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Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers. You can also explore the possibility of having one of your projects listed on GlobalGiving. 2) Launch an e-newsletter. Many NGOs do send e-newsletters, but via BCC. 4) Study and mimic large NGOs.

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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. The students attending her academy, MyTechBestFriend, were upset. Others privy to goings on at MTBF say the Discord incident was not the first time Awodele had allegedly punished a student for speaking. “We

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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

student at top-ranked Carnegie Mellon University when he attended a talk by Yahoo’s chief scientist about 10 of Yahoo’s biggest headaches. One issue stood out: hackers were creating bots that register thousands of email addresses to send spam. Luis von Ahn, the inventor of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and co-founder of Duolingo.

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Optimizing Student Prospecting Efforts with Social Listening and Influencers

Connection Cafe

Social media can play many important roles in your student prospecting efforts— from knowing what prospective students care about to recruitment to enrollment. Learn why social listening is important and how to find and use the influencers among prospective and existing students, alumni, and parents. Find Your Influencers.

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Earth Day Roundup

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

email SPAM is a major contributor to IT energy consumption, utilizing 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m A couple months ago I posted about "Green IT" and the growing awareness that information technology demands fuel and creates emissions like all other energy consuming activities.

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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Strategies: Breaking Through the Noise

Neon CRM

Whether you choose to do this over a livestream video, as a post on social media, or in another format, consider having two people support this project. For example, imagine you host an “ask me anything” session and learn that your supporters are deeply interested in your new summertime lunch program for students.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. Her project Blogging the Dream , is one of the six new health-focused citizen media outreach projects that were announced in June by Rising Voices and Open Society Institute's Health Media Initiative.

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