Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. Seventy-nine percent said they hadn’t found ways to do so.” – Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 12, 2009. For those 79% of nonprofits out there, I have listed 10 social media metrics below that can be easily tracked and plotted on a Social Media Return on Investment (ROI) Spreadsheet ( Download ).

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NetWits

MARCH 22, 2010

I spent some time with Randi Zuckerberg while at South by South West Interactive 2010. Randi works on a number of initiatives for Facebook – one of those being focused on Facebooks involvement in helping nonprofits. She also works on things related to marketing, politics and current events. All the while she acts as the unofficial Facebook correspondent for CNN.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. Learn more in the interview below. In Richard’s words: “I am a lucky man, and basically because I do not dare make mistakes, so correct.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

As most of you know, I’m a very long time veteran of web application building. I’ve been involved in web application development basically since they started – when, when a cgi-bin folder with some perl scripts to process simple forms was the norm. Until just a few years ago, there was very little sophistication about the user experience in web applications – what mattered most was functionality. and to make sure there weren’t too many errors when users did unexpect

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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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VisionLink

MARCH 22, 2010

'We recently launched one of our new customer''s sites, and our lead contact there sent back a wonderful note: "I''d like to say what a pleasure it''s been, working with your staff. [They] have been amazing. At all times, they have maintained the sense of confidence and of support that our technology team felt from day one. The availability and expertise of your staff is so appreciated.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2010

Deciding what you want to put on your the homepage of your Facebook fan page, and what you want people to be confronted with when they hit the site initially, is very important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

Lobo’s comment on my post yesterday prompted me to complete this blog entry that I’ve been ruminating on for a while. I wrote a blog entry a while back on the state of Drupal/Salesforce integration. What I didn’t say is that a number of shops that have done Drupal/SF integration for production sites chose not to use the contributed modules – they built (or are building) their own custom Salesforce/Drupal integration modules.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 20, 2010

In a recent TechSoup webinar, Allen Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration, suggested a simple and effective process for planning your organization's online communications, using a simple spreadsheet template to create a monthly Publishing Matrix.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech E-mail marketing Blogging Non-profit Communications websites spreadsheets webinar social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

Sigmund Freud I've been buried putting the final touches on some new curriculum for social media and nonprofit peer learning approaches. It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. And, most importantly, designed for people to have fun doing it.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

Watching videos online is no longer a passive experience! In fact, you can now use YouTube features to drive actions and donations , create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style experiences , and make your video the talk of the web (quite literally). Ramya Raghavan of YouTube was kind enough to preview her upcoming 10NTC session, Activating Your YouTube Audience for us last week.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2010

Yesterday I completed a five-day Off the Mat, Into the World Yoga, Purpose and Action Intensive led by Seane Corn , Hala Khouri , and Suzanne Sterling. It was a profound experience. I hope I can do it justice in words. My biggest learning was to be aware of where your motivation to be of service comes from. Oftentimes, your desire to serve is rooted in your shadow, the parts of yourself that are difficult to look at, but want to be healed.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 24, 2010

Productivity gurus say not to use your email Inbox as a “to do” list, but – let’s be realistic here – many of us find it convenient to do just that. This is especially likely to happen with GMail users, perhaps because the large storage space, efficient search function and color-coded labels make it easy and practical. Superstars can help you to manage your GMail even more effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Note from Beth: Every now and then, I get asked when did you first discover the power of the social web? I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2010

Watching videos online is no longer a passive experience! In fact, you can now use YouTube features to drive actions and donations , create "Choose Your Own Adventure" style experiences , and make your video the talk of the web (quite literally). Ramya Raghavan of YouTube was kind enough to preview her upcoming 10NTC session, Activating Your YouTube Audience for us last week.

