Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Your donation pages should also be mobile-friendly. 57% of nonprofit website traffic in 2022 came from users on mobile devices, meaning it’s crucial that your donation pages can be easily viewed and completed using a mobile device. Consider implementation consulting. Ask for support when you need it.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

While it is important to take into account an organization’s culture and what they have going on at the moment, as a consultant, the latter option can break your heart. We can help you take a look at some of those alternatives, look at how you might keep using some of those features, or how you might want to phase that approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

The first thing I did was to take a walk at the Stanford Dish , a nearby nature hiking area, without my mobile phone. During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Less than 1% of the applicants, 20 organizations were selected to receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your donation form should be fully branded to your organization, mobile-friendly, and straightforward to make it easier to fill out. Mobile giving is essential for nonprofits—in fact, the majority (57%) of nonprofit website traffic in 2022 came from users on mobile devices. Mobile-friendly and easy to fill out from any device.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Alternatively, you could put together a donor appreciation event that focuses more on thanking and recognizing donors and less on fundraising. . Optimize your website for mobile. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile devices, it can irritate donors and reduce your ranking in search engines. Segment donors.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr. These needs may relate to accessibility and the user-friendliness of your site for those with auditory, visual, cognitive or mobility impairments. There are also CAPTCHA alternatives to consider, such as Mollom , Akismet , and Defensio. By Stuart Holland, Sr. Web Developer, TerpSys.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

MIT researchers in a recent study (PDF) looked at two alternative methods for establishing who needs assistance." Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues. It can also distract citizens and feed apathy. It can also help repressive governments watch and censor their citizens.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

A pioneer in biojet fuels, Alaska Airlines partnered with Neste to lay the groundwork for industry-wide adoption of renewable fuel options, such as forest residuals , made from the stumps and branches leftover after a timber harvest, and a cleaner alternative to traditional jet fuel. Purpose-Driven Companies Take a Stand. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

Staying Connected While Mobile. When care managers are with families, they need to be able to access critical information through email from their mobile phones in order to tailor services and care to their clients' needs. When they learned that Cisco was ending support for WebOffice , they looked for an alternative.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Build them out completely, adhering with the offerings of your LMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. Then, throughout the ASPCA website, the sidebar alternates CTAs customized for that particular page. Simplicity is essential for effective navigation of your website, especially on mobile devices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

One of the ideas up for voting on Ideablob right now is iGive - Micro-donating made easy and mobile with iPhone. I sent out a request to my Twitter and Facebook pals for more iPhone apps for nonprofits: Paul Lamb of Man on a Mission Consulting said that Ustream recently launched an iPhone app.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Concrn , based in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, channels compassionate care for alternate intervention when a resident determines there is a mental health crisis that may not need 911 intervention. Essentially, data is uploaded by a human rights activist via a mobile device, and Martus encrypts the data upload through the app.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

It seems cool, and a great alternative to freconference.com. And it’s free, too. Asterisk made it possible for the company to provide this service without huge infrastructure costs. I look forward to seeing more of what kinds of new and interesting tools can be powered by Asterisk under the hood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

The good news is, having optimal SEO can be achieved without having to purchase an expensive tool or consultant. Google is very good at parsing content, but variations including number, parts of speech, and alternate spellings help, too. For most of us, the mechanics of SEO can seem really complicated. 1) Content is King.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Even if they do, the cost to implement is never trivial, and requires investment in consultant fees that typically dwarf the cost of using a SaaS solution, or even purchasing a traditional installed solution (such as our desktop version of DonorPerfect, or other installed packages such as Exceed, Sage, etc.) 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

With Golden, you can start mobilizing your network toward accomplishing your goals in no time. Kindful CRM Integration: No, Salesforce is an alternative to Kindful. Alternatively, you could find pro-bono Google Ad Grant consulting or invest in a digital marketing agency that specializes in Google Ad Grant management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

something like a consulting company or creative manager." Net2 ThinkTank gives up a round up of how Nonprofits and NGOs are Using Mobile Phones and SMS for Social Change. It notes, "Maybe the answer is an intermediary b/w tech and design volunteers and the non-profits they???re re working with???something

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS. The number of situations where one can still argue on a functional and cost level that proprietary software is a better bet get fewer and fewer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

Prior to the project, two of the three nonprofits had paper-based systems – not because they loved what they had, but because they looked at alternatives and found them all out of their price range. There is a tremendous opportunity to use the new virtual, mobile enabled platforms to share information and best practices. Ah-Ha Moments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is a maddening sketch of the museum that might have been, one that alternates between shaky and bold strokes. Xwashier - a Foursquare-style mobile app in which people could encounter historic sites throughout the country and retrieve multi-media content about the history while onsite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

” As with everything in the consulting profession, the answer is “maybe.” 3rd-party applications, mobile apps, or integrations. Be sure to double check, and consider alternatives such as changing business processes. ” The answer is typically “yes.” Consider the Standard Product.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start by taking the following actions to make your website more accessible : Optimize your website for mobile devices and screen readers. Accepting Alternative Payment Methods New technologies are making it possible for nonprofits to accept all kinds of payment methods for donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. I think that for a while, at least, Linux won’t be a good desktop option this broad group of people. Which is unfortunate, and I hope it changes. at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment. 10 Isaac 11.20.08

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Also, when the range of your security evaluations extends from “good&# to “excellent&# without characterizing what’s worse than “good,&# I don’t have any alternative but to treat “good&# as the worst on your spectrum. Saying “everyone gets an ‘A’!&#

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