Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I know more and more people are using calendars on their computers and cell phones, but I like paper calendars. If you haven't purchased your 2010 calendar yet (or are looking for a last minute holiday gift), lots of nonprofits publish calendars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/PanCAN , twitter.com/Advocate4PanCAN. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. gid=104492.

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NetWits

JUNE 15, 2011

According to the BBC in 2010 “In many regions, penetration exceeds 100%, where there is more than one connection per person in the country. Ben Wood, mobile phone analyst at CCS Insight said the mobile phone may be “the most prolific consumer device on the planet&#.” Not unless you have a compelling or marketable concept.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Many of those texts are being sent via Tweets on Twitter and Status Updates on Facebook. My guess is that 2010 will be the year when many nonprofits will be able to starting utilizing these new, powerful mobile tools at a much lower cost. Have you considered how your current Website looks on a mobile phone?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

A land line phone plays back your own voice at low levels. Cell phones -- and social media sites, and your in-box -- don't offer much in the way of feedback. Box office trackers have started counting Twitter mentions to help predict movie openings. Can somebody make a PSA-style poster to illustrate this? Yes, they can !

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. This is big. The SDK will be available later this month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. { I’m looking forward to it. And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Are they using their phones for shopping or other transactions involving credit cards? Qwerty Monsters.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Instagram is a photo-sharing app (for Android phones and the iPhone) that has a built-in social network. Like Twitter, you can add searchable hashtags (like #event2012), and then view all photos with that particular hashtag. He also set up a script that triggered the print function from his phone to his laptop.

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NTEN

AUGUST 30, 2011

The organization also worked with Twitter to create a special badge that marked volunteers' Twitter accounts as valid and official sources of information. Government agencies jumped into the social space on both Twitter and Facebook. They also suggested that followers pass the information on to those who may have lost power.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

The iPhone 3G had some compelling features and 3rd party apps (like Pandora , which, I have to admit, is about 1/2 the reason I got the phone.) In general, the phone actually works quite well. I know some folks are holding out for an Android phone, which, from what I can tell, are going to be pretty similar. {

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. It says that 22.7% If not, you should!

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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. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Twitter uses hashtags. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

I like my 60G iPod that I’ve had for a while, and although I tire of lugging around three electronic devices (cell phone, Palm, iPod), and that my current phone is about to fall apart, the cost and the fact that it was so new made me decide not to go for it, even though AT&T is my carrier. Too expensive, for one thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. You choose the House or Senate committee you want to call, type in your phone number, and Committee Caller will sequentially dial each member of the committee so that you can leave your comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success. Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. Average time on site was over 9 minutes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

If someone releases a “Chrome minus Google&# – that is, a version of Chrome with all of the “phone home&# code completely eliminated, then I’ll think about using that version, just to see what it’s like. Otherwise, fuggetaboutit. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alanna 09.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Check out the new images and videos of Android , the open source phone. : Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience , by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon. And the video with the kids is very cute. Wait for this, or buy an iPhone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi had just discovered Twitter, but had not started to use it regularly. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. We did a little coaching. 50% heard about the campaign via Twitter. We did a little coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I was able to get fast wifi and 3G on my smart phone almost every where I went, with the exception of very brief patches in rural areas when we left main roads. However, our taxi driver was talking on his cell phone during the drive. I had to adapt all my social media techniques for very low bandwidth and do it in real time.

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

Fundraisers raised an average of $32 more in 2010. Also monitor their fundraising progress and reach out by phone, if needed. Those who use Twitter raise 10x more than those who don’t. Check out the results …. With 2,500 fewer participants registered, the Global Race has brought in $150,000 more in donations to date.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. Some really interesting things are brewing with CiviCRM. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting. at blogged.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. 16, we’ve hit the ground running with a robust social media plan that involves Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Livestream and blogs. We created a hashtag for the event: #GTMD2010 and are already seeing a lot of chatter on Twitter. Go Minnesota!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Pacific time via the Twitter hashtag #Text2Give for a real-time discussion of how text-to-give campaigns can help nonprofits. When following the January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Red Cross quickly mobilized a text donation campaign that raised an astounding $32 million. Join TechSoup on Wednesday, October 5 at 10:00 a.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. I don’t necessarily think Twitter will abuse the info, but you never know what’s happening behind the scenes. 5 Jay 12.18.07

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Care2

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

According to a June 2010 Nielsen survey of 4,200 people who had downloaded an application in the past 30 days, games were the most downloaded and followed by music, social networking, news and weather, maps, search, video and movies. Then, assuming your app works on all of those phones, they have to download the app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Twitter: @agahran. In 2010 they added a mobile friendly site which A) provided parents a tool for accessing the information when it was needed most – in the stores B) expanded the quantity and quality of coverage traditional and online and C) helped position the organization internally and externally as innovating with technology.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

With merely a click of a mouse or tap on a phone, individuals can quickly learn about and donate to nonprofit organizations. According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Facebook alone has 2.41

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Thirty-eight percent of American mobile phone users -- 120 million people -- access the web via their mobile device; fewer than 30 million are iPhones or Android phones. Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). Mobile browsers, even on smart phones, are not conducive to searching, browsing, or exploration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

Which, on one hand, seems like a lot, but it’s not, when every cell phone, PC, router, cable set top box and toaster has one. IPv4 , the last version, was thought up in the world that existed when PCs didn’t exist, really, and no one could even imagine that, well, you’d want to give your refrigerator an IP address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. We nurture lots of relationships, every day at conferences, in coffee shop meet ups, on Twitter, in response to emails, on the phone and at our kids’ schools with fellow parents.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads. One big one was my address book. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It was great. First problem: Linux address books … suck.

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