Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 1, 2010
A couple of times a year DIOSA Communications offers a webinar special for nonprofit organizations, and the month of April is now one of those times. From now until April 30, all social media and mobile technology webinars are 2-for-1. To clarify, two people can register for any webinar for the price of one as long as they register and pay for the webinars on or before April 30.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 2, 2010
Next week I’ll be in Atlanta for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference ( connect with me there! ). One of the sessions I’m a part of , along with Manny Hernandez, Peggy Duvette, and Christine Egger, hopes to answer the question how you can build strong online communities without losing your sanity. If you want to build a strong online community, getting the right platform in place is only half the battle, and it’s the easy half.
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NCE Social Media
APRIL 1, 2010
There is a new social media tool coming out that aims to connect individuals with charities. It is called Jumo. Jumo is the brainchild of a co-founder of Facebook and mybarackobama.com alum Chris Hughes. His goal is to connect individuals with the social changes that interest them the most. They expect to go live in the Fall but are accepting email addresses for folks who are interested in learning more.
NetWits
MARCH 30, 2010
While at South by South West Interactive (SXSWi) Amy Sample Ward spent some time talking with me about how NetSquared ( about ) serves the nonprofit industry. NetSquared is focused on the intersection of technology and social impact. Their mission is to help hundreds of thousands of non-profit organizations utilize the community empowering capabilities of the Internet to achieve social change.
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.
Judi Sohn
MARCH 29, 2010
via youtube.com. Tomorrow is butt-in day! Even with health care reform, and no matter how you feel about that, we still need action. Please do me a big favor and call your Rep tomorrow. We're looking for House co-sponsors for HR 1189, a bill that will extend Medicare benefits for colorectal cancer screening and treatment to those who are low income and/or under-insured.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 2, 2010
This event format that I’m calling Project Spaces is a response to my experience and what I hear echoed throughout the “innovation&# sector: that we have lots of opportunities to come together and people are excited to share and collaborate, but nothing ever “happens.&# Project Spaces is a format that includes a longer-term process instead of just one day and requires commitment, excitement and purpose in order to succeed.
Nonprofit Technology brings together the best content for nonprofit technical enthusiasts from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
NetWits
MARCH 31, 2010
It’s a cliché but a picture does indeed paint a thousand words. In the case of the house the pictures from it’s heyday and the pictures from today were quite striking in the contrast of splendour and decay. This was fantastic in getting people to sign up to the campaign as they could really identify what they were signing up for.
Judi Sohn
MARCH 29, 2010
via youtube.com. Tomorrow is butt-in day! Even with health care reform, and no matter how you feel about that, we still need action. Please do me a big favor and call your Rep tomorrow. We're looking for House co-sponsors for HR 1189, a bill that will extend Medicare benefits for colorectal cancer screening and treatment to those who are low income and/or under-insured.
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 30, 2010
The SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, was a blast this year, due in no small part to the huge honor of speaking on a panel with Beth Kanter, Dave Neff, Holly Ross and Kari Saratovsky. Beth facilitated a conversation, among the panelists as well as the standing-room-only room of participants, that focused on the power of crowdsourcing and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 29, 2010
Today, I stumbled across another reason why I'd like to blow up online contests that use "vote for me" or popularity to make funding decisions. If a contest or program does not lead with social outcomes and if big money is thrown on the table, it encourages social innovation of another kind. Looking for loop holes in the contest rules. In December, the Pepsi Refresh Contest was hailed as the boldest experiment so far of the number of social good contests over the past three years that have us
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.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 1, 2010
This month’s round-up of free webinars has loads of professional development that’s meant specifically for nonprofit folks - fundraisers, board members, administrators, active volunteers and volunteer coordinators - but we’ve also included a few webinars on social media and technology topics that, while aimed more at business, can help your nonprofit to more effectively get your message out, raise funds, and recruit support online.( read more ).
NTEN
MARCH 30, 2010
The nonprofit sector works hard to maximize the effective use of technology. Organizations face difficult challenges -- from insufficient data and lean budgets to overworked staffs -- just trying to keep up with changing technologies and trends, and with the rest of the sector. To help them cast an analytical eye on technology decisions, NTEN and The NonProfit Times came together to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 2, 2010
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 April 2nd). 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).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 1, 2010
I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. So, have been updating arts 2.0 examples. I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits. I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples.
