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The 2014 Agents of Change Conference was packed with insightful, useful information that I cannot wait to fully digest and use! The speakers all know their stuff and walk the social media walk. It was a pleasure to watch them speak and learn from their experiences. If you couldn’t be there, I do pity you. There are still digital passes …
It’s that time of year again – the M+R and NTEN annual Nonprofit Benchmarks Study! This year they surveyed 53 nonprofits, looking at data on online fundraising and advocacy. Some of the more interesting findings: Email continues to account for about a third of online fundraising revenue. Online giving increased 14% over 2012 totals. Monthly website traffic grew by 16% in …
2013 was certainly a banner year for Facebook. Some mind-blowing statistics: There are over 1.19 billion users worldwide. 728 million of these users log in daily to the social network. While some teens in the UK and US are calling Facebook “dead and buried”, the often overlooked Gen X & Y-ers worldwide make up almost 30% of Facebook users. (This …
Recently, I was forced to change my email inbox. Reluctantly (grumbling all the way), I accepted the new design of Gmail. The new inbox creates three tabs and filter emails according to where Gmail thinks they belong – Primary, Social and Promotions. I had already spent countless hours setting up filters and labels to correctly file all of my emails …
Have you signed up for today’s webinar? It’s hosted by NPO Connect, and I will be discussing ways to use all the communication channels available to nonprofits in a comprehensive and cohesive way. Sign up here! Description: Social and Web 2.0 technologies have changed not just how we market and promote our programs and services, but also how we manage and …
Email can be a very effective tool for engaging your community. It’s been proven time and time again that email is NOT dead and that it has the most ROI (return on investment) for nonprofit fundraising and marketing efforts. When combined with social media, the ROI of email marketing skyrockets. Any time your organization communicates with stakeholders and the community …
Email marketing is a necessary tool in any effective marketing toolkit. When used correctly, business and nonprofit professionals can use their email lists to grow their social media communities. Here is a good example of a simple way to do it. Crown Trophy, a small business in Peabody, Massachusetts, created a Facebook page, and wanted to let their customers know …
Whether you believe that “Inbox Zero” is a fantasy or an achievable goal, there is no doubt that our email inboxes have become increasingly competitive places. Survival of the fittest certainly applies when it comes to what emails get read, which get archived and which get (gulp!) permanently deleted. So how do you ensure that your email newsletters and e-blasts …