Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

All the traditional fundraising tools (phone-a-thons, direct mail) are. 34% of smartphone Internet users go online mostly using their phones. 34% of smartphone Internet users go online mostly using their phones. 47% of all email is opened on a mobile device. 55% of social networking happens from a mobile device.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. Hacker Helper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

No doubt you’ve taken a “ selfie ,” a self-portrait taken with your mobile phone camera and shared on Facebook or other social media channels. Recent research suggests that taking and posting too many selfies on your Facebook profile (or other social channels) can be damaging to your relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013. Mobile phone cameras that have touch screen allow you focus with your fingers. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Storytelling with Mobile Video. Here's an idea for using smartphones with good cameras and video capability like the Dell Venue Pro touch screen phones for digital story telling: Send someone out to video compelling work that your nonprofit or library is doing out in the field for your holiday message. No problem.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. is through mobile devices! Why Go Mobile? On the other hand, only 16% of the surveyed nonprofits plan on having mobile websites in 2011, while 19% plan on having Smartphone Applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. This is called disposable media. My first experience was “What?”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Facebook expanded its Donate Now buttons to all charities; eBay has a new Sell for Charity mobile app. The Facebook Donate Now Button. In late August, Facebook introduced a new "Donate Now" call-to-action button for both link ads and Facebook for Business Pages. The eBay Sell for Charity Mobile App.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. To celebrate the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced a new contest to encourage developers to create apps that positively impact the world around them.

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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. For more details on how to do that, go here.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

We’ve have been coined as the “Facebook Generation” and the “Lazy Generation ”, but I’d like to challenge the stereotypes. The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones. In 2013, more than 219,000 people participated and raised nearly $23 million.

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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. It’s Mostly for Google.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. The Static Web, Web 2.0: The Social Web, and Web 3.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With 90% of your nonprofit’s supporters and donors now accessing the Internet on multiple devices every day , nonprofits really need to prioritize mobilizing their Web content. Today, for the exact same reason, we’re starting from the beginning in mobile website design. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. The Mobile Web. .” The Mobile Web. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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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. Well, the time is upon us.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. 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. Now, here's the latest: Digital Inclusion. Smart Watches.

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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.

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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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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Responsive or mobile design. Believe it or not, young donors are not the only ones that want to access nonprofit websites on their phone. will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. In 2012, 58% of the Millennial population said they used the mobile Internet, and this number is only increasing.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

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! Facebook : Facebook events can be created from pages but don’t have the same impact of landing on your supporters work calendars. Check your reputation. Schedule it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. and a bit of common sense… introducing The Burrito Principle.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Make sure to use Google’s Social Value graph to learn more about the correlation between your nonprofit’s Facebook and Twitter traffic with your sales and donations. Use Facebook Efficiently.

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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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Care2

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

MARCH 19, 2013

— Tenovus (@tenovuscancer) January 29, 2013. — Dogs Trust (@DogsTrust) January 25, 2013. — Diabetes UK (@DiabetesUK) March 1, 2013. — PBS (@PBS) February 20, 2013. — alexandra bezdikian (@alebez) March 19, 2013. have literally redefined the way we post and share life moments in.

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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. This breakthrough instrument was negotiated in 2013 and has now been signed by over eighty countries. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Not until they improve their existing online giving options and optimize their website for mobile devices. Getting Mobile Donations Right Is building an iPhone app the best use of a nonprofit’s resources? Will you get donors through a mobile app? You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. Probably not.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. for offices that includes things like a Mobile Tip Sheet , a Botnet Fact Sheet. Here were the high points for me: It’s good to be super skeptical about giving out any of your passwords, credit card info, or any account credentials to people on the phone. To be sure, there are a lot.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Ignites In 2013, you told us loud and clear that these talks were placed too late in the day and stacked against too many other offerings. Although it can be a difficult balance, we are dedicated to listening to your feedback and creating a conference that provides opportunities for all the ways we want to talk about our work and ourselves.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Those who have been following mobile trends and news know that the show has gotten quieter for all things smartphones. With Mobile World Congress and CTIA coming in the following months, the big mobile news tends to come a bit later. inch phone with a quadcore processor. A company called HiSense announced a 6.8-inch

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