Today’s NOI Tip of the Day is a great one. It’s a very actionable and simple way to increase action rates—send follow-up emails!
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Planning for a website redesign?
Is your website dated, clunky or hard to update? Are you hoping to redesign it but are struggling to figure out where to start? Redesigning a website can be an overwhelming and costly experience, but careful planning can ease the pain a bit and help you save money on design and development.
Abstract Edge released a free e-book this week that guides you through the planning process step by step, and I have to admit that I love it! As someone who’s been involved in designing or redesigning several websites, I can tell you that it’s almost always an excruciating process. Design by committee and impossibly long lists of goals can quickly turn your vision for a new and improved site into a cluttered, generic looking site that doesn’t really do anything well.
Tell your boss you need more resources!
On Monday I posted about educating your boss about social media. For many of us, the natural continuation of educating your boss is convincing him/her that you need more resources to do this important work. As Nonprofit Tech 2.0 suggested, sharing data with executives is a great way to make your case. One of the […]
Are nonprofits raising money with social media?
The 3rd annual Nonprofit Social Benchmark Report is hot off the presses. Allyson Kapin has a good post summarizing the key findings over at Frogloop.
But let’s focus on raising money. “Can I raise money with social media?” is one of the most common questions we hear. There are enough stories of an organization raising a large amount of money through Facebook or another platform that many organizations become interested in social media because of the fundraising potential.
Educating your boss about social media
Do you ever find yourself clenching your teeth and supressing the urge to stomp about like a child because your boss doesn’t understand social media? If so, you’re not alone! In Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 offers some sage advice on breaking through to your boss.
The Occupy Network
Our friends at Fission Strategy have cooked up something really special with the developers at CrowdTangle. Ever since Occupy Wall Street first setup camp on September 17th, there has been a proliferation of facebook groups. Some of them are small, some of them have become very popular. Whether you’re an activist seeking to make change under the occupy banner or a blogger or journalist trying to tell the story of the movement, it’s hard to follow everything at once. Well, on Facebook that’s now been changed with this really smart application of technology to social media.
