Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 17, 2010
FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. That’s a good a sign. Most check-ins revolve around restaurants and cafes, but below are five simple ways you (and the nonprofit techies) can also use FourSquare to promote the nonprofits and causes your care about: 1) Add Nonprofit Venues.
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 22, 2010
I got a call last week from the Advancement Services manager at a small college asking for help. She's trying to make the case for investing in Advancement Services at a college that seems to only want to invest in fundraisers. She had already found my post on the Ingredients of a High Performing Advancement Services Shop , my discussion summary, Top Issues Affecting Advancement Services (which led to an article in the October 2007 issue of CASE Currents called "Going Fourth: What every fund
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Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 12, 2010
Yesterday was a very exciting day: we threw a surprise party for Beth Kanter online! It was a bit of fun mixed with experiment, and I think it was really successful. Here are some reflections about how we used crowdsourcing techniques for a very fast-moving campaign and lessons learned that may apply to your work. Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal.
Judi Sohn
JANUARY 26, 2010
I had a therapeutic ERCP this morning to finally deal with biliary tract issues that have been bothering me since 2003. The fact that I'm still coming off Propofol and Dilaudid is the only excuse I have that I nearly fell for this. I know better. Like I needed to be spending the time I should be relaxing in bed and enjoying time with my online friends instead resetting my Facebook password and cleaning up every single authorized application?
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 11, 2010
A guest Beneblog by Viji Dilip International Bookshare Program Manager Every morning braving the heavy Chennai traffic Maria wheels into Worth Trust to start her work as a proof reader. Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills. Two years later, Maria who was affected by polio at the age of one and has to use a wheel chair and calipers, is now soon to be married on Jan 18th, 2010.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 12, 2010
I like Facebook. Mostly to stay in touch with close friends. It’s great for that. I don’t play Farmville or Mafia Wars. I don’t invite people to Causes. But I am a fan of my favorite nonprofits on Facebook. I do see their status updates. I do occasionally give thumbs up, and sometimes I’ll even comment. I have donated to nonprofits that I have seen on Facebook (on their website).
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 5, 2010
I've been thinking about what it takes to run a great Advancement Services operation (aka Development Services, Development Operations, Development Systems, the fundraising infrastructure, the back office). While outsiders sometimes view Advancement Services as data entry staff, there's a lot more to it. (I wrote about the frustrations of Advancement Services professionals in Top Issues Affecting Advancement Services ).
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 18, 2010
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and I’ve been watching the time zones wake up in the US and start Twittering about the various service projects and community building activities everyone is participating in. It’s been heart warming and also frustrating – I wish I could be so many places at once! I can only be in one place, though – but I can start a conversation that goes many places.
Judi Sohn
JANUARY 24, 2010
This weekend, the winners were announced in the Chase Community Challenge. On paper, it seemed simple enough. Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. "Their money, our votes." In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2010
The Davos scene is nonstop: it starts with breakfast meetings at 8 am and ends typically after midnight. You rush from session to session, often jumping a shuttle from one hotel to another or back to the Congress Center. In between the meetings, there’s the powerful force of serendipity. In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country.
NCE Social Media
JANUARY 21, 2010
I had the privilege to give a presentation on Social Media and Fundraising to the Western PA chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals today. Here is my presentation. I hope you enjoy it. Tags: Education and Training AFP fundraise PPT presentation.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 6, 2010
The use of iPhone Apps that benefit the nonprofit sector is going to explode in 2010. Hundreds of iPhone Apps created by nonprofits and nonprofit service providers are quietly preparing for an early 2010 launch. That said, there are three iPhone Apps currently live and available for download that give us a good picture of how iPhone Apps can be utilized by nonprofits, activists, and donors: 1) Geolocation Activism :: CauseWorld.
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 28, 2010
The continuing story of my new Thinkpad T400S laptop. I finally feel like it's starting to come together, particularly the upgrade to Windows 7. Here's the story so far. Maybe my experience will help someone else. After transferring my data and software using Laplink (and after figuring out that I had to decrypt my files first) I found that everything was owned by some mystery account.
