Social Media

Imagine if a simple program would alllow you to capture audio, photographs and screenshots/navigation while you record your voice giving instructions or added information and then allow the file the to be tweeted, emailed or added to youtube?

It’s a free tool called ‘Screenr’ and allows you to record up to five minutes of screen captures and audio which could be used to present information to your donors in a personal and visual way.

Crowdsourcing is a new way of consulting your donors and supporters to figure out how to enhance your fundraising and unearth new ideas to achieve your mission.

Here are the final 25 of 50 more social media tactics for nonprofits shared at the Blackbaud 2010 Conference for Nonprofits.

Here are three of the main ways marketing was turned on its head in 2010, and what that means for fundraisers.

Which nonprofits wield the most influence on Twitter?

It’s not one of America’s most established or best-known organizations. It’s Charity: Water, a new global-development group that has 1.3 million followers, far more than any other charitable group we could find.

Only five organizations from the top 20 Twitter list appear on The Chronicle’s latest survey of the top 400 nonprofit organizations ranked by private donations: Red Cross (13), Unicef (21), Care (33), Save the Children (66), and World Wildlife Fund (173).

Here are 25 of 50 more social media tactics for nonprofits shared at the Blackbaud 2010 Conference for Nonprofits.

Analyzing trends in the fundraising world is important on many levels. It lets you know what's happening in the industry, what that may mean for the future and how it compares to the past. Studying trends also lets you know where you stand compared to other organizations, allowing you to pinpoint what your organization is doing well and what it needs to work on.

No matter how trustworthy or respected your organization's brand is, nothing gets a donor's attention more than a referral from a friend, family member or peer. That's why having an active, engaging social-media presence is so vital.

These five common online fundraising themes prevailed at the ArtezInterAction Conference.

Causes, a for-profit company that lets Facebook Inc.'s users give money to charities, raised $9 million in new funding and began selling gift cards in supermarkets as it tries to bring more philanthropy to the Web.

Causes' Facebook application connects 119 million people to a range of charities, making it easy to donate small amounts.