NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. Such is life.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. Over the last month I have subscribed to receive text alerts from 10 organizations. The web is going mobile. As of July 2009, 56.9

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads. Some even think Web 3.0 = The App Economy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Every year we survey the nonprofit technology community (via our members, program participants, and other like-communities) to learn two main things: How are WE doing , as an organization, to make your work easier, and your mission a little closer? > Download the report here (free). is this year's winner!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. Outside of the US, OpenOffice.org adoption is growing fast.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). .

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

For many nonprofit organizations, the rise of crypto philanthropy has been a shock that seems to have appeared virtually overnight. The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. Now, in 2022 Pew Research surveys show that 87% of U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I left Web Worker Daily in 2009 in no small part because I was bored out of my mind with the content I was producing/editing. Sure they have tweaks in technology to work through to make stream organization and circle management more intuitive. The bottom line allows the organization to serve more.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization? What inspired you to join?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Earlier this week, ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, rejected Microsoft’s bid to fast-track OOXML ( Office Open XML ) to standard status. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. (If In fact, that is far from the case.)

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. The workshop will share tips and techniques for culture change, training, and adoption. In 2009, the “Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” SXSW lead to a book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.”

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success. Nonprofits, Donors and Consumers Adopting Online Lifestyle. Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. How do you keep up? We’re just not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. Allan, in his inimitable style, talks about how most nonprofit organizations will not be able to take advantage of OpenSocial. Most nonprofits haven’t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 No question about that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media? While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic. What are the.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

and the first global Internet networking organization for women, Webgrrls International. We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies. Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Basically, he argues that in the era of Web 2.0, And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. I know it is awfully Web 1.0 the only really compelling platform they have is Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) But I think more is needed. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. Network Types.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And we all know how organizations end up reworking their procedures and way of doing things when a new large software implementation happens. One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is also a commonly held view of programmers, web developers, IT professionals, database administrators, and other tech staff in an organization. But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. Tech people have unique exposure to the inner-workings of an organization. X-Ray Glasses.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

Session: Anatomy of a Video: Confessions From Organizations Big and Small . The widespread adoption of social media is clearly the most important trend for nonprofit technology in 2010. The web is changing and becoming a much more media rich place. That there is no reason not to do a lot more video in 2010 than they did in 2009.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

This is especially true given that so many nonprofit and humanitarian groups are collecting private information that, even though intended to help, could inadvertently put the vulnerable populations they serve at risk of harm from repressive regimes, organized crime, and increasingly corporations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com. Miles Orkin, National Director for Mobile and Web forAmerican Cancer Society Fundraising Focus: Mobile. Join Us Online May 24 at 11 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. Laura Lee Dooley suggests that adoption of social media or rather lack of adoption by baby boomers is simply a generational issues. Instead, encourage low-effort contributions such as star ratings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good!

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