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. There’s a lot in there.

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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. ? 18% create online peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns to benefit organizations. ?

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It represents the convergence of two ideas: mobile phones have great cameras and you can quickly create great visual content as part of your content strategy by using it, along with a few tips and tools. Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013.

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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. In fact, 80% of respondents said video is important to their organization today, 91% believe video will become more important in the next 3 years, and. You can see how much video dominates YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013. gpf13 Technical part about data easy – hard part is getting humans to collaborate @ jacobharold — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013. Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013. Fdns use 3-yr old data to make 5-yr plans.Is this any way to run a sector? gpf13 #philanthropy. A new type of CSR?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And besides its revamped look and enhanced features, the Windows Store offers some new apps designed especially for the Windows 8 Start screen (Read about what's new in Windows 8 and how to get Windows 8 for your organization). MetroTwit is a stylish Twitter client with a design inspired by Windows 8 user interface.

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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. Twitter is for keeping up with news and live events. My first experience was “What?” ” and could not figure it out.

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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. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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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

MARCH 21, 2012

asked social benefit organizations for their best photos and videos and in return shared a month’s worth of educational events. Make sure to bookmark these valuable resources – you’ll need them when the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge returns in 2013! Final Twitter Chat Highlights. Tweet Chat Recaps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And how do you identify relevant takeaways and techniques for you and your organization? Start by downloading an app like Instagram to your phone, and start experimenting without feeling the pressure to publish amazing art. Then dig into its Cutting Edge Social Media report from May 2013 to really satisfy your craving.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. Every day, someone at a nonprofit is looking for a donor’s address or phone number online, Googling a name for past giving or searching for some biographical information on LinkedIn. They just don’t know they are doing it!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). I’m writing to share with you the strategies that have worked for us, in hopes that something we’ve tried will also work for your organization. So far, we are on track to hit our goal of 45% this year. Be personal.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It's 2013. Even if they've already decided to donate to your organization, they may not actually complete the transaction before being called away by a work interruption, meeting, phone call or worse yet, frustration. Follow Kelley on Twitter. And don't fret. So make it easy on them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest event was organized by the DC area based advocacy nonprofit, Demand Progress. The action spearheaded a flood of nearly 100,000 phone calls and almost 200,000 emails to policymakers. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party. The ACLU website has a good summary of the USA Freedom Act.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones. While a Facebook presence is important, utilizing Twitter , Instagram , and Pinterest are also big ways to engage with younger generations who spend more time on social media than any other. In 2013, more than 219,000 people participated and raised nearly $23 million.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. Sadly, that is not the case. Time is up.

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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

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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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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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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" billion in 2013. “There is no question that it is down for most organizations.

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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. Your organization’s story. Responsive or mobile design. eMarkerter predicts that more than 50% of the 76.4 million Baby Boomers in the U.S. Powerful pictures.

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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

Marketing doesn''t have to be painful for nonprofit organizations with limited resources. Here are four ways nonprofit organizations can improve their marketing efforts while also spending less money and less time on the issue: Do Your Research. Grow your audience organically. Know your audience. Who makes up your audience?

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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. 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!

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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

It's easy to see why Twitter wanted a foothold in the video messaging game — dynamic storytelling apps like Instagram and Cinemagram. It was only a matter of time then, that Twitter re-imagined its. It was only a matter of time then, that Twitter re-imagined its. So, how did Twitter respond to the marketplace demand?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2015

As it wasn’t organized and managed by a single charity, it wasn’t included in the official P2P Thirty rankings. In 2013 the average American looked at screens 8.5 hours a day, it can sure leave a lasting impression on someone to receive a hand-written note, to get a phone call, or be visited at the office.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. I learned a few things from this experience. How have you looked for great stories?

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Science Fair For the first time, we stretched the Science Fair over two days, giving you the chance to speak with more than 152 organizations and vendors. 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. Visiting all of the trade show booths.

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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. To be sure, there are a lot. CONNECT. ,

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Nonprofit organizations would get far better results from improving their own online giving experience. Will they generate significant revenue for your organization, give again, and remain loyal? Only 501(c)(3) organizations? What about the 27 other types of tax exempt organizations in the US? Probably not. Probably not.

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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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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. Our mobile phones make it worse, because now we can check into the Internet, anywhere and anytime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It’s no surprise attention spans have been decreasing over the past decade with the increase in external stimulation – social media, mobile phones, and the flood of online information. Our mobile phones make it worse, because now we can check into the Internet, anywhere and anytime. According to a Daniel J.

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