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21+ Free Non-Profit Webinars for May 2011

Wild Apricot

This month we've found 21+ free webinars on topics such as: social CRM; optimizing land pages, grantseeking; online fundraising; writing volunteer job descriptions and much more.( Here is our monthly round-up of free non-profit webinars for the month of May. read more ).

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Nominate a Nonprofit for a Blackbaud Impact Award

Tech Soup

Some of the 2011 Winners Were: Best Overall Use of Convio — Project On Government Oversight (POGO) was presented the award for their sophisticated use of Convio Luminate™ Online, Convio Luminate™ CRM, and Convio CMS and complementing it with social media tools and staff creativity to reach more of the general public.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Year in Review

Tech Soup

Because data is so important, places like Connecting Up in Australian are compiling resources for using the cloud effectively like their roster of new online CRM database resources. Smartphone shipments exceeded those of PCs in 2011. Money raised on crowdfunding sites is estimated to be 91 percent higher than 2011.

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Where to Start Your Search for Silent Auction Items

Get Fully Funded

Even if they’re not directly related to your board members or in your CRM, think about your friends outside of the organization and how they might be able to support your event by donating auction items. Start by putting a call out on social media for auction items. Reach out to corporate partners. Reach out to national businesses online.

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One Email Tactic Nonprofits Need to Steal from Brand Marketers

Tech Soup

In their gigantic 2011 email benchmark report, Marketing Sherpa indicated the most effective way to improve email message relevancy was to automatically send email based on triggers.What's a triggered email campaign? As long as your email tool integrates with your CRM, the emails will go out on their own. The work is done upfront.

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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

Tech Soup

On August 29, 2011 some of us from TechSoup attended NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in San Francisco. The list of 2011 cloud failures in is impressive. More recently Microsoft had an outage in its CRM Online and Office 365 services. The biggest such incident was Sony's PlayStation Network outage.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

" A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. That's why the FCC’s Lifeline Program has provided low- and no-income people with literally millions of mobile phones and minutes over the last few years.