While waiting for the development team to post an update I caught up on some of my blogs that I don’t get to very often. On of these, Presentation Zen, is truly excellent and should be on anybody’s “must read” list if they give or help prepare presentations.
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I read an article recently touting the power of a metric called “Net Promoter Score” or NPS. You can read all about NPS at Net Promoter. The metric is deceptively simple - and that’s the power. It’s easy to measure and managing to it has real results.
With NPS you ask one question: “Would you recommend [...]
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Givvy - Giving Management + Network for Good | NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org
Hi Friends - we’ve just entered the NetSquared DonateNow Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation in conjunction with our donation partner, Network for Good.
We’re competing for a $10k prize from the Case Foundation - so if you think we’re onto something, please [...]
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I just read a great post from Beth Kantor regarding the impact of Facebook on charitable donations. It raises the question of impact, but the data is still not complete. So, I’m going to take a stab here by analyzing the top charity app on Facebook - Causes.
Quick note on Causes: a [...]
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Great post the other day on Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog regarding some common issues nonprofits are facing when following instead of leading. Lance Armstrong created LiveStrong and those ubiquitous yellow arm bands. Suddenly there were white ones (The One Campaign), red ones (Project Red?) and pink ones (from a breast cancer charity). You could go [...]
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We had our first demo of Givvy today for a VC. The site is coming along nicely and the demo was flawless. Great work Seth & James! There was a bit of a debate with one of the partners about whether or not we should seek to get active support from charities in order to [...]
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Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog has an interesting post about some of the misconceptions and fears people have about embracing social media. She lists the following four things:
It’s not hard
It’s about social, not media
Social media cranks “word of mouth” up to 11
Be different - not YASN (yet another social network)
In general I agree with much of [...]
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