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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness

TechImpact

According to a 2013 study conducted by Blackbaud , overall donations to nonprofits increased in 2013 by 4.9%, and digital donations increased 6.4%. Why are Americans donating more to charitable causes more than ever before despite the severe economic climate of 2013? How often does a consumer like to be contacted?

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New to TechSoup: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

Tech Soup

New in 2013. Updated contacts: You can stay in touch with your customers by clicking or tapping a phone number to make calls via Lync or Skype or by clicking or tapping an email address to send an email. You can also check your appointments and update your notes, tasks, contacts, accounts, and leads. New User Interface.

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

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Digital Wallets.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

BoardAssist

As mobile phone use continues to surge, texting is becoming an increasingly relevant tool for nonprofits. Mobile phone subscriptions worldwide were at 4.01 billion in 2013 and are expected to reach 5.07 Text messages allow organizations to contact donors in real time, making texting an efficient tool in fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S., Quick Hits.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

(from the MIT Media Lab), GlassUp , and iOptik augmented reality contact lenses. Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also makes phone and video calls.