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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A recent survey from tech giant Twilio showed that 85% of global consumers want the option to communicate with businesses via text message. Give by Cell offers a suite of mobile fundraising tools to organizations, higher education, and museums and cultural institutions. Sometimes it’s to promote events and say ‘ Please join us.

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Socialbrite is shutting down

Socialbrite

We launched Socialbrite in July 2008, back in the heyday of social media, as an educational resource, guide and consultancy to help nonprofit and social good organizations learn how to use the power of the crowd to advance their goals. By fall 2008, “social media” was the hot new buzz phrase. Well, that changed fast.

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. We are currently at a stage similar to the mid-1990s of the internet and tech boom where the technology is still in its early days. The next generation of tech millionaires and billionaires are being created in the cryptocurrency industry.

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At a time when Facebook was primarily used by college-educated individuals from the middle and upper classes, Myspace was open, diverse, creative, and seemingly the epitome of an online grassroots community. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace.

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Find me in my “office”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. In fact, this same recognition was what inspired me to start Benetech as a different kind of tech company—a nonprofit—nearly 25 years ago.

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