Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. Build a successful online fundraising strategy from the ground up.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics. The N2Y4 Mobile Challenge called for innovative mobile applications supporting social good.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2013

Darko Brkan is mobilizing Eastern Europe. organized the protest entirely on mobile phones, using SMS to get a quick response and mobilize large crowds in Sarajevo. People were tired of the corruption so they mobilized. In 2009 Dosta! The civic movement he started, Dosta! “Enough!” "Why not?"),

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We’ve been behind the scenes since May listening to customers and building features. The Ultimate Go-To Resource on Mobile Data Collection (and growing…) | MobileActive.org – "Want to use mobiles for data collection? Would love to hear your reactions. You're in luck!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Except for a short test in 2009 , your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans have never seen all your posts and as most of us have by now have realized, the percentage that do has gotten significantly smaller over time. If your nonprofit is only building a community on Facebook, that’s a mistake that could come back to haunt you in 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Large companies and some nonprofits are spending as much as $50,000 to build and launch an a iPhone App. 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. . Very expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

This is a question that was answered in a study from 2009 and the answer is yes. Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. But few nonprofits use social media to build relationship with potential Big Fish donors. Work together to build a solid, consistent message.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

NetSquared currently has 3 open Challenges, calling for innovators and change makers around the world to submit ideas for Web and mobile-based technologies for social change. UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. Check out his answer (video) and Challenges you can dive into today! Learn more.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. Nielsen reports that as of Q1 2010 , 23% of people with mobile devices now have a smartphone instead of a regular old boring/dumb cell phone. First - some stats.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Submissions period begins on February 23, 2009, at 11 am PST, and runs through April 3, 2009, at 3 pm PST. How To Participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

These are my links for January 16th through February 6th: How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE - Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

Actually, I didn’t use the Battlestar Galactica expletive , I used the one you’re more familiar with. :-) Convio is launching the new application , built on top of the Force.com platform. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

2) Mobile technology. Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. Mobile (and Open) Creates Future Opportunity. Since then, organizations have expanded mobile efforts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. It’s also a good idea that every time you launch a new social media or mobile technology community or campaign, you write a brief blog post and list specific ways in which supporters can participate.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy: In 2010, nonprofits need to get serious about mobile outreach. But what's coming up in 2010? Here's their advice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

I think in some ways, this might decrease LinkedIn’s usefulness as a platform for fundraising or constituent-building by nonprofits (it has always seemed less viable for this than either Facebook or MySpace.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Building local chapters. The UnRoad Trip - In summer 2009, Boaz Frankel undertook trip around the United States in 100 non-automobile forms of transportation and The UnRoad Trip was born. Raising funds.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

" Download the 2009 Data Ecosystem Survey Report | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – NTEN just released a report on the data ecosystem in nonprofit organizations – it's free for members, but $50 for non-NTEN members. "The Here are five things non-profits should consider before pursuing texting."

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 15, 2009

The Mobile Web and Your Organization | MobileActive.org: "The Mobile Web and Your OrganizationJanuary 15, 2009 | KatrinVerclasData from Informa indicates that by 2010 half of the planet's population will have access to the Internet through a mobile device. Should you make your website mobile?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

“If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. And today, I learned about two online tools written with Asterisk, which would have been impossible a few years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the one hand, it’s important to kep looking ahead to know what’s coming, and build systems and processes for our nonprofits that will still be relevant next year. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 at 7:16 am The question of how bleeding edge we need to be intrigues me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. Code published in PHP and Python would probably get a lot more people up to speed and interested in building stuff that will integrate with the things that a lot of nonprofits really use. The APIs will be without cost.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. The only thing that will be left is games. It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. It seems a fitting moment to say goodbye to Apple. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

cyber world becomes, instead of a bunch of walled gardens where data moves in only very limited ways between them, a fully permeable space where data flows freely, it will be possible for nonprofits to have much greater reach and impact, whether it be for fundraising, advocacy or constituency-building. { In the long term, if the whole web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 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)

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. By creating opportunities for engagement, the nonprofit sector is responsible for building cohesion and social capital. Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. 2009, May 1).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

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. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org If you were building an office building for your nonprofit, when would you bring in an architect? This is an obvious choice: when you're actively building something, it makes sense to have an expert on building involved. They demand an in-house tech team. During his 4.5 During his 4.5

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Hosted applications and platforms also require equitable access pathways, so while low cost hardware are available, it is broadband and mobile divides that are important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The second part of Facebook’s advertising platform is likely not going to be used by nonprofits, for the most part, but is important to consider if Facebook is a part of your constitiuent-building or fundraising strategy. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.)

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