NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

We were thrilled that so many people wanted to learn more about them, but also surprised at how many were already using them at their nonprofits. Here are five reasons QR codes are a good option for your nonprofit: More and More People Are Scanning QR Codes. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

“Mobile-first” became a major topic for websites when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, popularized the idea in 2010 at the Mobile World Congress. billion people across the globe. The result was content being removed or presented on an entirely different site for mobile-sized viewports. Taking a mobile-first approach.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2013

If you’re reading this, chances are you have the ability to read, understand, and act on the estimated 54% of web content that exists in English. According to the 2010 Census , more than 20% of individuals in the US speak a language other than English at home, and of those, less than half say they don’t speak English very well.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

When you take a minute to think about all the hours you’ve put in you begin get an idea of what it’s costing you. Needless to say, without good SEO, you’ve got a very slim chance of being found by people searching for things you offer (events, fundraising opportunities, volunteer opportunities, programs, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: Allison Fine and I have been actively researching, writing, and presenting about AI for Social Good. What about you? That’s a long time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. If you are going to use one of these early do-it-yourself smartphone App tools, then you most definitely need mobile versions of your about, donate, e-newsletter subscribe and text alert subscribe pages. population!).

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

In 2010, the event had a transformation. The Conference “Curse” While so much good was happening with Cause Camp, the first instance suggesting a “Cause Camp Curse” happened in 2010. Future Cause Camps experiencing last-minute speaker cancelations used the “when all else fails, form a panel” plan, learned from 2010.).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Each year, we celebrate Pro Bono Week: a time to recognize professionals around the world who volunteer their skills for causes they care about. Salesforce MVPs Bill Florio , Barbara Christensen , and Charise Van Liew co-lead a team of community members to create content for the NPSP How-To Series. About the Author.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s trusted by over 15,000 nonprofits for its people-centric user experience that centers the tools nonprofit professionals care about most, which put donor relationships at the center of fundraising. Learn more about Bloomerang’s scalable pricing. Pricing Get in touch with the Classy team to learn about pricing.

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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 July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

I don’t always share links as I find them, but because I use content curation to support curriculum development for my training work, I like to share collections that organized so people can take an hour or so and get up to speed on a topic or to use if you are doing a training. Instagram Overview.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Donor” is a very loose term that describes an enormous group of people. In 2010, Komen Maryland strategically sent 103 email messages to constituents over 140 days. Web: An up-to-date website that provides information about your organization is vital. Oh, and improved fundraising results. Multi-Channel Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. —– Tools for listening: Goodbyebuddy – find out when people aren’t listening to you any more. Learn what people want to hear. Where are the conversations? Communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My friend, Mazarine Treyz , is an accomplished woman: She is passionate about life and supporting nonprofit organizations. When I was growing up, people loved to argue around the dinner table about how people could try to change the world, but every nonprofit was corrupt. (No That you just had to let things go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. The conference was rich with great speakers and content, and it’s great to see how far things have come.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Direct Content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. Is it worth it to spend the money? for ACH transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What will be different about nonprofits? Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. This made think about focusing less on the tools, but more on the implications for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

That said, people love Facebook. I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. At the beginning of each of my webinars, I ask attendees where they first heard about the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. It’s more corporate content control, but that’s what we get from relying on free (but privately held) tools.” ” moment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. We want our donors to be advocates. How can your organization apply this?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

It's more about that curator who was fired. I'm not usually that interested in museum politics, but this soap opera is too big to ignore, especially as the conversation has shifted over the last few weeks to something I care a lot about: populism. It's great when my mom wants to talk about it. Visitors are people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors , which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook? Engaging Content is King. Do you like to read boring content that puts you to sleep? Content gets read and shared at an incredibly fast pace. Your content needs to be engaging to stand out. Your content needs to be engaging to stand out.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

In 2010, the event had a transformation. The Conference “Curse” While so much good was happening with Cause Camp, the first instance suggesting a “Cause Camp Curse” happened in 2010. Future Cause Camps experiencing last-minute speaker cancelations used the “when all else fails, form a panel” plan, learned from 2010.).

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

But frankly, I’m not sure we really need another blog post talking about all those things right now. But what I haven’t seen written about as as often—or maybe I’m just not looking in the right places—are stories about the little, delightful, unexpected things that changed us in 2020. . Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

Instead, send me information on things I am interested in and allow my community to tell me about the products and causes they care about while I tell them about my own interests. One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. YouTube is full of folks who do a nice job with video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Test, but be careful.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Smaller sized content also enables them to absorb and retain the training courses in a better way. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Creative content is required to enable new and refreshed learning experience to employees. percent of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. percent of respondents said they heard about Give to the Max Day from an email from their nonprofit.

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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. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. Gardner Leadership Award in recognition of their tireless commitment to young people, service, and advancing the common good. 2. Content from seven sessions is posted to the IS blog or other blogs. network strategy.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. I love designing panels, not only the content but the interactive piece as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Millennials are defined as people who were born approximately between 1981 and 2000. NPQ, 2014) In 2010, the PEW Research Center put out a report titled “Millennials, A Portrait of Generation Next.” PEW, 2010). Millennials first support causes they are passionate about (rather than institutions).” PEW Research Center.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Millennials are defined as people who were born approximately between 1981 and 2000. NPQ, 2014) In 2010, the PEW Research Center put out a report titled “Millennials, A Portrait of Generation Next.” PEW, 2010). Millennials first support causes they are passionate about (rather than institutions).” PEW Research Center.

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