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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Does Your Information Technology Department Report to the CEO? If Not, Why Not? - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : The accounting firm of Tate & Tyron has done a small survey of nonprofit leaders that finds that the IT departments of most nonprofits do not report to the executive, instead being held within operations or finance departments.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Google Adds Non-Profit Information To Knowledge Graph, Gives Them A Boost With Google Follow Buttons | TechCrunch : Today, Google announced that it’s now filling up its Knowledge Graph with information about nonprofits, which will help people find the organization they’d like to check out and potentially donate to.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Five tips to spring-clean your database - Information, research and resources for fundraisers and their leaders : "What about your database? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to run a mailing list or generate a report knowing that the information could immediately be sent to the mail house or presented to your senior leadership team?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

techPresident – Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! My mom friended me on Facebook last week - we've formally entered the Information Age. Crowdsourced!: Crowdsourced!My But despite my mom's online habits (and the empirical evidence it.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Video: Young Donors Want Fewer Words but More Information - Marketing and Communications - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Video: Young Donors Want Fewer Words but More Information Third in a series of videos By Cody Switzer Young donors want a lot of information when they visit a nonprofit''s (..)

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MAY 14, 2009

New Database Will Spread Information About Social Entrepreneurs - Philanthropy.com: "New Database Will Spread Information About Social EntrepreneursWhat if there was an easy way for the public to get detailed information about the work of some of the world’s most successful social entrepreneurs?"

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Red Cross Survey Finds Social Media Is Key In Emergency Information - News - @ JEMS.com: "WASHINGTON, Monday, August 09, 2010 — A new American Red Cross survey shows many web users would turn to social media to seek help for themselves or others during emergencies—and they expect first responders to be listening."

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APRIL 17, 2014

GIVING BACK: Kickstarting local charity with Adirondack Gives - LakePlacidNews.com | News and information on the Lake Placid and Essex County region of New York - Lake Placid News : If you haven''t heard of it yet, it''s called Adirondack Gives, and it''s a local crowd-funding website inspired by the success of Kickstarter.

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MAY 8, 2007

Pew Internet: Sorting out information technology users: "This press release accompanies 'A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.'5/6/2007 5/6/2007 | ReleaseReleaseWASHINGTON, DC – Fully 85% of American adults use the internet or cell phones – and most use both.

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MAY 12, 2010

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Ozone of InformationPosted using ShareThis.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

How can we cope with information overload?

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APRIL 30, 2015

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

DMA launches report into mobile marketing - News | THE DRUM - Advertising, Design, Media, Marketing, Digital, PR - News, Information & Jobs: "DMA launches report into mobile marketingBelow the line / UKMarketers must go way beyond the current regulations to win consumer confidence in mobile marketing, according to the findings of a study published (..)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Media Sphere - Josh Wolf blogs about the new information age - CNET Blogs: "When Creative Commons first surfaced, it was heralded as a means to share media without being ensnared by the complications accompanying traditional copyright. Creative Commons: Part of the solution? Or simply more copyright woes?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here are some thoughts that are less about tools and more about how information can be used to help us communicate more effectively. From data about nonprofits themselves to the data that nonprofits use to woo donors, we have no dearth of information about the nonprofit relationship with, well, information.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Why Your Nonprofit Website Needs a Privacy Policy (And What to Include) : "If you’re a typical nonprofit, you probably collect a significant amount of sensitive information from your users—even if it’s simply the IP addresses gathered by your site statistics package.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

People are visual animals – what we see helps us process information more quickly than what we read or what we hear. Wishpond found that 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and there is a reason – visuals are processed 60 thousand times faster than text!'

