Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. As of July 2009, 56.9 Smartphones are dramatically changing how people use the Internet. Tags: Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology. Those with smartphones can read the links, but not easily.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Scheduled for November 24 – 26, 2009 , the 48-hour event created by Epic Change will encourage participants to express their thanks using online tools and at live events. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Get Involved.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

There are now over 143 million blogs on the Internet and when I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in September of 2009, I had very low expectations. Use your blog to publish distribute an urgent fundraising appeal. Tags: Blogging. I wasn’t convinced at all that the world needed another blogger. Ask supporters to donate.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

When someone posts a positive comment on your blog, can you use it in your fundraising materials? Brian also recommends that you check out the Internet Archive while you're in San Francisco. Tags: 09NTC brian_rowe creative commons ip NPTech NTEN. How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site?

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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. As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit.

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Care2

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Email grew 21% between 2008-2009. In August 2009, 276.9 Between 2008 and 2009 the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 In a recent study by First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet - of 309,740 twitter users, only 211,024 posted at least twice in 206 days.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). Tags: Digital Divide Donors Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Yes, it’s a good thing that there are lots of competitors in the field of CRM/fundraising in general, and a lot of them are doing some really interesting on-the-cutting-edge stuff, which is great. Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2009

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A July 2009 Pew Internet study found there is no digital divide for online when you factor in mobile access. Here's their advice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 It doesn’t really change anything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 It doesn’t really change anything.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

There is little debate that online communication, fundraising, and advocacy have become important parts of the modern nonprofit's fundraising and marketing mix. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1. Alan Cooke, Convio.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2009

The early-bird registration period for NTEN's 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference ends January 31. Author Stephen Johnson says, "Clay Shirky may be the finest thinker we have on the Internet revolution, but Here Comes Everybody is more than just a technology book; it's an absorbing guide to the future of society itself.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2009

A lot of people have been talking about this animation (mildly off-color language) created by Michael Edson for WebWise 2009. In the animation, Web Tech Guy announces at a museum staff meeting that he's put the museum's collection on FlickTubeFaceSpace.com and enabled tagging and comments for the museum's Web site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 .&# I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Technorati Tags: carnival , data management , nptech { 2 trackbacks } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.13.07 .&# I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

Sage is giving away fundraising software. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. Kevin reports from RSA 2009 on security awareness in schools and security concerns around cloud computing. Tags: Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 It's time to vote!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Pew Internet, in their report on " Social Media and Young Adults ", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Read more posts on our blog.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Flickr Photo by cathytx2001 Many nonprofits understand the importance of an online strategy but are unclear on how much to invest in online marketing and fundraising -- and what to expect in return. The Value of Online Fundraising " The report will be published to survey respondents directly following that event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

of internet user time is spent on social media and social networking. Did you know that mobile web use increased by 230% between 2008 and 2009? [1] 2] Also, 41% of mobile internet time is spent on email.[3] Tags: NPTech NTEN. It says that 22.7% is through mobile devices! Why Go Mobile? 3] Did you get an adrenalin rush?!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

In a packed room at the 2009 NTC in San Francisco, LeVar Burton loomed large. It's not often that four professional online fundraisers give you a notebook's worth of great ideas from their own programs, then repeatedly instruct you to ignore them. Tags: Fundraising marc ruben Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2009

The 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) has begun. Tags: Acquiring Technology Digital Divide Fundraising Online Seminar Running Your Organization Security Social Networking Staff Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 The time has come. Sessions have started this morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Source: Pew and American Life Internet Project, Adults and Social Networking Use. The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

"I don’t have enough resources to do online fundraising and marketing", and. "I’m not sure I can afford to invest in online fundraising." Last year, Convio clients raised more than $777 million online and 2009 looks to be even better. Do these statements sound familiar? You can’t afford to wait any longer!

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. However, it does give nonprofits the opportunity to brand themselves around a code as well as launch different types fundraising appeals and action alerts. 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2009

It's common knowledge that online giving and participation is growing and an online strategy has to be a critical part of your fundraising mix. Results from the survey will be released at the Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 28, 2009. Tags: Marketing Research. Receive monthly updates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now. The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ? If you do a good job, then the fundraising will follow. Where are we today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. Tags: sxsw. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

In just 2 days, we'll be opening up the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference with the Science Fair ! Will social media have a bigger impact on your fundraising? FundRaiser Software : FundRaiser Software will hold a drawing to give away a complete set of Kim Klein Fundraising Webinar CD's at the Science Fair on April 26th.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . Tags: sxsw. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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