Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter.
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? That’s a great question. One that every nonprofits should think about from time to time. That said, we’ve compiled a few resources that might help you think through your next website redesign. Audience Analysis. View the Session Recording | Download the Slides.
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Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
I've been using Tungle for years to share my calendar with colleagues and clients. It allowed them to view my availability online and propose meetings as if we were all on the same calendaring system. Unfortunately, RIM bought Tungle in 2011 and it started to decline. Appointments would no longer sync reliably with Outlook, I'd get strange error messages from the connector plug-in, and the company stopped providing tech support.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. We frequently have more volunteers than we have projects; while at other times, we have a list of tasks we could get done -- if only we had the people.
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Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
This post originally appeared on Care2 Frogloop – you can read it there and join the Frogloop community , or read the full post below. —– Who are you friends with on Facebook? Do you care who sees where you check in on FourSquare? Last month, Farra Trompeter of Big Duck and Danielle Bridgida of National Wildlife Federation presented at the Bridge Conference last week about personal and professional branding.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
@ NonprofitOrgs follows more than 120,000 nonprofits, nonprofit staff and nonprofit service providers. Now, of course it’s humanly impossible to follow the tweets of that many Twitter accounts, so to make the chaos manageable I organize my favorite nonprofits and those whose tweets consistently stand out from the rest into Twitter Lists. However, at least 10 times a day I go to my “Home” view and scan through hundreds of tweets hoping to find new nonprofits to retweet or list,
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Guest post by Jay Jones from Heller Con sulting. You may have noticed: Social media seems to be the talk of nonprofits for the past few years. A quick scan of nonprofit-focused publications and websites, as well as the session topics at nonprofit conferences, will confirm that organizations are interested in how to use social media. Why is this topic so important to nonprofits?
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
According to the Foundation Center’s analysis of data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are approximately 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. According to the Q&A that Idealware conducted with Blackbaud , approximately 400 nonprofits are using Common Ground. That’s about.026 percent of U.S. nonprofits. Obviously, if you’re one of those 400 you care deeply about the demise of Common Ground.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. We have the privilege of being able to serve people with disabilities in large part because of a generous provision in U.S. copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this commun
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Source: Hot Button Studio. In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.” There’s where I discovered a new passion – data visualization techniques for sense-making.
Judi Sohn
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
"You should get back to blogging." Heard that many times. I love blogging. I miss blogging. One of the many reasons I let this blog get stale was the amount of time I now spend on iOS. I have a computer in the basement for work. Other than that, I'm on an iPhone or iPad and I blog best first thing in the morning. Even though I use an external keyboard with my iPad, when the urge hits to share something with the world it was easier to click a button and compose a simple tweet or Face
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
I wanted to give some encouragement to all the small and medium-sized nonprofits out there on the Social Web that tweet, share and post regularly with the hope of growing their communities and inspiring social good – some feedback I received last week from Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Safe Kids Worldwide : Remember back when you came to present at our conference in 2008 and told everyone that 5,000 fans was the magic number – that once we go
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
By now many of you have been working on your end of year campaigns, but if you haven’t started planning the good news is you still have time to put a plan in place to maximize end of year giving. Here are a few items to use in your end of year plan : - Optimize Your Home Page for the Holidays. - Make Every Email Count. - Tap into your Constituents’ Network.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
I got 3 versions of this today. The most amusing part is that the shipping address is a mail merge field with my email address inserted. I'm sure that will produce some funny results for people with more creative email addresses. I don't see any posts about what the links do and don't intend to find out. Senders: Charlene Marshall (fountibf0@eurobiobiz.com).
NCE Social Media
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
I wanted to follow up my last post on social media and gender by sharing some new social media and gender information. A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that of people who post online new videos and photos they created account for 46% of internet users. People who repost videos and photos created by others account for 41% of internet users.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Note From Beth: Here’s some quick tips on using Facebook Ads. The most important thing to remember is that being successful, especially with ads, depends on using measurement and metrics to learn as Taryn’s point number for suggests. If after reading these tips, you want to want some more case studies and indepth resources, please see this post: ” How A Small Nonprofit Used Facebook Ads Effectively “ Six Things Nonprofits Should Know About Facebook Ads – guest p
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Here is the round-up of free non-profit webinars for October. We've found more than 32 webinars on topics from RESPECT for your data, to e-strategy; LinkedIn Fundraising and much more.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Launched today, LinkedIn Board Connect for Nonprofit Organizations is a new board member recruiting program that enables nonprofits to easily tap into LinkedIn’s 175+ million strong network of professionals. With nonprofits needing to fill approximately two million empty board seats annually, LinkedIn Board Connect could be the missing link in helping nonprofits make board member recruitment a much easier and more rewrding process.
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Every nonprofit who relies on fundraising to accomplish their mission looks for more effective ways to raise money and improve donor retention. Fundraising effectiveness is an ongoing, evolving, and challenging reality. Luckily, folks like the Fundraising Effectiveness Project take time to dig into the nonprofit fundraising data over time and pull out insights that help the nonprofit sector continue to evolve their fundraising efforts.
Robert Weiner
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Lots of spammers try to use fake Facebook notifications to trap the unwary. Here's a sample of what's landed in my spam folder. All but the last one used graphics that made them look like the came from Facebook. Senders: Facebook [update+fqqrnmjhudim@atse.org.au]. Facebook [update+dxyfrdccslte@csj.g12.br]. Facebook [updateV995O9DZ34L9@facebookmail.com].
Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Date : September 30-October 2, 2012. Location : Washington, DC. Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
LinkedIn announced Board Connect , resources that helps nonprofits transform themselves into networked nonprofits by finding and recruiting board members using a networked approach. Leveraging their own networks as well as their board members’ networks, nonprofit leaders now have free access to a premium LinkedIn feature that lets them search for and connect with professionals who meet the needs of their organization on LinkedIn.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
In this guest post Erin Palmer dispels some myths about Millennials and also offers some tips to help nonprofits engage Millennials as volunteers.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
When nonprofits launch or consider launching a smartphone app, an iPhone app is usually their first choice with an Android app a distant second. Launching a third version of a smartphone app is extremely rare, but with the release of Windows 8 Pro on October 26 for desktop and tablets compatible with the design and functionality of the Windows Phone , nonprofits could very soon be adding a third option to their suite of smartphone apps.
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
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