Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 10, 2010
For the last 4.5 years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. My Top Five are below: 1.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 13, 2010
I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters. Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them. Life is too short to throw your professional life away on stuff you don't care about.
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Amy Sample Ward
MAY 7, 2010
This is my latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Read the original post and conversation here. —– I’ve talked about issues and ideas over the last year about the use of certain tools or platforms in the social technology for social impact sector, from Causes to Ideablob to Ning. These conversations have moved through a version of the stages of grief: outrage, doubt, fear, wonder.
Robert Weiner
MAY 5, 2010
I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less.
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Wild Apricot
MAY 25, 2010
Infographics are to data what storytelling is to an annual report: a more engaging way to help bring attention and understanding to your nonprofit’s cause. Let’s take a closer look at these visual representations of data and ideas, along with great resources to help you get started on making your own infographic.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications images application.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 24, 2010
Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. Nonprofits use the sites to build their online brand and supporter base, and the companies in turn then benefit from having tens of thousands respectable, well-known nonprofits promoting their sites and tools to millions of supporters (a.k.a. potential consumers).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 16, 2010
Benetech is committed to developing technology for underserved communities that can reap big benefits from improved access to information. So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 5, 2010
Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. The work they have done with Mama Lucy has been incredible and the school is now serving over 400 children. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live.
Robert Weiner
MAY 29, 2010
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Wild Apricot
MAY 31, 2010
It’s that time again! Our regular monthly round-up of free professional development opportunities for nonprofit folks is back for June 2010. Even as we move toward the lazy days of summer, when the pace traditionally slows down a bit, there’s still a great variety of free online presentations and seminars on tap for fundraisers, board members, administrators, active volunteers and volunteer coordinators.
NCE Social Media
MAY 18, 2010
Hubspot has an incredible list of social media statistics resources that you must see. It includes great videos, PowerPoint files and infographics that are worth your while. Image source: Hubspot. Do you have other favorite social media resources? If so please share them in our comments section. Tags: Education and Training Tools hubspot infographics powerpoint slides statistics Video.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 5, 2010
I just followed my 20,000th nonprofit organization on Twitter at @ NonprofitOrgs ! I started the profile 18 months ago with the primary mission to only “Follow&# nonprofits in order to serve as a portal to nonprofit organizations on Twitter. To celebrate the milestone, I just donated $20 to 20 of my favorite nonprofits. Related Links: 20,000th Nonprofit Organization :: Marine Conservation Society || @ MCSUK.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 6, 2010
At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas? Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions.
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Amy Sample Ward
MAY 23, 2010
I’m really excited for my friend and colleague, Kivi Leroux Miller for her new book The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause. I’m even more excited to say that this blog will be part of her virtual book tour in June! There will be an interview with Kivi posted on the blog on June 24th – but it’s going to be with your questions!
Robert Weiner
MAY 16, 2010
There are a few RSS feeds I don't want to miss. I have an RSS feed reader but I often go for days without looking at it. The surest way for me to be sure see new items is to have them delivered as email messages. Some RSS feeds offer email subscriptions, but most don't. However, I found a way to do this even for feeds that don't offer email delivery by playing with these instructions for setting up a Google FeedBurner subscription for one's own web site: [link]. 1) First, you need to go to FeedB
NetWits
MAY 10, 2010
The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project.
NCE Social Media
MAY 14, 2010
Facebook has been taking some heat about their privacy policies again. Users are concerned about Facebook’s new open grid and how it links and shares your information with others. Facebook just wants to make the web a more open and social place. However the user’s concerns have concerned Facebook enough to have a special meeting with all of their senior staff.
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
MAY 20, 2010
Seemingly every time I login to Facebook these days, something is different. And thus far, I am not a Fan, er, Like the changes. That’s no secret. Well, there’s two more changes that Facebook Admins need to know about and they are related to the Static FBML App: 1) You can no longer create a Custom Tab and make it your Default Landing Tab.
Judi Sohn
MAY 29, 2010
In a few weeks, my oldest daughter will be graduating from middle school. High school begins in the fall. I'm starting to get a picture of who my baby may be as an adult. Scary, but in a good way because she's an amazing young lady. She's intelligent, sweet, compassionate, has a wicked sense of humor and has thankfully has spared us from most of the average 14 year-old angst.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 26, 2010
Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure and honor to lead a webinar with Lori Jacobwith ’s community. It was an introduction to social media, especially focused on what organizations (regardless of size) can start doing today. I had a bit of fun with it, especially with the pictures on the slides, by using a party metaphor: Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party!
Robert Weiner
MAY 13, 2010
I received an email newsletter today with the following pitch for a web-based donor database (perhaps you can guess which one): The Cloud offers you constituent relationship management (CRM) software that's less expensive, easier to maintain, more accessible, more intuitive, and with greater flexibility and capacity than you've ever seen before. How much would you pay for such a system?
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NetWits
MAY 31, 2010
Communication seems to change every so often, doesn’t it? Print, Radio, TV and the Internet each represent a shift - a big shift in our communications evolution. Think about the significance and how each has dramatically changed our world. For nonprofits the big shift was from direct mail to email. From print material to digital communication.
NCE Social Media
MAY 4, 2010
Facebook recently added a feature to their open graph framework that allows you to put a Facebook “like button&# on your own website. When you place the like button on your site, a visitor, who has a Facebook profile, can click on it to show their friends on Facebook that they liked your site or specific web page. Here’s an example: Facebook describes the button as – “the Like button enables users to make connections to your pages and share content back to their friends o
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 26, 2010
Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. The majority have moved on to Facebook and Twitter. That said, MySpace is not dead. Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). They just don’t tend to be the same folks that regularly visit Facebook and Twitter.
Judi Sohn
MAY 29, 2010
In a few weeks, my oldest daughter will be graduating from middle school. High school begins in the fall. I'm starting to get a picture of who my baby may be as an adult. Scary, but in a good way because she's an amazing young lady. She's intelligent, sweet, compassionate, has a wicked sense of humor and has thankfully has spared us from most of the average 14 year-old angst.
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