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NTEN is currently undergoing a Digital Strategy review process with the help of our good friends at Common Knowledge. As part of this, we’re looking to re-vamp our Social Network Strategy. We hope you’re all available to help.

As the NTEN community, you ARE the “social” in our Social Network Strategy, which is why we’ve decided to turn to you for feedback and input. Join us in the two-part series of free webinars as we create our new strategy.  

Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report.  

That’s astounding really, but equally astounding, if a whole lot less obvious: your site visitors are increasingly getting to your site from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Why is this important? This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day, on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. 

Increasingly, consumers define their world in this social context, and there are a whole bunch of them. Should you be considering this important demographic when you redesign your site next time around? Definitely.

Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge

How did your last email fundraising appeal perform? Did your new email template work? Were your copy and creative on the mark? Did you raise as much revenue as you planned?

Email marketing is the foundation for most nonprofits' education, advocacy, volunteering, and fundraising efforts online and the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established. But nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns.

It's not hard to take the first step to improving your email campaign performance through evaluation and optimization.

Jeff Patrick, President, Common Knowledge

Online fundraising -- specifically the email appeal -- is successful when you manage to bundle the long list of fundraising best practices into one package and send it on to your e-supporters.

The Breast Cancer Fund ran a successful campaign, achieving their goal of $10,000 -- with just two emails sent four days apart -- by doing many things right. They got the online fundraising fundamentals correct, and two of them in particular: the email envelope and the email body.

Using this real campaign, I'll unravel these two important best practice components and highlight key tactics and benchmarks to give you a bucket of new tricks for your next email fundraising campaign.