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Avoid Last-Minute Blues: Tips For Planning Ahead For Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

Key benefits of early planning Now, lets flip the script and focus on why planning early is worth the effort. Cost savings Last-minute bookings often come with a premium price tag. Low engagement : Poor planning and delays can send signals to board members that the session will be poorly run and result in feeble outcomes.

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Mastering Your End-of-Year Fundraising Plan: Calendar + Checklist

Bloomerang

October Collect testimonials, impact stories, videos, and pictures and use them to write ‘reporting back’ stewardship emails, postcards, texts, thank-a-thon phone scripts, or letters. Give board members a thank-you script and a few discovery questions in case the donor answers. Schedule in-person ask visits with donors.

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Amazon S3 for web server backup

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We have a script going which runs by cron daily to do the backups. One of the scripts we’ve use is here. (We Tags: CMS Linux amazon aws backup drupal s3. We’ve been using it for “offsite&# backup for drupal sites for a while now. There are a number of ways to do this. We also use rsync.)

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How to Set Up Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager on Your Cvent Event Pages

Media Cause

Setting Up Google Tag Manager with Cvent For many nonprofits, events are a key part of their donor strategy. Setting up tracking using Google Tag Manager can be very challenging, but the Media Cause Marketing Technology team has conducted research and found a way to add Google Tag Manager to your event pages.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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8 SaaS products for managing customer data

The Next Web

Ryan Buckley , Scripted, Inc. . With Infusionsoft, it is easy to tag every click, page visit or form a customer completes on your website, social media platform or email you send out. This program makes it easy to import and export customer lists, tag customers, edit their contact information and set reminders to get back in touch.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. These are guides you’re providing – not mandates. This is not the time for brand policing. You want individuals with personalities.