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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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50+ Year End Fundraiser Email Subject Lines

CauseVox

Alternatively, 69 percent of email recipients flag an email as spam based on the subject line. To make sure your email gets read rather than ignored, marked as spam, or tossed in the trash, compelling fundraiser email subject lines are an absolute must. So, what does this mean? Subject lines can make or break your email campaign.

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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It should be mobile-responsive, attractive, and include features like: Online registration with secure payment processing Customizable text, imagery, and URL The ability to collect donations Sponsor onboarding and digital exposure Live leaderboards 1. Online Registration is Expected It’s an online world. Email campaigns.

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2. Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception.

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Does your nonprofit, like this meat, need some help?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I received an email with a reference to hamburger meat and at first I thought it was more spam. program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. Flickr photo by zen??? But soon realized it was from Hamburger Helper???s

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5 Email Sins to Avoid (Again)

sgEngage

And it’s more than likely spam, too. It could be asking to take a poll, survey, participate in a contest, or help spread the word for your organization. This could be as simple as a reminder email for people who registered online for an event. No Segmentation. No Follow-Up. Email campaigns are never one-and-done.

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