Management Features (362)
2019 Social Media Trends
- Monday, 04 February 2019
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Social media platforms are not one size fits all. There is no perfect platform for all nonprofits. The best social media platform for your organization is the one that give you the best ROI (return on investment). Analyze which channel works best for you and spend time creating content for that platform.
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Tech Roundup - 2018
- Monday, 07 January 2019
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Another year is history, so what technology helped nonprofits accomplish their missions in 2018 and what can they expect for 2019.
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Live video streaming your event
- Monday, 26 November 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Are you still on the fence about live streaming an event? How about if I told you that livestreaming video is the most popular form of video content on the web today. This is supported by research. Researchers studied social media users’ preferences and found that people prefer watching videos to reading.
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SEO for Nonprofit Websites
- Monday, 05 November 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Even established nonprofits can fall for the ‘build it and they will come’ attitude about their website. However, you can’t change the world if you can’t be found. The world wide web is a big place and just because your organization has a website doesn’t automatically mean you’re easy to find when someone Googles you.
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Blackbaud ups its presence in higher education with Education Management
- Thursday, 25 October 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Scott Koegler
I recently attended BBCon (Blackbaud’s annual user conference) in Orlando, Florida where the company made several significant announcements. While there I had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Hill, President and General Manager, Higher Education Solutions, and Tiffany Crumpton, Director of Marketing, Higher Education Solutions They explained how the company has increased its focus on the higher education marketplace and how it expects to bring advantages to its customers in this segment.
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Volunteer motivation and participation.
- Monday, 13 August 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Getting supporters to volunteer is important to achieving your goals, but it is vitally important that you keep those volunteers motivated and engaged, otherwise they may no longer give their time to your organization.
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Instagram Keeps Donors in the Loop
- Monday, 05 March 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
The latest Pew Research finds that 35 percent of US adults use Instagram. And, a majority of those users are extremely active, often checking the site several times a day. Plus, Instagram’s users are more likely to engage with posts. In fact, a 2017 study of brand accounts on Instagram found that the companies received 58 times more engagement (measured in likes, comments and shares) per follower.
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Tech for Nonprofits in 2017 - A Recap
- Tuesday, 02 January 2018
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
The beginning of a new year is always time for reflection and resolutions. So let's reflect on the technology that helped nonprofits fulfill their mission in 2017. While its true there were no stunning technology breakthroughs that changed the nonprofit digital landscape there were small advances to existing tech that made it more user friendly or gave it broader appeal.
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Emerging Nonprofit Accounting Technology; The Cloud, AI, Blockchain & Big Data
- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
- Management Features
- Written by Dawn Westerberg
Adoption of the cloud is now serving as the gateway to a new wave of technology being explored. These new areas of exploration, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and distributed ledger, big data analytics and automated data ingestion, to name just a few, expand the realm where technology and automation can replace the need for human attention and intervention.
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Instagramming for Donations
- Thursday, 07 September 2017
- Management Features
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
As of April of 2017 Instagram has 700 million users. And, a majority of those users are extremely active, often checking the site several times a day. Plus, Instagram’s users are more likely to engage with posts. In fact, engagement on Instagram is better than on any other social network, including Facebook. The average Instagram engagement rate is 50 percent higher than Facebook or Twitter.
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