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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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Three Ingredients for Successful Year-End Fundraising

NetWits

Check out some of the info and screenshots I shared last week on the Blackbaud webinar Year-End Fundraising Campaigns that Rock with Frank Barry from Blackbaud and Kai MacMahon from Autism Speaks. from 2009 when giving was $280.3 Looking for some good data and examples for your fundraising team? Fundraising Facts. Charity Navigator.

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Vindigo: The App That Wouldn’t Die

Robert Weiner

It provided a restaurant guide with reviews, maps, and walking directions; movie reviews and show times for theaters; museum listings; a guide to bars and clubs; locations and contact info for local businesses; and even bathroom locations for cities around the U.S. I used it both on the road and at home. It’s a zombie.

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Rate your CMS!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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2010 Online Giving Trends

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compared to the same time period in 2009. compared to 2009. Here are some key findings from the 2010 Online Giving Report : Online Giving Keeps Growing Year-over-year online fundraising grew 34.5% This was led by 55.6% growth by large organizations. Smaller nonprofits grew by 22% and medium organizations grew by 15.9% in December 2010.

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Free and open source tool #4: GIMP

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you want good info, there is a great book by a fellow Linuxchix , called “ Beginning GIMP &# by Akkana Peck. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does. I’m not a designer or photographic expert, but it’s a pretty amazing program.