Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

More than any other time of the year it's time for charities to tell their compelling story. It's reasonably easy to upload videos to Facebook or YouTube even without the phone being on a data plan. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian went out and conducted a video interview last spring using one of the donated Dell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The group’s leader is Martin Brookes , a British economist at a hedge fund, who got the idea after a phone call. charity called Barnardo’s , which is a children’s charity, rang me up and said could they borrow an economist from me,” Brookes says. charities with economists willing to donate their time. “A big U.K.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. Mobile websites are designed for optimal download speed, so they load faster on phones and tablets. Yes, that's right. Improved search.

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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. A well trained and resourced department simply does a better job of it. Fundamentally, however, they are both doing the same thing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013.

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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. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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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. Time for Nonprofit and Charity Videos. Also charities from anywhere in the world can participate.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2013. “The other two thirds give via the mail and phones. Recently, I sent out a direct mail letter for a small local non-profit and they saw a 12% response rate directly, but in fact it was larger because some of the recipients donated other things such as time and resources. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. And it doesn't have to be another phone interface (a Bluetooth headset does that much better). It doesn't need a camera.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

The rest of these tips don’t really make sense if you aren’t participating… GivingTuesday.org has great resources and a way to list your organization GivingTuesday.org/join. This will give you a way to give an early action that will then show up on their calendar, phones, and even e-watches, increasing the chances people will act!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Here are some interesting ways nonprofits and charities are using Vine in the UK and abroad : By UK charity, Tenovus. roathcardiff Living in #Cardiff and want to donate clothes to #charity ? — Tenovus (@tenovuscancer) January 29, 2013. — Dogs Trust (@DogsTrust) January 25, 2013. v/bJjr50PBH2p.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. to see what resources are there for charities and libraries. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) runs the Stay Safe Online website that has good resource sections for individuals and also offices. Cyber Security Resources for Offices. Cyber Security Resources for Individuals.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? I would also argue that a petition to the phone carriers to increase the $10 limit on text-to-give in the United States would have much greater impact on the nonprofit sector. Probably not. Yes, I get that. All Rights Reserved

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

I've picked out a few mobile trends that nonprofits, charities, and libraries should keep an eye on in 2014. This column, by the way, will be a monthly feature on mobile technology for nonprofits and charities. inch phone with a quadcore processor. More Resources. A company called HiSense announced a 6.8-inch

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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