TechImpact

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A CRM will enable your nonprofit to see not just their donors, but will allow you to track their involvement, and allow your whole staff to access this information in one place. A CRM takes tasks like new volunteer signups, management of beneficiaries, and follow up tasks, placing them in one easily accessible place.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile Access. Easy Access To Conferences. One of the best features is the web app, which allows both PC and Mac users to access a meeting in their web browser. The ability to access a detailed record of chats makes it easy to search and reference details after the chat is over. Persistent Chat.

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TechImpact

MAY 6, 2015

Is it all stored one easily accessible place? Can your employees access this information on the go, or are they forced to access this information on one machine? Where is all of your constituents’ information? If your answer to any of the above questions is no, than your workers are losing a lot of time […].

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Understanding that a large part of your organization’s supporters are access the website via a smartphone or click a particular link in an annual appeal email is just one bit of quality information an organization can gleam from this data. Virtual Information.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Accessibility for the visually impaired and hearing impaired is also important–follow the W3C Accessibility guides. Today’s donors want mobile access to your website, that also means mobile friendly donation forms that are secure. If your form labels are awkwardly aligned, or even broken, users will be turned off.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 2, 2014

With data stored directly on a machine, data can be lost or stolen in the blink of an eye; but with a cloud, access to information can be blocked immediately upon the theft being reported. With a cloud you can grant access to specific individuals, while denying access to others, easily and efficiently. High turnover.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

With close to 70% of cell phone users using their mobile device to access the internet, raising money through mobile donations is an area that is expected to only grow. Every day more internet users are accessing the annals of the internet through their mobile device. Mobile Donations. Mobile web design.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

User accounts are stored on the server with the OS, allowing individual employees to access their version of the virtual desktop. Access from outside the office. Rather than having one OS to a system, an OS can be distributed to multiple computers. You can customize the experience. Decrease hardware wear-n-tear. Disaster recovery.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 11, 2013

When a cloud is accessed, your computations are occurring from a remote location and your computer screen is simply displaying the results of those computations that are taking place in an off-campus data center. It allows the information to be stored, and easily accessed from anywhere, instead of being local on only one machine.

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TechImpact

JULY 25, 2014

Marketers everywhere have access to more information, quantifiable data, and often times, funds than ever before. We very well may be living in the golden age of marketing. Big data is responsible for empowering a true movement in the industry. Utilizing all this information for good can be tricky though.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Is it all stored one easily accessible place? Can your employees access this information on the go, or are they forced to access this information on one machine? Image courtesy of blackbaud. Where is all of your constituents’ information?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 13, 2014

According to Twitter, 80% of millennials are accessing Twitter through their mobile phoen at least once per day, with 15% of millennial users accessing the social network over 10 times per day. Here are 4 statistics about how millennials use Twitter straight from the horse’s mouth at Twitter headquarters.

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TechImpact

MARCH 14, 2014

It offers a free online meeting place, where over a billion people have access to your page. Image courtesy of Inside Facebook. Facebook is 99% of the time a must have for your nonprofit. What’s not to like? If your nonprofit doesn’t have a Facebook, check out this infographic and consider if it’s time to sign up and start engaging!

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 8, 2013

The cloud can also improve internal controls with administrative access and user access–limiting what day-to-day operations staff can access, as opposed to nonprofit executives. Myth #4: The cloud is expensive, and we have our own servers.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Easier file access. Office 365 offers offline file access, making it possible for your employees’ files accessible anywhere. You know it’s a good idea, but your staff may be reluctant to jump into a new tool that will interrupt their status quo.

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TechImpact

MAY 21, 2014

Create a working inventory of what technology your nonprofit currently has access to, and it utilizing on a daily basis. A short term goal might be to ensure that all employees have access to email remotely, while a long term goal might be to implement and utilize a CRM. Make a last of short term goals and a list of long term goals.

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TechImpact

MAY 29, 2014

And your website is not only relevant again, but it is offering website visitors information and content they did not originally have access to. Adding a blog adds new links every day, featuring fresh content and new information that viewers did not have access to previously. Few and waning links. And they won’t.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Ensure donors can access donation screens quickly. This bring us full circle to point number one, make sure that donors can access the donation page quickly. While a quarter of a million pounds were raised via text messaging one hour after the disaster struck. The biggest givers are from older generations.

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TechImpact

JULY 16, 2015

Built using the cloud to store, manage, and interact with environment, Office 365 is convenient, cheap, and accessible anywhere there’s an internet connection. It has the power to unify your nonprofit, and organize everything your organization does. Whether that’s in the office, or a Starbucks in […].

