Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2014

He’s leading the development, testing, and deployment of Benetech’s tools and services across all its program areas. Until 2011, Mark spent twelve years growing and developing TiVo. that designs, develops, markets, and delivers interactive magazine content to consumers through the digital device of their choice.

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2011

I just got back from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , where listening was top of mind: Listening to the amazing speakers, listening to the #nptech community , and listening to all the great ideas floating around the halls of the Washington Hilton. Create Your Social Media Listening Dashboard.

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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. This is a great tool to help them do just that, thanks for sharing it! ” – John Kenyon, 2013. You can download it here. Great idea!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2011

communications and fundraising, and then quickly moves on to a discussion about the importance of integrating the tools from each era in order to maximize your nonprofit’s Return on Investment (ROI) from utilizing social media and mobile technology. This webinar will likely be presented monthly through the end of 2011.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. They are different tools from traditional media and we have to learn how to use it, and not just for marketing. This panel discussion focuses on the generational divide, with the following panelists: Wendy Harman and Suzy DeFrancis, American Red Cross.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Without them, you're just reading content or broadcasting, and that's not nearly as insightful. Come to our panel at the 2011 NTC !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time. Infrastructure.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

The fact is email is an important tool that requires considerable planning, resources and expertise to be successful. Relevant content. A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. Just look at some of the considerations: Frequency.

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NetWits

APRIL 1, 2011

He goes by the name Hardly Normal and fights to put a face on homelessness by using the internet, social media and InvisiblePeople.TV (content can be intense) to share stories about real people battling with being out on the street. While at SXSW 2011 I had a got a few minutes to catch up with Mark. with Frank Barry.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 16, 2014

Nonprofits must adapt to the contemporary market and take advantage of every tool available to them. Vine and Instagram have built in features for sharing, commenting on, and liking content. This functionality makes it easy for your target audience to interact with your content directly on their feeds. That’s a big number.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2011

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011. With more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media over the last six years, this training cuts through the hype and narrows in on the most important best practices and tools useful for your nonprofit. Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

Market segmentation is an effective tool to talk to each of these groups in a way that will resonate with their giving motivations. With most online fundraising and communications tools, you have the ability to easily group people together and send specific messages based on what you know about them. Komen 3-Day for the Cure.

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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. Posting only (boring) marketing content. Finally, if strategically designed, your blog will grow your e-newsletter list and communities on social-networking sites faster than any other tool available today.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Today marks the launch of Candid Learning for Funders , your new destination for field guides, blogs, training, and tools designed to improve the practice of grantmaking. . New tools launching in 2022 . We also have new learning tools for funders launching in 2022. How we got from GrantCraft to Candid Learning for Funders .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 18, 2011

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011. With more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media over the last six years, this training cuts through the hype and narrows in on the most important best practices and tools useful for your nonprofit. Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Blogs are still the killer app for some topic focused and content-centric collaboration use cases.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2011

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011. With more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media over the last six years, this training cuts through the hype and narrows in on the most important best practices and tools useful for your nonprofit. Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2011

A new study called, 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report: And What it All Means for Your Good Cause shows that small and mid-sized nonprofits are clearly moving online when it comes to organizational communication and fundraising. Do you have the answers?

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Making the case for this -- for the professional development time and for the cost of various tools -- has been easy, because it goes straight to their mission. And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. For more Salt-n-Pepa Lyrics, check out this Youtube video.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This figure represents a massive adoption of this connective tech with only 5% of American adults using social media in 2005 and 50% in 2011. [1]. It’s no secret that video is a very strong marketing tool. Social media has become more and more saturated with video content as marketers are realising video’s real potential.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

President’s Update Fall 2011 Don’t be surprised, but we’re picking up the pace of change at Benetech! with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? MySpace, back when it was cool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? I also love Twitter, but that’s just my personal obsession with the tool!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Have you been able to use these tools to raise money online? We also provide reliable content in our article posts, which are often picked up by the media which brings even more awareness.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Teaser: Mobile giving is one of the most talked about fundraising tools. Blog Content: Mobile giving is one of the most talked about fundraising tools. Now's the time to move from talk to execution, from novelty to implementation -- and you can do just that at the second Innogive Conference – “Mobile Giving Applied”.

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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?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. Tech Talk at SXSW. I’ve been….

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? We currently use a plethora of online tools to spread the word and talk to people.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2011

Newell said that they’ll be building curricula around Portal 2 by developing custom tools that allow students to create content to match educational programs. ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools. Have an Android device? Or all three?

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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. Core elements included using the Razoo giving platform, content best practices, online storytelling, social media strategy, and donor cultivation.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

As we move into the last month of the year, let’s take a quick look at how you can improve your email newsletters and appeals in 2011. There are many low cost online tools that can help you track email results. Consider the following email pitfalls. Which of these is your Nonprofit guilty of committing?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie Laskey: In the CORNER OFFICE section of The New York Times , there was a memorable interview on January 29, 2011, entitled, " Hey, Rock Stars: Take Your Show SomeplaceElse ," conducted by Adam Bryant of Michael Lebowitz, founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a digital marketing and communications agency. Content will be consistent.

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