Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it t

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 2, 2012

Since Adobe seems to update Acrobat weekly, this message seems plausible. Some quick indicators that it isn't real: I get updates through the installed Adobe Updater, not as email messages. The update site is instant-acrobat-upgrade.com, not adobe.com. The sender's address is @newsletter.northerntool.com. No company logo in the message (easy to fake, but many spammers don't bother).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage?

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 6, 2012

What are the trends for non-profit communications in 2012? Here's an overview of Kivi Leroux Miller's Nonprofit Communications Trend Report.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Monitoring the 10 most popular posts on Nonprofit Tech 2.o from year-to-year helps me, and hopefully you as well, get a better sense of what tools and resources nonprofits are most interested in. My hope for the 2012 list is to see more posts related to mobile technology ! Sadly, those posts didn’t get much traction in 2011. That said, for 2011 the 10 most popular posts were: 1.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 6, 2012

I loved the movie Three Kings , so I got a kick out of being asked to help smuggle Gaddafi's money out of Libya. Sender: SGT CHRIS BRAND (chrisbrrand@yahoo.com.ph). Subject: WAITING FOR YOU RESPONSE. Text: Helllo, My name is Sgt. Chris Brand; I am an American soldier with Swiss background, serving in the military with the army's 3rd infantry division.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 2, 2012

Here's a look back at some of the hot topics that resonated with our association and membership audience in 2011 - and a reminder about our Top 3 Membership Trends Survey.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a donor. That means my inbox gets pretty flooded at the end of each year. Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. This time I collected all of the nonprofit emails that I was sent between December 15, 2011 and January 1, 2012.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 3, 2012

The following blog comment spams were left on my site on 12/21 - 23 in response to my posts " Lame spam as blog comments " and " More lame spam as blog comments." For some reason I'm tickled by them, like how "worth reporting" mutates thesaurus-like into "couturier mention" and "riveting" becomes "intriguing," "newsworthy," etc. All are promoting an investment called a "Liberty Reserve" account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Last Sunset of 2011. I spent a very quiet holiday with family at Half Moon Bay and taking a New Year’s hike on Ano Nuevo to see the elephant seals. Nature hikes and down time with family are nourishing and replenishing. As I watched the last sunset of 2011 fade over the Pacific Ocean, I wanted to formally say farewell to Zoetica , the company I co-founded with Geoff Livingston and Kami Huyse that we announced in January, 2010 one day after my birthday, and one day before the Haiti Ea

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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.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 4, 2012

Is your organization in denial about technology or will 2012 be the year your organization harnesses technology to achieve your mission?

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See3

JANUARY 5, 2012

Change the world, one video at a time.How to Stop Homelessness: An Instructional Video | 2:46 Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness Some great, quirky choreography drives this video, which gets to the basics of stemming homelessness—providing homes. Photographed from one vantage, the movement of pictographic symbols connects community, environment, services, and well-being.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

photo: Robert Weiner Today, I am excited to announce that the application for scholarships to the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference is officially open. If you work at an organization with a budget under $1 million and you would like to join us April 3-5 in San Francisco , we invite you to apply today! > Apply for a scholarship to the 2012 NTC.

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Care2

JANUARY 2, 2012

If you work at a nonprofit, serve on a board of a nonprofit, or have nonprofit clients, you need to hear about this. Next year, the Internet is opening up to allow for thousands of new Internet extensions. Companies, individuals and organizations can register almost anything behind the primary Internet address. (Think.cocacola,party,anything). The one that is most important to the nonprofit community is the.ngo domain, short for non-governmental organization.

