Author Archives: Neil

Strengthening The Donor Nonprofit Social Connection With The Social Web

March 2, 2010 – 9:03 am

A lot has changed since the social web has become mainstream in personal and professional interaction and like any change, it goes through varying stages of acceptance among users. I have a friend or two who have accounts on Facebook and Twitter but wish them using social networking instead of picking up the phone and [...]

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Twitter – Where Nonprofits And Donors Connect

February 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

Twitter has emerged as a social media channel for people to connect that simply can’t be ignored. As a recent Socitm report put it while doing a study on the use of social media for local government services “Failure to engage with the [social media] trend is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end [...]

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Why CRM Is For Business And Donor Management Software Is For Nonprofits

February 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm

Tired of managing your donors in excel sheets and thinking of trying out something a bit more sophisticated like CRM (Customer Relationship Software)? You may want to hold on to that thought for a while and consider a few things before taking the plunge. While the donor management process in a nonprofit can be considered [...]

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The Race For The Shorty Awards In The Nonprofits Category Is On

February 5, 2010 – 7:07 am

Attention spans getting shorter, shorter posts and content snippets in the form of micro blogging are getting more popular. If Twitter’s user base is anything to go by there is nothing short about the growth rate of this web phenomenon. To top it off everyone’s attention has now shifted to the Shorty Awards the web’s [...]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Through Facebook – A Stroke Of Genius

February 3, 2010 – 7:05 am

We often talk about the way social networking and the web can be used to the advantage of non-profit organizations and just when you think ‘we’ve seen it all now…’ something out the blue happens to knock your socks off and remind you just how powerful the web can be in critical non-profit activities such [...]

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How Nonprofits Can Harness Volunteer Power Through Web Based Software

January 28, 2010 – 7:48 am

It could be the long commutes to the work place, the insanity of fuel prices or just the sheer convenience of being able to work from the comfort of one’s own home but it’s very evident that more organizations are leaning towards a distributed workforce. While this trend is still picking up among these businesses [...]

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The Value Of Thank You In Effective Donor Management

January 26, 2010 – 8:15 am

Thank You – perhaps of the most important words in anyone’s vocabulary and undoubtedly the most important in the fundraising and donor management realm. It’s gratitude in it’s simplest form and an acknowledgment for a donation or contribution whether in cash or in kind and no matter how big or small that contribution is, the [...]

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