Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
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. They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
The Social Media for Social Good collection from NTEN and NetSquared calls for your case studies in leveraging social media tools in your program work. Social Media for Social Good. Everywhere you turn, you’re hearing about social media. Especially when it comes to fundraising. But at NTEN and NetSquared, we know that social media is good for a lot more than raising money.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
New ideas for Benetech projects come to us from interesting people all the time. The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. One repeating theme came to me during a recent and fascinating meeting with Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Director of Rice 360, the Institute for Global Health Technologies.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Although it’s not often used in nonprofit settings, the Drupal module (or, more correctly, a large suite of modules) called “ Ubercart &# is a pretty amazing tool if you need to create a shopping cart system. We’ve implemented it for organizations that want to sell fees for events, sell items, and take donations. It doesn’t have many of the strengths of CiviCRM, but it has a lot of useful features if you want to sell things, or combine selling things with taking donations
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
NCE Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
A new report from Semiocast came out stating that half of all messages on Twitter are not in English. This is a drop from 69 percent during the same period in 2009. Are you speaking in your audience’s languages? I believe this proves the increase in global use of social media. What language is your audience using? Tags: Education and Training Tools language rosetta twitter.
VisionLink
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
'Okay, right off the top we know full well that one click partnership building is not possible. However, during yesterday''s Sprint Review, I was able to see the nearly completed One Click Portal Module. Thanks to some serious development effort, we will be able to launch Community Operating System Portals with a click. This is not a small thing. A CommunityOS Portal provides client tracking and case management, resource directory and asset mapping, content management (everything from calendars
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Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University. Colin told me that they recently held a very popular social media workshop for seniors at Cambridge Community Television ( @cctvcambridge ) but that it is a topic that would benefit from more coverage – so, I asked if I could interview him!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
I just finished reading the book Total Engagement. It's rare that I read a book that has me wondering if the authors have caught a glimpse of an unexpected future, and that ten or twenty years from now people will be looking back and saying: that was the book that spotted this crucial trend. Having lived in Silicon Valley for many years, I'm used to having that experience of being exposed to the future ahead of its time.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Yammer : Enterprise Microblogging. Git – SVN Crash Course. Pivotal Tracker – Free Lightweight Agile Project Management & Team Collaboration, from Pivotal Labs. Force.com Web Services API Developer’s Guide. SOQL SELECT Syntax. AIM Implementation Guide. gokubi.com » Blog Archive » Using Sites to easily publish data out of Salesforce.
NCE Social Media
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
John Haydon recently completed a 31-day series on how to improve your social media optimization. John, as you know, is a social media strategist who specializes in nonprofits and has an awfully resourceful blog. He kindly put the 31-day series into a zip file that is free and downloadable for the time being. To download it, click on the green button.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio
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.
VisionLink
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
'Pleased to report that we are welcoming a new international customer to our VisionLink network. The Salesians of Don Bosco serve almost three million youth in 131 countries. Their 34,000 staff work to improve the lives of poor youngsters through the teaching of skilled trades and scientific agriculture. There are 225 Salesian orphanages and shelters, 216 hospitals and clinics, 850 nurseries and 3,408 schools around the world.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. If not an entire site, then at the very least your organization should create select web pages that are designed to be easily read on mobile devices. Here are four reasons why: 1.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Technology for Change. What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? I think there are too many to count, really. For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
A Guest Beneblog by Kristian Lum When I first started my summer internship at Benetech with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), I learned that my project would involve quantifying the number of deaths and disappearances in the Colombian state of Casanare. I approached this assignment very technically, from my perspective as a somewhat theoretical statistician.
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NetWits
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
I went to visit a local (to me) historic site recently, Cumbernauld House. This house has been sitting since 1731 and is on the site of a castle which goes back centuries before that. When I went along I realised the house had fallen on hard times. A builders firm had purchased it a few years ago from the local council and had then gone into liquidation and the house had lain empty.
NCE Social Media
FEBRUARY 11, 2010
Back in November, I wrote about the introduction of Twitter lists. I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Now that Twitter lists have matured over 3+ months, people are finally figuring out their true impact. Are you on any Twitter lists? Do you use them? Share your experiences with lists in the comments section. Also here is a story by Cindy King on the value of Twitter lists for marketing.
VisionLink
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
'Compliments to the steering committee, staff, partners, and 1,300 affiliated agencies and organizations of the national Coordinated Assistance Network. In the map below, you will see the number of disasters, by state, to which the partners of CAN provided coordinated relief during the last two years. It''s an honor to support this work--the world''s largest multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction partnership.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Google has been working double-time launching new products over the last few months. From Google Wave to Google Voice , to Social Search and now Google Buzz , I think that now is a good time for nonprofits to reserve a Gmail account if they haven’t already. I haven’t had the chance yet to look too deeply into their products, but I am big believer in nonprofits being proactive and protecting their online brand from squatters.
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Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Last year, NTEN created a scholarship fund program to help support many more people attend the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Donations were matched by Convio and with over $10,000 raised by the community, we had fun at the largest-attended NTC yet! There was even more value for the buck though: NTEN Executive Director put her pride on the line, saying that if the $10K mark was met, she’d perform Put a Ring on It …and boy, did she !
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 28, 2010
I just found out that our Bookshare volunteers can sign up to get a free day at a Disney park. Just put in our zip code "94306" at the foregoing link and you should see the opportunity there. Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. The program will stop when a million certificates have been given out for all sorts of volunteer opportunities.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. In December, I wrote about Pepsi's bold move of not spending money on Super Bowl ads for Pepsi beverages but using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project. I called Pepsi out in a post called " What can Pepsi Learn About Crowdourcing for Social Good?
NCE Social Media
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Erik Qualman is a thought leader in the use of social media in business. His website, Socialnomics , has a video about the return on investment (ROI) of social media. You’ve seen a previous video from him on our blog on the use of social media in the world and one of him describing the future of social media. If you use of social media, have you considered the ROI?
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NTEN
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, I can proudly report that we are on a roll. . The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference is off to an terrific start. You, our amazing community, have put together a world-class agenda of sessions , affinity group meetings, ignite presentations, and more ! Of course, we want everyone to get a piece of the #10NTC action, so we're back with an all new NTC Scholarship Campaign!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Good news! In addition to the United States and the United Kingdom, nonprofits in Canada and Australia can now also take advantage of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. The benefits of the program incude: Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity ( View Example ). The option to drive fundraising through a Google Checkout “Donate&# button.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
I’m so thrilled to share the news with you all that my blog post, Online Community Building: Gardening vs Landscaping , was the most popular blog post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s opinion blog in 2009. It is such an honor to me to contribute to the valuable collection of knowledge and insight at SSIR and to have a piece rank so highly is too good to be true!
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
A number of findings in a newly released study by Pew Internat on Social Media and Young Adults will be of interest to nonprofits who seek to connect with or recruit members and donors online.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Web 2.0 Social networking research social media.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. These sessions are not for presentations, but for disscussion and sharing of ideas. I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?".
NCE Social Media
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Here’s a video on the newest stats related to the internet. Are you adding to it these numbers by creating content, creating stick webpages, and encouraging open communication? Tags: Research stats Video vimeo.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Ed. Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Speaker: David Neff, 501derful.org. Session: The Real Housewives of Social Media.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
IconsPedia.com is my source for free social media and mobile technology icons. I use them on my website, Facebook Pages, MySpace, and most importantly, on the right side of this blog. They have a great set of Google icons , but not yet for Google Buzz. My graphic design skills are very limited, but I did create an interim Google Buzz icon for those early adopters out there.
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