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#FUNDRAISING: Presidential Candidates Ramp Up Mobile Giving
With the (delayed) start of the Republican Convention in Tampa earlier this week, the really officially serious campaign season starts. For the next 10-odd weeks, most American start to focus on the...
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#COMMUNICATION: Is Your Nonprofit Staff Conversing With Both Audience & Each...
As social networks and social marketing have matured over the last two or three years, a debate continues as to how effective social media is to inspire action (be it making a purchase, donating to a...
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Big Bird Soars to Social Media Victory
Big Bird (Photo credit: LR_PTY) While we wait for the final vote count, a clear early winner of the 2012 campaign season is Big Bird. When Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised to “fire” the...
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Social Media: For those whose most immediate marketing problem is marketing themselves to employers, have I got a book for you. It’s The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media, by Mazarine Treyz, who is...
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#COMMUNICATIONS: Postal Service Rates To Rise on 27 January
Forever stamps still good after the 27th. We have managed to put off the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ for a couple of months, but we can’t avoid the changes in postal rates coming in a couple of weeks....
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#FUNDRAISING: Register for Maryland Governor’s Grants Conference
As the calendar year unfolds and the fiscal year 2013-2014 appears over the horizon, so too does registration begin for the Maryland Governor’s Grants Conference. This year’s conference will be held at...
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What Worked for Obama’s Email Fundraising Machine
Two key members of the Obama campaign’s online fundraising team recently offered surprising insights on what worked and what didn’t to their former colleagues at M+R Research Labs. Their bottom line:...
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#VIDEO: Ken Sterns’s Book Offers Tough Love To Nonprofit Economy
Ken Sterns, former CEO of NPR, challenges the nonprofit sector Ken Sterns has served as CEO of National Public Radio, arguably one of the best-known nonprofits in the country. He supports The American...
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#FUNDRAISING: Crowdfunding Response To Boston Bombing Raises Hope & Caution
One of the wonderful qualities of Americans is the way we respond with our time and our money when a terrible shock or natural disaster hits our fellow countrypeople. The bombings in Boston on the 15th...
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#ADVOCACY: Google Does Harm To Privacy & Suffers An Hour’s Income For...
Google as a gateway spying agency? What you think about Google’s (and Facebook’s. And Twitter’s…) efforts to collect personal information of its users probably says quite a bit about what you think...
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