Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

According to a November 2012 Pew Internet and American Life Project report , a higher percentage of African American and Latino cell phone users have downloaded at least one app in comparison to Whites. The EITC offers tax refunds for individuals or families earning $48,360 or less (in 2010).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

The use of iPhone Apps that benefit the nonprofit sector is going to explode in 2010. Hundreds of iPhone Apps created by nonprofits and nonprofit service providers are quietly preparing for an early 2010 launch. My guess is we will see many more such Apps and gelocation services launch in 2010. 2) Fundraising :: Charity Finder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2012

The eight reports listed below are just a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology. 1) 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report :: Download. 2) 2012 Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmark™ Study :: Download. Thank you.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. Clever use of mobile technology might be just what your next campaign needs. I see them in every magazine, subway station, and store shelf I encounter.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

New tools and mobile apps should always be on our radar. But have nonprofit camaigners in the US been drinking too much Kool-aid these past couple of years and putting too much faith in mobile apps? Consider what the most popular mobile apps are today. Mobile Apps are a Waste of Time for Associations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

If your nonprofit doesn’t have a mobile strategy on its radar, you need to develop one. While web-based email went down in 2010, mobile email went up 36% in the US as we reported last week on Frogloop. Nonprofits can no longer afford to ignore mobile email. They can be time consuming for users to download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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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. Below you’re going to learn how you can launch an iPhone App for your nonprofit and have it added the App Store on iTunes and ready for download by the end of the year. so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In the four years that I’ve been responsible for planning and negotiating conference A/V and other technology expenses for NCFR, I’ve had my eye on mobile broadband as a potential lower-cost alternative for providing internet access. Our plan of attack going in was to bring nine mobile broadband devices. The approach.

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NetWits

APRIL 19, 2012

Download The 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance Report to learn more about the 6% revenue growth and other key performance indicators of annual funds at more than 100 public and private institutions. Download the report now! . Can they do mobile giving? Can they donate on your website?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. This makes more sense as you begin, if you begin, to use the FourSquare mobile App. 3) If you have a smartphone, download the FourSquare App and then Check-in to your nonprofit venue. It is Different.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2012

You can now download the 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2012 NTC by M+R and NTEN. New this year and particularly interesting to me is what we learned from the study participants with mobile programs: roughly a third had optimized their emails for display on smart phones. a third had not. You should, too. >

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. This means a bit of a lift for donors, who will need to download the app and sync it with their bank account. The fee structure for nonprofits, however, is competitive: $0.50

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

mobile consumers now have smartphones , says The Nielsen Company. Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. What about mobile websites versus apps? Should you invest your time and money in building a mobile version of your site, or developing an app?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. There are channels for everything. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters. It is, I imagine, what the future of television will be. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. I can’t test it, because my Mac that has a Windows virtual machine is packed. But I will say this: that doesn’t matter. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? It is open source, after all. And it has some cool features. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Products include Greenshields, ecotube, and ecotank • One tree is planted for every item purchased or downloaded • Param met his business partners at the Forbes 30 Under 30 party. At Givemob, we believe this is because nonprofits are not reaching Millennials where they live - on mobile devices. In the U.S.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ). These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others. See if they have good documentation. Check out the forums of email list archives of that project. How busy is it? When was the last release?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Basically, becoming a serious competitor for Miro , which I’ll talk about in the next post. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2010 it was location based apps like Foursquare and Gowalla. This year the buzz is about group texting , which allows users to text up to about 25 people at a time via a mobile phone. The registration is super short – just type in your mobile number and invite some friends. million monthly users.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

— 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 ? Learn how your organization can best use mobile from actual case studies in this recap of TechSoup’s Text-to-Give Tweet Chat.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Andreas decided to build his own using a basic photo printer (he used the Canon Selphy CP800, which retails between $75 and 90) and a script that can download photos from your phone to a computer. The Swedish donation program was launched in May 2010.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

at 6:12 pm Having spent a little bit of time to download MPower, I have to say I’m underwhelmed. I’m looking forward to having time to digest all that has happened here. { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Mobilize the people who already do. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider. Here are our crib notes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Maybe we’ll see a downloadable virtual machine with MPower installed running off a SQLite db. :-) I’m also hoping to see some modules for integration with Drupal put together. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

It works pretty well (at this moment, I’m now downloading and installing the base system.) They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

As you can see, the download speed is fine, the upload speed is positively zippy compared to what they say it’s supposed to be. He connected the modem, which I happily connected to my Airport Extreme – and we’re off and running. It didn’t start out bad. The advertised speeds are 1.5 down, and 256K up.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I thought I'd do my part with a few of 2010's best resources (so far). If you haven't yet downloaded the free eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , released in April in partnership with M+R Strategic Services , you should definitely do that now. If you're not quite that much of an overachiever, you can still access the recording here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I popped in my Fiesty Fawn (Kubuntu 7.04) CD that I’d burned from a downloaded ISO, and rebooted. We’ll see how that works once I am able to download some of the good wireless GUI tools out there (like NetworkManager, which I hear is good.) My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I downloaded the brand-spanking new nvidia drivers, so that I’d be ready to deal with such a high resolution. (X Windows and xorg – the current software implementation of X Windows – is the way that Linux displays the graphical user interface.)

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2010

The acronym stands for "Quick Response" Code and the great thing about them is that they can store almost any kind of data -- and are meant to be read by mobile phones, so no special hardware is required to use them. Get ready for some QR Code Scavenger Hunts at the 2010 NTC. . Download a reader to your phone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line. Since 2005, nonprofits have downloaded it more than 13,000 times to send news, communicate information on critical issues, and serve as an emergency help line.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Background As part of NTEN’s strategic planning in 2010, we identified a particular constituency in the nonprofit sector that our current programs weren’t directly serving: the non-technical leaders who make the strategic decisions, approve the budgets, and have the big picture in mind about the direction and work of their organizations.

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