Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specific personalization When sending an appeal letter, thank-you note, or email to a donor, always include a note at the bottom and say something about the impact their gift has made and something very specific about their kids, dog, family, home, job, favorite sport, hobby, alma mater, volunteer work, or latest travel adventure.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Some online e-commerce stores like Etsy spotlight Black-owned businesses or have a special tag you can search through to find Black-owned businesses to shop at. You can do this by visiting a Black history museum or African American heritage site, by reading and sharing books written by Black authors, and by exploring Black music history.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

I found that MediaMonkey , a free music organizer/player, sync tool that I had used with an older MP3 player, will sync my tunes with the Pre. I also installed the Music Player (Remix). Keep the screen turned on while charging -- very handy when listening to music in the car. Allow messaging and email in landscape mode.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

User Friendly -When hosting an in-person gathering, getting the tangibles in place takes more than just a quick email, and often needs months and months to plan. Cost Effective – Decor, gift bags, marketing, music, catering, venue…and the list goes on.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

When writing an automatic donation receipt for a 501c3 organization, you should include: Personalization using merge tags, which automatically pull a donor’s name, organization info, and transaction info into the receipt. But, you’ll want to add a few elements to your receipt that really make it stand out to your donors.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 17, 2012

Work email/calendar/tasks is on an Exchange server, personal email is on Gmail. When I got the iPad yesterday I subscribed to iTunes Match to sync up music that was on my computer, and PhotoSync dealt with the images. ” Tagged: apple , ipad , iphone. I’m going to find out. I backup data to iCloud.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 4, 2008

As the one who manages email communications for a nonprofit and someone who gets a lot of email across 4 accounts, I see both sides of the CANSPAM coin. Back when I had a Blackberry, I was happy to get emails from them about new features, downloads, etc. I subscribe to Apple’s “New Music Tuesday” e-bulletin.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

Whether it’s Twitter or email or a social network, people often find it difficult to ask hard questions online because it could be seen as overly negative or critical, maybe the shared glossary of terms don’t match up and the question is misunderstood, or there’s details that one side or the other don’t have access to.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

I spend time desperately trying to capture some of these insights myself, or give someone an action item (send me an email on that and I’ll do it). And then, we dashed off to get some fondue, dress up for the big South Africa party, and stay out ‘til 2 listening to great music and talking shop (just a little).

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

Great, tag on a QR code in a visible place on the direct mail piece to encourage people to make a donation on your website. This is another great way to capture your offline donors email addresses so you can foster relationships with them online too. Direct Mail: Sending out a direct mail appeal to your membership?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I want to thank you for the email. Disney High School Musical: Stories from East High #13 19. Tags: accessibility volunteer donor gift books Bookshare. get the book scanned and into Bookshare. I feel honored!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology. Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Many VoIP plans include traditional features like three-way calling and caller ID, as well as features exclusive to these services: voicemails in your email inbox (and by phone), options to forward calls to other phone numbers (including your mobile phone), and the ability to place and receive calls anywhere over the Internet. Custom tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Thirty-five percent of contest participants rated messaging to friends through Facebook as most effective; 32 percent rated personal email to friends, family and colleagues as effective or most effective; and 25 percent rated email to an existing organizational donor base as effective or most effective.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Many VoIP plans include traditional features like three-way calling and caller ID, as well as features exclusive to these services: voicemails in your email inbox (and by phone), options to forward calls to other phone numbers (including your mobile phone), and even the ability to place and receive calls anywhere over the Internet.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

The parts I choose not to sync from the road (Music, Movies, Photos, etc.) I’ll read email on my laptop, enter appointments in Google Calendar and have no way of transferring that info to my phone until I get home. Tags: OTA iphone sync Macintosh. should be left alone. While I’m gone, no new podcasts.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

This method is great for its ease of use and immediacy but will not allow you to add any sound effects, music, or cut in other voices and input. As you get comfortable editing content and producing the audio files, you can embellish the podcast with sound effects, music, and additional guests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. It automatically uploads to Youtube or other service or emails the video. . Tags: FLIP. The most skill to teach novice users I think is shooting tips and how to moment capture or only shoot footage that requires minimal editing. And, all I can say is WOW.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader. " - from Tom Dekker via email. Next Steps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But, when I have to write or blog or think about something, I find more and more that I need to stop being social - not do Twitter, Facebook, or email. I also need to put classical music on my Ipod and concentrate in a different way. Tags: movement building netaction network effectiveness network weaving scholar social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2007

A couple weeks ago Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow tagged me to be a part of the media consumption meme that has been flying around. Music: I buy CDs sometimes, but mostly I download music from the iTunes Music Store. It's been a pretty busy couple weeks, so I'm just now getting to it: Books: My favorite category!

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts. You can also tags. Music in video: Wonder Drums by porchcat The winner would receive $50 to their favorite cause or charity. 54 people joined the group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 You can email them to me. David Maister asks " What do consultants know? " Reasoned Audacity has some good tips on how to prepare for a radio or TV appearance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 at 12:26 pm Well, you can’t get everything… why not email them? It’s a mess out there. Anyone going to help clean up? I’m ready to save time so I can go out in the sun.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2007

until you have your personal musical masterpiece. Conceptually, I like this notion that the game makes you work to "find" the pieces you will use to create music. Because A Break in the Road privileges the process of acquiring sound elements (and appreciating urban sounds) as part of music-making. Tags: game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. The Day Before the Day of Service is always a crazy blur for me because I'm generally in the office our local partner, along with Cheryl Hanback , generating the last version of the check-in list, name tags, and materials.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 but inviting me by the email addy you know wont get me access to the spreadsheet you’re trying to share. Many shouldn’t, but, some, arguably, certainly can. 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

But how do you attract your key audiences to your small stage within an enormous music festival? You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Such is life.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

" I also add in the conference technorati tag at the bottem as well as any trackback urls. I learned how to type while I was in music school so I could temp to make some extra money. However, now that I've recently upgraded my camera phone - I will play with using email to flickr option. I'm a fast, very fast typist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice. I had sooo much fun creating.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. 11 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2005

info, software owned, software downloaded, files) - Identify what config info can be exported/imported - Think about file folder structure and how to improve on new system -- since I've been using tagging, my file folder and document naming habits have gotten totally sloppy. I have 20 years of files on my hard drive - honestly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. 09 was the first version I used).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2009

Maybe it's a learning program for people who want further content knowledge, or perhaps an activity-based program where people make music together or blow glass or build robots. He set up an email list and encouraged us to set up another evening a week during the class to practice together.

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