Care2

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In fact, 87% have raised under $1000 on Facebook since they began using the platform. Let’s take a closer look … Social media adoption by platform. The industry giant, with 89% adoption among nonprofits is Facebook. Social media adoption by budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW. I've been….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change." " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Ever since Google+ launched, people have debated whether it can truly compete with rivals Twitter and Facebook. By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 million U.S. visitors as of last month according to Compete.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. Already that morning, keynotes had give some powerful adoption statistics. Geoff Livingston gave an overview of mobile trends , mentioning that the adoption rate of mobile phones and tablets are higher than Twitter now and mobile is now part of our lives.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. Jen Burton, Community Director of Causes Fundraising Focus: Facebook.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

There is little argument that email and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming mandatory tools for supporter outreach. Since the adoption of web enabled smartphones has advanced at an astronomical rate, it's important to accommodate this ever expanding audience. By Bob Jones, CEO, CharityCall LLC.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Cloud data security and privacy challenges were cited by 27% of respondents as a significant barrier to cloud adoption. Perhaps the most famous of these was the outage of the Sony PlayStation Network that took down their cloud based service for nearly a month in the spring of 2011 and affected Sony's 70 million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Also, given the different benefits and limitations of different mobile platforms, I wanted to learn more about how they navigate different mobile platforms. Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. Tell us more about your decision to invest in Android Platform. What were some of the results?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were so many new platforms and applications that provided tools for everything from communications to fundraising, outreach to development, and much more. All we needed to say was I heard they were using facebook; or my son has a YouTube account so I’ll have him set up ours. Digital Tools. Digital Tactics.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We also found that here are barriers to deep cloud adoption among NGOs. Our survey found that lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to additional cloud adoption, cited by 86 percent of the global respondents. Smartphone shipments exceeded those of PCs in 2011. State of the Nonprofit Cloud survey conducted by NTEN.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. I can hear a lot of techie people pointing out that you can build apps that work on multiple platforms. Next up is to get carriers in other countries to adopt a similar practice. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. Yes, I get that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon’s post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Web site. Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

" Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? reported earlier this month that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace for $60 million. TechCrunch. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Facebook will still dominate. Tablets will rule.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The contract for development of the site was awarded in December 2011, but ” the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring (of 2013).” User Adoption and Change Management. Development. Here’s a visualization that puts this in perspective.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC. This is what my team calls a karma gig.

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