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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

The landscape has changed dramatically for the nonprofit, charity, and voluntary sector in the UK and I heard people across the country raise the question many times and with many different intentions, asking if there were simply “too many” organizations. Have people heard of 350.org org before? And that’s hard to ignore.

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Twestival: Here Comes Everyone To Raise Money On Twitter for Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Back in November, I wrote a post " Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Brief History and Meta Analysis of Fundraising With Twitter." What do you think?

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web. Health tracker. Security device. Apparently it all started in 2001 with the IBM Watchpad.

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