Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated. Bridging the App Gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections. 50 Nonprofit Organizations on Instagram That You Should Follow Right Now (2015) by Kerri Karvestsi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2012

The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. You’d be silly not to spend time focusing on improving your organization's. However, according to our research , many organizations don’t have a well-developed retention strategy in place.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is also a commonly held view of programmers, web developers, IT professionals, database administrators, and other tech staff in an organization. But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. Tech people have unique exposure to the inner-workings of an organization. X-Ray Glasses.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Telework (also called telecommuting) is where an employee regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling. To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Telework By Any Other Name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. After the nonprofit Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference I got a few minutes to talk to Claire about her work at Twitter and how non-profits can use the information network for good. Want to be featured? Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

So much attention in philanthropy has been devoted to nonprofit accountability, like the work of Charity Navigator ; it looks like the time has come for funders to be more open about how they’re doing grantmaking. Chronicle of Philanthropy published a great announcement of the project a few months after its launch in 2010.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience. where she worked at the International Spy Museum. "We And Santa Cruz won the lottery.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. "Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Foundation application?

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

For most organizations, the heart and soul of communications is the email list. Add tablets into the mix and its clear that people are quickly adopting mobile computing. One of the first pieces of any change to communications and technology strategy in an organization is explaining the need for change. 2000 - 2010.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

A nonprofit organization, much like a for-profit company, is only as strong as its leadership. Inadequate investment in leadership development has extensive adverse impacts, namely the loss of talent to other organizations and eventually other sectors. posted by Adam Rubin CEO, RENEW. The social sector spent $400 million, just.03%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. Can your theory of change be hard coded into what your social benefit organization builds? By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Continuing the theme of "busy mom" from last month , I wanted to take a moment to talk about the need for organizations to optimize their sites for use with mobile devices. Nielsen reports that as of Q1 2010 , 23% of people with mobile devices now have a smartphone instead of a regular old boring/dumb cell phone. First - some stats.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Probably not. Will you get donors through a mobile app?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Second, organize local veterinarians, municipalities and animal rescue organizations in working together to provide low-cost spay/neuter and promote adoption of the satos.’”. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! Mobilizing 1 million people!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

They do a lot of really good work for their clients. Looks like it’s working. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. She’s a friend of Bloomerang for sure. Check them out. Really cool agency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Note from Beth: I’m working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit – it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). Source: Altimeter. Guest Post by Petri Darby, Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

They do a lot of really good work for their clients. Looks like it’s working. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. She’s a friend of Bloomerang for sure. She’s done webinars for us before. Check them out.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Many of them track us automatically: Nike Plus tracks my run, Mint.com tracks my finances and spending patterns, and TripIt neatly organizes my travel plans. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. But Felton does provide us with an insightful clue.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Instacart, for example, sometimes bundles multiple orders from different addresses but only pays for the work of one order. What’s not to like?

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