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Today, radio host Ted Hart offers up a special edition of his Nonprofit Coach radio show — a 90-minute show live from BBCON in National Harbor, MD.

Nonprofit organizations that engage their supporters stand to benefit the most when it comes to receiving their cut of an individual’s overall charitable donations, according to results from a recent benchmark survey conducted by Charity Dynamics and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

The first-of-its-kind donor engagement survey was focused specifically on how individuals engage or prefer to engage with the nonprofits they support, and how their involvement impacts giving.

A movement to create a national day of giving on Nov. 27, 2012, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, called #GivingTuesday, will be the first of its kind. Coinciding with the kickoff of the holiday shopping season, #GivingTuesday will harness the power of social media to create a national moment around the holidays dedicated to giving, similar to how Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become days that are synonymous with holiday shopping

Blackbaud Inc., a global provider of software and services for nonprofits, announced that it made this year’s InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. Ranking at 164 in 2012, this is the third consecutive year that Blackbaud has been recognized by InformationWeek as a top technology innovator. The annual list was revealed at a gala awards ceremony at the InformationWeek 500 Conference, which took place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point, Calif.

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reported that charitable giving increased 0.2 percent for the three months ending July 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011. The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving, comprised of actual revenue data from 2,178 nonprofits representing $445 million in yearly online giving, reported that online giving rose 5.3 percent for the three months ending July 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011.

A four-year study into the use of social media by nonprofits in the USA has revealed that Facebook remains the dominant medium, but is proving fruitful in fundraising terms for "just a select few".

The Nonprofit Social Network report for 2012 yielded responses from 3,522 nonprofit professionals from small volunteer led groups to very large multi-nationals based in North America.

Recent tweets from folks you should be following.

Frank Barry, an Internet strategy manager with Blackbaud, has three tips to help your organization bounce back from these months of decreased online fundraising.

In his new role, Love will focus on initiatives to increase Avectra's market leadership as well as allow Avectra customers to maximize their fundraising and donor management efforts to better serve their causes.

Andrew Fort, interactive and marketing principal at Guide Creative by Blackbaud, provides four ways to help solve the problem of building your website for the wrong audience.