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Monday, 03 October 2011 10:38 |
Event Price: 40.00 EventDate: November 10, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm Type: Live Training
How can a nonprofit make the best use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? We'll talk through how they work, what's worth doing, and how other organizations are using them. Event Link: ... |
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Friday, 30 September 2011 08:10 |
Recently, we posted a Facebook scatterplot called How Many Facebook Fans Should your Organization Expect? that compared the size of organizations' lists against their number of Facebook friends. In this quick Ask Idealware video, Laura Quinn explains how to read that graphic to make the most of it.
Got a question for Idealware? Send us an email and we'll try to answer it in a video.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:32 |
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Our executive director’s husband, Henry Quinn, is a creative thinker and occasional blogger whose thoughts sometimes stray into topics of interest to the nonprofit sector. I just got back, in my professional capacity, from this year's Shop.org annual summit in Boston, and a couple of things seemed worth sharing here. Obviously, we were talking retail, but the tone of the technology discussion had some relevant features. (I apologize in advance for using marketing rather than nonprofit... |
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Monday, 26 September 2011 14:31 |
In April 2011, Idealware asked a diverse set of nonprofits using Facebook how many people were on their email list, and how many Facebook fans they had. To find out how the two numbers related, we took the results from each of the 477 organizations that answered and plotted them visually.
Wondering how your organization stacks up? Check out the graphic here, and tell us what you think.
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Monday, 26 September 2011 14:14 |
PublishDate: September 2011
Is social media working for your organization? That question seems simple enough until you start to think about it. Working for what? Compared to what? Are you doing what you are supposed to be doing? Wait, what exactly are you doing again?It’s a lot easier to answer a specific question, like “How many comments are you getting on your blog?” That’s the secret to... |
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Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:41 |
Cloud computing seems to be the wave of the future, but how secure is it? Jay Leslie explains the risks and benefits of keeping your data in the cloud in this AskIdealware video.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:07 |
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PublishDate: September 2011 Author: Andrea Berry Chris Bernard Social media can be useful for any nonprofit, but posting blindly without monitoring results can be a waste of time. Knowing whether your efforts are paying off can help you adapt your posting strategy to better meet your goals and improve... |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:01 |
PublishDate: September 2011
(First published in the September issue of the NTEN: Change journal.) Social media has provided nonprofits with a whole new toolbox for marketing themselves and engaging constituents. Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your... |
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Monday, 19 September 2011 19:19 |
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For the past decade, the bulk of unlawful web-based activities have been profit-motivated: phishing, spam, "Nigerian" money scams, and hacking to get credit cards. This year has seen a rise in politically motivated crimes, most widely exemplified by the loosely-knit group of hackers known as "Anonymous". Anonymous hackers attack the websites of organizations, be they government, corporate or otherwise that they deem to be repressive or unethical. In addition to defacing the... |
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Thursday, 15 September 2011 14:22 |
Collecting credit card payments in the field used to be a lot more challenging than it is now. Amazingly, most of us already have the technology we need right in our pockets. In this AskIdealware video, Kyle Andrei tells you how to process payments by smartphone.
To learn how to use other tools to accomplish this, or to learn more about this one, read our free article, A Few Good Methods for Processing Credit Cards.
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Monday, 12 September 2011 09:30 |
Idealware has social media on the brain lately. Over the past year, we've done a lot of work around social media, and based on the eager response from our audience, have no plans to stop anytime soon. Not only are we updating our Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide for October 2011, but we're also planning a new Social Media Policy Workbook to be released in the first quarter of 2012.
And both of these publications will include a directory of the consultants who can help organizations... |
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Friday, 09 September 2011 13:12 |
PublishDate: September 2011 Author: Andrea Berry
(First published in the September issue of the NTEN: Change journal.) Social media has provided nonprofits with a whole new toolbox for marketing themselves and engaging constituents. Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start... |
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Friday, 09 September 2011 12:28 |
Q: What do Star Trek, the NFL, advertising and trash cans have in common?
A: Idealware's senior researcher, Jay Leslie, who manages to namedrop all of them in his short video explaining "augmented reality."
Want to know what a technology is, what some terminology refers to, or how to do something with software you're currently doing the hard way? Email us with your question and we'll try to answer it in our AskIdealware video series. Trackback URL... |
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 10:55 |
 I saw this Harvard Business Review stat that claims one in six IT projects are money pits, going on average 200 percent overbudget and taking 70 percent longer than planned. I wonder what would happen if we could see only nonprofit IT project performance--what would that look like? I suspect not much better, and possibly even worse on the scheduling side, as that's certainly been my experience. It makes me think that nonprofit organizations have a tendency to want... |
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Friday, 02 September 2011 14:21 |
 PublishDate: August 2011
August 201111 Ways to Thank Your Donors Via TechnologyAndrea Berry and Chris Bernard provide 11 helpful tips to put technology to use to make donors feel appreciated. Originally published in the NonProfit Times, this article looks at both tried-and-true and... |
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Friday, 02 September 2011 14:19 |
PublishDate: July 2011
July 2011Article Update Extravaganza!
This month we dug into the Idealware vaults and brought back nine of the most popular articles in our "Few Good Tools" series. Then we updated them for 2011 with... |
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Friday, 02 September 2011 14:18 |
PublishDate: June 2011
June 2011Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey
Should your organization be using Facebook? Nonprofits are increasingly told that they “need to be on Facebook,” and countless gurus and experts offer them advice for maximizing their Facebook presence to get the... |
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 19:18 |
 Sometimes it seems like open source CMSs should "just work." Anyone who's built a site in an open-source CMS knows that that's far from true. They often need quite a bit of tweaking to get the job done. And when your org doesn't have a bottomless budget, how can you can you build the perfect site? In my experience, sometimes budget limitations can make a website better. When you have to be disciplined in your approach, it can help to clarify a project in ways that can make it more stable and... |
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Monday, 29 August 2011 11:15 |
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For an quick, inside look at how Idealware manages so many successful on-line trainings, take a look at Andrea Berry’s post, http://idealware.org/blog/askidealware-how-does-idealware-prepare-seminars. Like Idealware seminars themselves, Andrea is clear and to the point -- focus the subject matter, prepare an outline and organize the content. Of course, as Andrea pointed out, Idealware does three to five seminars a week. What about the occasional, or even first time... |
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 15:04 |
If your organization hasn't tried friend-to-friend fundraising techniques, let Andrea Berry convince you it's time to take a look.
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