NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session submission process yielded so many great session ideas, we couldn't include them all on the agenda. No Wrong Door: Tools for Non-Profits to Collect & Share Resource and Client Information with One Another (02/17). If it's not there, just shoot us an e-mail.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Remember, no one is strictly using one communication tool and we as fundraisers must make a point of being wherever the donor is with the information they need. Print: Direct mail is far from dead. In 2010, Komen Maryland strategically sent 103 email messages to constituents over 140 days.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 29, 2010

Have you successfully moved from paper-based direct mail fundraising to digital tools (email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and/or mobile)? The Paperless Choice Challenge is rewarding successful, creative, replicable campaigns that use electronic fundraising tools by giving away eight prizes totalling over $20,000.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper. Our analysis [ from the 2010 Online Giving Study ] showed the following: Fundraising is still about relationships. It’s about the relationship between the nonprofit and the donor who wants to support a cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

As social media taught us, those nonprofits who act quickly and embrace emerging trends tend to experience the highest success rate, and similar to the rise of e-advocacy and “E-mail Action Networks&# beginning in 2000-01, the nonprofit sector is on the brink of transitioning their e-advocacy efforts to the Mobile Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

" Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool – NYTimes.com – "For more than two decades, e-mail has been the killer application of the Internet. But Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, says he believes that e-mail is antiquated. Here's why."

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.) I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Last year’s winner was Barry Warsaw, lead developer of the awesome Mailman mailing list manager. The competition, judged by a panel of national leaders in public interest computing, is now entering its third year. The application deadline for this year’s prize: September 1, 2008. Ruby Sinreich is a new phenomenon ! You go girl!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Nonprofits throughout the world have sent millions upon millions of e-mails, Tweets, bulletins, updates, etc. But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? 2) From my e-mail newsletter. asking their supporters to “Become a Fan!&# on Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. .’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. On the other hand, direct mail decreased by 26 percent. The benefits of using digital tools such as social media are plentiful. Programs such as Constant Contact and Mail Chimp have built in coding to do this.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2010

If you really want to set yourself up for success for fundraising in the last quarter of 2010, take some time to plan your activities. Since most nonprofits send a fundraising letter during this time of year, I thought I’d share a tool I use and recommend to make it easier. (We’re Mail letters. Mailing list review.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies. magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 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? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2010

Have you successfully moved from paper-based direct mail fundraising to digital tools (email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and/or mobile)? The Paperless Choice Challenge is rewarding successful, creative, replicable campaigns that use electronic fundraising tools by giving away eight prizes totalling over $20,000.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. It’s nice to have clean, ad, free pages, and especially without the distracting moving ads. Plus, pages load faster without ads. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Increase your expertise on using every day applications from the Microsoft Office suite with these recent articles on customizing the Ribbon , editing images in Office 2010 apps , new time-saving features in Office 2010 , and this series of how-to blog posts for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote. mail and phone directories.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Blackbaud has just released the 2010 State of the Not-for-Profit Industry Survey results for the Asia Pacific. The top driver of online donations to email to current donors, followed by direct mail promotion of online giving.&#. Picture of feedback form. More specifically: Over 66% of organisations manage their website in house.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 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? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Communication Question Online Atlanta 59

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

If you've been using email, websites, videos, and other electronic communications tools to give your stakeholders a choice other than paper mailings, we want to celebrate you. The Paperless Choice Challenge submission period ends August 16th, 2010, so get your entries in today.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As part of the program, students are encouraged to register online using Convio’s TeamRaiser tools, set up their personal page, and send e-mails to friends and family and raise money to help kids with “special hearts.” Click here to check it out. Click here to see it in action. 71% increase in online registration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

I’ve never understood why they rolled their own everything — forums, mailing list archives (at least they use Mailman for the list manager), bug tracking, etc. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. This ranges from online discussion of the issue to hosting an Emergency Social Data Summit – or #crisisdata on Twitter on Thursday August 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C.,

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 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? Tags: 10NTC CRM E-mail george durham Infrastructure microsoft NPTech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Since Evolution is such a bad mail client, I’m going back to Thunderbird. I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. “I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

We announced the Paperless Choice Challenge back in May on the TechSoup Blog but thought it worth reiterating because the deadline for both voting and submissions is approaching on September 15, 2010. It promotes resource reduction in one of the areas in which nonprofits are resource hogs: direct mail. It's significant on two counts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’ll send off queries to the right mailing lists and forums, and probably eventually get it all worked out. I downloaded the brand-spanking new nvidia drivers, so that I’d be ready to deal with such a high resolution. At this point, I still have to futz with the configs every time I start up, and it still isn’t right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Despite the facts and the data, organizations small and large that are spending huge amounts on direct mail and telemarketing are reluctant to move spending to the online channel — even when the data clearly shows that integrating online with offline campaigns makes the overall program more successful. Tags: E-mail Fundraising.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

So, I got on my wireless network, finally, and got online (I had to use a CLI tool called dhclient to get an IP address. 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.) That was annoying.)

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