Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. They have increasing competition from OpenOffice.org, Google Apps, and, on the Mac, iWork. I’ll keep you posted. {

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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? Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5. 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking. Oh, memories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Consider Google and other search engine advertising (or see if Google will partner on a Google Grant). Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Google is a little vague about the fact that when you invite someone to a spreadsheet they’ll need a Google Account. That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. According to the Baltimore Sun , It was, in fact, the giant snowstorm in 2010 that was the impetus for the federal government to push more employees to work from home. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. years at DoSomething.org, he oversaw the complete overhaul of the site (cms, architecture, skin, etc) in 2008, landing a People's Choice Webby Award in the Youth in 2009 and nomination in 2010. They demand an in-house tech team. During his 4.5

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. 2000 - 2010. Google Gmail. Take Google design principles to heart : speed and simplicity matter even more on mobile. could embed the video].

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

technologies to see about rates of adoption. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

While it is true that the younger generations tend to be early adopters of new technology, the internet has become a central part of communications and commerce for every demographic group. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! “Facebook with wrinkles&# they call it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? If you don’t see the analogy to blogging or any adoption of social media, then you’re blind. Why bother having a web site at all? 8 Allan Benamer 09.21.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lucy Bernholz who writes the Philanthropy 2173 blog is a master of that - and is currently crowdsourcing trends and predictions for 2010. What will the social sector look like in 2010? The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010. Crowdsourcing is another example of working in a networked way.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

First off, for 2010, there are some security questions you should ask yourself as trends emerge: Are robots attacking my servers? (Ro)bots We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. It will be interesting to see how Apple's iPhone and Google's Android evolve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This shift started fifteen years ago with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere." Citing Hal Varian, Google's chief economist: Data, he explains, are widely available; what is scarce is the ability to extract wisdom from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

Material placed in hollow or valley fills has been called waste; a term adopted by engineers over the years, but not waste in the connotation presented. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Submitted by Doug Ulman.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. MySpace and Facebook weren’t being utilized by nonprofits in 2007 (except for a few early adopters) and Twitter did not exist. In recent years Google, Bing, Ask.com, etc. 2) To improve your search engine results. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

In 2007, Google became the first major company to reach carbon neutrality. From facilitating green commuting, to employee gift matching, to paid time off for volunteering, Google inspects nearly every part of their business with a social impact lens. Ben & Jerry’s. In 2020, they gave over $1.1

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Unfortunately, it only had 600 users when I checked adoption rates for it this week. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? A Causes-beater this is not.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. What data is meaningful?

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

However they reached an unexpected ceiling to growth; as they expanded their operation, they used the technology they were familiar with, Hotmail, Google, Word, and Excel. The technology itself is not the fundamental block to the adoption of appropriate ICT solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The audience consisted mostly of social media early adopters who shared terrific insights that come from having a sense of context. conference in 2010. Google social search. Google Wave, however, wasn’t highly praised, as it’s confusing, distracting and might not scale well. That's rare in a conference setting.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

If the age is rising, your adoption of new channels must show a corresponding increase. Those Baby Boomers we were all holding our breath over a decade ago, wondering if they would adopt different giving habits than their parents, have in fact turned out to be good direct mail donors once they get old enough. Puzzling, but true.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Cloud services are rapidly scaling to the point where larger NPOs can safely adopt them, and Google and Microsoft will keep the heat on to get NPOs there at low cost. Marnie Webb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Since becoming widely adopted just a couple years ago, social media has supercharged social action, cause marketing, and social entrepreneurship. The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.). Or, if you want to avoid automobiles altogether, Google Maps makes it easy to use public transportation and take a bike.

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