Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What makes it possible Cloud computing is made possible and easier by two trends, two that have happened closely in parallel, one that is relatively recent: High bandwidth to the curb and massive data centers. You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The most popular desktop content management systems are quickly catching up to now offer easy, inexpensive mobile content options, but the time to learn about the importance of this trend for mobile communications and fundraising is now, or to be more exact March 6, 2012. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. please text NONPROFITORGS to 27138 : 6.

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FEBRUARY 26, 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? Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 It’s an irreversible trend. So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password. Then, for the creepy part.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Trends - What’s Hot & Not @ the Carnival 08.15.08 Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

craigconnects – "I took a look at a few articles and studies, and according to ComScore's 2010 Digital Year in Review, email use dropped 59% among Internet users ages 12 to 17 in 2010. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. A lot the products of my sense-making are shared through this blog, flickr, YouTube, and Slideshare – as well as offline through presentations, book and article writing, and facilitating workshops. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2011

The network suffered a bad year in 2010 which saw it lose a lot of ground , and become relegated to a second tier network behind Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn in user visits. In my recently released book Welcome to the Fifth Estate , the second half of the book deals with building a strategy and sustaining it over the long term.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

There are some trends that make it seem that some vendors are beginning to get the picture that we can all work together – open APIs seem to be on the rise. A while ago, I blogged about the “scarcity mentality&# – the idea that the pie is finite, and it has to be split up. That makes me happy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

I think that unplugging and limiting internet and tech use is an upcoming cultural trend, so I was thrilled to see that one of the sessions was Unplug, Unfriend, Unfollow, Unwind: Is That Sacrilege? Members of my virtual social change book club. Book Recommendations I jotted down lots of ideas for books to read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. And I know that many nonprofits use software designed for corporations and for-profit entities, such as Quickbooks (although I know there is the NonProfit Books variant.)

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,376 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 Read more about the methodology.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up? Refurbishment and the Environment. Growing Supply and Increasing Demand.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,468 nonprofit organizations representing $2.25

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up? Refurbishment and the Environment. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Mobile is a growing trend that just won't quit. I carried an old-fashioned flip phone for so long that some of my friends at the Convio Summit 2010 made fun of me. It's my email, my camera, my book, my photo album, my Facebook account, my bank, the way I order pizza, and sometimes I even use it to make calls. I mean EVERYWHERE.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending October 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,412 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 Read more about the methodology.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. But first, let me share the description and what I’m planning: This interactive session is based on a key theme in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

We just launched a new and more interactive News and Insights feature on our website, which is a blog-style news hub with content from Irvine staff that spotlights their work, the work of our grantees, and other interesting trends in California and the broader philanthropic community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

One of the places I go for inspiration during my day is to the books , blog , podcast, and Twitter feed of Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly has authored two books: Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat , and Tranquilista: Mastering the Art of Enlightened Work and Mindful Play. Also, determine your mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

What are the trends on all of the above? Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense. How many people are reading our materials in their RSS readers? How many people take advantage of discounts that we offer? What do they say in surveys that we conduct?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What is Jumo? Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. All Rights Reserved

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Is Facebook and MySpace a trend? A totally bizarre title, contrived by the publisher since memoir-writing was not “in&# when the book was published, Rosen overlays the two very different stories of his grandmothers with a meditation, mediated by a literary view of Jewish history, on change and alienation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . Technology Goes Mainstream.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on June 2nd, 2011 I’m starting a new series of short interviews with people who are really changing what’s happening in the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2010

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking ," a new book from Berrett-Koehler by technologist and nonprofit consultant Deanna Zandt. How You Will Change the World With Social Networking" (June 2010, Berrett-Koehler.) The following post is excerpted from " Share This!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. It was almost as if many organizations were reading from the same recipe book. I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a donor.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Key Trends in Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 7th, 2011 Blackbaud has released two new groundbreaking research studies that reveal insights about peer-to-peer event fundraising.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Myths about Online Giving Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 1st, 2010 There are so many myths about online giving. Here are five that need to be busted. Older donors don’t give online Wrong. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Top States for Loyal & Wealthy Donors Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 14th, 2010 Blackbaud has a tremendous amount of data about the nonprofit sector. Sometimes it’s just ambient awareness or trivial trivia.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? What has your nonprofit done since January 12, 2010? Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 12th, 2011 One year ago a devastating 7.0 All Rights Reserved

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