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Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 29, 2010
Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. There’s been quite a lot of talk in the last year about the opportunities for fundraising online, generally, as well as the best practices for organizations leveraging social media for campaigns (as well as the idea to use free tools to raise money in hard economic times).
Judi Sohn
JANUARY 21, 2010
via blog.box.net. Finally! Box.net has always had the ability to preview files, but it was through their Open Box system so 1. it sent the file to a 3rd party and 2. it was too slow. This new file viewer works right in Box.net and is quite fast. I can't count how many times I downloaded files from Box.net just to see what it was, only to have to dump them from my Downloads folder later.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2010
A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s secure software application, I travel to many countries where human rights defenders need tools to gather, organize and back up information about human rights violations. Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses.
NetWits
JANUARY 5, 2010
This is a guest post by Chris Brogan. He does incredible things with businesses in the new media space. Make sure to visit chrisbrogan.com. Many thanks to Chris for stopping by [link] and sharing his insight with our readers. Over the past few years, I've experimented a lot with nonprofits. I've worked to promote causes, to raise money, to drive awareness further down the funnel into the "action" category.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 10, 2010
FourSquare has received quite a bit of buzz over the last few months. Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. It is Different. Addictive. And as of last week, FourSquare has gone global. Thus, now all nonprofits worldwide have a good reason to get FourSquare on their radar screen.
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 19, 2010
I recently received my new Lenovo Thinkpad T400S -- thinner, faster, and lighter than my current T400. But getting it set up has been a bear. A few of the lowlights, after 6 days of work: 1) I used Laplink to transfer my data, apps, and settings. I've been using Laplink products for at least 15 years with good results. This time, not so good. The big problem turned out to be that I had encrypted my data on my current computer.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 26, 2010
Nancy Schwartz, president of Nancy Schwartz & Company and blogger at Getting Attention , has just finished analyzing data from a nonprofit marketing survey of more than 900 nonprofit leaders, revealing that they are doing a poor job connecting with their audience and community. Nancy explains: “Nonprofit marketers say their key messages are failing to connect with the people who need to hear them and that is a serious problem.
Judi Sohn
JANUARY 19, 2010
As rumored, AT&T unveiled new unlimited plans last week that went into effect yesterday. $69/month for unlimited voice. If you have a smartphone, tack on another $30/month for unlimited data. Strangely, this still doesn't include SMS so you'll need another $20/month for that. Still, compared to the price of a metered minutes plan, it's not a bad deal.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 22, 2010
As I head off to the WEF Summit in Davos, I'm also excited about the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit coming up in San Francisco at the end of April. The membership of the Alliance are "my people," folks who speak both social and business fluently. The response to the early bird registration was incredible. We had to extend the early bird a week (actually, from last Friday to today) for member organizations to make sure everybody who wanted to register early got their double-discount (being a m
NCE Social Media
JANUARY 19, 2010
There are several things we can learn from the Haitian Earthquake that are socialmedia-related. With the recent Haitian earthquake, texting donations has garnered new media focus. While popular in Europe for some time, texting donations has finally broken through as a promising fundraising tool here. The Red Cross has collected more than $22 million in donations via text messages in one week.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 25, 2010
As more and more nonprofits launch group texting and text-to-give campaigns in the coming months, we’re also going to see more and more nonprofits launch mobile websites – or at the very least breaking news, donate now and subscribe web pages that can be easily read on mobile devices. I’ll be covering that in more detail next week, but in the meantime take a quick browse through the sites below.
NetWits
JANUARY 7, 2010
Email is still a powerful way to communicate with your constituents. A report by technology market research firm The Radicati Group estimates that there are 1.4 billion email users in 2009, expected to rise to 1.9 billion by 2013. The same source suggests that some 247 billion emails are sent each day in 2009.
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