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Wild Apricot
MARCH 30, 2010
Blog posts and articles on Leadership and Social Media topped the active topics at AssociationJam.org this month, in terms of the numbers of submissions, views and reader votes. Events and Fundraising came in close behind, followed by Membership, Technology, Volunteers and the catch-all “Other” category. Here’s a look at the most popular links submitted to “AJam” in March 2010: Membership A Different Way to Look at Lost Members Summer Faust | Acronym Conventional wisdom says to ask your members
Forum One
MARCH 29, 2010
When accessing the internet, people use a search engine 91 percent of the time (equivalent to the percent accessing their email). Two thirds of those searchers use Google over any other search engine. What if you could make sure when a user types in a search query to Google, your site was at the top of the list? Well, with Google AdWords you can. The content on your site is always most important in terms of driving visitors to your site and increasing your web prominence.
NTEN
MARCH 29, 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: George Durham, Microsoft. Session: Microsoft’s Software + Services: What’s Microsoft got in the cloud and why does it matter to nonprofits?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 29, 2010
At this year's SXSW the hot new technology tool was location-based social network tools such as Gowalla and FourSquare. A location-based social network is a social networking platform that is built around the idea of " where you are " and you use it on your mobile phone. Your status updates are your physical location with a brief shout out or tip. You check-in and your friends know where you are.
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Care2
MARCH 29, 2010
It’s no secret that I’m a bit of an app junkie, but I’m also one of the biggest critics of developers putting out useless apps that ha ve little value to end-users and are nothing more then a novelty. So, when FourSquare (a location based social network app that tracks your locations and shares it with friends when you “check-in&# to places) emerged as the “next big thing&# at SXSWi , I questioned whether FourSquare could really li ve up to its buzz.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 30, 2010
A couple weeks ago I posted that Paloma's Nest would be giving away a TODAY I WILL. fill in the blank tiny text bowl to a Have Fun Do Good reader. To enter, all you had to do was leave a comment that completed the sentence, TODAY I WILL. with a have fun do good idea. Below are how 25 people said they would have fun and do good: MAfrika: Complete my EVOLVE missions and thanks to you - I now have a mentor too.
NTEN
APRIL 2, 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: Sarah Barnhart, Microsoft Community Affairs. Session: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Nonprofits: Customized and Affordable Donor/Pledge/Member/Event and Case Management for Nonprofits!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 30, 2010
Packard socialmedia-lab-day 1-module 1. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits.
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Care2
APRIL 1, 2010
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is be honest about worst practices in online fundraising. In fact, in almost any situation it can be hard to be honest when that means criticizing someone. We don’t like to criticize our friends and colleagues. But we’re not doing anyone any favors if we don’t tell them when they are doing something really wrong – like flunking online fundraising 101.
Forum One
APRIL 2, 2010
Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. With so many of our clients deeply entrenched in various social media campaigns, I found the panel to be a great opportunity to share our experience in the nonprofit and civilian sectors with military leaders.
NTEN
APRIL 1, 2010
We've been lucky enough to partner with See3 for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards for several years now. In just that short time period, the use of video by nonprofits has exploded. This year, See3, NTEN and YouTube received over 750 submissions for the contest - a record! The amazing panel of judges have whittled it down to just 16 finalists, and now we want your two cents!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 30, 2010
A couple years ago, I made a screencast about Google Analytics for Nonprofits. It was the hardest topic I ever tackled, in part, because it was complex and geeky. Luckily, I had a lot of smart and generous people in my network who took the time to help me understand the topic. Dave Amos from Idealist , Laura Whitehead , Jonathon Colman , Laura Lee Dooley , Avinash Kaushik (who let me get away with misprouncing his name), Jeremiah Owyang , Eric Peterson (who liked the title of the scre
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See3
MARCH 29, 2010
Last week, our friends at Case Foundation announced the launch of Case Soup , “an interactive hub of videos and live discussions centered around some of the big issues and areas of focus that are important to us here at the Case Foundation.&#. They’ll be kicking off the series this Thursday, April 1 at 1PM ET/10 AM PT with “ Steps to Successful Nonprofit Videos with YouTube and Flip Video “ Case will be joined by Ramya Raghavan of YouTube and Basho Mosko of Flip Video, wh
Tech Soup
MARCH 31, 2010
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NTEN
APRIL 2, 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: Christine Eggers, Social Actions. Session: Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity. 1.
Get Fully Funded
APRIL 1, 2010
Someone asked me recently if they should plan to send a small thank-you gift when people sign up for their monthly giving program. Here’s what I said: <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:&# Cambria Math&# ; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qfor
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