Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A new service called Intuit GoPayment enables nonprofits to accept credit cards on mobile phones ( View Supported Phones ). 2010 is going to be a big year for nonprofits and mobile technology. Tags: Mobile Technology Uncategorized mobile fundraising. So, I opted out of the silent auction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Gen X and gen Y both came of age during the rise mass Internet communications and increasingly shun print communications and fundraising while adapting quickly to new trends in mobile and social giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. Odds are a year from now pitches to subscribe or join “Mobile Action Networks&# will be commonly seen in Facebook Status Updates, Tweets, blogs posts, homepages, and e-newsletter subject lines.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. WWF Mobile. Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. WWF Desktop.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether at the forefront of the Admissions Connect early adopter program, enabling world-class research institutions on the Salesforce platform, providing hyper-intuitive advancement solutions, or delivering a true Connected Campus, our award-winning team always shines.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. 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. .

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Today, “mobile&# is receiving lots of attention. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. As Gary Vaynerchuk put it the other day , you need a mobile strategy by 2012. As Gary Vaynerchuk put it the other day , you need a mobile strategy by 2012. 2000 - 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Ready, Set, Go Mobile - Press - AFP : "The report, New Directions, shows a growing trend toward nonprofits' adoption of mobile giving and other donor outreach campaigns using smartphones and mobile devices.

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. But this alone suggests that the adoption is likely very small.* nonprofits is really a "?". nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Mobile is a growing trend that just won't quit. I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. Author: Sally Heaven. Is your organization ready? And I've never looked back. And that's a missed opportunity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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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.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Mobile learning. It is also estimated that the mobile learning industry alone will grow to over $37 billion by 2020.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 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? To sum it up: the rise of mobile technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

In talking with organizations that are using it – adoption issues for staff seem to be fairly minimal (my partner, a non-techie writer, uses it everyday, with no complaints.) 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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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. The downside?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. FourSquare is a location-based social network to help you connect with friends using GPS via your mobile device. FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

AIDS event to provide mobile fundraising and event update help for. Let us know how it worked out -- we'd love to see a case study on its adoption and impact on fundraising! Charity Dynamics tells us about an iPhone app they implemented for Hill Country Ride for. participants. The app includes ride maps, the updates and discussions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm.

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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. (If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. Text-to-Give Tweet Chat Recap : Did you know more people worldwide have regular access to mobile devices than computers ? Only one year later, much has changed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. Among people ages 12-29, 50% say they primarily access online with mobile devices. . In the 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? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. His mobile phone battery was nearly dead so he chose to send a message to twitter and ask for help as well as for those that couldn’t help to spread the message, instead of calling 911 in the chance that he would end up on hold.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. 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.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The response to the Haiti earthquake by online and mobile donors has been awe-inspiring. Mobile giving has certainly been a major source of a lot of giving to support the Haiti relief effort. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Since then, there have been more than 6.5 spanhidden.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. Mobile is the New Normal. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. Mobile is the new normal.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. As DoSomething.org's CTO, George manages all online and mobile communication systems for DoSomething.org. Under his leadership, the organization has become an innovator in social media, mobile technologies and cause. They demand an in-house tech team.

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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. That means developers need only write an app once, and it can get used on any of the networks involved, like Orkut and LinkedIn. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

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. New this year, we offered a series of webinars specifically dedicated to using Facebook, Twitter, Email and mobile devices for fundraising on Give to the Max Day.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The response to the Haiti earthquake by online and mobile donors has been awe-inspiring. Mobile giving has certainly been a major source of a lot of giving to support the Haiti relief effort. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. The Swedish donation program was launched in May 2010. He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden.

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