NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You can read the official press release , but we thought you might rather read what a few members have to say: Blog Content: We are all very excited to announce today that NTEN has received a $1.15 million grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. This is the first grant NTEN has received from Google.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2012

The Mobile Web was on their to-do list, but it was relegated to 2011 and 2012. There were some early adopters, but for the most part nonprofits felt overwhelmed by the prospect of launching a mobile website. Mobile browsers are hungry for new mobile content. To Make Your Smartphone Apps More Functional.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Posting only (boring) marketing content. For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Without them, you're just reading content or broadcasting, and that's not nearly as insightful. Come to our panel at the 2011 NTC !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Greatest Challenges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!)

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. Tech Talk at SXSW. I’ve been….

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. Make it easy to share your content via your website with share buttons (those share numbers are an excellent and easy recommendation for your customers).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

For nonprofits specifically, the name “nonprofit” can deter adopting a pay-for-trust model. Examine.com: An Unbiased Content Database on What’s Actually Healthy for You. The website was founded early 2011. It’s still critical to think about the economic engine when starting a nonprofit that wants to scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. Already that morning, keynotes had give some powerful adoption statistics. Geoff Livingston gave an overview of mobile trends , mentioning that the adoption rate of mobile phones and tablets are higher than Twitter now and mobile is now part of our lives.

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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. It will surely stretch into 2011 and beyond, but 2010 is definitely the year to reap the benefits of early adoption. Of those four, one is sending me text alerts that are text-only.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

This time I collected all of the nonprofit emails that I was sent between December 15, 2011 and January 1, 2012. How you segment the message and the actual content and calls-to-action are also very important. These work well when paired with good message content. Tax Deduction 2011. Last Chance to Give in 2011.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. As we have learned in the past with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram the early adoption phase is when new communities grow the fastest. Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. November 2011: Community Generated Content.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

So how did you do in 2011? Encourage those who respond to your postal mail, telephone appeals, and special events to sign up for your email list – offer incentives like special content, matching gifts, and online premiums. Use that information to deliver the content most relevant to them. Use Multiple Channels.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By September of 2011 Google+ quickly grew to about 20 million to 40 million account users (depending on who you ask) and had about 12.3 Outside of early adopters Google+ still feels like the forgotten social network and is probably one of the last places many people think to post rich media and content. million U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. Tendenci was developed by Schipul especially…. Tech Talk at SXSW. I've been….

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use. To address this need, we’ve been operating the DIAGRAM Center , a research and development hub working to set standards, generate best practices, and design tools to ensure that images found in digital content are accessible to everyone.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. Years ago, Convio was an early adopter of Google Analytics, back when it was still called "Urchin". Oh, and what will happen come January when you close the 2011 walk and open 2012?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2015

Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. Meanwhile, they also raise good questions about what live streaming means for civil society, content appropriation, and security. Live Streaming for Civil Society.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We have adopted Facebook and Twitter and examine new tools before taking them to assess their usefulness in reaching our community. Adopting video into our mix of communications and marketing tools to tell the story of those affected by a brain tumour.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Cloud data security and privacy challenges were cited by 27% of respondents as a significant barrier to cloud adoption. Perhaps the most famous of these was the outage of the Sony PlayStation Network that took down their cloud based service for nearly a month in the spring of 2011 and affected Sony's 70 million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. November 2011: Community Generated Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org has succeeded in connecting with a younger audience that not only reads its content but is also inspired to take action. Says Giller, “Our theory of change is engaging users around content that shows how being green can reshape our world can empower personal behavior change and ultimately impact society at large.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

This method basically reformats and converts the page content into a mobile experience. Since the adoption of web enabled smartphones has advanced at an astronomical rate, it's important to accommodate this ever expanding audience. It's estimated that by the end of 2011, there will be 150-million smartphone users in the US.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Today, many libraries have adopted a hybrid approach in providing access to information in which the physical institution anchors a complementary digital collection. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Drag and Drop to Update Your Content — Simple and Quick. We Have a Solution. Make Updates a Breeze.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Though many thought I was crazy, I persevered with the support of my cofounder David Crooke, our early team members, early adopter clients, investors, and of course my wife. We recruited a number of early adopter clients who had the patience to work with an immature product, and the vision to understand how to utilize it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to participate in the SF Foundation Center’s 35th Anniversary Open House where I had an opportunity to lead a mini-workshop on best practices in social fundraising for almost a 100 people from Bay Area nonprofits. I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The following is an excerpt from the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits and was published in the September 2011 edition of Fundraising Success Magazine (@ frsuccess ). However, do to word count constraints the content below is not in its full entirety. Is an early adopter. Just a FYI.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well. Communities use adoption as collective decision making and prioritization. Why Community?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Launched in 2011, many nonprofits have been hesitant to experiment with a mobile social network where content disappears and where no traditional “Follow” functionality exists. The vast majority of nonprofits will find Snapchat challenging. How to Add Friends on Snapchat Using Snapcodes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

The Museum of Art & History is now in the hands of internationally known innovator Nina Simon, while the community eagerly awaits what happens next By WALLACE BAINE Posted: 06/30/2011 01:30:40 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge Museum of Art & History Director Nina Simon. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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