Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. I would have been incredibly annoyed if at 10,000 fans the Page would have lost News Feed exposure. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

A 2009 study study by HubSpot found that not having uploaded an avatar decreases your followers by up to 80% and my guess is that the data from that study still speaks true today. The same study by HubSpot also found that having a Twitter Bio can get you up to eight times as many followers. 7) Posting all marketing content.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The time is now. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Well, it depends.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. I think I need to move to a new server, and I don’t have the time or energy to focus on the change. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. It has been 7 years since I started blogging. Easy to share out.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

As nonprofits, we're focused on action, all the time. We want to be out in the field, serving clients, all the time. It's go, go, go for the mission, all the time. Time is a luxury we don't have in our line of work -- which is why I think so many of us resist evaluation. Of course, we know better.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Online/Offline Integration : If you're my Facebook friend, you know I participated in Climate Ride 2009 , a 300-mile bike ride from NY to DC. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

The Black Dog Institute Pedometer App allows you to set your distance and time goal and tracks your personal best. Updated: May 6, 2009. KivaAlerts is a great way for you to grant loans to entrepreneurs of your interest by being on top of new loan requests at all times. Released: November 16, 2009. Kiva :: Download.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. This wasn’t the first time I had direct communication with a designer due to Ravelry. As it was late in the book prep process, time was tight. But it did help feed my yarn habit over the past couple of years.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My efforts to revitalize my blog were hit & miss in 2009. Google agrees: I think I need to move to a new server, and I don't have the time or energy to focus on the change. My posterous has its own RSS feed so feel free to subscribe if you want to keep up with me. It has been 7 years since I started blogging. Way too Slow.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. So “keeping up&# means so much more than it ever did before.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place from 16 – 22 November 2009. Find out how you can take part from wherever you are around the world! "Global

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

—— John has spent time working for Microsoft, doing R&D for the defense industry and was part of a few past startups that didn’t quite reach “critical mass.&# In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). Working on trying to find time to sleep.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

I promise in April I’ll be right on time (oooohh, that could be fun, April Blogtipping on April fools day …) By the way, I think blogtipping is a great idea for our sector, and it’s a great way for me to think more about all of the blogs that I read. I think it’s a great idea, although I’m one day late.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Reddit.com , a social news site, is pairing volunteers with nonprofits between now and February 14, 2009 as part of its Feed a Need project. Nonprofits can submit their organization's name to be considered for volunteer time through the Feed a Need site. reddit volunteer online web

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You've taken the time to create a Facebook page. You've meticulously crafted engaging content to feed the page, making sure to present a good mix of media — probably favoring photos. Facebook uses an algorithm, which it calls EdgeRank , to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Out of Reach. Guess what?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Subscribe to the feed here , or click here to subscribe via email. Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. Einolf (2009) [1] analyzed the baby boomer generation and predicted a similar increase in volunteer numbers and rates. Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. This is great news.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

However, times have changed my perspective. Technology now makes it possible and even requires me to be all over the place all the time. It was completed and published in November 2009. When I began leading a large nonprofit organization in the Midwest years ago, I was always clear: We had one spokesperson — me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. First, we’re timing the campaign to draw increased attention to our mission at a time when people are naturally talking about employment and jobs. .” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But it takes content: you’ve got to feed those media platforms and seed those conversations. Holly Minch is the founder of Lightbox Collaborative , a versatile, dynamic group of talented consultants making the world a better place, one project at a time. Flickr Photo by Yandel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. They also tweet about real-time impacts, which usually is extreme weather and how that fits within the pattern of global warming. They share the latest, and best peer-reviewed science through Twitter conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Should a nonprofit hold off on spending time exploring new technologies and do the organizational work first? As someone who works with nonprofits to build capacity in technology, one always hopes for transformational versus transactional results. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. If want to separate your personal and professional tweets as much as possible use a disclaimer such as the following, "This is a personal Twitter feed. Twitter and WordPress Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

It's hard times. One Click Feeds 140 Kids. That means every person who joins the movement will help feed 140 children. As our nation's needs soar, and charitable donations plunge, it is taking its toll on the nonprofit sector. To become a Champion, all you need to do is: Sign the Hunger Pledge. Encourage others to join you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

In some countries, $100 can send a child to school for a whole year or feed an entire family for one month. In her free time she volunteers for several local nonprofit organizations while developing her plan to create a future organization that will target Central American countries. New York: Random House, 2009. Get another!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For many organizations, the terms "transparency" and "accountability," when uttered in the same sentence as "indirect/administrative costs," mean only one thing: it's time for another round of belt-tightening. Most times General Support is usable for overhead/administrative costs.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Custom RSS feeds let you get quick updates on blogs that mention your organizations name.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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