Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. PC Sales Continue To Decline While Mobile Sales Increase. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Frank Barry offers this guest post with some advice about how to succeed with nonprofit fundraising in 2013. End of year fundraising is in full swing, but with 2013 right around the corner most nonprofits are balancing their biggest fundraising push with putting plans in place to kick off the new year with a bang. Frank Barry is a Sr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Channeling Joan Rivers and E!’s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Be sure to promote your SnapChat on other social channels. What have you learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. Facebook Groups are great for this! Let your champions and supporters roll with adapting and remixing your content or jumping onto fun memes. Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013. But, really, it goes even further than that. It’s not what you know, or even who you know, but what who you know knows. Other General Sites to Watch: Distilled. Copyblogger.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

We do a lot of promotion on our Facebook page and send updates around the Teespring campaign through emails. “We went live with Shopify towards the end of April 2013, and in that time we’ve seen a 75% increase in sales from the previous year, mainly due to the professional look of the store and the ease of the process.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have time to get out of the office… I have spent lots of time posting our request for funds on our Facebook page and I have created a new, cool Donate section of our website.”. “We don’t want to offend our participant families – we don’t want them to feel guilty about using our services if they can’t give.”. “I

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The amount of time that a nonprofit can invest in mobile and social media depends on capacity. Mobile and social media are powerful, but when implemented on a small scale, the power is overshadowed by other more traditional online campaigns.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. For example, what happens when you tie your Facebook posts to your online fundraising appeals? We all know that email (the original online social medium since 1979) is the main driver of value for multi-channel marketing for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Dozer got his own Facebook page. Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013. Create a “surround sound” effect with Facebook and Twitter. Social media channels are essential tools for extending your reach. Make sure the posts about your event stand out on the organization Facebook page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

We’ve have been coined as the “Facebook Generation” and the “Lazy Generation ”, but I’d like to challenge the stereotypes. The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones. So, if you aren’t already engaging with this group through social and other online channels, hopefully these numbers are an eyeopener.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Why I’m Excited: Kapin and Ward wrote a book together in 2013 called “Social Change Anytime, Everywhere: How to Implement Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money, and Engage your Community,” so this is an exciting opportunity to hear these experts discuss social change first-hand. million donors in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. Today, for the exact same reason, we’re starting from the beginning in mobile website design. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. The Static Web, Web 2.0: The Social Web, and Web 3.0:

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 19, 2022

This multi-talented marketing tool enables listening and engages through advertising, mobile, social media, and email to manage the lifecycle of your constituents in one, central location. Salesforce Marketing Cloud was founded in 2000 under the name ExactTarget with an original focus on marketing through multiple channels.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Winners will also be featured on You Tube's Spotlight Channel on April 12. Mobile-friendly is necessary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. The amount of time that a nonprofit can invest in mobile and social media depends on capacity. Mobile and social media are powerful, but when implemented on a small scale, the power is overshadowed by other more traditional online campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. and a bit of common sense… introducing The Burrito Principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) billion in 2013. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. Our vision is that the same ebooks available through mass channels like the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad should be fully accessible. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Not until they improve their existing online giving options and optimize their website for mobile devices. Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? Will you get donors through a mobile app? You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. Probably not.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). So, I wanted to focus on the market trends and influences that will inform how nonprofits implement and leverage this technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Your organization uses an editorial calendar to plan out content for different channels, but there is still need the need to optimize it for different channels and do that efficiently. Optimizing your content for social channels does not have to be labor intensive. Over app for mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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