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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. When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. 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.

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One "One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? Glide in San Francisco recently won a big Google Impact Challenge grant to supply cloud-based document storage to the homeless people it serves.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. If you’ve heard of only one nonprofit mobile app, it’s likely this one since it was one of the earliest mobile apps developed by a major nonprofit organization. Seafood Watch - Google Play.

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Overcoming Declining Nonprofit Website Traffic

Connection Cafe

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Mobile: With the rise of mobile devices, websites not optimized for mobile devices could have seen fewer return visitors. What can nonprofits do? Examine Visits.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. The New York Times Outs Google+. It’s Mostly for Google.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: Exploring the Latest Millennial Research

Amy Sample Ward

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 71% said they learn about organizations through web searches (like Google). They recommend you begin with email before you branch into social media, like facebook or mobile. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? Communicating.

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