NetWits
JANUARY 11, 2011
—. If you haven’t already, please consider subscribing via RSS or eMail to receive fresh content on a regular basis. —. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 24, 2011
If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they? QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number.
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Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement! Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 21, 2011
If you’ve been around the block as long as I have, you remember the days before an audio codec was settled upon. EBooks are moving into adolescence, and the question is, which format will win, or does one format have to win? For a while there, the two big players on the field were Amazon on one side, with it’s Kindle and proprietary format, which is an offshoot of MobiPocket format, and a reader that has a fairly limited range of formats it can read.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
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NCE Social Media
JANUARY 4, 2011
PBSNewsHour had a recent segment on how charities are turning to social media as a fundraising tool now more than ever. In the video, which is embedded below, Allison Fine from The Chronicle of Philanthropy is interviewed by Ray Suarez. I’ve mentioned Allison in a previous post. She creates podcasts on the topic of social media for the Chronicle of Philanthropy and you should check them out.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 24, 2011
I occasionally get invited to small group brainstorms of key leaders in fields where we’re active (and we’re active in a lot of fields!). I’m on the plane home from one such weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, held at Brown University. The Think Different Summit was 15-20 smart people, led by an experienced facilitator, trying to imagine the future of the learning disability rights movement.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 10, 2011
My upcoming book about social media and mobile technology will feature more than 100 tools, resources, and nonprofit service providers. A good number of them were recommended by nonprofits during the research process. Others are the favorites I’ve used over the last 15 years in my nonprofit career. The book is shaping up to be a comprehensive, step-by-step 70,000-word online communications and development strategic plan.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 26, 2011
I’m not sure if you caught the news today but CauseVox has launched their public beta! I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 24, 2011
I’ve had a bit of time now to work with Drupal 7. I’ve been playing with it since it was still pretty experimental, but I finally put together a whole site with it recently, and am pretty happy with it. It’s gotten a big leg up in terms of usability – this was a major focus for this release. The basic user interface is much improved over Drupal 6, and unrecognizable if you’ve only been using Drupal 5 or earlier.
NCE Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2011
A new study by Experian found that Americans spend 2 hours and 12 minutes on Twitter each month. The average time per session was 13 minutes and 12 seconds. This is 26 times the 30 traditional second elevator pitch. How are you using this time? Are you engaging your constituency during this 13 minutes and 12 seconds? If so what are you saying via social media?
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The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 1, 2011
Benetech has spent a good part of this last year thinking about what's next for our mission and our team. A crucial part of that effort has been to identify what we think is uniquely true about Benetech. This portion was an internally focused effort based on conversations with our team. We came up with the following truths as part of that process. You might call them Benetech's values, but we didn't look at traditional organizational value statements while drafting these truths.
NetWits
JANUARY 13, 2011
Did you know that online giving passed 15 BILLION in 2009? Amazing, eh? I’m not sure what 2010 looks like yet, but based on the growth we’ve seen since 1997 (as shown below) it’s pretty safe to say that 2010 online giving numbers went up. So, how are you thinking about your online fundraising strategy? Are you doing anything differently or adding anything new in 2011?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 12, 2011
The last four chapters of my book cover mobile social networking and mobile communications and fundraising for nonprofits, and I need some examples of success, or attempted success. If your nonprofit is experimenting with mobile technology, please share your experiences and links (if any) in a comment below. I am particularly interested in: 1. Nonprofits with mobile websites (please share the link!).
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API.
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 21, 2011
It looks like February is going to be as busy month - with 31 (and counting) free non-profit webinars already scheduled. There is a wide range of webinar topics, so have a good look through this round-up, since there's bound to be something of interest to you or other folks in your organization.( read more ).
