Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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JUNE 22, 2021

Monique Dozier, vice president of institutional advancement at Morehouse, says that with the transition to Salesforce, the advancement office raised a record $107 million—an eight-fold increase over its levels from 2013 to 2018 and the highest total in Morehouse history. Image courtesy of the University of Portsmouth Alumni website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Twitter followers increased dramatically, with 264 percent growth over the past year. Accessibility. social change.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

A variety of other organizations are using technology in innovative ways to help homeless populations: The National Desert News did a great piece recently on how mobile phones and social media are giving the homeless a hand up. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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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! The report also has a mix of tools that are in use to directly to improve lives, and also tools that increase efficiency within organizations that will trickle down to its beneficiaries. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

you can always follow them online on Twitter or Facebook. Maria Zaghi organized a virtual regional meetup as part of the G-Everyone Summit. Image: Evan Leeson , Creative Commons. It you can’t make it to Victoria ( you’re missing out! ) This Week’s NetSquared Events. That’s all for now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos. 83% regularly vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. They are asked to visualize the relationships – and who players are both online and offline. Also to show the relationships to different clusters (related people or organizations) and nodes (a person or organization).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

Documenting and sharing the happenings of an event or fundraiser can be tricky if you're responsible for organizing it as well. To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. ways to cover an event is by livetweeting through Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Encourage Donors to Spread the Word by Sharing Their Personal Experiences With Your Organization. How can your organization apply this? Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof. How can your organization apply this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The new generation of smart phones come equipped with excellent cameras and for many it means that they can easily shoot from the hip and capture moments in your organization’s work that make for great, socially share able content. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. Storytelling is an important part of any organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? LCF inspires philanthropy from the Latino community and invests in community driven solution lead by Latino-based organizations. We used powerful images and our timing was great.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 26, 2016

The nonprofit social media platform was pretty much dominated by Facebook and Twitter until Instagram came along. Twitter pics gets an upgrade. Perhaps because of the roaring arrival of Instagram to the main scene, Twitter responded with an image upgrade of its own. Pinterest renaissance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. A post entitled “Trust the Curators” from Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0, Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The fact that the $78 million awarded for technology funding in 2011 declined to $61 million in 2012 and $58 million in 2013 does not necessarily indicate a trend. New data will be added to the platform on a weekly basis, and the totals for 2013 and 2014 are likely to increase. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

That’s not surprising since faith-based organizations are all about community. Most of them are social media quick guides for using things like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. ” Church Tech Dump is all about technology and design as it applies to faith based organizations. Church Technology Listservs.

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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. Images: Image one: Santa and Phone : Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And how do you identify relevant takeaways and techniques for you and your organization? ” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. Then dig into its Cutting Edge Social Media report from May 2013 to really satisfy your craving.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. Reed says that communicating across diverse media is now a culture-wide attribute of the organization. Image: AFP. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech NPMobile , ?NPOnlineGiving.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2013

From reports of specific organizations’ success to questions of skepticism, one thing is certain – #GivingTuesday rocked the industry. Thanks to Taylor Corrado of Hubspot, here’s 12 Notable Highlights from 2013′s Giving Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Co-Disruptor: Twitter. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It's 2013. A simple "Donate now," "Give to a child in need," or "Support us" call to action placed within an engaging image on your home page will not only draw someone in, but will make them much more likely to take the action you want them to take. Follow Kelley on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. Highly Active on YouTube (95%).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party. Image 1: Microsoft. Image 2: Cancer Research UK. did some good reportage on “ The Day We Fight Back ”, which took place on February 11 th. Just log in to comment.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 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. What The Trend is an online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Images: Shutterstock.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Twitter (4 hours): To tweet and retweet an average of four times daily, to respond to messages and mentions, to organize followers into lists, and to strategically follow others. Pinterest (3 hour weekly): To pin or repin images twice daily and maintain your boards.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Every dollar helps.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Image courtesy of imdesigns.ca. will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Your organization’s story. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. Powerful pictures.

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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. Try to analyze peak times your followers are active — we like FollowerWonk for analyzing followers on Twitter — in order to hit the most people at the best time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Twitter (5 hours): To tweet and retweet an average of four times daily, to respond to messages and mentions, to organize followers into lists, and to strategically follow others. Pinterest (3 hour weekly): To pin or repin images twice daily and maintain your boards.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. NCSA over the years has supported many allied nonprofit organizations like Common Sense Media, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, and Cyber Safe Kids. Use the hashtag #NCSAM on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter throughout October. Image: Courtesy of National Cyber Security Alliance.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 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. Mary Meeker and Liang Wu ’s 2013 Internet Trends from Kleiner Perkins. The Internet in 2013. Now, here's the latest.

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