Age, class, race, gender and location play huge roles now in how people want to receive information and calls to action from nonprofits. While there are a good number of tech-savvy hipsters out there that understand terms like “ Static Web ”, “ Dynamic Content ”, “ User-Generated ”, “ Cloud Computing ”, and “ Semantic Web ”, the majority of nonprofits don’t talk or understand such tech speak. So, to simply for the nonprofit masses, I present and frame very simple definitions and interpretations of Web 1.0,

8220;Right now, SMS is clunky for many users, and ultimately, a transitional technology as consumer expectations of calling systems improve,” said Darius Roberts who co-founded Aible Consulting, an Information Management and Information Technology consulting firm. 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones. 35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew.

Don't crowd the social media policy with too much information. Maddie Grant & Lindy Dreyer, SocialFish, LLC and Leslie T. White, Croydon Consulting LLC Ready Ready to adopt a social media policy for your organization staff? Awesome.

Those five points made, if your organization has old information inside of GuideStar, then you have old information on Network for Good, Give A Tweet, Change.org, Razoo and Facebook Causes. Updating GuideStar is a bit tedious because you have to enter a lot of financial data, but in this new era of social media fundraising, keeping your organization’s information current in GuideStar is an absolute must. 1. Social media fundraising is built upon and empowered by the GuideStar database. 2.

This information comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of Blackbaud online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. The following presentation provides additional information, graphs, and insights about the analysis: 2009 is now over and the analysis of online giving trends has already started. This is a follow-up to the 2008 Online Giving Trends research and the subsequent 2009 Online Giving Trends for Q1 , Q2 , and Q3 analysis.

have only been subscribed a few days and yet to receive a text alert, but I am hoping that the text message will include a link to a mobile web page where I can easily enter my contact information to send an email to my members of Congress… from my iPhone. DO Something is utilizing text alerts to inform individuals about volunteer opportunities in their area. Not to be confused with Text-to-Give campaigns (Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross), text alert campaigns are when individuals opt-in to be alerted of breaking news or calls to action via text message.

Come to our session at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference to hear the rest! If you are using different databases for different stakeholder groups, it's likely you could realize efficiencies by centralizing information around certain processes and people in the organization. Templates also make sure that less experienced writers include all relevant information. 10. Tirza Hollenhorst, ifPeople Nearly Nearly every organization is feeling the pull to communicate more.

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. The Red Cross wasn't just taking in mobile donations, it was leveraging the power of the web for information distribution, as well -- between those following the news and the organizations, relief workers on the ground and the services they were delivering, and more. On So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well?  Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared When How can we do that?

Women are twice as likely to pass on information about your cause. Is your nonprofit reaching women and harnessing their power for social change? If your nonprofit is not actively marketing to women and recruiting them, your organization is missing out on major fundraising opportunities. During last week’s webinar The She Spot – Best Practices in Marketing to Women , Lisa Witter co-author of the book The She Spot

Most consumers are not comfortable providing this information,” said Chris Parandian, of MobileDiner.com . “Cell “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life,” said author Gabriel García Márquez. This quote “resonates with how we live our lives today, and perhaps how we have lived since the start of human society,” writes blogger Stowe Boyd .