Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2016

Facebook Notes is a native app that was popular when Facebook Pages first launched in 2007, but as Status Updates and the News Feed took precedence, the Facebook Notes app quickly lost prominence.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 3, 2016

Facebook Now Ranks Live Videos Higher in the News Feed : "To counter this Facebook have made some updates to the way the News Feed works when it comes to displaying Live video content. In a blog post, Facebook shared that people spend more than 3x more time watching a Facebook Live video on average compared to other video content."

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AFP Blog

MAY 16, 2016

Contactless donation terminals will help hungry schoolchildren » Charity Digital News : "Contactless payment terminals have been placed in cafes and restaurants in London and Oxfordshire to enable consumers to make a spontaneous donation to charity." 'via via Blog this'

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

IBM latest tech giant to launch blockchain concept » Charity Digital News : "IBM has rolled out a Bitcoin-style blockchain concept that could make it easier for charities to receive secure payments online." 'via via Blog this'

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

College students contribute to growing business Nonprofit Hub | News | dailynebraskan.com : "University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior Angela Cuadros treats philanthropy like a job. Each week, there are the hours spent mentoring a 17-year-old girl and volunteering with Dance Marathon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

All day, almost every day, nonprofit new media managers are immersed in breaking news and thus the world’s problems. Being constantly exposed to a barrage of new stories and images related to violence, poverty, injustice, and cruelty takes its toll. Taking a break from technology and the 24/7 news cycle is crucial.

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AFP Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Crowdfunding: A step-by-step guide for charities » Charity Digital News : "t’s tempting to think of crowdfunding as a simple, hassle-free way of raising thousands of pounds for your cause. The reality is that 60% of campaigns on Kickstarter don’t get funded, and on Indiegogo, 9 out of 10 campaigns don’t reach their target.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 15, 2016

Charities must build confidence to unlock £1.7bn text donation opportunity » Charity Digital News : "Only 17 per cent of UK adults prefer to use their smartphone to make a charity donation according to new research released today by Fonix and One Poll, " 'via Blog this'

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AFP Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

Engaging the distracted: 3 digital experts share their fundraising tips » Charity Digital News : "Where do you start when it comes to taking advantage of the digital opportunities available to charities?

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AFP Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

Apple to Donate Proceeds from 27 Apps to World Wildlife Fund | Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly : "Apple said on Thursday, April 14th, that it would donate its proceeds from 27 apps and games, including some of its most popular downloads, until April 24th to the WWF.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

April Fools. We know that nonprofit professionals are the hardest working folks out there and we want to help you succeed. So we’ve compiled 10 of the most valuable philanthropic resources available to help get you to the best results—and not twiddle your thumbs while you try to figure it out!

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AFP Blog

MAY 9, 2016

This gap holds true for both longer and shorter news articles."

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AFP Blog

MARCH 29, 2016

Survey: Online Fundraising May Diminish Effectiveness of Supporter Communications | Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports : "A small survey of 114 leaders of nonprofits with budgets between $100,000 and $200,000 finds that 43 percent of respondents view online fundraising as only “somewhat effective” relative to traditional (..)

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AFP Blog

MARCH 29, 2016

Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports : "In recent years, as technology and social media have expanded many non-profits have chosen to use these resources to help homeless people. Nonprofit Uses App to Survey Homeless People Daily—What Do You Need?

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Wild Apricot

JULY 20, 2016

The good news is, fixing these website issues is probably a lot easier than you might think. If you're not growing your membership or generating the kind of revenue you want, your website could be a major culprit. In fact, most membership organizations suffer from at least one major website problem.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But be sure to use “burned-in” captions to your video when posting to the site, as Colling notes that many of us don’t have our device’s volume turned up while scrolling through the news feed. By having captions, the aim of the video can still be understood by the viewer whether they enable the captions feature or not.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 29, 2016

Anyways, one exciting piece of news is that we reached 9,000 paying customers this week (not including free accounts)! A plate full of staples? Does anything really truly rhyme with April?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The study is a great resource with some useful takeaways, but all of the research is done on major national news outlets covering large nonprofits. The researchers thought that this could be because of the kinds of news stories that were dominating the front page. This year is probably too late to develop a holiday media strategy.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 31, 2016

