Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

The number one activity on smartphones is reading email , so for your nonprofit to continue to be successful using email fundraising, a mobile compatible redesign of your e-newsletter should be at the top of your to do list. Track the number of monthly donations and the total given. Understand that giving is higher in some months than others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

The number one activity on smartphones is reading email , so for your nonprofit to continue to be successful using email fundraising, a mobile compatible redesign of your e-newsletter should be at the top of your to do list. Track the number of monthly donations and the total given. Understand that giving is higher in some months than others.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

With so many apps available in the iPhone App Store and Google Play, it is difficult to find which ones could actually provide value for the needs of a nonprofit leader. You can map the vicinity in which your phone is located once you lose it or activate a siren that sounds for up to a minute to help you locate it. By Sophia Guevara.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

The thing is activated by stomach acid, which functions like a chemical in a battery. Glide in San Francisco recently won a big Google Impact Challenge grant to supply cloud-based document storage to the homeless people it serves. Here’s the part I like. Cloud Storage Price Wars Update. Please log in and give us the scoop.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2017

Uber is not the only company debuting this newest innovation- Waymo, a Google subsidiary, and General Motors are both testing their own self-driving cars in the Phoenix area. One study has found that 47 percent of US jobs are at high risk of automation (Frey and Osborne, 2013). Advocating for smart policies. AZ Central. and McAfee, A.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D. Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Lots of folks at the event were wearing Google Glass , the newest innovation in eyeglasses. Most attendees were Android app developers who are interested in getting into Glassware , the app development platform for Google Glass. Google Glass functions like smartphones in that apps can be built on top of it to extend and enhance it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. The New York Times Outs Google+.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Copyblogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Which profiles are you most active on? Do you need your monitoring tool to integrate with other tools like Salesforce, Google Analytics, etc.? Jacob Harold, “ Nonprofits Master “Medium Data” Before Tackling Big Data.” Long Live Strategy.”

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The app lets you access your activities, accounts, contacts, leads, and opportunities from a mobile-optimized dashboard. Announced at Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce1 is a unifying, mobile-friendly package of Salesforce's products and services. Software and gives you access to your contact details, notes, history, and activities.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com launched in February 2013 and all existing Hotmail users have been upgraded to Outlook.com as of early April. Outlook.com now has 400 million active accounts, more than a quarter of which are getting their mail, contacts, and calendars on mobile devices via Exchange ActiveSync. Google Chrome 23. Firefox 17.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2013

According to Google, there were more than 425 million active Gmail users as of June 2012. According to email testing and tracking service Litmus, approximately four percent of all email opens can be attributed to Gmail webmail users, as of June 2013. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. Google Drive Mobile is a free app for viewing and editing Google Docs on an Android phone or tablet. Google Drive for iOS is a free app that allows you to view and edit Google Doc office documents on iPhones and iPads. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The fact that the $78 million awarded for technology funding in 2011 declined to $61 million in 2012 and $58 million in 2013 does not necessarily indicate a trend. New data will be added to the platform on a weekly basis, and the totals for 2013 and 2014 are likely to increase. What the Data Reveals.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Every day, someone at a nonprofit is looking for a donor’s address or phone number online, Googling a name for past giving or searching for some biographical information on LinkedIn. On the other, they are merely a reflection of what fundraising activity has been undertaken. They just don’t know they are doing it!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. Donors can feel comfortable in using such platforms, where they can be supporters of various causes and be as active as they want to be.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

It processes and vets applications from nonprofit organizations interested in getting going on mobile fundraising activities. Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. The Mobile Giving Foundation already provides help to charities in developing mobile giving capacity. The Give App.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Google Gmail. is the largest webmail service in the world nowadays with 425 million active users. Now, here's the latest: Email.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Often small nonprofits try to be active on more than two social networks by sharing the responsibility among staff. Google+ (4 hours): To share updates three to four times weekly, +1 the posts of others, and participate in Google+ Communities.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. He is an active lecturer at his alma maters, at the UCLA Extension program, and at several other universities nationwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Add Google Wallet to the list. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Coming immediately after the doGooder Video Awards is TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDIGS) coming April 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Very, very cool, I must say.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Add Google Wallet to the list. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In the 10 years since the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand has expanded to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Storify, Flipboard, Periscope, and most recently Snapchat. The time required to be active on those social networks is time well spent. Google+ made the cut for another year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2015

GivingTuesday 2014 raised 63% more than 2013. PayPal mobile donations on Giving Tuesday 2014 increased 101% over 2013 in the United States and Canada. East Asia constitutes a staggering 33% of all active social media accounts worldwide. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Often small nonprofits try to be active on more than two social networks by sharing the responsibility among staff. Google+ (3 hours): To share updates three to four times weekly, +1 the posts of others, and participate in Google+ Communities. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube'

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. Try to analyze peak times your followers are active — we like FollowerWonk for analyzing followers on Twitter — in order to hit the most people at the best time. Fox Foundation did this very well in 2013.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Over the past year, large corporate brands have embraced Facebook apps from companies like Wildfire (purchased by Google), Buddy Media , (now part of Salesforce) and WooBox, for things like coupons, sweepstakes, and contests. Red’s Get Well card was one of Best Friends’ most popular and most engaging posts in February 2013.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2015

The goal of crowdsourcing for engagement is to instill a sense of loyalty in supporters by allowing them to actively participate in the process. Activities like t-shirt design contests or picking this year’s calendar cover through voting get your supporters’ attention. Never underestimate what might already be happening in the field.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Even for those who are directly involved in the industry, it is difficult to call anyone an ‘expert’ unless you were part of the team that wrote the algorithm at Google. According to Moz, an SEO consulting agency, Google is constantly tinkering with their algorithm, as is represented in this helpful, interactive chart you can see here.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. Android, iPhone, and Browsers) keeps your online data secure by scanning for privacy issues based on your Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn settings. Privacy as a Trend. With the revelation of the NSA spying on U.S.

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