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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Direct Content.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. 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. GroupMe :: groupme.com. SupporterWall :: supporterwall.com.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Soon after came Android phones, and the same thing happened. Because they did that, users who buy books at the Google eBookstore can read those books on just about every device except … the Kindle, which does not support ePub. So what happens next?

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3 Reasons Your Nonprofit Website Needs Responsive Design

Connection Cafe

Let’s consider how much has changed in tech over the last 4 years: Since 2013, we’ve seen the adoption of the smart phone, the start of smart watches, selfies, and touch ID. Multiscreen Supporters. Apple watches have added GPS and health tracking capabilities. What is responsive web design? devices at the same time.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Realizing Potential .

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