Tags: Guest Blogs Technology nptec When starting your nonprofit, advocacy group, or other civic organizations, there may not be a budget to pay for website development – or even hosting services. That was the case when we started thinking about what to do for the volunteer-run Greater Boston Young Democrats (GBYD), a regional chapter of the Young Democrats of Massachusetts, which operates a 501c4 as well as a PAC.

I did a kind of radical experiment a couple of weeks ago: I de-friended almost all of my nptech and client Facebook friends (cutting my friend count by more than 60%). while ago, I realized that I would keep hearing the same nonprofit technology related stuff, over and over again, and I realized I was contributing to that by using Ping.fm Now of course it used to be that all of my Facebook “friends” I had a few reasons for this, and over the past couple of weeks that I’ve been living this experiment, it’s made me quite happy.

The 10 articles highlighted here were chosen to give a variety of viewpoints and usable information on Nonprofit Technology....( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech social media nonprofit blog carniva Welcome to the June 2009 edition of the NonProfit Blog Carnival, a monthly showcase of great blog posts for and about nonprofits. read more ) ...Tags:

Tags: Fundraising Non-profit technology nptec Online payment processing may sound "high-tech" and complicated, but even the smallest nonprofit can easily get set up to receive payments through its website. To bring it down to the absolute simplest terms, your nonprofit will need 3 things in order to handle online payments by credit card: a link or button, a payment gateway, and a merchant account....(

Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky , a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list. Fast Company responded with " The Most Influential Women in Technology ." I'm humbled to be listed in the " Activists " category! So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world.

This week, they presented "Technology Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore." Disruptive Technology #1: Virtualization .   There Disruptive Technology #2: Data Deluge You Disruptive Technology #3: Energy & Green IT The Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics . quot; I tweeted my way through the one hour call, but here are some notes with a little more clarity and reflection.

Smaller non-profit organizations get some encouraging news in NTEN’s newly released 2008 IT Staffing & Spending Report -- when it comes to being on the cutting edge of non-profit technology, size doesn’t matter....( Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Staffing researc read more ) ...Tags:

Tags: media Social networking Best practices General non-profit interest Non-profit technology Non-profit Communications nptec Who should speak for your organization in social media? How can you control what’s being said about your group and your cause? If you're not sure, it may be time to work out a social media policy for your staff and volunteers who blog and chat and comment online, where the personal

Tags: Non-profit technology Fundraising nptech Web 2.0 Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits. But it can be time-consuming to search out those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. Here's a hand-picked selection of slideshow presentations to get you started. ...(

Use Technology to "Work Smarter." Experiment with Technology. Tags: nptech npeco Flickr Photo: Voetmann Personally, I like New Year's resolutions. Sure, they're kind of cheesy. (And And yes, every year, I say I'm going to lose some weight, then rarely do.