Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Google searches likely had a big effect because other posts got a lot more buzz on Twitter and Facebook. My guess is the top posts for 2011 will be quite different – more Mobile Web, geolocation, LinkedIn, and live-streaming. Five Most Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofit Admins on Facebook. Somewhat surprising!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The TwtPoll results are often surprising and can be very useful for nonprofits as they forge ahead with their 2010 communications strategies. 5% A social networking site (like Facebook). 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. 25% Facebook. 13% Check/snail mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2010

Facebook: Mobile Baykeeper. Related Links: Nonprofits of the Month :: May 2010 :: Holding Corporations Accountable. Beyond Propaganda… Beyond Disastrous. Please follow, friend, subscribe and like: Twitter: International Bird Rescue Research Center. YouTube: Environmental Defense Fund. MySpace: Greenpeace. Flickr: SkyTruth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2019

Since their launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has raised over $146,000,000 for charity. InLieu is a mobile app that allows users to make donations in lieu of purchasing material gifts for friends and family, and at the same time, makes donating fast, easy and social. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

Over the last 18 months I have subscribed to over 50 nonprofit text alert campaigns from a wide variety of organizations, but it wasn’t until this past April 28th that I finally received a text alert from a nonprofit that linked to a mobile website: That the text came from the Humane Society of the United States was not surprising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter. Now, in the late 2010’s, we’re on the verge of yet another seismic shift that will have a profound impact upon online communications and fundraising – the rise of digital payment systems.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Aside from changing the color scheme to match the new book cover , I was ready to invest in “going mobile.” Recently, I got into a discussion with several other nonprofit tech consultants about guidelines for nonprofits to embrace a mobile strategy and specifically what to recommend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Nonprofit website design and online fundraising have dramatically changed in recent years due to the rapid rise of social media and mobile communications. In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook the last frontier? I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. So we’ll see how it works.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Mobile app. Bloomerang’s mobile app allows fundraisers to stay informed while on the go. Update donor profiles, track donations in real-time, and research supporters as needed, all from your mobile device. GoFundMe GoFundMe is one of the world’s largest crowdfunding websites, having helped raise over $15 billion since 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2010 is going to be a big year for social media. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace are constantly evolving and on the brink of going mobile on a massive scale. Group texting, iPhone apps, and mobile websites are on the 2010 To Do Lists of most national and international nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Averaging 3,100 Facebook page views per week. Organization Size: Medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Location: We are no longer tethered to our desktops or offices, but with mobile phones, GPS, and other "where" technology, location is important. These ideas are going to have an impact on the way nonprofits use the Web in 2010 and into the next couple of years. Tags: maps mobile working wikily.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

My hope for the 2012 list is to see more posts related to mobile technology ! HOW TO: Create Custom iFrame Tabs on Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page (13,630). 10 Recent Upgrades to Facebook Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About (12,482). in 2010. Monitoring the 10 most popular posts on Nonprofit Tech 2.o

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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Care2

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" Should we use Twitter and Mobile?" "Is There is a lot of hype around new digital channels, but little evidence is published to back this up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 2 admin 08.08.07

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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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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is the second earthquake to hit the area with such force after a first shock back in 2010. Facebook: CoreResponse. Facebook: Hope for Haiti. Team Rubicon mobilizes veterans to offer their services, skills, and expertise to people preparing for, responding to, or recovering from disasters. . Facebook: Team Rubicon.

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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

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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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. Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Understanding Facebook Places Functionality Opens Possibilities | Community Organizer 2.0 – Debra has a great post walking through the steps to setting up, using, and understanding Facebook's new geo-social tool, Places. Thanks, Debra, for a thorough guide!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Beginning in February 2010, DIOSA Communications will also offer social media webinars for charities in Europe on Thursdays at 2pm GMT. February 11: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Facebook Pages and YouTube. Tags: Webinars Facebook Flickr Twitter YouTube. Approximately 20 charities in the U.K.,

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

But as we conducted research projects in multiple domains (education, microfinance, agriculture, health care) and with various technologies (PCs, mobile phones, custom-designed electronics), a pattern, having little to do with the technologies themselves, emerged. The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010.

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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. 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.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2012

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. Over the course of a month, mobile phones accounted for 17% of email opens. Sounds like we need to be optimizing our emails for mobile devices!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." " » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

So, yeah, Facebook was in the news a little. Here's a very geeky overview of how the new "Like" button can actually track you on sites other than Facebook. (We If you're near NYC, you should check out Personal Democracy Forum's " Mobilize Your Cause " bootcamp. It's working. If you miss design so bad it was.

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NetWits

APRIL 19, 2012

We are seeing that programs and alumni giving have both grown from 2010 and that loyal donors are continuing to give, and giving more. Or just stalk them on Facebook. Can they do mobile giving? Overall, like other fundraising areas, Higher Education fundraising is bouncing back to pre-recession levels. Be active in their lives.

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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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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. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. is through mobile devices!

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