Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

According to Donorly , you can hand over the donor research process to a nonprofit consultant to get more out of the process and to save your team time and resources. As you review these frequently asked questions, remember that a nonprofit consultant who is an expert in prospecting can be a great resource to turn to for more help.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Resource Management. The number one item on our cool stuff list is Resource Management. According to Beal (2016), an “Application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. Assessment Creation Tool. "Title 21 CFR Part 11" Wikipedia.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. Well, it can at least boost your internal staff knowledge and your positioning as a resource in the community! In this webinar we’ll discuss the fundamentals of sharing information with social media tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. More Password Resources. " How'd he crack such a crazy phrase?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They receive ongoing budget priority and dedicated resources. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). Pick vendors by their commitment to playing nice with other tools, not by how many out-of-the-box features they have, and always, always make APIs a priority.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’m a sucker for new web tools and gadgets and luckily I am surrounded by, and work for, many folks afflicted by the same condition. Last week I saw a TechCrunch article about an SEO analysis tool that went BETA on January 20th called WooRank which has become a quick favorite. Author: Ken Cantu. Happy coding!

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Lack of resources, expertise, leadership buy-in, choosing the right software tools (or the right strategic partners) all while trying to stay current on the latest marketing trends is overwhelming. How would you then prioritize resources so they are spent on activities that work to achieve that goal?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. .&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&#

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Additional Resources. Related Discussions.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

One of the more common uses I see my friends making of Twitter is to post a link to an interesting web-based resource. Here's an article posted by Amy Luckey at GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) that talks about the use of collaborative web tools to strengthen the relationships between funders and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. Mavenlink (Office) is a project management tool that lets you invite coworkers, volunteers, or other constituents to a project in Microsoft Office. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. Of course, the folks participating would have to be comfortable using FriendFeed and make a habit of it - but might be a good way to support a team listening effort with free tools. FriendFeed Resources.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. It's also a tool for achieving organizational success. If you get nothing else from this post, please repeat after me: diversity is a tool for helping you achieve your business objectives.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to nonprofit author Allison Fine, “Social media [in particular] fits into the lives of working women much better than traditional communications tools. You can work the night shift and respond to email in the morning. You can have four kids and read a blog during nap time.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Any ideas/links/resources would be helpful! Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. For each of the social media tools you are using, you might want to set up your google analytics so you can track referral traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Top Ten Free Monitoring Tools by Dan Schawbel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

observes, "Thus you need a strategy that combines email lists pushing your message, vision, and resources out into communities residing on sites and networks other than your own." I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Resources: CNET: Everything you need to know about Google Glass (FAQ). Wikipedia article on smartglasses. Please log in and perhaps using mind tools give us your thoughts. CNET: How Google Glass works: now and tomorrow. CNET: The definitive guide to not being a Glasshole. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). You're welcome.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Top Rated Resources at Kikono. For me, the web and 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. I'm phobic of anything that might remotely appear to involve math or that makes me feel stupid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Guide your students to conversations and resources. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Freecharity.org.uk

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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