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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Have you considered how your current Website looks on a mobile phone?

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Technology Process Improvement for Nonprofits (Can Help Raise More Funds)

NTEN

The undisputed champion of technology project failure is poor user adoption. So for example, you might look at Phone Calls with Donors or Members from 2010. When choosing a system that you will use daily , for years or even decades, several months of deliberation is a small price to pay for long term happiness and productivity.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. What’s important to note here is that unlike wiki or websites, the direct forms of content creation, with Ushahidi citizens only needed to know the number to which they send reports from their phone. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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This Twitter Fundraisers, Next Year FourSquare Fundraisers.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. Early adopters have been all over FourSquare and downright bullish about location based social networks using mobile phones in general, despite some privacy concerns. Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter?

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family. Certainly there’s been a correlating growth in the adoption rate of social media by the general public as well as nonprofits and schools themselves. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

Tech Soup

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. The episode examined some of the ways technology and social media can be harnessed to support causes. Only one year later, much has changed. The Growth in Smartphones and Social Media.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us

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