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Tuesday Tips: When to Ask For Donations, Part 1 -- Day of the Week
As survivors straggle back from the holiday blue gap, we're proud to initiate a new feature here on the blog, Tuesday Tips. Every week, we'll share some analysis on trends in the sector and how to muscle up your online actions. To lead off, an oft-asked question: when should I put out that donation appeal? We'll do this in stages taking a look at the very macro level of seasonal averages, and the very micro level of time of day. But we begin in the creamy middle, with days of the week. You've got that thing all queued up. Do you cut it loose now, or might you do better by waiting a day or two? Read more...
07:09 PM Jan 16, 2007 -
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What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About Technology
CRM, CMS, e-mail, video, databases ... don't know where to start with an approach to the web? Let John Kenyon orient you in this podcast from last summer's Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp. By way of the rich a/v trove at Social Innovation Conversations. We didn't only recommend it because he endorsed us. Really. Read more...
02:22 PM Jan 13, 2007 -
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DemocracyInAction Doubles
This graph neatly sprouting from just under five million to just under 10 represents the number of people on our organizations' supporter lists through each month of the past year. Actually, it's a little more complicated than that -- there are several million more not represented here, accounted by some larger organizations that have their own node (i.e., they're running DIA off a separate dedicated server), and this doesn't at all include other-than-nonprofit organizations using the toolset through Wired For Change.
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03:00 PM Jan 12, 2007 -
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Annual Report Season
Get inspired by the tight design and comprehensive measurements of Feltron 2006. Lots of metrics in here, but I don't know. Where's the strategic vision? The lessons learned? The financial statement? (Via the deliciously quirky Coudal Partners) Read more...
10:50 AM Jan 11, 2007 -
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Surge Protection
With the young emperor set to cart more bodies to the Sumerian charnel house, we would be remiss to make no comment on the issue of the day, to which so many of our users are lending their energy.
We've been spotlighting on the home page the outstanding house party event that True Majority is running through our Distributed Event tool. (And note their comprehensive Event Kit -- putting organizing material like that in the hands of would-be local activists in conjunction with the signup pages is what really makes a house parties action rock.)*
More importantly, it's a response to the mad and unpopular "strategy" of more, deeper, and alongside tomorrow's Day of Action to Shut Down Guantanamo (scads of DIA types among the sponsors) represents a critical test for that netroots we keep hearing about. Read more...
07:08 PM Jan 10, 2007 -
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