Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Would your nonprofit ever put a cropped, completely wrecked logo in print materials or on its website? Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Absolutely not!

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It takes time to build trust, and it can take time to find the right tool to build trust at scale. For nonprofits specifically, the name “nonprofit” can deter adopting a pay-for-trust model. The website was founded early 2011. LEED built a brand on trust by becoming the gold-standard rating for green buildings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Greatest Challenges.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

South by Southwest Interactive is a major hotspot for new tools to launch, applications and platforms to find early adopters, and those looking for ideas or suggestions to get recommendations from others already exploring the newest, shiny toys. I’ve been…. Stand with Planned Parenthood: Lessons from Crisis Response Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

So in 2011, the organization adopted an online movement-building model that they hoped would more effectively engage its community of half-a-million divers. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. million divers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Did you end up just leaving the website after getting too frustrated? Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). We Have a Solution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Website: [link]. We aim to reach the the 55,000 Canadians affected by a brain tumour with a variety of tools and technology such as our website and social media communities play a large part in this reach. Adopting video into our mix of communications and marketing tools to tell the story of those affected by a brain tumour.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. Increased use of productive meeting tools, such as consent agendas (60%), web-based board portals (37%), and telecommunications (47%). Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. What is the key to a viral campaign which combines these outreach tools. We started off with the question of why nonprofits must attention to mobile and integrate it into their communications tool box. Text Poll App from MobileCause. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” To that end, SEO really is a required part of good website design.

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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. Today, when your targeted recipient reads your online CTA from their PC, the "donate" link to your website's donation portal allows them to respond immediately with a gift.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

N — Nurture individuals and organizations by providing the tools, best practices, resources, and services that can help them achieve their goals. Founder and CEO Veronica Colondam was honored as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2011. All people deserve equal access to opportunities.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. Maybe mobile is a version of your website that looks good on mobile devices (which it is to some extent and we’ll get to that below but much or most mobile traffic is coming from your emails). could embed the video]. That’s not mobile?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. and its tools – websites, e-newsletters and “Donate Now” buttons – are much better summarized as the Web 1.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

adults use smart phones as of February 2012, up 11% from May 2011 and 10% said that their phone was their primary means of getting online. Key Takeaway : From websites, to email, to apps to social media, having a mobile strategy that’s executed across all your online channels is a key part of future growth. Check out the slides here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And in each of these we will talk a bit about tools, tactics and strategies. Analog Tools. What this means for tools, specifically, is that we don’t actually like technology. The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. Digital Tools. So let’s dive in!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Make-A-Wish Foundation monitors analytics, does tests, and tweaks its website ( www.wish.org ). Our website was performing respectably. Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks. Eventually, we anticipate adding these tools to our chapter websites as well.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Recently, I dug under the web’s couch cushions to understand which content management tools nonprofits are currently using to manage their websites. We analyzed over 800 small and medium-sized nonprofits to discover how each manages their website and came across a few interesting findings. Why is this important?

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