Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I also use a mailing list to send friends things I read. I created NPOblogs as a means to aggregate the many socially progressive blogs that were appearing. I also wanted to create a site to aggregate all the different online advocacy campaigns running based on categories, so a user could have a one stop shop to do ???

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As you look at the data in aggregate, do so for both members and non-members to get a big picture of engagement behavior. opening mails, visiting the website, starting to earn credits). Use aggregate scores to validate and improve member value. Next, let’s talk about how to use engagement scores to guide your members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2012

The study takes a deep dive into the metrics associated with a multi-channel marketing program at CARE USA – particularly the relationship between traditional direct mail and digital channels (also referred to in the study as offline and online). annually; this is 46 percent more value to a nonprofit than direct mail only donors. [See

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Salesforce allows you to log and aggregate every interaction your nonprofit makes with a donor, prospective donor, or organization in one easily accessible place. Below are a few ways Frankfurt, and hundreds of other nonprofits, let Salesforce help achieve their goal. Track every interaction.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report – "Five years into the research, it is clear that direct mail giving is still the overwhelming majority of fundraising revenue, and organizations must find ways to optimize multichannel giving versus hyper-focusing on internet giving alone. ."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

E-mail Metrics. Aggregating data over time will give you a much clearer picture of your subscribers' interests. You may send out 10 e-mails featuring cats, 10 about dogs, 5 with a picture of a horse, and so on. You may send out 10 e-mails featuring cats, 10 about dogs, 5 with a picture of a horse, and so on.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We are aggregating answers with each recurrence of the event. Sending out mail or email to bad addresses? We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. As a kick-off to each event, we ask three short questions.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

Salesforce is not ideal for long-term management of high-volume data, but Salesforce’s limitations can be solved through a combination of archival and virtualization strategies, shipping of aggregation between systems, and well-developed integration strategies exchanging information in and out of a warehouse and/or data lake. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. Wufoo :: wufoo.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. There is an evolving category of tools (some free, some not) that can help make the tasks associated with content strategy, engagement, and tracking less onerous.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added. They include opening bank accounts, virtual mailing addresses, and trademark and IP registration. “From telling us to set up takes days.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Based on some great feedback from our community, we've updated the way our voting widget displays your feedback on the 2012 NTC session proposals: Instead of showing the aggregate number of all the votes, it now shows the total of all "Up" and "Down" votes, giving you a better idea of how much overall activity a session is receiving.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

It’s an aggregation of all of these touch points, and includes both customers, eventual customers and one-time users. As always, you can find me on Twitter @nmasc_ or e-mail me natasha.m@techcrunch.com. Community isn’t a single Slack group or event or newsletter. who is building the best community in edtech right now? techcrunch.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Admittedly, a number of startups have come and gone claiming this, but it claims to have taken a unique approach to make the process of buying fashion easier by acting as an aggregator that pulls products from all leading fashion retailers. As a B2C aggregator, it pools inventory from leading retailers. It has now raised $1.7

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

LeadershipDigital launched today. The only downside is that if you're like me, you'll end up spending hours on the site working your way through the wealth of excellent content.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We believe e-mail should come from a person, not an organization. It may not cost much to send an e-mail, but it does add up over time. But – as long as the data is collected and used in aggregate – I'd much rather see advertisements targeted to my specific interests than yet another Unilever ad for Axe body spray.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

As always, you can find me on Twitter @nmasc_ or e-mail me at natasha.m@techcrunch.com. Here’s what to know per Danny Crichton and Alex Wilhelm: PSA: most aggregate VC trend data is garbage and Are SAFEs obscuring today’s seed volume are two pieces that explain some of the reasons why the numbers might be flawed today. techcrunch.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

A single year’s worth of 990s costs over $2,500, arguably to recoup the costs of pressing and mailing all these dics. The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. The IRS does make nonprofits’ Form 990 returns available, but only on DVDs for a high fee.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The aggregator website that launched earlier this year now gives you access to more than 50 bloggers who write about leadership and management , including: Harvard Business Review. You can subscribe to receive a daily or weekly/monthly eNewsletter that delivers the best, update-to-date content to your e-mail inbox. Women On Business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Before we started, blind people were read to, or had tapes of people reading the book sent to them in the mail – they physical snail mail. We promised not to criticize anybody’s database publicly, but we did tell them how their database compared to the other ten in aggregate. You won’t be surprised what we found out.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example, we've seen that people who are on more social networks tend to respond less to direct mail. As more users are getting online, do you feel that your organization is wasting money on direct mail? We're in the business of social discovery and online content aggregation and work to assist organizations like yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Even though I find email is often an information overload application, Damir gave an interesting example: at the WHO, a 20.000 people network manages over easy mailing lists and easy features, proving traditional ways can be successful, especially in developing countries. He basically argued that web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. It will tell you which of your donors/activists are on social networks, what social networks they are on and how many friends they have in aggregate. The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis. Family members. Information flows.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

That meant more platforms, more apps, and more disconnected locations that collect and aggregate data. This includes everything from inaccurate biographical and mailing information to duplicate records to contact names with improper casing (eg, “scarlet oneill” rather than “Scarlet O’Neill”).

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 15, 2024

These are among the insights from exclusive analysis conducted by the The NonProfit Times on aggregated, anonymized donors modeled with the help of Data Axle Nonprofit, which has 25 million active donor records in its Apogee cooperative database. This group, however, is aging out of the donor pool. But that’s likely only part of the story.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

mobile phone collector and aggregator. They have multiple collection channels, often through retailers like Best Buy, and also through mobile phone retailers, wireless service providers, and free mail in programs. One presentation I really liked was from Chuck Newman, the founder and chairman of ReCellular , which is the largest U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Integrating student loans into the GradJoy app turned out to be a patchwork of brittle, insecure screen-scraping APIs, physical check mailing and compliance hurdles, according to Shah. (TechCrunch previously covered GradJoy, which sought to help students better manage their loan repayment plans through an app-based system.)

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

First off, you need to approach social media with the same diligence and attention to detail you use with your direct mail, email, and telemarketing programs. You wouldn't invest in mailing a new acquisition package without detailed test panels and list selection criteria, right?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email. This was the first time I noticed people posting on the wall taking to one another, not me. The thread also includes some great nuggets about streamlining the content strategy as well as streamlining interactions with fans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Admittedly, a number of startups have come and gone claiming this, but it claims to have taken a unique approach to make the process of buying fashion easier by acting as an aggregator that pulls products from all leading fashion retailers. As a B2C aggregator, it pools inventory from leading retailers. It has now raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The company last year released a small experiment that hinted at what was to come with Holiday Helper , a desktop app that helped users more easily put together their holiday mailing list. “We don’t sell it in aggregate form and individual forum we don’t target advertising based on it. Image Credits: Sunshine.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. Direct mail just doesn’t yield what it used to. Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes WHY CROWDFUNDING IS VITAL.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The issue is that smaller retailers — realistically, anyone that is not Amazon, but especially those new to the e-commerce arena — typically don’t have systems in place to manage that delivery process in an efficient way.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Credit card payments are donors’ preferred giving methods— 63% of donors prefer to give online with a credit or debit card , followed by direct mail (16%), PayPal (10%), wire transfer (5%), cash (4%), digital wallet (1%), and text-to-give (1%). Use third-party software review aggregators to get insight from real customers.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. It's not going to replace email by any means – no more than email has replaced direct mail. (If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. So, Facebook shows potential.

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