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Technology Trends for Nonprofits in 2011

NTEN

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. 3] Did you get an adrenalin rush?! [1]

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

On one end, we see the excitement and fad of Facebook games such as Farmville or CandyCrush. These games are, well, just games but the benefit of these programs is that Facebook and as Zynga have the ability to see individual users’ motives to play these games, when they play them, how they play them, and who they are competing against.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. Here's the latest. percent) as we transition to using more tablets and mobile devices.

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