Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2012

When you think about someone accessing your nonprofit website from a mobile device, how do you picture them? While that’s probably the case with a lot of your mobile audience, it’s not always true. As a designer of mobile experiences, I too am guilty of these assumptions. Making the complicated seem uncomplicated.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

For example, you might explain that a $100 gift can purchase five new coding workbooks for your after-school program, and a $500 gift can buy a new laptop for a student. On mobile, amounts were stacked on top of each other with the lower amount first. Use this guide to help choose the right donor database for your nonprofit.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones. Using their matching gifts database, donors can search their company’s name to find out if they offer any corporate giving programs. Request a demo.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Matching gift database. A matching gift database helps you identify donors who are eligible for corporate matching gifts. Conducting prospect research involves using your CRM and external databases to identify prospects that exhibit philanthropic and wealth indicators. Personalize outreach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. It’s a lucky thing my partner has a laptop I can beg and borrow (stealing might cause issues.) I’ll spare you the details.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I am an avid Wiki user. Different enough to drive me crazy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

An all-around accounting package for smaller organizations, AccountEdge extends your reach from Mac and PC to mobile devices with free iPad and iPhone apps. This new, mobile-friendly operating system brings back the Start button, offers better searching, and can boot directly to the desktop. And that means going mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. So now, I have two bricks.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Instead of joining 15,000 or so folks for the second morning keynote, I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the keynote stream on my laptop. If you're interested in Salesforce stuff and you just landed from your planet, Chatter is like Facebook in your corporate CRM/database. I got the mobile app. I followed people.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2015

At launch, the Sage BlueBook has 30 categories of electronics and 11 million items in its database. mobile phones. Finding the Real-World Value for All Your Old Devices. It provides current valuations for. desktop computers. 20 other categories of gadgets. How the BlueBook Works. The BlueBook has a very simple interface.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom The exception to this rule in the nonprofit space tends to be mobile tools for canvassers, volunteers, or major gift officers, who typically use specialized apps or web applications (e.g. a mobile major giving toolset).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With an auction platform, you can run an in-person, virtual, or hybrid auction easily, and all your guests can bid on the items they want from their smartphones, laptops, and tablets from anywhere in the world. In the modern age, mobile phones are most people’s constant companions. Text fundraising. DonorPerfect.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. It’s being billed as the “easiest database&# and I pretty much have to agree. Have a look at the demo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For example, you might be running a constituent relationship management (CRM) database, but are all of your organization's constituents in it? Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. For the last 15 years or so, there have been many experiments using the tools of technology and new media to improve data collection. Wikis/Blogs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

For example, you might be running a constituent relationship management (CRM) database, but are all of your organization's constituents in it? Maybe some of those constituents are on the laptop of an employee who works remotely and can't connect to the CRM. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? Welcome your new Penguin overlords ;-) 2 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. Anyway, as the bus rolls by, I see "PVTA_0333" come up on the MacStumbler, then leave! Yeah, really, really! It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. Maybe faster than we think. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# I knew that I should do it at some point, but I hadn’t encountered a WPA network until last week, so I hadn’t bothered. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I’m relatively happy, and, surprisingly enough, I don’t miss using the mac everyday. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

But, right here at the top, we just want to make sure we state how important it is that you have a database of donor information to analyze and act on in the first place. Neon CRM Switching Databases From Excel to Neon CRM Read Now 5. Schedule a Neon CRM Demo Email Fundraising Strategies A woman’s hands type on an Apple laptop.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

For starters, make sure your constituent relationship management (CRM) database is segmented to account for the giving history and interests of donors. Offering a mobile donation platform so donors can give whenever the mood strikes without having to pull out their laptop or desktop to do so.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Likewise, data gathered by the software is stored on a database that is located remotely. Do you need mobility, or does your organization run from one or two central locations? #2 Any system sitting on a server – or data sitting on a laptop – in your office is exposed to the risk of physical theft. 2 – Budget.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2016

Eric Hom of Saint Raymond Catholic Church told us his church uses donated Microsoft Office in the following ways: "We use Microsoft Access for our database , and we use PowerPoint on screens around the church to announce church activities. A single laptop runs all the screens. We also use Publisher for our welcome brochure.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

It is a specialized cloud database to help nonprofits organizations manage their business, run programs, and maintain donor relationships from any browser and on mobile devices. Mifos provides a web app with mobile phone capability. It can also plug into mobile banking services like mPesa in Kenya for making money transfers.

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2020

From digital giving platforms to mobile giving technology, we’ve seen a gradual shift to online supporter engagement over the years. Keep in mind that your supporters may tune into your virtual stewardship event from their laptop, their phones, or larger screens. HOST VIRTUAL STEWARDSHIP EVENTS. Your organization’s.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. The approaches are similar and different to each other.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Suddenly, “the office” is available anytime and anywhere your team members have an Internet connection and mobile device. Mobile has quickly become the mainstream. Having a mobile-friendly approach to engaging donors has never been more important. And this will only continue to evolve. You’re Already Using The Latest Version.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2015

We use Microsoft Access for our database, and we use PowerPoint on screens around the church to announce church activities. A single laptop runs all the screens. Trying out Parish Data System , an online CRM (constituent relationship management) database. … Since we found out about TechSoup, we have gotten more donations.

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