In other news, our Chief Architect also has a full update on Solution Splitting, an internal project that's been in the works for 2 years. Next Monday is the start of our Membership Growth Online Summit. It's going to be the biggest webinar event we've ever held.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The ones you get with Soliloquy allow you to create unique elements on your landing pages to display content, products and news you want visitors to see immediately and in a way that lends to a nice interactive experience. • . • Although you may not use sliders on your site, they’re an option worth checking out.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 11, 2016

Great news, right? While the data revealed some good and bad news for the state of email fundraising as a whole, it also shed light on a painful reality: the average spam rate for fundraising emails jumps to 9.27% on #GivingTuesday and 10.19% during EOY fundraising.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Open up a newspaper or turn on the TV and it’s likely you’ll see more sad news about the poaching of rare and endangered animals all over the globe—elephants for their ivory tusks, rhinos for their horns, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The good news is that ApplePay doesn’t charge a fee themselves. On mobile phone, that means users can use TouchID. On the Web, users click the Apple Pay donate button in Safari, then can confirm their payment via their iPhone or Apple Watch. The underlying card systems charge a merchant fee based on their normal rates.

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Donor Search

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If you’ve decided to go with a fundraising consultant firm to improve your major gift fundraising, that’s great news! They can give you assistance so that you don’t have to hire someone full-time or do the research yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Part of the inspiration for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit c0-authored with Aliza Sherman came several ago when I strapped on a Fitbit three years ago to improve my health after getting news from my doctor about high cholesterol numbers. She said even if you started walking 20 minutes a day, it would help.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Just browse the news of the past several years and the number and frequency of major data breaches is enough to inspire panic: massive losses of customer information, credit card numbers, banking information, healthcare details, social security numbers etc., all to enterprising and crafty hackers who can wreak havoc on a world-wide scale.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2016

Need good news -- Your job as a leader is not to avoid, ignore, or deny bad news. It's to find out the bad news as early as you can so you can act before the problem becomes more complicated. But leaders need to be able to move through the frustration.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The good news: through their research, Achieve found that most respondents believed people like them could affect positive change. The bad news: only about half had volunteered for or donated to a social cause they cared about in the month prior to taking the survey. You can highlight those to rally millennials behind your cause.

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Donor Search

JUNE 15, 2016

The good news is that, according to a Giving USA report, 2015 was the most charitable year for Americans. Nonprofits are in the game of giving, and when it comes to keeping your game sharp and strong, you’ll need to know all the charitable giving ins-and-outs. The public is ready to give, and you’ll want…

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

The news is out, and it’s good! Volunteerism news, of course. My favorite news days of the year are all about giving back: June 14—Giving USA ( you can stay tuned here ). So here’s the good news. For those of you who know me, that’s not much of a surprise. November 29—#GivingTuesday ( here’s a recap from last year ).

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2016

Good news, a report conducted by Care2, hjc, NTEN, and the Resource Alliance was just released: the 2016 Digital Outlook Report: Nonprofit Trends and Strategy. With a few months of 2016 under our belts, it's time to evaluate where we're at digitally, and if we're innovating quickly.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2016

Advocacy groups often rely on the news cycle to drum up support and activate their constituents. The good news (pun intended) is that all nonprofits can use this strategy to increase their visibility and get in front of current and prospective donors. But this doesn’t mean that you have to be consuming news all the time.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The great majority of candidates who approach BoardAssist are hoping to find a nonprofit where their intellectual capital will be their primary gift so this is great news for them. The good news is that many terrific, relatively affordable board openings exist.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Talented Learning is a news, research and consulting organization dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of extended enterprise learning technology solutions. “We are always focusing on market needs, client success and product leadership."

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EveryAction

MARCH 18, 2016

The bad news comes when we look at how nonprofits are applying what they're learning to their decision-making. While the vast majority of respondents (90 percent) indicate their organizations are collecting data, almost half say they aren’t fully aware of the ways data can (and does) impact their work.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2016

It’s also received a lot of major press coverage ranging from the New York Times to CBS News and WIRED. Developed by Vine co-founder Dom Hoffman, the app is a mix between Twitter and Slack. Last week it reached the top 100 apps in the Itunes store. No easy feat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

An algorithm is necessary to weed out boring content from the Facebook News Feed, but 1%? Their Twitter following is 5X that of Facebook and 18X their following on Instagram and thus on Twitter is where the bulk of their effort is spent. Their Facebook Page seems to be experiencing less than 1% reach which makes posting daily futile.

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