Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 15, 2015

If you would like to suggest a report be added to the list, please post the name and a link to the report in a comment below. 2011 Nonprofit e-Business in Australia Report :: Download. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube' Most of the reports listed are based on U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. The 2014 version – new and improved has arrived! Great idea!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of July 18th).

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Hopefully, this means that all of the posts I haven't yet found will be added in the comments and we can all create a comprehensive list together. Please just drop it into the comments so we can all check it out! Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Official Google Blog: Bringing tech knowledge to nonprofits through the HandsOn Tech Corps – "Community service has always been important to us. That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! There's a lot to dig into here.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My phone launched in May 2011 with Android 2.2 was announced in July 2011. I love Google Maps. I love how integrated Google services are (duh). I’m sure I’ll hear from all of you in the comments too. I bought it in late August. An update to Gingerbread 2.3 It never happened. I love widgets.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " Conversation is the New Attention – "This article is adapted from their SXSW 2011 talk, Toss the Projector: Redefining the Speaker/Audience Dynamic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. Surely Pinterest learned from the mistakes of Google+ and Foursquare which launched without brand profiles/pages. Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!)

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NTEN

DECEMBER 27, 2011

But, for now, check out all the amazing things NTEN member are doing, planning, and asking for in the last few weeks of 2011. Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Nancy Schwartz wants to know what the biggest marketing lesson you learned (or re-learned) was in 2011. Share your links in the comments!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Assuming you’re using Google Analytics*, here are 4 steps you can take: Year-Over-Year Comparison. Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison. Examine Visits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. The social media team maintains an internal document within its shared Google Drive folder called the “NYCEAC Internal Resource List.”

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

Will you comment? Feel free to add it to this week's comments by sharing a link or message in the comments. Speaking of conferences , NTEN members Geoff Livingston and Allyson Kapin are hosting the Nonprofit 2.0 unconference. Registration is now open. Get your ticket today ! NTEN's own Holly Ross is, too!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

His Google account was taken over and deleted. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary. It was also still accessible through Google search for a few weeks. The Return of the Living Hackers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year. The New York Times Outs Google+. It’s Mostly for Google. The story maintains that even though Google+ is a distant social media competitor to Facebook and its users are much less active, it is very valuable to Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. Her team members use both a Google spreadsheet, Google Cal and Jira to manage it all. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I My answer: Yes!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions. Share your experiences in the comments below.

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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.” 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking. Oh, memories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

But they are looking at associated metrics such as: downloads, user comments, sharing, and google analytics to show dog searches… then data collection (emails and mobile optins), microdonations, and buzz via earned media. Specific measurable objectives included: Increase page likes to 12,000 by 12/31/2011 (achieved on 12/1/11).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. When you have a clear and focused plan for how information should move in your organization, in the end it almost doesn’t matter whether you’re using Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps. The hard work is in planning, not implementation.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

One of the app’s best features, Project FishMap, which allows users to find nearby restaurants and businesses serving sustainable seafood and contribute new establishments to a growing database, was added in an early 2011 update. Seafood Watch - Google Play. ArtClix - Google Play. Louis - Google Play. Historic St.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

September, 2011. What We Found in the Comments We asked organizations to share the apps they are currently using, as well as their wishlist apps in the comments, and here's a sampling of what. Twitter, Facebook, and Google Apps. Please let us know in the comments. The surveys ran in late August and early.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Peter Cheer shares the upcoming 2011 da Vinci Awards celebrating global excellence in assistive technology, slated for September 22 in Dearborn, Michigan. There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Let us know in the comments or add to our Accessible Technology and Public Computing Forum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A report by tech giant Cisco found that 51% of all consumer internet traffic in 2011 was video traffic. minute ‘video highlight’ which is a very simple but effective collection of comments from a dozen exchange students, some graphics and is backed with an inspiring soundtrack. Online video takes this interaction one step further.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In July 2011, TechSoup.org conducted a survey of nonprofits on their current use of cloud services, their plans for adopting cloud services, their expectations on costs, and their barriers to cloud adoption. About a third are using software as a service like Google Apps, or Salesforce.com, or a cloud database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc. Do you need your monitoring tool to integrate with other tools like Salesforce, Google Analytics, etc.? Not Data Driven.”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Two weeks before the 2011 San Francisco municipal elections, mayoral candidate David Chiu. The campaign is also on Google+ and uses SoundCloud , a social media company that allows one to record audio messages and share them online. Share in the comments below. How do you use social media to engage and advocate for your cause?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Apps currently available in Google Play (Android's app store) include App Inventor Tutorial and the Arabic Numbers apps. Let us know in the comments! Additional Resources. Are you a youth-oriented organization with an app?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Source: grist.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Google's video sharing service, YouTube , is the big dog in online videos. In 2011, YouTube started letting people post their videos with Creative Commons licenses. It was originally founded as a place for film artists to share and promote their work, so it encourages quality commenting. The Rules for YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A Google search of crowdsourcing translation or crowdsourcing transcription, for example, should lead you to links for Lingotek, Acclaro and Smartling (translation) or Castingwords and Speechpad (transcription). Aliza Sherman is a veteran Web entrepreneur, author and commentator on digital, social and mobile.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. Google Gmail. Take Google design principles to heart : speed and simplicity matter even more on mobile. Presumably, you want the user to take action, donate, forward the message, read and comment on a blog post or any one of several other action.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Search LinkedIn and Google groups. IFRC joined in early 2011. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. Pinterest has now developed a Google Analytics type free tool that allows you to track the number of pinners and pins from your site, and in turn the number of repinners and repins of your images from all over Pinterest. Share in the comments below. Very, very cool, I must say.

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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. Add Google Wallet to the list. Chapter 1 :: The Importance of Selecting the Right Donate Now Vendor. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.

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