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Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 3, 2012

Our first free webinar of the new year is tomorrow - Jan. 4th. Don't miss this overview of Wild Apricot software.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2012

I heard this advice quoted awhile back and wanted to share it. It's from William Arthur Ward , one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims: Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. All great advice for leaders and managers as we start 2012.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

Katya Andresen. COO. Network for Good. 95% of human thought, emotion and learning happens without our conscious awareness. Appeal to the massive subconscious mind to help sell your cause. According to Gerald Zaltman and a slew of neuroscientists, 95% of human thought, emotion and learning happens without our conscious awareness. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 3, 2012

Don’t you love the start of a new year? It’s like having a crisp, clean page ready for you to create anything you can dream up. I hope by now you’ve got some fundraising goals set for the year. (If not, you better get busy!). Have you set BIG goals? You should. Nonprofits that will be successful in 2012 are thinking BIG. They aren’t being dissuaded by the economy or negative Board members.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Is the book pile by your bed ready to topple over like mine is? I've got a big juicy stack to start off the New Year: Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made it Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide by Stacey Edgar. I'll be interviewing Stacey, the Founder of Global Girlfriend , for Have Fun, Do Good in early 2012. With Liberty and Justice for Some by Glenn Greenwald.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2012

When is the last time you sat down and analyzed your donation page completion rates - meaning the number of people who clicked to your donate page from an online fundraising appeal but did not complete the donation? And when you looked at the results was the abandonment rate high or low? High incompletion rates is a big clue that something is wrong your donation-landing page.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

NTEN member and nonprofit communications expert Kivi Leroux Miller just released the 2012 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , based on a survey of over 1200 participants at the end of 2011. The survey asked nonprofit professionals about their plans, expectations, perceptions, and even fears regarding their organization's communications in 2012.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

This Cool App Roundup from App It Up. highlights how apps can help libraries connect with patrons and provide services in new ways. Many libraries accomplish this by. creating standalone apps or a mobile-friendly website and library. catalog. But these aren’t the only ways apps can help organizations. share resources or get their message out. We hope the ideas below will. inspire libraries (and nonprofits!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 31, 2011

So many people responded via email, comments, Facebook and Twitter to my post VegCookbook Club 2012: Wanna Join? that I've created a new blog for our "club" activities: VegCookbookClub.com. Yay! I'm super excited to start cooking and connecting with all of you who said you'd like to cook together from the same vegetarian, or vegan cookbook each month.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2012

A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Okay, that's really not too surprising during these times of high unemployment. Next on the list is benefits. The unstable economy, coupled with rising health care costs, make employer offered benefits more important than ever.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Robert Weiner. President. Robert L. Weiner Consulting. Will 2012 be pretty much like 2011? When NTEN asked whether I’d be willing to predict tech trends for in 2012, I, of course, asked my Magic 8 Ball™. It replied: Based on that, plus 27 years in the field, I foresee that 2012 will be pretty much like 2011. When NTEN asked whether I’d be willing to predict tech trends for in 2012, I, of course, asked my Magic 8 Ball™.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2012

We've talked a lot about mobile apps during the App It Up project. But apps come in many other forms. Browser plug-ins, widgets, web apps, and templates: all of these are apps, too. And they all have the potential to help your organization do its work more efficiently and easily. That's why we’re excited to highlight two great (non-mobile) apps built by and for nonprofits, over on our App It Up page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2012

"I was a dancer all along" - Lykke Li, Dance, Dance, Dance Ever since I was a little girl I've loved to dance, which is why I keep watching this video that my friend, Gabriela , posted on her Facebook page last month: "Two year old doing what she loves. Dancing." Don't you think the world would be a better, saner place if we all danced more? I'm going to say it here: In 2012 I would like to be a part of a dance flash mob, like the one that happened in the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airpor

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See3

JANUARY 6, 2012

Change the world, one video at a time.Prosecutor Trailer | 2:31 National Film Board of Canada Crimes against humanity and genocide are not uncommon in the world and this is a sad truth that many try to rectify issues through negotiation, treaties and continued warring. In each instance, justice for crimes must be addressed and [.].

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

It's been two years since we released the first Nonprofit Data Ecosystems Survey report, which provided a look at not only what particular technology tools and vendors the NTEN community uses for the different data management functions across their organization (from email to volunteers), but also the grades they assign to those tools and vendors on criteria such as after-sale support and usability.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Susan Chavez is a blogger for TechSoup's Online Community team. Technology has made it easier than ever to access a wide range of information, but what’s the best way to sort through it all? The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it.

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