Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

Part of my objective was to show the unintended consequences of Internet censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA (SOPA's Senate buddy bill), responding to alerts from organizations I trust like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 30, 2010

I wanted to promote the the National Arbor Day’s Facebook Page on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. And Wikipedia Tabs? That didn’t seem likely, so I went to Google to search “Arbor Day Facebook&#. Today is Arbor Day. 3) Arbor Day :: 2 Likes: www.facebook.com/pages/Arbor-Day/108514969173871.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. intl/en/landing/internetstats. WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

Whether your organization is new to the nonprofit scene or you’ve been fundraising for decades, you know the importance of securing major gifts for your cause. These are the largest gifts your organization receives, and they empower you to truly move the needle on your mission. This is done through the donor prospect research process.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. It requires no API and no coding.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. Once people start getting paid for things at different parts of the cycle or so on, the gift economy falls apart.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

40-50,000 Google searches are made per second. And that’s just Google – 3.5 Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? The.org domain was originally created to identify organizations online, and it has traditionally been thought of as the trusted space for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits. Per second.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Second, social media isn’t enough on its own to expose your organization to a new audience. On average, visits from social media represent 6.92% ( 65.33% of which is driven by Facebook ) of all traffic to nonprofit websites compared to 47.09% from organic search. of all impressions were organic. Step 1: Define your goals.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

Did you know that organizations update their website, on average, every 2-4 years? The update to Google’s search algorithm to rank mobile-friendly websites higher in search results has forced nonprofit organizations to adapt. What is responsive web design? Search Engine Optimization.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Now answer this, how much time is your organization spending on reaching out to Millennials (people who were born between 1981 and 2000)? Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends. The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. I've created a topic on Google Moderator where people can submit and vote on ideas. I've never used Google Moderator, but someone told me that it's good, so hopefully it works :). No exceptions. Don't contact me.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I had the chance to connect with more than 25 NetSquared organizers during the week, and that face-to-face time was a powerful reminder of the deep learning that happens when nonprofit techies get together in a room. Kansas City, Missouri: Google for Nonprofits — Technology, Education, and Networking. Saturday, March 21, 2015.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. Online Project Management Tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By using this feature, Convio clients will be able to do things like, for example, use the API to display a list of your organization's upcoming events on your website. Oh, memories. You're welcome.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Saturday, June 1 is the National Day of Civic Hacking and Net2 organizers in Honolulu, Boston and New Haven are jumping into the fray! Vancouver, Canada: June 4: Maximizing your Google Grants budget for Nonprofits. Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Bored this weekend? Tuesday, June 4.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Provide Context.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Morrisville, North Carolina: Deep Dive into Google Analytics. Austin, Texas: Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship — NTEN, Skillpoint, and Austin Free-Net. Seattle, Washington: Governance Matters: Is Policy Governance for Your Organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. The organization I work for is Working Films. Which one of these is sending you traffic.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. It may still require somebody’s time to encourage participation and perhaps do a little re-formatting and re-organizing. tagging capabilities to keep things organized. Some are huge. commenting on any item.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

There were five organizations participating. One organization did not finish the program. Can't just build a blog and let it be. They replaced the organization. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Money, it's a drag.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How about Digg ?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. Well, it's back. Am I hiring the right people?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) How about Digg ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

with a detailed account of her organization's experience. is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. " I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. Young Einstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

How was it organized? Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Add Google Wallet to the list. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . The worst time to pitch about the event is after it happened.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. So you can use delicious not only to organize your own book marks, but to put your information into the hands of other tech-savvy users. Look it up.

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