Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 54% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 20% via text message, 9% by phone call, 7% by print letter, and 6% by social media message. ? 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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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. In October 2013, mobile phone users sent an average of 678 texts a month! Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites.

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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

MARCH 25, 2013

To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. You can add filters and effects to your photos and share them with Twitter or Facebook. Some phones even let you upload to YouTube directly from your video gallery. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

It is the dominant form of content we all engage with – on our desktops, our tablets and now our phones. You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. According to a 2013 ComScore study , 83% of 12-17 year olds and 91% of 18-24 year olds are watching online video on a regular basis.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

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. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013. If the event of total disruption, I had sent a link to a previously recorded podcast I did with the Stanford Social Innovation Review that participants would review and we use Facebook to do the Q/A. kanter we have wifi connection interuption here. Photo by Be Chandra.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It was the last keynote of the day and it was a long day, so I improvised a movement exercise that involved some Samba movements to keep them engaged (see my post over at the Chronicle ). Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! Teens As Free Agents. ” Philantroteens.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

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. Her Moments In Mobile piece describes the experience. No problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. He reminded us that April 3rd was the 40th anniversary of the first mobile phone and today the mobile audience in the US is 89% of adults and 51% smartphones and 31% tablets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

I started to pay attention when my kids became teenagers — and wanting to practice good digital parenting as Alexandra Samuel advises – I added the SnapChat app to my phone. As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates.

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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

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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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. 1] And not just that, according to Gartner Research, by 2013 mobile phones will take over PC’s as the most common web access device. [2] 2] Also, 41% of mobile internet time is spent on email.[3]

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Start by downloading an app like Instagram to your phone, and start experimenting without feeling the pressure to publish amazing art. ” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. It doesn't have to be scary.

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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 is pretty easy to set up on a phone or mobile device. Outlook.com connects up with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and soon Skype to "bring your connected world to email," as they say.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2014

Traditionally, a call to action has been to donate in response to a direct mailing or a phone call. The Online Marketing Benchmark Study released by Blackbaud in 2013 found that the median amount raised per email address on file is $13. Start by offering a call to action, an option for people to engage with your organization.

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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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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. smartphones.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 16, 2014

He felt great about the money they had raised in 2013 and knew that they could double their budget again in 2014. Delegate and automate as many components of your routine as you can so that you’re working no more than 35-40 hours/week—and have two days off/week (and your phone isn’t beeping every five seconds.)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 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. Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is perhaps the biggest NPTech news item. They also connect well with Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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. Digital Wallets.

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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 new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2013. “The other two thirds give via the mail and phones. I only donate on Change.org and sometimes Facebook so I can avoid having to provide my mailing address to the nonprofit. billion in 2008 to $29.8 But at the same time, direct mail is continuing to raise money for her organization, Donahue added.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). Here’s a few recent examples that I’ve spotted recently in my Facebook newsfeed, comments on my blog, and other online places.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

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. Responsive or mobile design. eMarkerter predicts that more than 50% of the 76.4 million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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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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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. By Dogs Trust, UK. Need a friend? v/b5UAMMaxdbY. drum roll* vine.co/v/bXgxjjxbBeB.

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