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Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 1)
This is a follow-up to Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0) that originally appeared on this blog and also as a guest post on Beth Kanter's blog . One of the key takeaways from Part 0 is that once you stop just playing around with social...
More NetWits Summer Camp Sessions Added
We must be on to something. In just two days, Blackbaud is close to completely filling up NetWits Summer Camp , our free five-day series of web seminars about how nonprofits can better use the Internet. So we've gone ahead and added five more sessions...
Is Your Website Broken?
Raheel Gauba's blog Sans Profit Design got me thinking about website usability. It's not a topic talked a lot about in the nonprofit sector these days. A lot of time, resources, and money is spent on lots of website initiatives and tools, but...
Digital Leap Conference in London
Today is the Digital Leap conference in London. It's all about fundraising, social networking, and online charity success in the UK and Europe. Digital Leap is being held at the ICO Conference Centre in central London. There are a great set of speakers...
Is 99% Failure Acceptable?
I am spending a lot of time these days looking at numbers. Lots and lots of numbers. Mostly because I'm working on a new book and exploring the wonderful and strange world of online fundraising metrics. (More on that in future blog posts) One thing...
Recent Required Reading
There is a lot going on in the nonprofit world these days. Here are some excellent blog posts to keep you in the know. Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks Beth Kanter does a review of the Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report...
2009 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference - Day 3
It's the last day of the 2009 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Francisco. Yesterday's plenary session by Clay Shirky was amazing. Read Chad Norman's 15 Clay Shirky Quotes That Blew My Mind at NTC blog entry. Blackbaud has two...
2009 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference - Day 1
This year's NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Francisco and it's sold out. About 1,450 attendees will be here over the next three days for some great sessions, speakers, and lot of talk about technology. NTEN is a membership organization...
Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)
For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. I thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. Before starting to create...
Taking Five Website Staples to the Next Level
Allison Van Diest, senior product marketing manager for Blackbaud’s Internet Solutions, has just published a new white paper called Beyond the Basics: Taking Five Website Staples to the Next Level. The recommendations come in part from findings in the...
Internet Investments Survey
Blackbaud is conducting a survey as part of our State of the Nonprofit Industry (SONI) series. This SONI survey on internet investments hopes to help nonprofits better understand how much to invest in online marketing and fundraising and what to expect...
2009 Target User Forum - Day 2
It's day two of the Target User Forum here in Boston. The morning starts off with the keynote session Josh Bernoff , co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies . Josh is one of the most sought after speakers on...
2009 Target User Forum - Day 1
A lot of things are going on in Boston this week at the 2009 Target User Forum . It will be a busy three days of sessions, meetings, and getting to connect with some of Blackbaud's customers. This morning starts off with the opening session called...
2009 Online Giving Trends - Q1
The first three months of 2009 are over and there is some information that I wanted to share about online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. This is a follow-up to the 2008 Online Giving Trends that was released in January. This information comes from...
PayPal and Blackbaud Partner to Help Nonprofits
Blackbaud and PayPal have announced the launch of BlackbaudNow , an affordable solution to help new and growing nonprofits reach their fundraising goals. "More than 100,000 nonprofits already use PayPal for payment processing, We know that our work...
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