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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The best way to do this is to require volunteers to fill out an application. Volunteer applications may vary depending on the nonprofit. Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Giveffect, for example, offers online applications with options to customize fields and questions.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. The application is currently in a closed beta, and I was lucky enough to get access to start playing around with it. I asked mobile users around the globe “do you think you can change the world?&#

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Trainer’s Notebook: Online Interaction Tools To Engage Your Audience in the Room and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Online versions of assessments for participants that would can calculate individual scores and show aggregate results. Slido allows you to crowd source questions from the audience who can use the web site from their mobile phones or laptops in real time. I pulled up the page on my mobile phone. Flash polls. Conference.

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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. Here’s what they found regarding church management software: Church Windows was the most widely used application, but over 40 percent of users said they wouldn’t recommend it. Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site.

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Great reads from around the web on April 15th

Amy Sample Ward

N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org - Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. The Process.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. His mobile phone battery was nearly dead so he chose to send a message to twitter and ask for help as well as for those that couldn’t help to spread the message, instead of calling 911 in the chance that he would end up on hold.

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