Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. As more group text messaging and Mobile Web vendors flood the market, the price of early adoption will become more manageable and thus accessible to more nonprofits. 22 Nonprofit Mobile Websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The specific technologies highlighted in the reports are place along a continuum of near-term, mid-term, and far-term field adoption: One year or less to adoption: Cloud Computing (K-12), Mobile Learning (K-12), MOOC (Higher Ed), Tablet Computing (Higher Ed).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

and nonprofit adoption. I haven't yet digested the report, but I was pleased to see that the report wasn't just a series of data findings, but also include some in-depth reporting on attitudes about using the tools. in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m 2008: How do I do it right?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter. 1) Your organization’s social media campaigner should be passionate about the Internet, social media, and flexible, and most importantly willing to experiment with new tools. 2) Being an early adopter helps increase your numbers. Five Lessons Learned.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2008

"Tools come and go, but a strategy based on experimentation sustains."--Beth Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. Decide what you want to learn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. potential consumers). potential consumers). for Good program. Owned by Yahoo!,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

In talking with organizations that are using it – adoption issues for staff seem to be fairly minimal (my partner, a non-techie writer, uses it everyday, with no complaints.) IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. Outside of the US, OpenOffice.org adoption is growing fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

corporations are seeing benefits from adopting web 2.0 tools, with a median improvement over 200 of 25% in raising awareness, 17% in converting to buyers and 20% in generating loyalty. Functions at the company universally reported finding value in these tools. So here goes with the big statement. technologies, in myriad ways.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States. The next three priorities for new online engagement tools were video blogging (35%), social networking (29%), and podcasting (24%). The report is available at [link].

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Focus on things that can have ripple effects, like influencing your work to adopt a new travel policy, helping your sport club organize carpooling, or taking part in local decision making. FBE: I’d say three things: Motivation — As a parent who has been involved with climate change since 2008, I know what’s at stake for our children.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. (If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. That means developers need only write an app once, and it can get used on any of the networks involved, like Orkut and LinkedIn. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. 5 Erin 04.30.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

No doubt Google is a great company that provides an astounding amount of free, exceptionally useful tools to nonprofits, but a Google-only Social Web? Being an early adopter is an important strategy in and of itself, but not at the expense of the communities you already have. Sign up for Google+.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. For me this is about good tools for people trying their damn hardest to make, each in their own way, make the world better. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Dividing Cells: in excel, you can select a column and say “split this in to many columns using the comma as a delimiter&# — I think it is under tools somewhere (I don’t have Excel so I don’t remember offhand.) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel. Be Helpful.

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Forum One

JANUARY 25, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched a new initiative called the Innovation Exchange , to build and strengthen a network of innovators who will develop and adopt environment-friendly business initiatives. Also exciting is that Dave Witzel will be leading the effort. see his continuing news feed on " Policy Commons " ideas.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations seeking to amplify the voices of clients face decisions about selecting the right combination of mechanisms as they aim to implement tools and processes conducive to the local operating environment of the nonprofit. Nonprofit Management and Leadership , 26(3), 295-312. doi:10.1002/nml.21191.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. I’m an early adopter, I know – it’s easy to feel like everyone’s doing it, and maybe I should look into it. Or whatever. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. This was a decrease of only 2% compared to December 2008.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. But, in the scheme of things, the latter topic is far more important in the long run to the more than 1 million nonprofits out there than how to use a web tool.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Some of the key trends supporting rapid adoption of technology by nonprofits are: 1) Online lifestyle, behavior and giving of consumers and donors leading to success. Nonprofits, Donors and Consumers Adopting Online Lifestyle. Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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