Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology. page on your mobile website.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 2, 2020

So, just as you might comment on someone’s photo in your Facebook feed, you can comment on the status of an event registration record. No matter where your staff may be – on their laptop in their home office or on their mobile device at their kitchen table, they can access the data they need to do their work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2017

According to the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , 52% of nonprofits worldwide have used social media to report live. Instagram: Share photos and video clips and stream using Live Video Stories. Equipment: You’ll need a laptop and smartphone and easy access to charging stations during the event.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

He forecasts that in a couple of years smartphones will become powerful enough to run a full desktop operating system that can do virtually everything a computer can do, including photo editing and high definition video conferencing. Most African and Latin American countries are on a completely different mobile phone infrastructure track.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2015

T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon each debuted some startling changes that made plans cheaper and better by cutting the clutter of fees and equipment charges and going for flat-rate pricing. Microsoft Takes Over the Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Scene. Cell Plan Revolution. Google Keeps Intriguing Us. The Friendlier Skies.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, with the rise of online fundraising technology and virtual events, nonprofits are moving away from the traditional strategy of hosting just one larger event each year. Mobile-friendly formatting. Mobile-friendly formatting. To ensure your site is mobile-optimized, choose a mobile-responsive website theme.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. promotional ad in Forbes that turns the magazine in to a free T-Mobile WiFi hotspot for 15 days. This is technology for good news from India. Strange News. Yes that's right. Accessibility.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 19, 2016

Additionally, as software designers roll out new and better versions of their programs, everything from photos to graphics to animation and layout templates will look better and stand more apart from the crowd. This will ensure that your site operates to the latest and highest standards free of bugs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Mobile Gadgets and Apps. Having the right tech can help you stay connected even when you're away.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Thanks to technological advances and changing times, online events are quickly becoming the norm, and virtual auctions are no exception. Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

55 % of email opens are now mobile. For your website and blog to be compatible with desktops, laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., your NGO must mobile-optimize your content. For your website and blog to be compatible with desktops, laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., your NGO must mobile-optimize your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

.” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Celebgate Is About More Than Photos. There was no intentional sharing by the celebrities — they were hacked.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden. Instagram is a photo-sharing app (for Android phones and the iPhone) that has a built-in social network. Instagram is a photo-sharing app (for Android phones and the iPhone) that has a built-in social network. Andreas used this workflow.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context? My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. But, the brain fog has started to fade.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Apps are only a few years old, but have taken the mobile phone and tablet worlds by storm. They are not only fun, cheap, and useful, but they're also a green technology. They are add-ons that extend the functionality of your mobile phone, tablet computer, or PC beyond its basic repertoire. Photo: Jorge Quinteros.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The iPad's release next month is best considered as another milestone in the phenomenal expansion of mobile computing. Millions more are already using Google's Android mobile operating system and, additionally, a Google tablet prototype was unveiled recently. It's promised battery life is ten hours -- longer than any laptop to date.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using before and after photos instead of just the sad “before” photos can be more compelling because it conveys hope, and therefore does a better job of showing how your organization can make a difference with a potential donor’s funds. . Mobile-friendliness matters. Tech Can Help You Raise More .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. How Blue Hair Technology Group Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. Put your laptop in the closet and don’t take it with you if you are traveling for your vacation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. Yes, there are a lot of terrible meetings – agenda less, scheduled for no reason, poor facilitation, lousy prep and follow up, technology glitches – and the reasons go on. I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The winner will be announced at the next Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April 2012. Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

This is because: Modern auction fundraising technology makes set up and management much easier. You might auction off laptops, school supplies, and other similar items. Plus, you can use these photos in your social media posts promoting the event to entice your followers to get involved. With giving projected to increase 5.1%

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

When equipped with both web-based and mobile bidding tools, online auctions for nonprofits are not only very possible but also extremely successful. Themed branding elements on your online platform and mobile bidding app. For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this TED talk , people are sitting 9.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. Dr. Mizuko mentioned some research they were doing on continuous partial attention of young people's media and mobile phone use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2016

A single laptop runs all the screens. TechSoup's hardware donation programs offer factory-refurbished commercial-grade laptop and desktop computers to churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious organizations. your photos with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Give Your Technology a Boost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

organizational change, and technology. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. However, to localize it, Stephanie incorporated Pakistani imagery, including a photo of Arfa Karim, the youngest female Microsoft ‘expert’ in Pakistan, to represent fly.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news once again. I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. Here's the latest. Social Media.

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