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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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Online Giving Potential: How to Bounce Back From Months of Decreased Fundraising

NetWits

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Nevertheless, there are ways to put your earnings back on the map when the monetary tides turn against you.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. It allows nonprofits free access to data that they would normally not have access to (like mapping data), or would have to pay a lot for.

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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009. My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. Founded: 2009 A leader in the crowdfunding space, it doesn’t get much more straightforward than setting up a page with Fundly for a simple means of collecting donations online. Click To Tweet. For a Budget.

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NTC Links

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space. But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Michael Gilbert has a review of things happening on the varied NTC backchannels, with some wry commentary.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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