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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org

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What Are Gaming Fundraisers and How Can They Raise Donations for Your Nonprofit?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first event, held in 2010, raised $10,000 for the humanitarian organization CARE. Because you’re likely to solicit donations digitally, especially if you’re providing a livestream, be sure to have a system in place that allows you to collect donations over the internet. million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

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. For context, think about it this way: in a country of 21 million, where only about 7 million have internet access , about 1 in every 20 is on facebook!

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. Raiser’s Edge, for instance, did much better among large and very large organizations, and very poorly in small orgs (which probably shouldn’t be using it anyway.)

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you want to see my article about my impressions of snews…see sNews – an easy and simple web publishing tool for non profit organisations Each CMS should be judged by an org, on what it can provide now for an organisation as well as in the future.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And organizations and movements can certainly use twitter to organize – I think that’s a great strategy – as long as the majority of those to be organized are on twitter – which is quite a stretch for most orgs or movements. at 10:40 am Twitter and Non-Profits-Are Baby Boomers Involved?

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Notes from 10NTC Community Call - Agenda!

NTEN

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Knowledge mgmt, super internet tools - strategy and tools. Sessions on engaging volunteers, and on using SM for education/outreach rather then just fundraising or talking about your org.