Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Knowing basic HTML or using a tool like Live Writer to generate HtML can transform a nonprofit’s ROI (Return on Investment) from using social media. based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com. Government.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As a matter of fact, the funding for Benetech to start Bookshare and our Martus human rights software project came from a successful spinoff of our first social enterprise, the Arkenstone reading machines, which we sold to a for-profit for roughly $5 million. We used it to review our planning as we wrapped up this move.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest is an annual award for open source software developers who add significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Write and run web crawlers and scrapers for data collection. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

The virtual Women Who Tech Telesummit which happens via internet audio and the web provides some of the most web thought-provoking, inspiring, and skills building sessions for nonprofit campaigners and social change makers. It will feature opportunities for learning, networking and exhibiting. Hashtag: #RewireToInspire.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

This means that the “big three&# nonprofit CRM/Fundraising/Advocacy vendors will all be publicly traded companies, and thus completely beholden to their shareholders to maximize profit. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? Convio has registered to go public. But, hey, why not?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Each radio program/live call allows 5,000 listeners and topics range from social media to philanthropy. Based in the U.K., Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

A few weeks ago I was doing a workshop and demoing some of the tools of social media. for government, social networks, open-source CMS, etc.). consultant for nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, arts and environmental issues). Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

About The Pizzigati Prize The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Then why is it so hard to explain the value of social media to people who dont get it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. .&# This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Which is just fine.) Should this ED, and/or this organization have a blog? Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Salesforce has provided the platform to make that possible. “My Emilio Tavarez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Social Change Activists. Nonprofit Social Media Strategists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2005

My colleague, David Geilhufe , recently announced the first public beta release of CiviCRM/OpenNGO, an open-source contact management system for non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. But it’s a journal about technology and social change ! This goes back to my constant refrain – the means are the ends. Below is his response.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. For example, one of the case studies that Amy Sample Ward and I profiled in the mobile section of our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere was about “Missed Calls” as an organizing strategy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. Parker is an original investor in the political social media site, Votizen. To that end, Salesforce1 for Nonprofits keeps track of people not so much as customers, but as nodes on a social graph.”

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. CitizenSpeak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. But a big congratulations goes to Jo Lee. -

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Kathi Apostolidis , one of our newest members, who happens to work in Greece, gave us a heads-up about HCSMEU Camp , which stands for Healthcare Social Media Europe. See3 lays out 7 dos for any advocacy campaign based on the success of the recent Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) campaign for animal abuse legislation. Scariest part?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag.

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Neon CRM

MAY 24, 2023

That may include things like networking events, professional development opportunities, seminars, workshops, and social gatherings. CiviCRM This is a free open-source solution for associations that helps with contact management, outreach, and event management.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 2001, we focus on serving the nonprofit sector and provide technology consulting, strategic assessments, print and web design services and open-source CMS implementation. As today’s premier social media marketing platform, we know better than anyone that conservation and effective business development can go hand-in-hand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our dream is to raise the floor for every person with a disability, to ensure access to the material needed for education, employment and social participation. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've just launched Miradi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Ben Rattray, Change.Org's founder, describes it as - "to create an open-sourced advocacy platform that identifies and then mobilizes resources around the best ideas for how to change the country." It works like many of the competitions that have been launched recently by nonprofits and foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Do we know enough about the differences between users and non-users of social networking sites ?

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