Archive for May, 2009

Lights. Camera. Help is coming along…

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Just wanted to give you a little heads up on what’s going on with the Non Profit Film Festival I am starting up this year. All in all we are getting some great Films in the PO Box. Including this one:
The most recent film received was Prostition: Beyond the Myths. This is a 30-minute documentary [...]

Mail Chimps rocks my non profit world..in a pinch

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Just a quick story for the trenches. We are switching massive email providers here at ACS High Plains and one vendor dropped the ball a little. They were supposed to have a email collection form up in time for this massive paper mailing we did. We advertised “SAVE TREES. SIGN UP ONLINE HERE: WWW.CANCERENEWS.ORG”
However [...]

Cancer Stats for 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

What can your Non Profit Do Online…right now?

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

David J. Neff, @daveiam, blogger at www.fispace.org and Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy at the American Cancer Society shares the 5 tools nonprofits can be using today to enhance their online presence and efficiency.

American Cancer Society High Plains Social Media Guidelines

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Launch and learn right? These are our Social Media Guidelines for staff here in the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society. We represent 7 states here in the US. Take a look and let us know what you think. The first 4 people to comment will win prizes. Feel free to adopt and [...]

City of Austin Revolution

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I was lucky enough and honored to get invited to a special City of Austin meeting about the city’s Web Site.  You see we are having some issues with it.  In fact this was not your average City committee meeting with the council facing the usual number of crackpots, deadlocking over issues and it airing [...]

Who is on Twitter?

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

From one of our amazing readers:  Pew Research published research on Twitter users in February 2009:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1117/twitter-tweet-users-demographics. Not  surprisingly, they found that young adults (18-24) are the heaviest adopters.  The researcher also points out that lower income households are
more likely to have Twitter users: “17% of internet users in households earning less than $30,000 tweet … [...]

$450,000 from more than 90,000 mobile donors

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Freaking Radass, huh? This has to be the largest Mobile Giving Push in history. Twelve-time Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys’ appearance on FOX’s “American Idol” Wednesday night (May 13) raised an astonishing $450,000 from more than 90,000 mobile donors who texted their donations. Keep a Child Alive is the non-profit organization co-founded by Keys to provide [...]

We are all in the same boat! So be worried?

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Our good friend John Turner sent us this new report from GuideStar. How does this compare with your Non Profit? Leave us some comments!
http://www.daveiam.com/NPEconomicReport.pdf

Inside the Non Profit Social Networking Survey

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

One of our faithful readers sent this my way and I wanted to share.
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A few weeks ago, I received a link to “NonProfit Social Network Survey” – an effort focused on analyzing how nonprofits are using social media and networking tools to connect with their supporters and raise money. I was intrigued, but had a [...]