here’s how it works: Google users that you have added to a G circle (its version of following) will be able to message you in Gmail without needing your email address. These messages will look like email, but will appear in a Social tab, not your main inbox. Within Gmail, you can disable this feature completely or open it to all G users, depending on whether you’re an Inbox Zero or Inbox Million type of person.

Make The Web a Better Place with Better Content | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS

Make The Web a Better Place with Better Content | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS: n our quest to consume more and more content, we’ve developed quite an appetite.

Perhaps now more than ever, it’s actually more difficult to carve out a little corner of the social web and plant a flag because there’s simply so much stuff being produced en masse each and every day.

Facebook. Twitter. Medium. Instagram. Every status update and blog post adds to the p

Content Marketing Can be King For Donors | The NonProfit Times

Content Marketing Can be King For Donors | The NonProfit Times: More than nine out of 10 nonprofit marketers, or 92 percent, use content marketing, but only 26 percent consider themselves effective at it. One-quarter has a documented content strategy. Those are some of the results of a survey released by the Content Marketing Institute of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charleston, S.C. tech firm Blackbaud.

Tech tools seen boosting funder collaboration � Philanthropy North Carolina

Tech tools seen boosting funder collaboration � Philanthropy North Carolina: Funders that want to work together but find it tough to do can turn to technology to make it easier to collaborate, a new report says.

New tech tools “can make collaborations easier by reducing inefficiencies and enabling new methods of working together,” says Harnessing Collaborative Technologies, a report from the Monitor Institute and the Foundation Center.

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.