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2013

Also, remote employees might not have their own office phone, or always have access too it, making it necessary for staff to include their personal cell phone number as a method of business contact. Office phones. Another common communication tool that poses maintenance and sometimes service issues. File sharing.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

90% of smartphone owners access the same email account on mobile and desktop. In 2017 1.779 Million people will access email via their mobile device.- Here are 14 statistics that will get your nonprofit thinking mobile now, instead of later. ExactTarget – “The 2012 channel preference survey” (2012).

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TechImpact

JULY 3, 2015

The idea of being able to work from anywhere in the world, and still access all your files, regardless of what computer you’re on is attractive for the busy nonprofit. Cloud computing continues to intrigue the nonprofit community. We’ve all have, or hopefully had, one of those servers in the back closet of the office. […].

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TechImpact

AUGUST 30, 2013

Out of 83,866 respondents, 18% used a mobile device to access a donation page. Nonprofits saw a 264% growth in Twitter followers in 2012. 62% of nonprofits say cloud computing is a low-cost investment. 36% of people surveyed “unliked” a nonprofit on Facebook because it only posted about donating.

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TechImpact

MAY 15, 2013

In an effort to allow people in remote areas to have consistent access to the cloud, a Kenya-based nonprofit is making plans to distribute a new device that can bring reliable internet to even the most remote of locations, even when … Continued The post NGO Bringing Internet Service To Developing World appeared first on Tech Impact.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Exclusive access. In addition, create an exclusive portal on your website for your major donors to access their history and information about how their donation is being sent. email, snail mail, fax, phone, etc.). Create unique videos and photos detailing the impact of their donation. Public recognition.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Accessible on multiple devices, including desktops, laptops, and cell phones. Internet phone calls, typically referred to as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) by IT professionals, are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and nonprofits, both small and large. Why organizations tend to switch to VoIP: Higher quality sound.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 30, 2014

Having access to all of this information will allow your nonprofit to see ways to increase fundraising efforts. Access customized information. All of this information and more can be saved regarding thousands of constituents, all in one, easy to digest location.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 21, 2013

However, it also blocks suspicious code from accessing your nonprofit’s data and systems. These important security features keep viruses, malware, and data mining code from accessing certain parts of your computer. Test if Java is enabled in your browser. Java protects your office computer.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Using a cloud computing system instead of your old hardware, your employees in the field can access any file they need, any time, and from anywhere. Switching to a cloud computing system is a great way to increase your internet speed, which was previously limited by clunky and aging hardware. Your data is secure.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Chances are, if you have not already switched to a cloud-based system like Salesforce, all that data is sitting in a spreadsheet somewhere, only locally accessible by a handful of people. How is all your donor information saved? Also, the file is landlocked, unless the most recent version is emailed for reference. Track every interaction.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 25, 2013

For nonprofits, there are many solutions for segmenting, storing, and accessing information securely, to help protect your constituents. Protecting your donor and volunteer information is incredibly important in addition to day-to-day business information. 54% of organizations have some trust in the cloud when it comes to securing their data.

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TechImpact

JULY 14, 2014

One of the most celebrated and discussed features of the cloud is the ability to access data, information, and files anywhere there is an internet connection present. Small and large nonprofits alike are falling in love with SaaS platforms. Here a few key reasons why. Convenience.

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TechImpact

APRIL 1, 2014

Both are true, and by utilizing this powerful platform you are enabling your nonprofit access to hundreds or thousands of skilled, volunteer workers. Or did you know that the highly trafficked social media outlet has recently launched a new platform, called the Volunteer Marketplace that helps match nonprofits with talented volunteers?

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By virtualizing their web-based operations with products like Office 365 and SharePoint, employees were able to access documents, Outlook, shared calendars and even their desktops from any computer or mobile device. Women’s Law Project. ” Information Technologies Director and Programs Manager, Barbara DiTullio. Path Point.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

While a QR code makes donating quick, it also limits accessibility to those (1) with a smartphone and (2) with a QR reader app. Not all smartphones come automatically equipped to read QR codes. Many users need to download an application from their app store. Only a small portion of mobile device users scan QR codes.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

38% of Internet users access social media through mobile. According to research conducted by Pew Internet these 5 social media statistics will help your nonprofit understand exactly how to optimize its content to see better engagement.

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

They make your content accessible, and easily found. They post images from around the world and accompany them with insightful description and sometimes a few hilarious #hastags as well. ( #Ilovenorway ). hashtags are still important. Hashtags (#) are perhaps even more important in Instagram than they are on Twitter.

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