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JANUARY 16, 2008

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark » Wednesday Jan 16 2008 So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 03:57PM | by James OMalley Help us help you by taking the frogloop 2008 Reader Survey ! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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DECEMBER 6, 2007

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 03:10PM | by James OMalley We just wanted to pat ourselves on the back and, more importantly, THANK YOU for helping Care2 surpass the 8 million member mark. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Post a Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. I youve ever wondered how mapping can help your nonprofit, this is THE webinar to attend. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I recommend it highly. Heres a link to the registration page. Good luck with your presentation. All rights reserved.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

If youre looking for some last minute help with your year-end fundraising, make sure you check out our Procrastinator’s Guide to Year End Fundraising. If youre looking for some last minute help with your year-end fundraising, make sure you check out our Procrastinator’s Guide to Year End Fundraising. All rights reserved.

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MAY 16, 2007

Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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JULY 15, 2008

While youre at it, the always fantastic Agitator blog posted a video article linking to new data and a helpful article showing how to save costs related to online video. He gave a series of tips that will help video become popular, but stressed the fact that some videos will never go viral. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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JUNE 16, 2009

This doesn’t mean you’re fundraising ask has to be restricted to the issue you are working on, but let people know that their financial support can help bring about change on this issue and on the many other issues you work on. June 16, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Quantifying those asks (e.g.

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MAY 9, 2008

I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists. May 14, 2008 | Kivi Miller Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing. All rights reserved.

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MARCH 23, 2009

If they do match up, good job, but they can still help you shape your content and provide a better user experience once visitors come to your site from their search results. The links to site map generators were really helpful too. May 19, 2010 | Brenda Johnson Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks tons for sharing this info.

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MARCH 27, 2009

The interactive conference was a unique opportunity for cross-industry learning among 11,000 web geeks from every area of the web. Receive monthly updates 2 Comments | by Share Article in Conferences , Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0 Your takeaways from SXSW manage to sum up the conference in 4 bullet points - wow!

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy. I youve ever wondered how mapping can help your nonprofit, this is THE webinar to attend. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I recommend it highly. Heres a link to the registration page. Good luck with your presentation. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 30, 2009

Update new activists on what is happening or has happened as a result of their action, then ask them to take the next step to help on that issue or on your next campaign. Did they help? How did they help?) Tell them about the issue without giving them an option to help in some way is a wasted opportunity.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

for Charities -- and launching GreenNonprofits.org , to help nonprofit organizations “green” themselves. Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Gives me hope! All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

for Charities -- and launching GreenNonprofits.org , to help nonprofit organizations “green” themselves. Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Gives me hope! All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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MAY 22, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Care2

JANUARY 19, 2009

Learn how M&R has helped leading nonprofits like The Wilderness Society grow from 50,000 email subscribers to a highly-responsive list of over 300,000. id=gk63ogf2 January 23, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Was this recorded? January 19, 2009 | Nate Nate, you can get the recording here. All rights reserved.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Is it to gather donations or content?

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APRIL 22, 2009

I said, "I dont know if this will be valuable, but it cant hurt," and any tactic that could help raise our profile was received well. It wasnt a story Id planned on pitching, but it was a great way to promote our brand (irreverent, not politics-as-usual) and help a journalist looking for a source.

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MARCH 4, 2008

We had 22 video submissions, 2,000 new list members via the winners page leading to [a campaign] to help end dogfighting, and 52,000 YouTube video views of the original video. March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com What sort of statistics can you share with us about the competition? How many videos were submitted?

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

Help us (and the progressive community) better understand the current trends and strategies employed in online monthly giving programs by taking this short survey. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com That’s why our friends over at M+R have decided to take an in-depth look at nonprofit online monthly giving (a.k.a.

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JULY 17, 2008

To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. May 18, 2009 | last minute Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Thanks again for the post. All rights reserved.

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JULY 16, 2008

To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. May 18, 2009 | last minute Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Thanks again for the post. All rights reserved.

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MAY 8, 2008

I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists. May 14, 2008 | Kivi Miller Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Could that concept be translated to help a local nonprofit? I reached out to John Hawbaker, the editor of Chattarati , a local Chattanooga blog, to see if we could adapt Twestival to help Girls Inc. Chattarati had contemplated doing something to help the community, and we worked out a plan for First Friday Five.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

Most recently, at the Marine FishConservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governingfishing in U.S. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Eric has morethan seven years experience with running integrated advocacy campaignsfor environmental nonprofits.

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AUGUST 8, 2008

Most recently, at the Marine FishConservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governingfishing in U.S. Comments Off | by Share Article in Email Marketing , Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising Copyright © 2008, Care2.com ocean waters.

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JUNE 17, 2009

These three leading nonprofit organizations at various times enlisted Care2s support to help them in this great cause -- and as a result more than 100,000 of Care2s activist members took action to support the campaign. See [link] June 17, 2009 | Eli Beckerman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result? Partial victory?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. The huge Volkswagen scandal seems to have helped the cause. Library of Congress, working with the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

tools are critically important to their work and were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Conference to discuss the importance of incorporating Web 2.0 Conference to discuss the importance of incorporating Web 2.0 If you engage influentials right, they can help your organization spread your message, introduce new people to your organization and blog about it. world is an active hub filled with influentials.

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JUNE 5, 2009

Offering incentives to donate online may help boost response rates. April 1, 2010 | sales leads Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Here are some quick and easy tips to start building up your online lists. Encourage your offline members to donate online so you can capture their email addresses. All rights reserved.

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MARCH 3, 2008

We had 22 video submissions, 2,000 new list members via the winners page leading to [a campaign] to help end dogfighting, and 52,000 YouTube video views of the original video. March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com What sort of statistics can you share with us about the competition? How many videos were submitted?

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MAY 8, 2009

May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

The Peace Primary is a campaign we devised – unique, as far as we know – to promote a “peace platform” for the election season, and to commemorate two major milestones at Ploughshares Fund – our 25th anniversary, and the fifty millionth dollar awarded to organizations and individuals around the world.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". February 7, 2009 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative."

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JUNE 17, 2008

“Rather than perpetuating an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality,” the CMF authors write, “the organizers of grassroots advocacy campaigns should identify opportunities for positive communications and relationship-building both to accomplish their goals and to help strengthen democracy.”

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JUNE 21, 2007

Running ads that link with a co-registration campaign, like those offered by Care2 , are fantastic ways to boost your lists Social networks, like Care2, Facebook , and MySpace help people attach the issue with themselves and become more personally invested in it. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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