NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

Social Networking Adoption by Non-profits. of non-profits were able to raise over 10k through Facebook in 2010. Affiliate programs, organic search traffic and even offline advertising scored higher than social. So, the question remains, Facebook is a great platform for many things, but is it useful for fundraising?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. Check out our full conversation: And then don't forget to register for the 2010 NTC ! Gregory Heller and I know it's the latter. Grammy.com and Whitehouse.gov are Drupal sites. Open source is now mainstream.

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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. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. How about your nonprofit?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether at the forefront of the Admissions Connect early adopter program, enabling world-class research institutions on the Salesforce platform, providing hyper-intuitive advancement solutions, or delivering a true Connected Campus, our award-winning team always shines.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

They know the importance of being an early adopter. For example, and as much as I love Sea Shepherd and appreciate their effort to be an early adopter in group text messaging, so far all of their text alerts have linked to their desktop site. The most recent was received on April 26: The bit.ly

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

That said, I am a firm believer that a mobile website is the building block upon which to center your other mobile campaigns, but since January 2010 when I first featured 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites , there hasn’t been much progress made.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

While print readership is highest among boomers, in recent years they have adopted mobile and social media at a rapid rate. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010. Baby Boomers (Born 1946 –1964, Currently Ages 50–68). The baby boomer generation is often underestimated in its technology skills.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. It will surely stretch into 2011 and beyond, but 2010 is definitely the year to reap the benefits of early adoption. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010. Not only that, there are now 4.1 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. population!).

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2010

Make sure you start 2010 off right by adopting the latest best practices for online advocacy as a proven strategy to recruit and retain donors, while advancing your mission. Did you know that activists on your nonprofit’s email list are seven times more likely to donate money to your organization than non-activists are?

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NetWits

MAY 15, 2012

The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. Since 2010 was an abnormal year for online giving - due to the wave of offerings for Haiti’s earthquake relief - many organizations received a gift that year, but never heard back from the donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . Very expensive.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

The international sector’s online fundraising dropped by 55 percent after the 2010 Haiti earthquake brought in “unprecedented online fundraising levels.”. Can you adopt similar techniques that can bolster your company’s best features? Look at Other Perspectives. Compare yourself to likeminded companies, observing their strengths.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How are YOU doing , as someone who works with technology and/or the nonprofit sector, in terms of your job role, tech-adoption, and organizational challenges? Earlier this spring, we collected responses from 1000 folks and have analyzed and reported back that data for you in this report. > > Download the report (free).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Here are 10 nonprofits currently using text alerts with links to their subscription pages.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly under pressure from funders, clients, and others to “prove” that they are achieving their mission effectively and efficiently (Renz and Murray, 2010). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. But this alone suggests that the adoption is likely very small.* nonprofits is really a "?". nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

You can learn more at mobilepayment.intuit.com and if you are interested in being an early adopter of mobile technology, be sure to check out my Webinar on How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Mobile Technology and Social Media. 2010 is going to be a big year for nonprofits and mobile technology.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2013

As most of you probably know, LinkedIn—the networking site for professionals—expanded its scope to include company pages back in 2010. Since then, the site has slowly developed its page content, and nonprofits have caught on, using the site to promote their organizations by gaining individual followers and joining LinkedIn Groups.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

When DWD hired Melissa Barber full-time as electronic communications specialist in 2010, the plan was to launch a full-fledged electronic communications department to oversee several technology projects. Prior to the Academy, DWD was "keeping the lights on" as far as technology adoption and reactive in its approach. "We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland. In support of the Teacher Development Initiatives, helping K-12 educators teach and adopt proficiency practices in the classroom. Richards, Executive Director of the James F. and Marion L.

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Communication Oregon Grant Portland 85

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The series includes short, digestible how-to videos for open source Nonprofit Cloud products, including Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) , Program Management Module (PMM), Outbound Funds Module (OFM) , and Volunteers for Salesforce (V4S), making adoption easier for nonprofit customers. Senior Manager, Open Source Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Back in 2010, you may remember one of the first highly visible social media mistakes of posting to the brand’s account instead of your personal social media. NPR’s Social Media Manager followed the best practice protocol for handling this type of social media screw up.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It doesn’t matter whether your non-profit is in the vanguard or late adopters, the best ideas will win. Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010. Entries will be judged based on three criteria: Innovation, Impact, and Clarity. You only need an idea – even if you don’t know the technical solution for implementing.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Let us know how it worked out -- we'd love to see a case study on its adoption and impact on fundraising! The app includes ride maps, the updates and discussions. via Twitter, and people-to-people fundraising tools. When I hear the word "foursquare", I basically. think of the school yard game.

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NTEN

JULY 27, 2011

Looking at these numbers from 2008-2010, we can see the proportion of respondents indicating that there is a separate department for IT has been decreasing, while the proportion of respondents who say there is "No one with official IT responsibility" within the organization is increasing. How does this compare to previous years?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

For some, DAFs are a great alternative to setting up a charitable remainder trust or family foundation, and adoption rates prove their growing popularity. The amount contributed to DAFs since 2010 has also grown steadily in real dollars, as well as the percentage of giving by individuals. In 2010, there was a $24.6

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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.

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2011

The network suffered a bad year in 2010 which saw it lose a lot of ground , and become relegated to a second tier network behind Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn in user visits. Here are applicable pointers for those wondering whether to adopt Twitter in their online strategy. It gets back to community.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Many small to medium-sized nonprofits can not afford these vendors, but at least through tools like TextMarks and FrontlineSMS, they can at least be early adopters. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. They are much more expensive, but have top notch tool sets. Related Links: 10 Nonprofit Group Text Messaging Campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In our 2010 Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Report, 94 percent of responding organizations provided health insurance coverage to their full-time employees, paying an average of 94 percent of the premium for employees and 46 percent for family coverage. Click here to fill out our Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits survey!

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