Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

And now, mobile. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app. The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match.

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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. Mobile: With the rise of mobile devices, websites not optimized for mobile devices could have seen fewer return visitors. Was it search engine visits?

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Android is going to be a great mobile operating system. 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). It’s improving all the time, and Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) looks promising. I bought it in late August.

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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. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat.

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Achieve

MAY 6, 2015

When I first heard Ethan Marcotte speak on the topic of responsive web design in 2011, I remember the whole room being filled with a thick layer of wonder as we all mulled over what this meant for the web industry. For example, if you notice in the above graphic in the top right corner, there is an option to search the website.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. If you’ve heard of only one nonprofit mobile app, it’s likely this one since it was one of the earliest mobile apps developed by a major nonprofit organization. Seafood Watch - Google Play.

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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. Nancy Schwartz wants to know what the biggest marketing lesson you learned (or re-learned) was in 2011. Teens and mobile - talk about a perfect match. Have more news to share? Anything we missed?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

By doing so, you'll then be able to push the envelope with mobile-friendly and other new-fangled webby goodness. 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking. Years ago, Convio was an early adopter of Google Analytics, back when it was still called "Urchin". 4) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Enhancements. Oh, memories.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Forward this to all the girls online” By 2011 the meme evolved a couple of times. On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. In 2011 he was diagnosed with ALS.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Curated by library staff and educators, the app lets users search by title, author, genre, or list. One of those is a mobile-web app called Forage City , which helps community members share surplus food with one another.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. for key words to help users to search the site to find things that interest them. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. The New York Times Outs Google+. It’s Mostly for Google.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

September, 2011. Twitter, Facebook, and Google Apps. developing mobile-friendly versions of their websites (vs. standalone mobile apps). developing mobile-friendly versions of their websites (vs. standalone mobile apps). services, including catalog search and patron account management. A majority of.

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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. The easiest way to find Creative Commons licensed YouTube videos is through the Creative Commons Search Tool. There are important exceptions, though.

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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. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. Add Google Wallet to the list. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0,

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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. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. Add Google Wallet to the list. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

After spending all that energy and time researching, writing, and editing 75,000+ words about social and mobile media best practices for nonprofits – living and breathing it for three months straight – it was frustrating, heart-breaking, mind-boggling even to have to let it go and accept that the book was going to be imperfect.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 71% said they learn about organizations through web searches (like Google). They recommend you begin with email before you branch into social media, like facebook or mobile. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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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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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Some are built around events that need more traditional mobilization efforts. That’s grassroots mobilizing, posting about events that are happening.” Those are the easiest to write as an organizer,” she said. “If

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. Today, for the exact same reason, we’re starting from the beginning in mobile website design. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. With the arrival of smartphones, it’s amazing how much data we are collecting and consuming on our mobile devices. We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. Our Stories. Our Collective Stories.

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DipJar

MARCH 29, 2022

When you arrive, you drive around for 30 minutes searching for a parking spot. Or, the software could empower guests to search for all auctions in their area and select yours. Then, make checkout as smooth as possible by: Allowing guests to view their invoices directly in the mobile bidding app.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference – Day 1 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 17th, 2011 NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference ( #NTC ) is in Washington, DC and it’s sold out once again.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I'm live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Communicating 71% said they learn about organizations through web searches (like Google). They recommend you begin with email before you branch into social media, like Facebook or mobile. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. Well, the time is upon us. smartphones.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2011

According to the infographic from the Search Engine Journal that my colleague Mark Story shared, social media has been riding the tidal wave since 2005. Will Google+ shake things up? People using mobile devices to access Facebook rose about 200% between 2010 and 2011 from 63M users to 200M users. YouTube has 20%.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. nonprofit technology news NPTech news wearable computing Google Glass'

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