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katanalyze
16 weeks 5 days ago
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katanalyze posted

The NetSquared Boston survey promotion emails

When I first began promoting the NetSquared Boston community survey, we had very few responses. I realized that:

  1. I was burying the calls to action within longer messages (our biweekly updates)
  2. The calls to action needed to be more entertaining

Here are the emails that led to a higher response rate:

E-mail #1

Want a present from NetSquared Boston?

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Topics: Boston, email marketing, net2local, promotion, survey
katanalyze
16 weeks 5 days ago
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katanalyze posted

The NetSquared Boston community survey

Because of my experience in marketing, I've always targeted NetSquared Boston's activities to fill unmet needs in the local nonprofit tech community. This winter, I invited our members to fill out the following survey. Here are the question and the responses:

If NetSquared offered these resources, would that be useful to the Boston nonprofit tech community?

Skill sharing (one-on-one) 
4 votes (27%) 

Skill sharing (small group) 
12 votes (80%) 

Mentoring 
6 votes (40%)  READ MORE

Topics: community organizing, Boston, strategic planning, survey
keishataylor
16 weeks 6 days ago
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keishataylor posted

Data Digest News This Week!

This week features a lot of news about data for social benefit, as data starts taking centre stage in philanthropic efforts. Also of interest was a review of data trends for this 2013 and beyond based a report done by Gartner, which notes that on-the-go big data accessed via mobile and tablets and real-time analytics will increase.

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Topics: mobile, open data, open government, aid data, data philanthropy
Jim Lynch
17 weeks 2 days ago
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Jim Lynch posted

Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. This piece was originally published recently on TechSoup.org. READ MORE

Topics: cloud computing, mobile, big data, decline of PCs, net2pov, The Internet of Things
ashleyhalligan
17 weeks 3 days ago
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ashleyhalligan posted

5 Ways to Validate Giving Decisions & Drive Retention

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Matthew Mielcarek, the VP of Consulting at Charity Dynamics, recently submitted an article to the company I work for with some pretty timely, pretty fantastic, and pretty prescriptive advice for nonprofit organizations entering the New Year. Bringing in the December giving trends -- and the New Year, Mielcarek’s article outlines donor retention strategies -- specifically, how to retain the newly acquired holiday donors. READ MORE

Topics: fundraising, Donor Management Technology, donor retention, nonprofit and charity fundraising
elijah
17 weeks 3 days ago
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elijah posted

NetSquared DC predicts 2013

Former NetSquared Boston organizer Riche Zamor recently sat down with a panel at NetSquared DC to talk about emerging nonprofit technology trends for 2013. He was joined by Colin Delany, Suzanne Turner, and Lawrence Swiader. READ MORE

Topics: net2local, Washington DC