Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the big additions to the guide is a section on backing up a mobile phone or tablet. Back up your tablet or smartphone with Norton Mobile Security. The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. Android, iOS) is a mobile app by the American Heart Association.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. Click To Tweet.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

" Google+ vs. Facebook vs. Twitter vs. … Part 1: T… – Lithosphere Community – "Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM. Of course, I will compare and contrast them to the new kids on the block (i.e.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." " » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Ushahidi is an NGO project from Kenya that hosts a free online service that collects reports about a stricken area via mobile phone or computer and then maps them so relief efforts can respond.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 16, 2012

Takes Online Sales Mobile With App Update - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Goodwill D.C. Takes Online Sales Mobile With App Update April 16, 2012, 10:27 am The Washington, D.C.-area Goodwill D.C.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

AIDS event to provide mobile fundraising and event update help for. The app includes ride maps, the updates and discussions. cross between Yelp, Google Maps, and Twitter. NTEN member American Red Cross. is cited as example. . Charity Dynamics tells us about an iPhone app they implemented for Hill Country Ride for. participants.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. It allows nonprofits free access to data that they would normally not have access to (like mapping data), or would have to pay a lot for.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 22, 2010

After months of debating all the mobile broadband options, and getting thisclose to Comcast's mobile 4G option (which would have saved me $10/month until I found out it couldn't be used at all on a Mac and canceled my order), this morning I picked up a Sprint 3G/4G Overdrive. When under personal stress some people eat.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 22, 2010

After months of debating all the mobile broadband options, and getting thisclose to Comcast's mobile 4G option (which would have saved me $10/month until I found out it couldn't be used at all on a Mac and canceled my order), this morning I picked up a Sprint 3G/4G Overdrive. When under personal stress some people eat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space. But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Michael Gilbert has a review of things happening on the varied NTC backchannels, with some wry commentary.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Just like in past years, we'll be kicking off the 10NTC with the Science Fair.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. Just like in past years, we'll be kicking off the 10NTC with the Science Fair.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Since then, there have been more than 6.5

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). .   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. A 3 day walk).

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 85% of Americans have mobile phones, a majority of which will be Internet connected multimedia smartphones by year's end. Mobile users are doing a whole lot more than making calls — 38% of them (and rising) use their devices to access the Internet ( View survey results ).

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. For over a decade, our annual Advancing Human Rights research has mapped trends in funding for human rights, breaking down funding into three major categories: issues, strategies, and populations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

The new Office 2013 products offer a number of new features and benefits over Office 2010, including direct integration with SkyDrive, new graphics options, the ability to open and edit PDFs in Word, plus syncing across several devices. You can use OneNote Mobile apps on Windows Phone, iOS, and Android phones.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, In the fall of 2010 the community rallied around a pledge to find common ground and unity in the Charter for Common Ground.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. With the arrival of smartphones, it’s amazing how much data we are collecting and consuming on our mobile devices. Now we have our mobile devices diligently collecting our data. Now I can just say I’m Mobile Me , to borrow a term Apple has abandoned. Our Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Mobile Platform Battle Royale. The SXSW Interactive Festival. Are older groups evolving quickly enough? Is it better to start from scratch? Bring your yoga mat!

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Care2

MARCH 23, 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) March 23, 2009 | Hatef Yamini Excellent list!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010. Friday, April 9, 2010. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Come to the session with your online campaign ideas, and get ready to have fun mapping out a campaign! Saturday, April 10, 2010. When : 9:00 a.m.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! note: I was getting around to writing up my own notes about SXSW, when I realized Beth had done all the work for me, as usual! The SXSW Interactive Festival. Submitted by Ted Fickes.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

World Central Kitchen was founded by chef and activist José Andres in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, our founder José felt compelled by the news and flew down. We mapped out all the official and unofficial shetlers and start connecting with people on the ground there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it I resisted using the title of “report card”. cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Another related tool we found is lo.calize.us

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

The Survivors Connect online platform includes various opportunities for those wishing to report abuse, take action, or otherwise support the network of activists, and relies on a variety of collaborative technologies, from data mapping to online seminars, SMS-powered communications to an online community network.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Ginny Mies' Mobile App of the Month. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. that address poverty in the world. Images: Shutterstock.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

George Durham, Program Manager, Microsoft Global Community Affairs On January 12th, 2010, a devastating earthquake ripped through the Haitian landscape, literally decimating cities like Leogane, Petit Goave, and much of Port-au-Prince.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The public sites have already collected over 800 new ideas and will continue to until at least through March 19, 2010. The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea].

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

As Internet and mobile access grows, more data is made open online. Innovative visualization, such as the Mapping for Results Initiative , was highlighted as a powerful tool for civil society organizations and citizens. CNN used Twitter data to report on the 2010 World Cup Fever in South Africa.

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