Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more. Nonprofits can access a donation button they can add to their websites, along with text-to-give, peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, membership, and events features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 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. How to make the most of a crisis situation with cross channel integration. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 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. How to make the most of a crisis situation with cross channel integration. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

There are channels for everything. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. We had 130,492 visits to GiveMN.org throughout the 24 hour event on Nov. Twitter = 827. Facebook = 21,865.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Though your top peer-to-peer fundraisers can often account for one-third to half of the total amount raised, how much are they actually involved in your event? Let them know their input is important, and make it easy for them to feel involved and invested in the success of the event. Follow them on Twitter and retweet relevant posts.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 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). " How can I organise social reporting from events? | Event management? But what can it be used for—outreach and engagement? Advocacy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Hope you will too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

The One Love Alliance creates visionary arts community flash mob events that are both transformative and entertaining, and that are fueled by the values of unity, playfulness, creativity and love. You can watch a video from the One Love Alliance's Free Hugs farmers' market event on Gabriela's YouTube Channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Mobile can’t be this separate tactic or channel in your communications strategy. The Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign came up, which is using multiple channels including mobile. Planning for Integration First.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 18, 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). 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Have you registered yet for the Nonprofit Technology Conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

One of the most powerful ways in which they’ve done this is by building an online platform that allows people to create fundraising campaigns linked to personal events, such as marathons, holidays or birthdays. Think of creative ways to encourage people to link important personal experiences and events to your nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The vendor is expert at what they do, but cannot always provide a channel of communication that the client can really work with. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The next version of Azureus, called Vuze , which I haven’t yet used, looks like it incorporates a media player and channels and such. People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. Basically, becoming a serious competitor for Miro , which I’ll talk about in the next post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter on Launch Day June 21, 2010. We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the themes from the book and answer questions. Since this was my first ustream event, I reached out to my network for some advice. What a send off!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. Though it never comes easy (and we too get our share of rejections), we’ve managed to convince a number of key funders of the value that this online giving event brings to Minnesota.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. Perhaps the most common use of Slideshare by nonprofits is setting up groups or events to collect conference presentations in one place so participants can find them. 6) Training.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I’m discouraged by the amount of time many nonprofits are spending on new tools (like Facebook and Twitter), which may or may not work for fundraising, at the expense of optimizing their own sites! Fundraising is all about channel integration. I’d also like to see nonprofits master the art of writing.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. conferences and public events around the world. RSVP today to join this event on February 8 at 11 a.m. Productions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. Well, it seems that it still is “coming soon.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# X Windows has always been the bane of my existence. I really have come to think that xorg has it in for me. My refrain about it has always been “I hatesssss xorg, I hatesss it.&# at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Since building our social networking tactics was still on the “to do” list for 2010, we had to pull together a social marketing campaign on the fly. Twitter appears to be a good avenue, as well.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

We invited a mix of nonprofit communications and technology speakers to offer their visual communication tips, insights on delivering with mastery, and listening through social media back-channels. Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

For 2012, watch how the early adopters use text messaging to drive traffic to their mobile content and inspire donors to give through mobile channels. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Windy brings over a decade of professional experience in film, video, event planning, theatre, and the non-profit sector to D.V.A. Productions.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Founded in 2010, Yeeboo Digital is a collection of strategic, technical, and creative digital experts with a focus on technology, communications, and fundraising for the nonprofit and charitable sector. Would engaging your supporters over Twitter DMs make sense if you want them to share a tweet or other short message?

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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. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. If Shakespeare on Twitter, how would he tweet? They want to connect.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

It was interesting not as much for its focus on the presence or absence of “channel programs&# but for the way it characterized the qualities of the different distributions in terms of the business model of reselling Linux. And, Canonical also provides professional support. Canonical has a lot of connections in the nonprofit sector.

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