NCE Social Media
JANUARY 14, 2011
Ryan Kuder wrote a post on ZDNet explaining why small businesses need social advocates. You know what, nonprofits need them too. In fact, we need as many as we can get! If a tree falls in the woods but no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Well that’s the same with social media. If you post something on social media but no one hears or shares it is your message being heard?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 4, 2011
Patrick Ball and I have often discussed the risks to social justice groups from using unlicensed proprietary software. A government could suppress a group using "piracy" as a reason, rather than criticism of the government. We've seen this happen in places like Russia. That's why it's heartening to read an article like this in the Christian Science Monitor, Russia rights groups get help from unlikely champion: Microsoft.
NetWits
JANUARY 31, 2011
Did you know that acknowledgement or “thank you” emails have the highest open rate of any email communication type. That’s right – better than your fancy newsletter and much better than your unsolicited eBlast (though people tend to make some very simple and correctable mistakes in those types of emails also). If you think about it for a second this makes total sense.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 6, 2011
At the beginning of each chapter in my book (11 total) there will be a quote of wisdom from a nonprofit that speaks to content of that chapter. Then throughout the book, there will be approximately 20 more quotes of wisdom. If you have some wisdom to share with the nonprofit community, please post your quote below and if it fits, I’ll add it to the book.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 26, 2011
I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 26th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 19, 2011
So your non-profit organization needs to get a website, finally – or to revamp the existing website, perhaps to make it work better for your members and donors, perhaps to reflect a change in direction or brand. No matter what your non-profit website’s design and content will be, there are two big questions you need to nail down early in the planning process: How will we build our website, and where will its files be hosted?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 25, 2011
Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Two weeks ago, the social media maven from the National Wildlife Federation, Danielle Brigida, tweeted the above photo showing how they were mapping one of their networks with one of my favorite low tech tools: sticky notes. This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 30, 2011
I just got an email from the incredible Liz Halperin. She's one of our Bookshare team members and also happens to be deaf and blind. She shoots me me very interesting ideas frequently, and I thought I'd share this one with my blog readers. I can't quite figure out how to make it, but I bet someone will!! Hi Jim, Busy, busy man. But I'm intruding because you are "intrude-able" and I have a dream.
NetWits
JANUARY 27, 2011
I just got an email from Holly Ross, the Executive Director of the Non-profit Technology Network – better known as NTEN. You received the same email if, like me, you’re subscribed to the NTEN newsletter (hint hint). There’s always great information in the newsletter, but this time around I’m particularly excited because the focus is social networking for non-profits (something that, if you read this blog regularly, you know I’m very passionate about) and the 2011 So
NTEN
JANUARY 4, 2011
Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good If you love data, you’re in for a treat. Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing recently went mining through $381 million in donations through our platform. We looked at: 3.6 million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (thoug
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 7, 2011
My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can check out the blog and conversation on the SSIR opinion blog , or read it reposted below. —– I recently posted about Jumo with reflections, notes from my experience using the new platform, and questions – this post has also generated a great deal of valuable conversation in the comments (over 70 thoughtful comments so far).
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 13, 2011
Content Strategy is a term that is popping up more and more often in the business world. In a guest post, Ja-Naé Duane defines content strategy and shares her advice on how to promote your cause, association, non-profit or member organization using a content strategy.( read more ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 26, 2011
Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I had to look no further than the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program. With 75% of the world’s fisheries are fished to capacity, or overfished, the fish we order in restaurants or pick up at the grocery store for dinner, has the power to make this situation worse, or improve it.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 19, 2011
"We don't necessarily expect to go to the farmers' market to get our vegetables and have someone beaming a big smile and offering us a hug. These things break the trance of the culture, and I love that. It feels like that's a way in which the arts can be visionary, be change agents, and also be really fun and playful, which is primary to living." - Gabriela Masala This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Gabriela Masala talking about how to organize have fun do good flash mobs.
NetWits
JANUARY 6, 2011
Videos are an amazing way to share your nonprofit’s story with supporters. But as with all forms of online communication, the goal should be to get that visitor to take an action. Thankfully, the YouTube Nonprofit Program has made it easy to add interactive calls to action to your videos. What do Calls to Action Look Like? Calls to action are simply the things you want web visitors do after viewing a piece of content.
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