Non-Profits and Social Media: Nothing to be scared of!
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Paula Attfield on
September 29, 2010
I love social media. I love it for its potential to bring people together. I love it for its potential to help us make the world a better place.
Take the earthquake in Haiti for example, people from all over… Continue reading →
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Fundraiser Retention: Video the Passion
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Shane Davis on
September 27, 2010
I read a great post on The Agitator about Crowd Accelerated Innovation, a theorem from Chris Anderson. I liked the discussion on the speed at which video is able to amplify great ideas to go beyond words and… Continue reading →
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The Monthly Donor “Rip Off”
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Liz Attfield on
September 22, 2010
There’s a commercial I like on TV. It’s a simple premise: a man hands a kid a large wheeled, shiny red truck, telling him to “Have some fun with that truck!”
The truck is as big as the kid’s torso.… Continue reading →
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RFQ
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Steve Thomas on
September 20, 2010
We here at Stephen Thomas Ltd are fundraisers, not vendors. We care deeply about our clients, their work and our sector.
A good relationship with a client is a bit like a marriage. It takes work on both sides and… Continue reading →
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Non-Profits and Social Media – Twitter Engagement
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Paula Attfield on
September 16, 2010
I follow hundreds of charities on twitter and over 100 are Canadian organizations. Out of those I follow, less than half followed me in return. The other half have ignored me.
Fewer still (only 11!) went to the trouble of… Continue reading →
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7 strategies to maximize your return on email
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Taslim Somani on
September 13, 2010
Since the early 1990’s when AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail’ hit the mainstream, marketers have embraced email as the number one way to foster direct, one-to-one communications with customers and prospective customers online.
In fact, in an eMarketer report last November,… Continue reading →
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Magic bullet or silver bullet?
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Steve Thomas on
September 4, 2010
It turns out they are much the same. A magic bullet is “a quick and easy solution for a difficult problem – a means of accomplishing the impossible.” And a silver bullet is “an action which cuts through complexity and… Continue reading →
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