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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Last week I was down in Austin, TX, for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW.

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Community foundations: Donor-advised fund grants outpaced contributions in 2022 

Candid

When we dig a bit deeper into the data, it becomes clear that a significant portion of that activity was driven by donor-advised funds (DAFs) hosted by community foundations. I discussed these findings and more with two leaders from the Park County Community Foundation in Montana during a webinar we recorded earlier this year.

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Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning. GEO’s 2012 National [.] Lehrer’s piece on the Wall Street Journal is here.

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2012 SXSW Interactive Roundup

NTEN

Last week, I was down in Austin, TX, for the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW.

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Get Social: 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Opportunities to Connect

NTEN

flickr: nonprofity Each year, the Nonprofit Technology Conference brings to its host city the largest and geekiest family reunion around, and this year is no exception. We try to provide many built in opportunities for attendees to connect, like the evening receptions, discussion tables at lunch, and the Science Fair.

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5 Nonprofit Tech Solutions For Improving Internal Communication

TechImpact

TechSoup discusses unified communication (UC), which is a type of internal communication structure that combines text messaging, web conferencing, email, video, and instant messaging, among other technologies to connect employees more effective and efficiently. Office phones. Instant messaging.

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Mark Your Calendars! Google+ Hangout for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, I have not yet been able to successfully host a Google+ Hangout primarily due to the fact that every attempt to do so thus far has been a spontaneous one. The Hangout will aim to be an informal discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Time: 1pm-2:00 EDT. 2) Download the Google Voice and Video Plugin.

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