Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. Over the last month I have subscribed to receive text alerts from 10 organizations. As of July 2009, 56.9 The web is going mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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MAY 15, 2009

We just released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study with our fantastic friends at M+R Strategic Services. Local organizations are getting on the bus. Then tell me: how does your organization compare? Tags: Advocacy benchmarks email Fundraising m+r marketing metrics newsletters NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Two organizations that have been early adopters and pioneers in their use of social media are the National Wildlife Federation and the World Wildlife Fund. If you are going to design your own mobile Website, make sure you check out the article Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009. How about your nonprofit? Do you have a mobile Website?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. What tools do you think will be the best and easiest for nonprofits to use in 2009? Tags: fundraising2.0 File Sharing. guest blogging nptech.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Beth Kanter tipped us to this flowchart on how to respond to blog posts about your organization. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. It's also a great segue. You already know where this is going, don't you? Yep: cats on treadmills. It's put out by the U.S. But where's the TARP of nonprofit funding?

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

But have you ever wondered how you compare to other organizations? To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Seventy percent of organizations raised more than they did the previous year. percent ( sign up for our newsletter here! ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

A lot of nonprofits will now have to update their website, e-mail newsletters, and most costly, their print materials. 2) From my e-mail newsletter. All the major case studies are about large national and international organizations, and their success on Facebook has a lot to do with their brand being well known. Not even good.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S. " you may ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Your organization can create a page on your Web site announcing the new App and promote it in your e-newsletter and on social networking sites. Through December 31, 2009, Sweb Apps will defer all set-up fees for nonprofits organizations and all you are required to pay is $25 a month to host the App. How about you?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Ellie LaCasse wrote a great article for the MissionResearch GiftWorks newsletter about considerations and best practices for using technology to "Boost Volunteer Involvement and Satisfaction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you're in charge of your organization's web analytics, you undoubtedly know about bounce rate -- the measure of visitors who enter your site, say "Enh" (or something ruder), and immediately leave, without viewing any more of your carefully crafted pages. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. Let's dive in. Happy filtering!

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MARCH 24, 2010

Acquisition is critical to your organization’s success. For example, a new report from Blackbaud, the Target Analytics 2009 Index of National Fundraising Performance for the Third Quarter , shows direct mail declining rapidly in effectiveness as a way to acquire new donors. Organic Online Recruitment.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The last three months of the year represent a critical time for the fundraising efforts of nonprofit organizations. Blackbaud studied 1,274 nonprofits to compare their online fundraising results for the first six months of 2008 to the same period of 2009. Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. Not bad for all the doom and gloom being reported.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Other interesting findings include: For email newsletters, open rates and click-through rates fell slightly (1-2%) in 2008, though the changes were not strictly statistically significant. For most organizations, almost one-third of all online actions are taken by the most active subscribers who comprise about 7% of the list.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 12, 2009

National Volunteer Week is April 19-25, 2009. If you track their time, tell them how many hours they have contributed to your organization. List your volunteers in your next newsletter and publicly thank them for their efforts. Some organizations give volunteers little treats like pins or magnets.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When you remove the estimated $122 million in corporate pledges from that number, more than half of all funds raised came online through those organizations. Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A To get your invitation visit [link].).

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program.

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MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Tags: cloud computing Collaboration Infrastructure lucy bernholz Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Program.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Here are three things you need to make sure you do in order to raise the most money you can in the final quarter of 2009. Tell stories about people whose lives your organization has changed. If your communication plans include a newsletter, make it a donor-focused on and include the information donors want to read. .

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Check out these best practices to help protect both yourself and your organization. In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. Create lists to organize personal and professional contacts to control what they can or cannot see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. If you've worked for a nonprofit, you know how painfully long it can take to put together a newsletter. As an excerpt in your e-newsletter, and clicking through to read the rest.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. Last year, Convio clients raised more than $777 million online and 2009 looks to be even better. Organizations of all sizes can get into the game, you just need a playbook. Meg Murphy, Convio. [Ed. You can read all the details here. ]. Built total housefile of 4,312.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Today, there are organizations large and small doing amazing things with technology to create actual social change. If you think your organization is rocking technology in service of your mission, you should: > Apply today ! You must have a representative present at the 2009 NTC in San Francisco.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others. Some of these were: Online fundraising grew in 2009 as compared to 2008 but the average gift size was smaller. donating money).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 First, the what – what to integrate?

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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. Many small businesses, a category which many nonprofit organizations fall into, think that they are not important enough to be a target of hackers.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The organization is working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2009

There are more than 800 of you already registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I recognize that this is a difficult time for all of us and our organizations. You should read every line of our e-newsletter. Tags: NPTech 09NTC. He's THAT good. Karl - our king of data and databases. Thanks again everyone.

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JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. Those Featured Projects came together May 26-27, 2009 in San Jose, CA, at the N2Y4 Conference to pitch their ideas, find collaborators, and get valuable feedback. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The Alt tag is a description for an imag.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Use the description meta tag.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The organization is working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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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. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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