Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2013

What happens to your mobile phone after it reaches its end of life? The Nokia Phone Recycler (Windows Phone) sheds some light on mobile waste and helps you find the safest way to recycle your old phone. Android, iPhone, Windows Phone), annoying junk mail doesn't stand a chance. Reducing Waste. With PaperKarma.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. A few include: Faster to get started and deploy, often allowing you to try them out before making a financial commitment.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. A few include: Faster to get started and deploy, often allowing you to try them out before making a financial commitment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2013

and disappear from the recipients phone. Due to the hype, I decided to check it out myself to see if it had any use for nonprofits. During the viewing period of a Snap, the recipient must maintain contact with his or her phone's touchscreen, which hinders them from taking a screenshot. Log in and let us know in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

After reading the articles while waiting to board my plane in SFO and noticing groups of young people walking around in groups using the Go Pokemon app in the airport, I decided to download the app and see what all the hype was about. This primer helped. I was finally able to set up an account. So I used my google account.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2010

Fundraising: How We Combine Email, Social _Media, and Phones to Reach. The Hype and the Potential of Social Network Fundraising . Understanding Online Donors: Their Demographics, Attitudes, and Behavior . Beyond the Myth of Integrated. Million Online Supporters . Trends in Online Fundraising: What We Can Learn From the Data .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

I started to pay attention when my kids became teenagers — and wanting to practice good digital parenting as Alexandra Samuel advises – I added the SnapChat app to my phone. My first experience was “What?” ” and could not figure it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Allison Fine makes another good point: " It seems to me that relationship building with a first engagement being a cell phone number is going to be inherently difficult." . Maybe I'm jaded. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Avoid the gimmicks and the hype. For your frequent supporters, pick up the phone and make some calls, instead of just relying on the mail. – by the end of the year!” or to emergency year-end campaigns that tell supporters you need X number of dollars just to keep the doors open next year. Keep your year-end goals mission-focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

I like it better than my smart phone because I don't need 300x reading glasses to read the screen and it is nice and light. . I also admit that the first app I downloaded was one for google analytics - it's great for browsing data. Most of all, I like using it to read web content over coffee away from my desktop.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

She shared her strategy for reaching donors across multiple communication platforms including by phone, direct mail, and email and finding the right technology to help manage this process has been paramount to their success. . . bbcon 2020 featured 1 5 higher education focused session s , many led by customers and industry experts. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I sure hope the reality catches up. Way to go, NPR!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

The revolution that has allowed ICT services to transition to a point of real uptake and impact -- or as Heeks describes, from a tool of development to a “platform for development” --is the mobile phone. . Mobile phones have made the uptake of ICT services achievable because they have become incredibly available.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. They found that the concept has developed and there is a lot more discussion and debate about it and more evidence to support it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

This is why companies allow employees to make personal phone calls, why they underwrite education and training, and invest to create pleasant environments. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? These costs are real, but accepted. tool after Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Avoid the gimmicks and the hype. For your larger donors, pick up the phone and make some calls, instead of just relying on the mail. – by the end of the year!” or to emergency year-end campaigns that tell donors you need to raise X number of dollars just to keep the doors open next year. Keep your year-end asks mission-focused.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

A “hype” or “sizzle” video embedded into your email can help build anticipation for your event and encourage new attendees to get in on the fun. Many of your readers will access their emails from their phones, and click through to your registration page on their mobile devices. Make it mobile optimized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for Maybe it's a generational thing, and my daughter will see online/offline the way I see phone/f2f.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. That's only scratching the surface it seems as this blog devoted to LinkedIn seems to indicate.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2009

On Thursday, Forum One convened " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 He touched on the example of Barack Obama supporters using the MyBO.com site during the campaign to protest then-Senator Obama's stance on FISA. The event was reviewed on HuffPost , PSFK , and summarized on the TEDBlog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

I won't try to speak for them, but I do think they aren't blindly following the latest tech hype and hoping it will change the world — many of them have clear social change strategies. I can see how the author might have gotten the impression that some or all of the folks in Joe's roundup are simply shiny-tech pushers.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

In most cases, the hype that precedes a tool is so overwhelming that its functional value is lost in its charm appeal. When hype is the driver, the essential step of evaluating a given technology for its functional value is lost. The technology, like other gifts, is evaluated, not hyped or coerced. We don't think "gosh!

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See3

JANUARY 29, 2009

Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. No e-mail, chat, Web page, phone call or FedEx package could have achieved the same thing. I can only imagine how hopeless a task it must be for everyone else.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Facebook isn't just all hype. Mobile Apps: At this writing, the only mobile app we've found that lets you update your Page from your phone is Facebook's own app for iPhone and Android. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. This means that you can broadcast messages to a group of friends/followers from your phone, your IM service, or the web, and can receive messages similarly. I used to hate cell phones.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds. Eliminating Geographic Separation.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Of course, supporters can also make in-person, email, or phone appeals. More importantly, you’ll need to advertise the event so that supporters get hyped about wanting to attend. Either way, P2P fundraising is best practiced online, where donors can create individual fundraising pages that they can share with friends and family.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Make a quick phone call and tell them what you’re doing. The only reason for making the phone call is to make sure you actually, 100% for sure, communicate the need because you know there’s a 100% chance you’re going to get the money. Be glad you got $10 from making a phone call! I can give you $10, $20, $100.”

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Include extra elements in your trivia game, like the opportunity to phone a friend or steal a question from another team. Event agenda emails: This can be a follow-up to your save-the-date email and get supporters hyped for the different activities that will be part of your Giving Tuesday event. Launch a major campaign.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Instead of repeatedly inputting bidder numbers and bid amounts, donors can conveniently place bids from their own mobile phones from anywhere in the venue or at home. Auction off your biggest, most expensive item (or the item that got the most hype during your event promotion) at or near the end.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Supporters can hop on their computer or phone and give immediately at any time of the day. You choose a keyword related to your campaign and receive a dedicated phone number. You promote your keyword and your platform’s dedicated phone number to supporters. Online fundraising allows your supporters to: Give at any time.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Here are a few suggestions specifically for nonprofit marketing: Save-the-date emails: This type of email could be a complete save the date or a fun “hype” email announcing that something big and exciting is coming. Use your text messaging tool to send texts to attendees letting them know they can give right from their phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

as is the phone, direct mail, and email. We're still in the early stages of social media as in the early days of the web and online fundraising , so, we are in the "it's hype, and not going to last" phase. " I believe social media will become as ubiquitous to development offices. In the next decades, we???ll

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Qgiv

JUNE 27, 2023

Engage Connections with Online Tools With online fundraising on the rise, more and more donors prefer to connect with their favorite nonprofits on the web through their computers and phones. Use Instagram Reels to hype up current campaigns and show off the important work your organization does.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It can be something as simple as a phone call thanking them for going above and beyond, or a card. So you can kind of get them hyped up about your next event. So get them hyped about your upcoming event. That can look like personal phone calls. I see a lot like, “I don’t have time to make phone calls.”

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Some over-hype it as "magical" and "transformative." Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti? Personally, I'm bullish on the product.

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