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Linguistic Marketing

yoav@negevdirect.com 05/13/2009

I just bought, “The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English“. English books are expensive in Israel, but this one was on sale so I pounced on it. (Hmmm, an English book that’s…

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Blog + Linked In = Blog Link

yoav@negevdirect.com 04/30/2009

This gets my vote for cool application of the day. I’m sure its been out for a while but I just found it a minute ago. Heck, I’m probably the last one to know about…

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Everything is amazing, nobody is happy…

yoav@negevdirect.com 03/03/2009

Sometimes we take technology for granted. Do you remember the days of old when we had rotary phones? The miracles of technology are all around us if we just open our eyes and take…

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MalePerm.com – A New Twist in Fundraising!

yoav@negevdirect.com 02/16/2009

Forget shaving your hair to raise money!  Here’s the latest “hair raising” trend in fundraising… Excerpts From the NYTimes.com Monday, Feb. 16th, 2009. “Friends helping friends one curl at a time” “Some people may…

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It’s the Little Things

yoav@negevdirect.com 02/10/2009

Today is election day in Israel. You may not have know that. It’s not making major news around the world. Kudos to Google, a company that never misses an opportunity to promote its products.…

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Going to the Dogs!!!

yoav@negevdirect.com 02/04/2009

The 2008 Slate 60 which lists the 60 largest American charitable contributionsof the year is out. There are a number of Jewish donors on the list including Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, to name a…

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Way Too Much Information!

yoav@negevdirect.com 01/29/2009

Some non-profit web sites can be over designed or just badly designed. See https://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-nonprofit-web-sites-of-2007.html for some the top 10 worst non-profit web sites of 2007! Are these cases of design by committee, a lack…

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Challenge (don’t underestimate) your Donors

yoav@negevdirect.com 12/04/2008

When was the last time you issued a challenge to your donors? Not a challenge in a adversarial way, but in a friendly “we respect you and want your input” way. For example what…

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