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Ideal Ware:Best February 2013

Best of the Web: February 2013

The Idealware “Best of the Web” is a monthly roundup of the top nonprofit resources from the Idealware blog, our Facebook page, and our Twitter feed to help you make the right technology decisions.

Infographic: Social Media’s Impact on Giving in 2012 (Nonprofit Quarterly) 

A look at how social media has affected online giving.

How-to: Quickly Optimize Your Website for Mobile Devices (NTEN)

How do you get the most bang for your buck when investing in the mobile web?

On Demand Tactical Technology Planning (Idealware)

All your tactical technology planning needs in one on-demand package to solve your organization's current problems and avoid future issues.

Secrets to Finding Out What You Need - Good Questions to Ask During a Technology Assessment (The Data Bank)

When you start by asking the right questions, your organization will be in the best place to plan for the future.

Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook (Idealware/NTEN)

Could you use more help thinking through how to use data to help your organization make decisions? This workbook Idealware prepared for NTEN is the perfect place to start.

I Could Be Your Next Monthly Donor. So Call Me, Maybe? (NTEN)

Tips on how to recruit, retain, and upgrade monthly donors.

5 Smartphone Apps for Nonprofits (About.com)

Use these apps to keep up with the rapid growth of mobile.

The eMail Guide Email Marketing Glossary (The eMail Guide)

The 325 email marketing terms everyone needs to know.

Power through schedules with 21 Google Calendar tricks (PC World)

Save time and increase your organization's productivity by becoming a Google Calendar whiz.

A Guide to Synagogue Management: Research and Recommendations (Idealware)
We looked at a variety of donor and constituent management systems to create an overview for a complex and niche market

Pew Report: How internet and social media have transformed the arts

How internet and social media have transformed the arts
By: Peggy McGlone/The Star-Ledger

Social media has become a new way for arts organizations to promote their work, attract new audiences, as well as advertise themselves. Audiences have become more diverse, attracting younger people to the organizations.

For the full story click here

Gifford List: A Way For Non Profits to Buy/Sell or Trade With Eachother

We wanted to take this opportunity to remind all of you about Giffordslist, a free resource sharing website developed by the Gifford Foundation for nonprofits, businesses and individuals to exchange (for free or for money) items, information and services.  An event calendar offers the ability to plan in advance and avoid conflicts in fundraising events, trainings and workshops within the nonprofit community. We’ve had a number of successful exchanges over the last two years and invite all of you, including your staff, to use the site for such options as announcing job opportunities, buying/selling/trading goods or equipment, learning about grant opportunities – with the added bonus of having one place to track all the numerous fundraising and training events going on in Central New York.  We’re happy to come do a training at any organization and help with registration or postings. Contact Kim Vanderhoef atkim@giffordfoundation.org to learn more, and check out the site at www.giffordslist.org.

New Video Donor Tool Features Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a short, motivational video about how women today are making history through their giving. The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Great Plains Productions and Chicken & Egg Pictures partnered to develop this fun, 4-minute video with support from The Sister Fund. The video is designed to inspire new donors to join a hands-on/hands-with funding movement dedicated to equity, justice and the strategic use of money for women and girls.

Click here to watch the short video. And after you've watched it, pass it on to help it go viral! This new donor cultivation tool can also be uploaded onto your own organizational website and downloaded and shared on hand-held items such as an iPhone or iPad. We hope it will be the beginning of a new body of evidence that women of wealth can change history through bold and focused giving.

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his short video was inspired by historian Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner who brilliantly determined to preserve and document the writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In the 19th century, Gage recognized that women of means funded their husbands' alma maters, churches and the ballet, but rarely stepped forward to fund their suffragist sisters. Imagine how different the world would be today if women had begun funding women sooner!

The video features original animation designed by award winning animator Emily Hubley and was directed by Peabody award winning filmmaker and Chicken & Egg Pictures Co-Founder, Judith Helfand. Fast-paced, animated yet urgent, it shows how today's women's funding movement, and new giving trends like Women Moving Millions (WMM), are literally changing the course of history.

A new form of feminism has emerged: Bold philanthropy for women and girls. Let's celebrate--Women are making history-Matilda would be so proud! For more information, contact the WMM Donor Office at (212) 337-3343.

Sincerely,

Helen LaKelly Hunt and Chris Grumm

The video's partners:

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation incorporated as a NYS educational foundation in 2000, and the following year received non-profit status under the leadership of Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. Within nine short months, the Gage Foundation raised the money to purchase the Gage Home in 2002. They are currently in the midst of a capital campaign to create programs and exhibits for the restored Gage Home as the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center of Education and Dialogue. The house will hold the grand opening of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center on October 8-10, 2010.

Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company, founded in 2005 by award winning independent producer/directors Julie Parker Benello, Wendy Ettinger and Judith Helfand. This unique philanthropic organization matches strategically timed financial support with mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building opportunities. Over the past five years, they've provided over $1.5 million in grants and 3,000 mentorship hours to women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experiences and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it.

Great Plains Productions is a communications company formed by Carey Graeber in 2001 that produces broadcast documentaries and communications for corporations, government entities and non-profit organizations. Graeber is currently working with Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner and the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation on a documentary that will help bring Gage's life and works to the world.

The Sister Fund is a private foundation that supports and gives voice to women working for justice from a religious framework.

Biz Buzz Social Media Conference May 27th

Is Social Media a fad? Or a fundamental shift in the way we communicate?

Watch this Youtube video, and in two minutes, you'll be convinced Social Media is a Revolution!

Social Media Revolution 2

Whether or not you have a LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter account, you will want to spend May 27th with other business professionals learning how social media can impact your reach and sales. Social media platforms are fundamentally changing the sales, marketing and operations process.

It is redefining the way businesses:
acquire customers:
generate leads and customer response;
create competitive differentiation and brand awareness;
recruit employees;
and manage crisis.

Register today at www.SyracuseBizBuzz.com

Follow the conversation at #syracusebizbuzz

The Syracuse BizBuzz Social Media Conference is a gathering of newbies, dabblers, users, and power users who are interested in what’s possible, what’s working, what’s now and what’s next in the business use of social media.

This full day conference (8:00 am to 5:00 pm), explores the impact social media has on marketing, advertising, and the tools used today to engage the public. Social media is dramatically changing how traditional marketing media is used for brand development and sales. Syracuse BizBuzz will explore how social media is successful today through case studies from local companies, but will also delve deeply into the practical methodologies of each tool.

Social Media Tweetup: For Rookies to Rock Stars, presented by Syracuse University's iSchool, will be held on May 26, 2010, from 5 to 7:30 pm at the Syracuse Technology Garden 235 Harrison Street, Syracuse, will provide business professionals the opportunity to learn the basics and to network.

CommUNITY social media workshop may 6

communications for the community
better utilize social media for your organization

Choose from one of the following levels:

Beginner SeminarLearn about Facebook fan pages, how to tweet effectively and much more!
Thursday, May 6 4:00 PM
206 F (Newhouse I Computer labs)

Intermediate SeminarTake your basic knowledge of social media to the next level. Learn to monitor your organization, effective blogging & more!
Thursday, May 6 4:00 PM
206 D (Newhouse I Computer labs)

Kindly RSVP by Mon. May 3 to comm.unity.su@gmail.com & indicate which level seminar
you will be attending!
Light refreshments will be served

Brought to you by:
http://comm.unity.syr.edu @communitySYR .