Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread: How Information Today is Woven Into Our Lives. “ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., Her blog is Contentious.com.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

For example, Hurricane Katrina, in August of 2005, presented as a once-in-a-generation disaster. These examples not only show how far the philanthropic sector has moved in connecting climate change with natural disasters. That is no longer the case. They also demonstrate how much progress is left to be made.

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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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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. are examples of the causes. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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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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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. Mobile is apps.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

This session focuses on how to successfully get started with mobile technology, with Tonia Zampieri from Smart Online presenting. Why mobile? millions PCs in Q4 2010. 90% of mobile subscribers in the US have internet-ready phones. How do you use mobile to start engaging and communicating? most over 45.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

There’s no doubt that mobile fundraising has increased in popularity over the last few years, primarily due to Text-to-Give ( also referred to as Text-to-Donate ). Text-to-Give lets a supporter contribute to their favorite cause with the stroke of a few keys on their mobile phone. Mobile Checkout text donations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

There’s no doubt that mobile fundraising has increased in popularity over the last few years, primarily due to Text-to-Give ( also referred to as Text-to-Donate ). Text-to-Give lets a supporter contribute to their favorite cause with the stroke of a few keys on their mobile phone. Mobile Checkout text donations.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Jed Alpert, Mobile Commons. Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users -- 120 million people -- access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). Not so with the mobile web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

For example, the “Get Involved!&# For example, after someone signs the online petition at Forest Ethics’ Do Not Mail campaign, they are then prompted to become a fan of the campaign on Facebook: The campaign has almost 7,000 fans… a good indicator that this simple strategy works.I

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” moment in January, 2010, when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. But what you may not have anticipated was that $41m of these dollars flowed through mobile phones via “premium text messages.” Did you miss mobile?

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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. For Example, “Discovery Center&#. Tags: FourSquare How To Mobile Technology. It is Different. Enter the address.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. 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. Planning for Integration First.

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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. So even if you're behind the curve on mobile, don't try to boil the ocean - just start with those two simple steps.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Direct Content. Indirect Content.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ).

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. For example, a donation is related to a donor, a payment, a fund, ledger entries, soft credits, contacts tied to this donation, and many other objects. For starters, Salesforce is an object-oriented database platform (vs.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

For example, women who earn $23,509 or less gave an average of $540 per year to charity, while men in that income bracket with similar life circumstances (such as education and number of children) gave $281. – "Nothing would have pleased my group more than finding a way for technology to advance the cause of poverty alleviation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? This is big. This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2012

In particular we were excited to see advocacy response rates increased 28% between 2010 and 2011. The study also has some great data on how nonprofits are expanding their use of social media and mobile. For example, the median growth rate for nonprofit fan pages was an impressive 70%. The number of gifts rose by 20%.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. For example, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research may see that the majority of its donors are mothers under 40 years old. And more than 50 percent of online browsing occurs through mobile means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. The #1MilliForJadudi campaign was launched on August 4 th , 2015, with the goal to mobilize Kenyans to raise 1 million Kenya Shillings (approx USD 10,000) to help finance Jadudi’s fourth surgery in India. This campaign is a great example.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. Another more recent example of Ushahidi's expanding work is its efforts in the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08 at 8:48 am That’s a ereally good point. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

is cited as example. . AIDS event to provide mobile fundraising and event update help for. and how your museum, for example, could make good use of it. Marshall Kirkpatrick about ReadWriteWeb's new report on the "real-time web" and what that means for your nonprofit. NTEN member American Red Cross. participants.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Let’s take Salesforce, for example. Client success story: We’ve seen plenty of examples of organizations that have switched from free fundraising solutions to Bloomerang and experienced a boost to their fundraising and donor management strategies. Top feature: Monday.com’s mobile app allows you to stay organized while on the go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 1, 2013

In 2010 Advertising Age magazine named Lovemarks one of their "ideas of the decade." While many companies were using the language of war in their marketing (target, penetrate, ambush), Roberts was using the language of love (mystery, sensuality, intimacy).

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