Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NMC’s annual reports that highlight emerging technologies and their impact on the education sector over the next five years include NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition and were published this spring. This report is not just your father’s PDF file!

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Notably, this isn’t just a trend for younger generations. Cloud computing is the delivery of server data, software, databases, and intelligence over the Internet or “the cloud”. Siegal works for Christ’s Community Church (CCC) in Glendale, AZ as the Director of Creative Arts since 2013. Cloud Computing.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Get hands-on help at a social media surgery, or learn about databases at a meetup or discover the top tech trends of 2014 at one of our panel discussions. Toronto, Canada: Tech Planning for 2014: Trends and Best Practices. NPTech News: 2013 Year in Review from TechSoup’s Jim Lynch. January Events. See you soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The data discussed in this presentation was pulled from 200 Altru customers, which are organizations in the arts and cultural vertical of the nonprofit market, and is from the last 12 months ending in Q1 2013. This trend is because orgs are now able to market for online purchases and eliminate or minimize transaction fees.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%. Adrian Sargeant says “a 10% increase in donor retention can increase the lifetime value of your donor database by 200%.”.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Personally, because I prefer to analyze rather than follow trends, most of my giving is earlier in the calendar year in my dual effort to ease the processing burden on my favorite organizations and to recognize that I will need the extra time because I will be hopelessly behind in holiday shopping! MUSING #1: OOPS!

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As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . The most significant data breach , so far, affected 3 billion users around the world and happened in 2013 and 2014. Technology Goes Mainstream. ” .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! In any case, the service has allowed the company to build a unified database of our personal affinities to engage us more deeply. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. Privacy and Security. The Day We Fight Back.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

I actually think these new trends in grantseeking for community and economic development organizations are extremely healthy. If you are a community organization , I strongly encourage you to look at diversifying your grants income for 2012 and 2013. Diversifying Sources Is Healthy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I’ll even try and find a silver lining on the recent NSA PRISM spying scandal why it’s trending toward better transparency in the cloud. Please tell us your nonprofit technology news and trends in the comments below. Images: Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news once again. I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. Here's the latest.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2013

Tech Impact is watching some interesting trends emerge in nonprofit technology in 2013. One of the trends we are seeing is that nonprofits can no longer accept a single-point-of-failure model for their critical operations. Here's what we see: Big Data. This is a "Big" topic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

The volume of their website traffic, the size of the e-newsletter list and donor database, and their brand recognition all contribute to the argument that not investing in a new media manager would be counterproductive. Research (2 hours weekly): To investigate trends in nonprofit technology and monitor breaking news and current affairs.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now is the time of year when blog editors worldwide ask their writers for predictions and trends for the coming year. I thought Mary Beth Westmoreland’s latest piece on npENGAGE did a great job summarizing the high-level technology trends we often see and hear about in the nonprofit sector. Happy new year!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using a wide array of tools, the organization analyzed historic and current giving trends across all channels to better identify and define groups of donors which allowed them to tailor programs and campaigns for each group. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The volume of their website traffic, the size of the e-newsletter list and donor database, and their brand recognition all contribute to the argument that not investing in a new media manager would be counterproductive. Large nonprofits should have in place or be in the process of hiring a full-time new media manager.

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MAY 29, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) billion in 2013. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

bbcon 2013 , Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits concluded last week, and as I remember some of my favorite moments during the conference, one tops them all. The suitcase is finally unpacked, and the email pile is a bit more manageable – but the bbcon buzz hasn’t worn off yet! Read the case study. Read the case study.

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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 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. In other words, it's the "bring-your-own-device" trend in which employees and volunteers supply their own computing devices.

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