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JULY 11, 2014

Online Channel for Not-for-Profits The Online Channel is a central source of information for not-for-profits. You can get information about the laws and regulations that apply to not-for-profits and where to go for funding. Here you will find guidance on how to start and manage your not-for-profit or charitable organization.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Chatting about Social Media Ethics with David Tinker, CFRE, and Lisa Chmiola, CFRE - Resource Center - AFP : "Engaging with donors online is now a must, and more and more social media platforms provide not just access to individuals, but also to a great deal of personal information about those individuals. via Blog this'

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Red Cross Fights Disasters With Social Media, Mobile Apps GOOGL - Investors.com : "In response, disaster relief organizations are creating mobile apps and better leveraging technologies like geographic information systems (GIS) and social media to improve their reach and services. via Blog this'

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MARCH 6, 2014

Use your blog to open your door  Philanthropy North Carolina : Visitors to your website and subscribers to your blog are looking for information, insight and ideas for improving your community. So use your blog to inform and engage them.' Those visitors also want to understand your nonprofit and its impact.

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APRIL 28, 2015

Anyone can enter a person’s name, biographical information and photograph into Google’s database. You can specify whether you are that person, are seeking information about that person or have reason to believe the person is either alive or missing. Google does not review or verify the data."

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

New York State Nonprofits Trying to Get Paid Faster under Cuomo Administration Reforms - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : The state’s Grants Reform Initiative allowed nonprofits to post their required information online once, rather than having to submit it for each grant application.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365 : Information is gold in social media. Those who share quality information get noticed. It could conceivably be argued that on Twitter sharing links to quality information is the native tongue. Those who create quality content become leaders.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Crowdfunding for Nonprofits | Stanford Social Innovation Review : "Used strategically, crowdfunding helps nonprofits build meaningful engagement, inform their work, spread their messages, and expand their donor base to increase their overall funding and impact.

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

His organization, the top funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans in the country, is developing Salesforce as a data warehouse for their grantee information and document management. " ''via Blog this'''

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MARCH 1, 2013

End of Anonymous SMS Donations Devastates Swedish Charitable Giving - Reason 24/7 : Reason.com : The Swedish Red Cross has reported a 92-percent drop in SMS donations since Swedish mobile operators required their customers to register online, including the submission of sensitive personal information, in order to greenlight a money transfer via text (..)

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Text Messages Aren't Enough When Natural Disasters Strike | Fast Company : The American Red Cross has released a new survey that claims Americans are increasingly relying on the Internet and social media for disaster information. According to the Red Cross, 18% of Americans regularly rely on Facebook to obtain disaster information.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Information sharing Speaking to Daily Business Buzz, Nicholls argued that by using social media internally, an organization or association has the potential to significantly improve its information sharing capabilities. Social media, he argued, can significantly improve internal communications within an organization.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has launched a new version of glasspockets.org, a web site that is home to the organization’s efforts to encourage greater foundation transparency.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

This information could be very helpful for nonprofits in discovering where the majority of demographics your organization may be serving reside in the social media world.'

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JUNE 11, 2014

ACNC Launches Charity Passport | Pro Bono Australia : The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) has launched its long awaited Charity Passport - a secure online system set up to save charities from reporting the same information to multiple government agencies.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The effort, which is part of the Digital Road Map the City launched last year, integrates geographic information systems (GIS), social media and other private and public assets to inform New Yorkers about the dangers posed by the storm.

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MAY 18, 2016

based non-profit will grow to 10,000 students within the next five years, the school said, allowing the institution to train information technology talent in large numbers." 'via French Billionaire Opens Tuition-Free School in Silicon Valley - Bloomberg : "Based on the model Niel launched in France in 2013, the U.S.-based via Blog this'

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JUNE 29, 2012

It included digitised governance and financial information on more than 8,000 public benefit companies. It was compiled and updated daily by re-using public information and publishing it on a free, searchable public website.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Red Cross launches mobile app on disasters | The Jakarta Post : "The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has launched an Android-based mobile application that helps users anticipate natural disasters and share disaster-related information.

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APRIL 17, 2014

There is a lot of information out there about length of Tweets, amount of hashtags, which hashtags, when to post to the various feeds. What you might not have heard are some more unique strategies to promoting your nonprofit.

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