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Net2 Rebate for 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit!

amysampleward — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:06:58 -0500

Aspiration is offering the Net2 Community a special deal on the upcoming 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit: Register for the Summit, and receive a $75 registration rebate!

Interview: BullyingUK, John Carnell & Social Media!

amysampleward — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:42:43 -0500

John Carnell, co-founder and project manager of BullyingUK, a nonprofit organization working on anti-bulling campaigns in the UK including services for youth, parents and schools, recently took time from the active participation in social media to chat with me about the organization's work. BullyingUK has incorporated social media tools into communications, fundraising, and community buildling. Learn more about how they are succeeding in the interview below.

Nonprofit Software Development Summit Nov. 17-19

amysampleward — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:08:16 -0400

"Are you a developer writing code to support nonprofit needs? Are you a nonprofit user with strong opinions about what software you need developed to empower your programs and operations? Are you someone who just cares about seeing better technology developed to address the broad range of issues we face as a global community?"

Check out the Nonprofit Software Development Summit!

Shifting The Conversation: The Anti-Institutional Giving Pool

alexsteed — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:53:59 -0400

What we know as an organization-led realm is in an interesting state of flux.

This is a subject I have a professional interest in, and hope to dissect in great detail over the course of the Millennials Changing America Tour. I'll be blogging some of my findings here, and much of the concentration of my NetSquared coverage of the tour will focus on this shift.

We spend much of our time trying to connect the nonprofit (and the nonprofit minded) with the technologies necessary for the advancement of institutional altruism. However, we spend relatively little time looking at how the technologies necessary for advancement are changing the landscape of the nonprofit realm.

Ike slams us... into calling for donors via social media tools

cmartin82 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:30:24 -0400

Our organization has been in an unusual position since Hurricane Ike slammed us a week and some change ago. Houston is just now reverting to normalcy... though a complete recovery is months away, if at all possible. The Blood Center shut down its operations for four days in response to Ike and began collecting again last Tuesday, calling for the public to give blood and replenish the supply.

Using YouTube for Outreach and Fundraising

amysampleward — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:45:53 -0400

I recently wrote about Tu Diabetes' use of Twitter and the strategies the online community has employed to find and engage with new people. Today, I want to take a look at another social media tool Tu Diabetes is using successfully: YouTube.

Keeping Readers Coming Back For More: NetSquared Blog Tips and Observations

alexsteed — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:59 -0400

We very recently took a look at what is and is not getting read on the NetSquared blogs and figured that the information we came upon will be as useful to your content development strategy as it will be to ours.

Here are a few things that jumped right out at us (the bold is straight from the report, followed immediately by my commentary):

Amateur photogs extend NPOs' reach on flickr

cmartin82 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:17:50 -0400

As I've been (mentally) exploring the many ways for my NPO to effectively use social media tools, I've also been paying close attention to what others are doing. A great example of a non-profit on Flickr came up just the other day, when Houston's Opera in the Heights extended an invitation for local amateur photographers to a photo shoot for its upcoming production of Madama Butterfly.

THIS IS A CRAPPY WAY TO RIGHT AN EMAIL RIGHT?!!!?

alexsteed — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:54:45 -0400

We would like to believe that since we're web-savvy enough to be interested in finding out how to bring success to our organization via augmenting our web-presence, paying attention to our email formatting is so 1997. I thought so too until I received the following email:

ALEX I WOULD LIKE TO TALK WITH YO ABOUT THE MILLENNIALS PROJECT DOES ANY TIME THURSDAY WORK??

Now for the quiz:

This email was from:

Can you get in the game? -Using video to connect

Mazarine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:37:40 -0400

Engaging the youth!

What does it take? Whether you're on the board, on staff, or a volunteer, this is on every nonprofit's mind. And if you're looking around yourself at all, you're attempting to plan ahead. Developing support for your nonprofit means communicating. A lot.

What about making people laugh?
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=529102816568&ref=nf