Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 10, 2010
For the last 4.5 years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. My Top Five are below: 1.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 13, 2010
I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters. Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them. Life is too short to throw your professional life away on stuff you don't care about.
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Amy Sample Ward
MAY 5, 2010
Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. The work they have done with Mama Lucy has been incredible and the school is now serving over 400 children. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live.
Robert Weiner
MAY 5, 2010
I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less.
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.
Wild Apricot
MAY 25, 2010
Infographics are to data what storytelling is to an annual report: a more engaging way to help bring attention and understanding to your nonprofit’s cause. Let’s take a closer look at these visual representations of data and ideas, along with great resources to help you get started on making your own infographic.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications images application.
NCE Social Media
MAY 28, 2010
According to Google’s ad planner , social network sites now account for more than 50% of all unique website visitors. This list, which is based on April 2010 data, “excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites.&# The certain Google sites that were excluded were Google.com and Youtube.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 16, 2010
Benetech is committed to developing technology for underserved communities that can reap big benefits from improved access to information. So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 23, 2010
I’m really excited for my friend and colleague, Kivi Leroux Miller for her new book The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause. I’m even more excited to say that this blog will be part of her virtual book tour in June! There will be an interview with Kivi posted on the blog on June 24th – but it’s going to be with your questions!
Robert Weiner
MAY 29, 2010
Have you successfully moved from paper-based direct mail fundraising to digital tools (email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and/or mobile)? Want to gloat about your successes and possibly make some (more) money as well? The Paperless Choice Challenge is rewarding successful, creative, replicable campaigns that use electronic fundraising tools by giving away eight prizes totalling over $20,000.
NetWits
MAY 10, 2010
The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project.
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.
NCE Social Media
MAY 14, 2010
Facebook has been taking some heat about their privacy policies again. Users are concerned about Facebook’s new open grid and how it links and shares your information with others. Facebook just wants to make the web a more open and social place. However the user’s concerns have concerned Facebook enough to have a special meeting with all of their senior staff.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 5, 2010
I just followed my 20,000th nonprofit organization on Twitter at @ NonprofitOrgs ! I started the profile 18 months ago with the primary mission to only “Follow&# nonprofits in order to serve as a portal to nonprofit organizations on Twitter. To celebrate the milestone, I just donated $20 to 20 of my favorite nonprofits. Related Links: 20,000th Nonprofit Organization :: Marine Conservation Society || @ MCSUK.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 6, 2010
At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement. The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? are there more gorillas? Nick Salafsky used the death of George Washington as an example of what happens when you don't use evidence in making decisions.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 26, 2010
Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure and honor to lead a webinar with Lori Jacobwith ’s community. It was an introduction to social media, especially focused on what organizations (regardless of size) can start doing today. I had a bit of fun with it, especially with the pictures on the slides, by using a party metaphor: Social Media for Organizations: Enjoy Your Own Party!
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Robert Weiner
MAY 16, 2010
There are a few RSS feeds I don't want to miss. I have an RSS feed reader but I often go for days without looking at it. The surest way for me to be sure see new items is to have them delivered as email messages. Some RSS feeds offer email subscriptions, but most don't. However, I found a way to do this even for feeds that don't offer email delivery by playing with these instructions for setting up a Google FeedBurner subscription for one's own web site: [link]. 1) First, you need to go to FeedB
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 16, 2010
Dawn Near the Bay of Bengal by Joisey Showaa. Welcome to the new and improved Beth’s Blog ! After almost a decade of blogging and most of it at the same place, I’m starting over with a new platform and look thanks to Allyson Kapin and Jared Seltzer of Rad Campaign. Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. I can’t believe that I’ve been blogging for almost a decade and seven years over at Beth’s Blog.
NCE Social Media
MAY 4, 2010
Facebook recently added a feature to their open graph framework that allows you to put a Facebook “like button&# on your own website. When you place the like button on your site, a visitor, who has a Facebook profile, can click on it to show their friends on Facebook that they liked your site or specific web page. Here’s an example: Facebook describes the button as – “the Like button enables users to make connections to your pages and share content back to their friends o
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 19, 2010
Corruption on Wall Street. War profiteering. Catastrophic oil spills. Predatory lending. Corporate lobbying on Capitol Hill. Illegal logging of rain forests. Wildlife poaching and animal testing. Sweat shops. The list goes on and on. Almost every problem in the world today has its roots in corporate greed. The nonprofits below are working to empower and educate consumers and corporate accountability activists to keep that greed in check, and to build a more just future for all of us.
