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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In the slides, I highlighted some of the work of 350.org

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only 10% of philanthropic foundations have a website to communicate their work. What that statistic means is that for 90% of foundations, the 990-PF is often the only means for communicating their work. As a result, their grant reports to the IRS and to Candid were much improved, as the foundation worked to include demographic data.

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Communication Oregon Grant Portland 84

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. We're in a deep recession.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Every year we survey the nonprofit technology community (via our members, program participants, and other like-communities) to learn two main things: How are WE doing , as an organization, to make your work easier, and your mission a little closer? 93% of NTEN members would (or have already) recommend membership to their colleagues.

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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.* A communications channel that works well for U.S.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Formed as a response to the work our community was already doing, the program provides a framework to support nonprofit and education professionals looking to volunteer their ideas, skills, and expertise to build innovative solutions and share them with the broader Salesforce.org community. Senior Manager, Open Source Commons.

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Education Collaboration Open Source Module 73

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. Instagram Cheat Sheet.

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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.”

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Social Network Network Social Online 96

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.) programmers work on OOo. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. They are having 35 (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Unfortunately, if you work in digital strategy and social media, monitoring social is a daily task and as a result a bad mood has become an occupational hazard. 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. What to do?

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Social Media Examples Practice Media 80

NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It doesn’t matter whether your non-profit is in the vanguard or late adopters, the best ideas will win. Foster collaboration among your fellow organizations working on the same issue to share data, funding and other resources to meet the finish line faster, more efficiently. Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Ward who not only works hard to have her listening scope tuned to tools. Let us know how it worked out -- we'd love to see a case study on its adoption and impact on fundraising! Check out Blackbaud 's white paper (PDF) for a good introduction and some considerations. what she's hearing and learning. participants.

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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. Twitter does work for some nonprofits. Here are applicable pointers for those wondering whether to adopt Twitter in their online strategy. Let's be clear.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. Additionally, he wanted to make TechSoup Sweden's booth stand out from the crowd — and it worked! The Swedish donation program was launched in May 2010.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 11, 2018

The nonprofit sector is known for the good humanitarian work it aims to provide society. These changes have forced NPOs [nonprofit organizations] to adopt strategies aimed at building viable, sustainable organizations in order to continue to pursue their social mission."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Subscribe to my TextMark campaign to experience how it works and see my Mobile Technology Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations for detailed information about frequency of text messages, how to build your list, and other best practices. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. Example: www.textmarks.com/nonprofitorgs.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Campaign Community Question Organization 73

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Here’s How it Works. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

They announced that their server product, Quickbooks Enterprise , will be released to work on Linux Servers. 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.

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Open Source RSS Tech Journal 100

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. How do you keep up?

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Open Source RSS Journal Tech 124

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online.

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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.

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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. The 10NTC will be April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA - mark your calendars now!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. Open Philanthropy is about working together to increase the size of the proverbial pie (not the piece)." " What do you think? The time is now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

“If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Open Open Source Blogger Press 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. The result of their work? Source: Adapted from Nezhina and Brudney, 2010. The Effects of Adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Nonprofit Organizations.

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Policy Public Adopt University 71

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience. Instead, she plans to bring a variety of working artists, one at a time -- "somebody painting, or shaping a surfboard, or sculpting" -- as a kind of live demonstration of art as it is being created. We painted a big map of the western U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are new to the Linux biz, there isn’t any reason I could see to adopt CentOS.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. Early adopters have been all over FourSquare and downright bullish about location based social networks using mobile phones in general, despite some privacy concerns. Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN " Next Year's Twitter?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. = Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Certainly there’s been a correlating growth in the adoption rate of social media by the general public as well as nonprofits and schools themselves. It was exciting to see that many of the nonprofits and schools adopted our tactics and put them to use leading up to and on the day of the event. Check out the webinars here.

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