Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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NetWits

MARCH 29, 2011

AMD is predicting that, by 2015, 50% of the world will have an Internet connection and Phone Count predicts that by 2012 there will be as many connected mobile phones as there are people in the world. Pew Internet Report ] [ Chronicle of Philanthropy thoughts ]. Pew Internet Report ]. of time spent on the web.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2011

The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue. But analysis of actual data, instead of online or phone surveys, is still much more accurate and meaningful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If not an entire site, then at the very least your organization should create select web pages that are designed to be easily read on mobile devices. Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. The web is going mobile. As of July 2009, 56.9

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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NetWits

MAY 17, 2011

With the continued growth of Internet usage, the rise of social media, and the smart phone revolution it’s likely that social fundraising will continue to play a significant roll for non-profit organizations (or start to play a growing roll for those organizations who don’t already participate in this type of fundraising).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The internet is not new. The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web. The real-time web is a paradigm based on pushing information to users as soon as it’s available, instead of requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. People believe in the internet.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Alphabet’s Loon division, which uses floating balloons to provide internet, has today launched its first commercial service in Kenya. Loon has been testing its balloons in Kenya for several months now, and it says that in that time, it’s already connected 35,000 unique users to the internet, “although most didn’t realize it.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The first phone I ever owned was a Motorola Razr. In all my years of owning a Razr, I can’t say I tapped it more than once or twice, and never on purpose: the internet button. In all my years of owning a Razr, I can’t say I tapped it more than once or twice, and never on purpose: the internet button.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. Vice reported the ban this morning, the day after a sweeping report alleged Pegasus was used to target the phones of human rights activists and journalists. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

With close to 70% of cell phone users using their mobile device to access the internet, raising money through mobile donations is an area that is expected to only grow. Mobile web design. Every day more internet users are accessing the annals of the internet through their mobile device. Mobile Donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Nonprofits might also think that the Mobile Web is a somewhat abstract concept that they need to focus on in a year or two, but as of today one in five Americans now access the mobile web daily. They also send 2.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2022

US athletes have been advised not to bring their phones to the 2022 Winter Olympics. The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is telling athletes to ditch their personal phones for burners ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in China, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (via Android Central ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Static Web” with “Web 1.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. " New Phone Apps Aim to Combat Harassment – NYTimes.com – “The Internet speeds everything up,&# Ms. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of November 11th).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 15, 2014

The rapid rise of mobile and social media has directly correlated with a rise in Internet trolls —individuals whose sole purpose is to rant, vent, and incite discord. They are boosted by anonymity and will very rarely, if ever, follow up with a complaint via email or phone that they were blocked from your community.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. In 2006, Amazon debuted one of its most significant products: the web server product that would come to be known as Amazon Web Services, or AWS.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Have you ever gotten the sneaking feeling that someone's creeping over your virtual shoulder while you browse the web? For actual internet anonymity, you can reclaim your privacy by getting yourself a virtual private network, or VPN. What is a VPN? A kill switch. Split tunneling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Wufoo allows individuals and brands to easily create web forms through a simple drag and drop interface.

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question I ask myself, and web masters around the world ask themselves, on a daily basis. They’re looking at their phone, conversions, then comparing those with their findings on Google analytics, when instead, they should be incorporated. The “3 second rule” is never truer than on the Internet.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2019

If you visit a web site, it seems that you are forever haunted by emails, ads and other forms of artificial intelligence. Consumers can go to any company and ask them to disclose the data they are collecting by using a web site or phone number. Internet browsing history. and ‘what is being done to protect my privacy?’.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

Until now, using WhatsApp web on your desktop or any other device has required having a phone that’s powered on and connected, but a new beta test is trying out support for multiple devices without needing a phone in the mix. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Facebook. WhatsApp’s message architecture.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer ? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task — browsing the web. Today, nobody would say that Google Chrome is a web explorer. Browsing the web has become an effortless — and often mindless — task.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Static Web” with “Web 1.0:

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NetWits

MAY 16, 2012

Back even a year ago, some friends would say “Can’t you put your phone away and just enjoy our conversation?” According to a recent econsultancy blog Inforgraphic - by December more Americans will read emails from their phone than their lap or desktops. Retailers, even states like Maine , are all over mobile web.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Just as the continent has leapfrogged fixed-line internet by the all-conquering mobile phone (80 percent of Africans now had mobile phones in 2013 according to a report from TA Telecom) so the same may happen to transportation. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. Think back to the very first cell phones. A “normal” person was expected to have read the manual to learn how to use a new phone. Viktor Marohni? A look at how CMS evolved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

ColdFusion has been around for 15 years (more than a century in Internet time), and although it has improved and developed, technologically, it has been surpassed by its successors (including PHP, Java, Python, RubyonRails, and even.NET.) A friend of one of the board members is a web developer. How many people use it? Here’s why.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 12, 2014

Siri and Google Now are poised to change the way mobile phones are used. Getting your website optimized to the point where someone can ask when your next fundraising event is can be considered the ultimate web design success. Internet design trends come and in ebbs and flows. will provide a spoken word answer.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. The best part is that you can post in a manner of ways: from the platform, from your email, from your phone, etc. Historypin.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

What exactly is the “Internet of Things”? Building an accessory like the Olloclip camera lens may require you to know the zoom and resolution specifications that you’re starting with, along with the dimensions of the phone itself. This post was originally published on the Fueled blog.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2014

There have been a tremendous amount of issues and disasters in the news recently, but I want to draw your attention to a critically important story that is developing as you read this: once again, our open Internet is in danger. Why does an open Web matter to your organization? Add your voice and send feedback to the FCC!

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Starting September 18th, Microsoft will end support for the Office and Outlook Android apps on Chrome OS and start pushing Chromebook users to its web apps instead, according to a statement it gave About Chromebooks. For the most part, the web version of Office does the job. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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