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NetWits
MAY 31, 2010
Communication seems to change every so often, doesn’t it? Print, Radio, TV and the Internet each represent a shift - a big shift in our communications evolution. Think about the significance and how each has dramatically changed our world. For nonprofits the big shift was from direct mail to email. From print material to digital communication.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 23, 2010
Tweetnotes is one of the newest tools from The Extraordinaries. Between SXSWi and 10NTC, I’ve now used it a handful of times and do really like it. I also think it can be better! You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session.
Robert Weiner
MAY 13, 2010
I received an email newsletter today with the following pitch for a web-based donor database (perhaps you can guess which one): The Cloud offers you constituent relationship management (CRM) software that's less expensive, easier to maintain, more accessible, more intuitive, and with greater flexibility and capacity than you've ever seen before. How much would you pay for such a system?
Judi Sohn
MAY 29, 2010
In a few weeks, my oldest daughter will be graduating from middle school. High school begins in the fall. I'm starting to get a picture of who my baby may be as an adult. Scary, but in a good way because she's an amazing young lady. She's intelligent, sweet, compassionate, has a wicked sense of humor and has thankfully has spared us from most of the average 14 year-old angst.
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VisionLink
MAY 23, 2010
'VisionLink joins the Alliance of Information & Referral Systems (AIRS), at the annual national conference, in Rochester New York. Conference tracks include Aging and Disability, Disaster, Military, Resource Database, Service Delivery, Technology, Trends and Tangents, and 2-1-1. VisionLink''s Community Operating System offers solutions for each of these areas and more.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 20, 2010
Seemingly every time I login to Facebook these days, something is different. And thus far, I am not a Fan, er, Like the changes. That’s no secret. Well, there’s two more changes that Facebook Admins need to know about and they are related to the Static FBML App: 1) You can no longer create a Custom Tab and make it your Default Landing Tab.
NetWits
MAY 30, 2010
A lot of people want to be FIRST. SixDegrees.com was first to the online social networking game in 1997 (not to long ago, eh?) - They shut their doors in 2000. Twitter was first to the microblogging game - They recently hit the 15 BILLION tweet mark. As you can see being first doesn’t always matter. Being second, third or ninety-fifth may not matter either.
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 7, 2010
This is a guest post I wrote for the Online Community Report. You can find the original post and the community there. —– I love my community. Whether I’m talking about my role at NetSquared , my blog , or my network of friends, I am inspired every day and find value in, and rewards for, my participation. Regardless of whether I feel like, or am trying to be, a community builder, the community always provides opportunities for others to join me.
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Robert Weiner
MAY 4, 2010
I received the following email from Keith Heller , a database consultant who works with Raiser's Edge and Common Ground clients: We’ve been involved with responding to many RFPs over the years and I have a general inquiry that is in your bailiwick. I often see RFPs that are quite lengthy and well-considered, and looking for a system that has huge strategic value to an organization, but the required turn-around time to respond to the RFP is very short – often only 2 or 3 weeks.
Judi Sohn
MAY 29, 2010
In a few weeks, my oldest daughter will be graduating from middle school. High school begins in the fall. I'm starting to get a picture of who my baby may be as an adult. Scary, but in a good way because she's an amazing young lady. She's intelligent, sweet, compassionate, has a wicked sense of humor and has thankfully has spared us from most of the average 14 year-old angst.
VisionLink
MAY 12, 2010
'"Our hearts drive the mission, the bank account drives the scope," so said one of the presenters at the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) conference this morning. We could not have said it better. Those of us who provide technology to the non profit, charitable, and faith-based sectors have a moral obligation to keep the costs of technology as low as possible.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 26, 2010
Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. The majority have moved on to Facebook and Twitter. That said, MySpace is not dead. Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). They just don’t tend to be the same folks that regularly visit Facebook and Twitter.
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