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. 1% Yes… they donate on our website after reading something on Facebook, Twitter, etc. 25% Twitter. 39% Yes… it’s in the works. 15% We already do! 10% Other. 9% MySpace.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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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

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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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

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. World Wildlife Fund :: March 15, 2010. By 2010 the World Wildlife Fund had launched a much larger, longer website with more color, larger photos, and a larger font.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Then 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites. I thought it was important to lay the foundation of group texting and mobile websites for nonprofits before moving into examining how nonprofits are using iPhone Apps: 1. Updated: March 4, 2010. Released: February 12, 2010. Released: March 29, 2010. Released: March 9, 2010.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. 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. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter? Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. What's a location-based social network?

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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., Twitter: @agahran.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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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. Should we use Twitter and Mobile?" "Is Over the summer of 2010, I was hired by the 1GOAL campaign to head-up their e-campaigning (starting from building a website). The Case: 1GOAL Campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Twitter: twitter.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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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. You must sync your FourSquare account with your organization’s Twitter account to get a username i.e, Love Twitter.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

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

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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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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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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 6, 2009

Beginning in February 2010, DIOSA Communications will also offer social media webinars for charities in Europe on Thursdays at 2pm GMT. The first two webinar dates and topics are: February 4: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Twitter and Flickr. Tags: Webinars Facebook Flickr Twitter YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Who Tweets? You're in luck!

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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. Qwerty Monsters.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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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

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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Pacific time via the Twitter hashtag #Text2Give for a real-time discussion of how text-to-give campaigns can help nonprofits. When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million. Join us on Wednesday, October 5 at 10:00 a.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { I’m looking forward to it. And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

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). Submissions close January 22, 2010." Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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AUGUST 30, 2011

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook. They also suggested that followers pass the information on to those who may have lost power.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. This is, of course, great news.

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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. Zawadi had just discovered Twitter, but had not started to use it regularly. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. We did a little coaching. This money was donated via MPESA (mobile money) contributions.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 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? To sum it up: the rise of mobile technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# So, come join me. 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

AUGUST 14, 2008

There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) twitter can’t do that What do you think? The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. So I’m on identi.ca now ( follow pearlbear ). But hopefully that will change. {

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