Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. 10 trillion sent by the end of 2011.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all.

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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. And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011. 93% of our respondents plan on using email marketing in 2011. It says that 22.7%

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

No matter your mission, having a website that inspires action is crucial to the continued advancement of your cause! Does your website provide an experience that converts interest into action? Ask yourself these questions to see if a website redesign should be a part of your plans for 2017: 1. Is your website responsive?

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What fundraising strategies will be a game changer for nonprofits in 2011? You don't have to translate your whole site, but be strategic about what content mobile browsers want, and what you want mobile browsers to see. Every nonprofit should turn its website into a kick-ass donation and/or e-commerce engine! Holly Ross, NTEN.

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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. Would your nonprofit ever put a cropped, completely wrecked logo in print materials or on its website? Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Posting only (boring) marketing content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

In our 2011 Online Giving Report we've combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multiyear giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. of online giving happened in October, November, and December of 2011. of the 34.8%.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2011

The formula we used is simple: Good content = good SEO. Get the skinny in the report we co-authored with Idealware, " A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems ", updated for 2011. You know your website's doing pretty well when you have time to hyper-customize your 404 page. Watch out for anybody who says otherwise.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. David : What we’ve seen as we moved from a brochure website to one where people could interact and post and learn, we saw the traffic going up 1000s of % a year. David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. And almost all executives were resisting letting go of control and embracing the new concept of empowering supporters and donors to be content creators and fundraisers for their nonprofits online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. In general, it's fine to post video that you create yourself on your website. See our blog post, Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Lots of YouTube videos are ones you can use on your website or blog.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

Relevant content. A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. They focus on delivering relevant content based on subscriber interests, preferences and actions. Just look at some of the considerations: Frequency. Calls to action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

For all the buzz about new media in the nonprofit sector, it is somewhat surprising how few nonprofits have integrated their new media campaigns into one of the most important pages on their website – the “Thank You for Your Donation!” ” landing page. That is, the page your donors land on after making a donation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

On the other hand, explaining to her that, "The computer that runs our website has some really old software on it; we need to fix it. Stopping the website basement from flooding" makes more sense to her than "RHEL 3 is going end-of-life, or even "Our webhosts are going to stop supporting the server's operating system". (

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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. A mobile-first approach is often referred to as making a website “responsive.” The result was content being removed or presented on an entirely different site for mobile-sized viewports.

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NetWits

MARCH 27, 2013

That term found its way to the web with the thought that the most prominent content of your website should be immediately available when the page loads, lest the audience navigate somewhere else. Scrolling has become so normal that Apple removed the scrollbar as a default interface element in OSX in 2011. Why did they do this?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Did you end up just leaving the website after getting too frustrated? 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). We Have a Solution.

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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. It is also important that links from your website include a photo thumbnail to catch the reader’s eye as they scan their wall. Asking never hurt.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your organization supports different types of community programming, perhaps you test a different message to see if that elicits a greater click-through rate or increases the amount of interaction with your website. This is just a taste of what segmentation is all about. Komen 3-Day for the Cure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Website: HumaneSociety.org. Everything we do online (our website, email program, advertising, social) is tied to our goals of advocacy and fundraising, or some other kind of lead generation. We accept that and cater to them on Facebook by providing them fresh, interesting, and relevant content where they are. Name: Carie Lewis.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Website: BigCatRescue.org. We have a second paid person, LaWanna Mitchell, who creates e-cards, games, screensavers, puzzles and a plethora of free downloads for our website. a mobile website, texting, mobile Apps, text-to-give, etc.? What is on your To Do List for 2011? Organization: Big Cat Rescue. Name: Carol Baskin.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2011

When I first dropped my self-hosted blog and relocated it to Posterous last year after a bit of a hacking incident , I had trouble importing the old content. I’ve decided to bring everything together again by continuing my website going forward on WordPress.com. Nearly 2,000 entries all under the same roof again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Website: www.taprootfoundation.org. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. Megan does a fantastic job of keeping the content on link Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn fresh. Organization: Taproot Foundation. Organization Size: 40 Employees.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Be sure to visit both her website and her blog. I remember one website where the owners of the company said, “O.K., If executed well, then content posted on social media platforms will align with a brand’s overall marketing strategy. Content will be consistent. Do you agree with this approach? Why or why not?

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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. You can also check out all of the recorded sessions from SXSW on the New Empire Builders’ website.

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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? Mary Trudel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Nerdy Valentine’s from Scoop.It: The content curation platform, Scoop.it, came up with funny “nerdy” valentine’s for its content curation community. Generosity Day: This got started in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Katya Andresen.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Date : February 28th-March 2nd, 2011. Related Links : Conference website. Location : Austin, TX. Topic : Keynote. Description : Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Hashtag #ERL11. Blog post with slides and notes.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a method for letting a program work with another app or website. Companies have customers and employees who want to give to a good cause, but they often don’t want their customers and employees to have to become familiar with another platform or leave their own website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Website: www.nwf.org. Traffic (how many people are actually coming to our website). Interaction (are people sharing our content? a mobile website, texting, mobile Apps, text-to-give, etc.? What is on your To Do List for 2011? Organization: National Wildlife Federation. Organization Size: 400 employees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Add links to your nonprofit’s website, blog, and social networking communities. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Get the Tagline Database and Report!" Which are easiest to use?

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Achieve

MAY 6, 2015

When I first heard Ethan Marcotte speak on the topic of responsive web design in 2011, I remember the whole room being filled with a thick layer of wonder as we all mulled over what this meant for the web industry. The first website that he tested his concept on was. Websites for news publications hold a ton of content.

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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. Be sure to repin and promote others if their content is good and relevant to your nonprofit’s mission. Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!)

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

What about mobile websites versus apps? Here are some advantages of mobile websites. And second, you don't have to count on users to upgrade their apps to see your new content. Once you update your mobile website content, you can be confident that's what people are seeing. Does your organization have a strategy?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

According to the LEED website, “People know that if they are in a LEED-certified building they are using less energy and water, avoiding waste, saving on maintenance costs, improving indoor air quality, offering comfort to their occupants, and creating less environmental burden on their community.”. The website was founded early 2011.

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