Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Gamification.

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Online Learning Trend Learning Online 56

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference held each Spring is always THE place to be for nonprofit techies: whether you work in a nonprofit organization or with one, are totally technical or fell into your techie job, like social media or like wiring an office. But, what do you want to talk about?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. Online video consumption rates are now as high as television viewer rates globally. Does Facebook Work for Fundraising? Please visit the site to view this video).

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Herzegovina Fundraising Bosnia Romania 63

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

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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Foundation Websites Philanthropy San Francisco 56

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Allowances for import and export of such material between countries by people or organizations. • Excludes video. •

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Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

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. could embed the video]. One of the first pieces of any change to communications and technology strategy in an organization is explaining the need for change.

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Mobile email Strategy gMail 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000. It’s really about having a great idea and being a good community organizer.”

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Contest Strategy Intergenerational Children 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Using a futuristic body parts metaphor I might add) As part of this, we have to face the question of the degree of openness that a nonprofit organization will embrace. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

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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Method Video Giving Nonprofit 111

See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

But this is all very abstract and if you were an organization trying to mobilize people against this practice, the most powerful weapon is video. Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year. Their video was a runner up in the See3 – NTEN video contest this year.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. It will be interesting to see how many organizations roll this out in the coming months and to track the success with it. They care about your organization and your organization’s cause.

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Convio Application Facebook Causes 40

Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

As a Certified B Corporation , we strive to hold ourselves to the highest standard of social and environmental performance for business, motivate other companies to do the same, and celebrate those who are working to create positive social change. Now the top-selling brand of organic and fair trade body care in the U.S.,

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Companies Social Product Children 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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Puerto Rico West Virginia Ideas Fort Worth 96

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. Content Curation.

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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. When will you have the time to go back through hours of video to find and edit the interesting or meaningful parts. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010.

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Storytelling Story Mobile North Korea 87

Care2

JUNE 1, 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) Will social networking evolve?

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Mail Social Media Online Advocacy 47

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. She is one of our great online community organizers. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries.

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Celebrate News Technology Nonprofit 90

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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Platform Technology United States New York 140