I’m honored to introduce you to Darren Rowse, uber-blogger. I’ve learned alot from Darren over the years and finally got to meet him last week at BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles. This post seemed perfectly suited to help your nonprofit retool your blog so Darren’s graciously let me republish this it here. You can find [...]

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A few months back, I offered 12 travel tips for the flying fundraiser. Christina Attard left a list of her own in the comments. Her suggestions were so good, I wanted to make sure you saw them! So here they are! (You can follow Christina on Twitter @GPtekkie.) by Christina Attard I travel a lot [...]

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If you’re like me, you haven’t engaged an agency to conduct a pay-per-click campaign. I wouldn’t know where to start, so I’m pleased to have this guest post from Taylor Gabel. He is an Online Marketer and Entrepreneur specializing in SEO and general online money making. In his spare time he enjoys writing/sharing his thoughts [...]

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This week, I’m thrilled to introduce Christina Attard. Christina is an accomplished Canadian fundraiser with a particular expertise in the areas of planned giving and millennial. I’ve asked her to share her take on engaging millenials in funding causes. She can be found on her blog or on Twitter @gptekkie. by Christina Attard There is [...]

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This week, I’m honored to introduce you to Debra Askanase. Debra Askanase is the founder and engagement strategist at Community Organizer 2.0, which works with nonprofits and businesses to create engagement strategies that move people to action. She has impressed me with her ability to help nonprofits do competitive analyses of their social media usage. [...]

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This week I am pleased to introduce you to Naomi Hamilton. Based in Australia, Naomi is the Digital Marketing Consultant for Blackbaud Pacific. This was originally published on the NetWitsThinkTank blog, where she’s a regular contributor. And you can follow her on Twitter at Fairynomo By Naomi Hamilton How often do you send out bulk [...]

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This week, I’m pleased to introduce Sherry Truhlar. Sherry is an auction expert so I’ve asked her to come and share with us how to make our nonprofit’s next silent auction better. Be sure to check out her free guide of auction items — listing the 100 best-selling items to sell in your benefit auction [...]

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I’m really pleased to introduce you to Tina Cincotti of Funding Change. When I saw this in her email newsletter, I asked her if I could share it with you. I’m glad she said yes! Be sure to sign up for her monthly Keep the Change newsletter. by Tina Cincotti I’ve spent my entire fundraising [...]

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Today we have the third installment in Sandy’s three part series on the nonprofit executive’s role with a development database. The first part included Excel isn’t a database and the second part reminded EDs you don’t have to be a geek. You can reach Sandy on Twitter @sandywilder by Sandy Wilder In this, my final [...]

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This is the second part of a three part series on the executive director’s role with a development database. The first part included Excel is not a database by Sandy Wilder In Part 1 of our series, we addressed the first of our issues regarding Excel vs. the database (no contest!). In this post, we’ll [...]

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