Text a Bible. Megan just forwarded a fascinating press release from Open Doors USA. They’ve introduced a $5 offer to provide a Bible to someone in a persecuted church around the world. The creative twist? You can text to give $5 to provide that Bible. The long-term value of text donations. One major question we [...]
Read more...Think Twitter is just for the kids? It can be a powerful way to deliver great donor experience.
Read more...I recently did a webinar on how to build a blog. You can see a recording below. During the webinar I mentioned a sample comment policy. So here that is for download. Watch presentation Blogs we read Analytics Talk Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Marketing Experiments Nonprofit Technology Network What’s you’re favorite blog, add [...]
Read more...A List Apart does a web survey every year. You should take it. It takes less than five minutes and is a great usability example of what a survey should be.
Read more...Just finished a podcast from SXSW. While I still want to go, I’m convinced I learn as much from listening to the podcasts as I would from the event. A questioner mentioned his organization and their Volunteer Now! application. It doesn’t sound like they have fully developed the application, but it is a great idea.
Read more...A few weeks ago Erin and I were out in Eastern Ohio buying a couch and no one knew how to get back to where my grandparents live.
Read more...Don’t Tell the Donor.org is reporting that Kintera is being purchased by Blackbaud. I agree with a commenter that $46 million may be $46 million too much.
Read more...You’re all probably tired of Doug and me linking to Campaign Monitor’s Blog, but they have great stuff. The take-aways from this years guidelines — design and build emails the way that we’ve been doing, except do more testing in different environments. Testing in the major web-mail clients and desktop clients is something we never did [...]
Read more...Google did it before, and now they’re doing it again. They’ve stepped up in a big way for all nonprofits by now offering free donation processing through Google Checkout through 2008. And knowing Google, this is not a too-good-to-be-true deal. They are masters of no strings attached. In fact, after 2008, they’ve set processing fees [...]
Read more...A few weeks back I posted that Kintera might open up their platform a bit, well today the door got a little wider. You can read more on their site, and NTEN has some more on this as well. Originally posted on Silas Notes a blog of Trinet Internet Solutions. From what I’ve read so [...]
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