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I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. Because of this commitment, the disability advocacy groups I know about are actively supporting the settlement as a victory for disability rights. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.
The Arc of the US Convention - 2009. Stacy Monaghan, Online Advocacy Manager, The Arc of the United States; Mr. Jon Erickson, Ms. Did you know that The Arc’s convention will have a session on Social Media from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM on Friday, November 13? Embracing Social Media (C). Presenters: Ms. Kristin Erickson, Parlerai, Inc.,
I'm getting ready to head to the Social Enterprise Summit 2009 next month in New Orleans. I'm especially excited about the significant focus on public policy and advocacy for social entrepreneurship. We were lucky to have the support of the Surdna Foundation for a policy-specific conference track.
The 2009 Arc Convention is happening right now in Pittsburgh. How are you using videos for your online marketing and advocacy efforts? If you’re reading this I hope you are here at the convention. I wanted to share a special video with you for this installment for Video Fridays.
The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans.
All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Video: Online Advocacy Trends Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 6th, 2011 The recordings from Blackbaud and Care2′s Advocacy Live 2011 event are now online.
14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. Engagement, advocacy, fundraising – these are all areas where QR codes will help you tap into the mobile market. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them! Are you using QR codes at your nonprofit?
Online fundraising grew 14% from 2009 to 2010. However, it’s important to note that the 2010 fundraising response rate was actually 0.08% and fell 19% on average from 2009 to 2010. Online Advocacy and Email. The 2010 advocacy response rate was 3.3%. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ?
Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.
From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.
Only 5% of Websites Have a Twitter or Facebook Link – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Factual, an “open data repository&# analyzed 4 million websites via data from Common Crawl, a non-profit group designed to crawl the web and provide data for anyone to use."
I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. But I’m quite looking forward to it.
Considering many of you are advocacy organizations, you might be interested in the Golden Dot Awards: Golden Dot Awards recognize achievement in online politics. for an electoral campaign, political party, official ballot, issue campaign, advocacy group, etc.) Vote here for the 2009 Golden Dot award winners.
I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. can’t do good research or do advocacy. We need to more work better as an ecosystem.”
We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC.
This means that the “big three&# nonprofit CRM/Fundraising/Advocacy vendors will all be publicly traded companies, and thus completely beholden to their shareholders to maximize profit. Convio has registered to go public.
cyber world becomes, instead of a bunch of walled gardens where data moves in only very limited ways between them, a fully permeable space where data flows freely, it will be possible for nonprofits to have much greater reach and impact, whether it be for fundraising, advocacy or constituency-building. { In the long term, if the whole web 2.0
We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. Email still performs incredibly well across all categories -- from fundraising to advocacy. Tags: Advocacy benchmarks email Fundraising m+r marketing metrics newsletters NPTech NTEN. What are you struggling with?
Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.
say the most successful nonprofit online advocacy experts. The truth is that online advocacy, and social media outreach used as part of a broader strategy, can both impact legislation and mobilize supporters to do other kinds of advocacy and donate money. Is online activism "slacktivism"? Absolutely not!"
Somewhere in the midst of all that, he found time to sit down and talk to me about his session at the 2009 NTC , Online Organizing for Community Organizers : And, for what it's worth, Charles says no one should miss out on the Science Fair at the NTC. Tags: NPTech Advocacy NTEN 09NTC. We agree, Charles!
I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. What are your goals for 2009? Then, try to think in even broader terms.
During my Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (MNLM) studies, I gained an appreciation for volunteers and an interest in how volunteers can engage in advocacy. The terms advocacy and lobbying are generally used interchangeably to describe how nonprofits influence legislation and public policy. Grimm R, T., Talbert, M.
CareQuest Institute collaborates with a wide range of partners to achieve its mission of improving the oral health of all through work in grantmaking, research, health improvement programs, policy and advocacy, and education, as well as leadership in dental benefits, care delivery, and innovation advancements.
As a result of C3’s advocacy efforts, $15 million for a new peer reviewed cancer research program is included in the final Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill. C3 Helps Secure $15 Million for New Cancer Research Program. Because we (C3) made it happen.
As a result of C3’s advocacy efforts, $15 million for a new peer reviewed cancer research program is included in the final Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill. C3 Helps Secure $15 Million for New Cancer Research Program. Because we (C3) made it happen.
collaborations about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote mobile technology in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. Each event includes. interactive discussions.
Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.
As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access. But what's coming up in 2010?
The Human Rights Center is sponsoring a challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy. Two representatives from each of the 14 Featured Projects will be invited to present their ideas in person at N2Y4, May 26-27, 2009 and compete for cash prizes. Learn more.
This Challenge encourages innovations for mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy. All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “ The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media ,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. About the HRC Mobile Challenge.
After studying over 50 international nonprofit organization's email lists and response rates, the 2009 eCampaigning Review Study revealed that 60% of nonprofits present a compelling argument for supporters to take action, yet close to 70% of the organizations did not send a follow up email within one month.
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We’ll be adding in our e-advocacy platform as a future step because we’ll need to change what platform we’re using as the GetActive platform we’re on now is going away. The data transferred for e-advocacy isn’t quite as robust as I would like, but you get a lot more than with other solutions.
If you’ve worked with us before at M+R you know we’re data nerds—and with this year’s benchmarks report we’ve embraced our inner nerds at a whole new level, working with 31 nonprofits to figure out what worked, what didn’t, and why it matters when it comes to online messaging, fundraising and advocacy.
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I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0
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