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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

Achieve

Social media: Get creative with your promotional content on social media, such as sharing a video of a volunteer explaining how to opt-in by texting your keyword to your SMS short code. Mike started his nonprofit career managing the Ride For Roswell from 2003 to 2005 in his hometown of Buffalo, NY.

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. Katie Butler: I joined IIABA in 2003 as editor-in-chief of Independent Agent (IA) Magazine , the flagship publication of IIABA. KB: Goal setting is a collaborative process. Social wasn’t in existence when I started!

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What fundraisers Need To Know About Next Era of Digital Technology

Beth Kanter

Are these aspects of the DNA from 2003 still the same? The second era – social media/mobile or what many fundraisers call digital fundraising and what I wrote about in my first book, Networked Nonprofit, published a decade ago. Fundraiser DNA. Creativity. Communication. Financial Skills.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

What’s happened over the past 15 years, of course, is that social media has become a deeply ingrained part of everyday life for billions of people globally. As with video, it would be hard to underestimate the impact of social media. Impact on the Learning Business Landscape. The eXtension of Reality.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth Kanter

Writing and Blogging: I’ve kept an active publishing schedule for Beth’s Blog, something that I’ve done since 2003! The bulk of my professional work is training and teaching and that requires reflection to remember and document your instructional processes and techniques so you can also train other trainers.

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Four Important Things We’ve Learned During Our First Year

Associations Now

It’s really easy to get bogged down in your organization’s processes and to second-guess your next steps. It’s 2013, and the way people work is enormously different from the way they worked in 1993 or even 2003. Simply put, urgency makes our content better. But today, information flows faster than that.

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How to Successfully Reach Donors Across Multiple Channels

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Let’s take a closer look at popular channels and how to maximize your success: Text Messaging Text messaging is an engaging and cost-effective channel for nonprofits that want to reach supporters quickly and make the donation process easier with text-to-give. However, you don’t just want donors to read your messages.

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