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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. More and more I rely on webcasts to educate myself in new technology trends. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector.

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. You should be looking at monthly trends over time. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need.

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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals. It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Convio Buys GetActive: Is that the end of software legos?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. The trend now is merger after merger into domination by one software company in the sector versus the integration and specialization of software.

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All You Need To Know About Virtual Conferences

AccelEvents

An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Trends toward online and virtual experiences have been evolving in the last decade, and experts suggest that large-scale virtual events are here to stay.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. The meme then spread to France and the US, and was picked up by media such as Mashable, Huffington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc.

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