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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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Care2

MARCH 23, 2010

If ever there were a time to invest in enhancing donor experience, now would be it. As people start to reassemble themselves after the apocalyptic economic crisis, and begin to rebuild trust in institutions (nonprofits included), there is an opportunity to create an experience that yields a refreshed, stronger, more engaged donor base. The good news is that nonprofits have more tools at their disposal than they probably realize, and I’d like to help them identify a few.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 25, 2010

Wild Apricot Blog is pleased to welcome a two-part guest post from media consultant Minal Bopaiah of Brevity & Wit , this week. Her “technology toolkit” and sample step-by-step plan are designed to help new nonprofit organizations get started with online marketing, outreach and fundraising — on a tight budget. A Technology Toolkit for Start-up Nonprofits So you’ve decided your nonprofit needs to take advantage of social networking tools and Web technology, but you have no idea how to go abou

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

The third Twestival will take place on Thursday, March 25th in cities around the world. The event was the brainchild of Amanda Rose , who launched the first Twestival in February 2009 that raised money to support Charity:Water. Thursday's event will support Concern ( on Twitter ), an organization that seeks to provide education aid to some of the world’s most poorest communities.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 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: Heather Gardner-Madras, Gardner-Madras | Strategic Creative. Session: Making it Real: Getting Project Management Right for Content Management Web Projects & That's Not Funny: Using Humor in Online Communications.

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Care2

MARCH 24, 2010

Acquisition is critical to your organization’s success. You need to continually be on the look out for new donors, members, advocates and volunteers. These folks will provide the dollars, labor and voices that you need to change the world. In the commercial world, acquisition takes many forms: advertising, public relations, and increasingly - outreach via social media.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 26, 2010

So your nonprofit has decided to take advantage of social networking opportunities, but you’re not sure where to start? In A Technology Toolkit for Start-up Nonprofits: Part One , guest writer Minal Bopaiah reviewed ten core web-based tools to put in your nonprofit’s “toolkit.” Today, she suggests next steps and offers a sample step-by-step plan you can adapt to meet your own organization’s social media mission: Using your Technology Toolkit Now, of these 10 technology tools , the first three ar

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Photo Source: Yuba Colleage Public Space Back in September, 2008, after reading this post by Chris Brogan about taking your blog to the next level, I was inspired. I knew that I was outgrowing my information design as well as my blogging platform. I started blogging here in 2003, it has become increasingly difficult to find older posts because I have too many categories and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 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: Bruce Wolfe, Marin Institute. Session: Who's knocking at my firewall door?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 24, 2010

Are you part of the group that is afraid to ask more than once a year for a donation? You’re afraid you’re going to make a donor mad or make them feel uncomfortable? If you are, you’re making a big mistake. Donors give when they are asked. And if you only ask once, you’re leaving huge amounts of money on the table. Give your donors multiple opportunities throughout the year to support you.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 22, 2010

If your organization is building a new website or revamping your existing site, you know that gathering feedback on design changes from your team can be a complicated process. Long meetings with a whiteboard; many emails of screen captures with attached text notes; lots of video-conferencing, and lots of room for error! Didn’t we already look at that option?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2010

This guest post comes from NetSquared community development manager Amy Sample Ward. An initiative of TechSoup Global, NetSquared is a global community of organizations and individuals leading the way in social change through technology. As Amy explains in her post, local NetSquared chapters have been quickly springing up all over the world: there might even be one in your city.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2010

Flickr: Chad Norman (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing. their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . There was a nice nonprofit representation at this year's SXSW conference in Austin, and the first few items here are from NTEN members sharing their take-aways from that event: Allyson Kapin , over on Care2 's Frogloop b

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

"We get to be really creative, create all these really delicious things, and show people that veganism can be delicious and cute."- Ashley Rowe, Fat Bottom Bakery I'm a big cupcake baker, lover and eater. I have a collection of cupcake cookbooks, cupcake displays, and cupcake carriers. I've also been cooking a lot of vegan recipes ever since I watched Food, Inc., and read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 25, 2010

What kind of money do you want to raise? Tens of dollars? Hundreds of Dollars? Thousands or millions or billions of dollars? You may be part of the group of fundraisers who is blaming the economy for sluggish donations. But I advise you to get out of that group and fast! The truth is that lots of nonprofits are doing just fine. I have clients who are having record-breaking experiences.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

Over the past two weeks, we've been reporting on CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre, a project to reconnect individuals and NGOs in Chile after the recent earthquake ( first update , second update ). The idea behind the project is elegant: the telecentre allows people to reconnect with loved ones with whom they haven't communicated since the earthquake. At the same time, CDI equips key local NGOs with the tools they'll need to get back on their feet and serve their communities for the weeks and month

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 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: Brenna Holmes, Adams Hussey Associates. Session: Are You Ready to React?

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