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Technology Trends for Nonprofits in 2011

NTEN

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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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

In some cases, fundraisers become casino nights or raffles drive donors to purchase family vacations for two to three times more than their standard price, all just to support a charity. Fundraising is a way that gamification can be utilized, but it’s not the bottom line for the social sector. Target Audience. Player Goals.

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Webinar: Appreciate, Engage and Retain Your Supporters

Care2

All across the fundraising landscape, donor retention is falling. Gartner Inc. Ashley Hansen -- Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Ashley works with nonprofits to win advocacy campaigns, strengthen their online fundraising program and drive traffic to their website. If yes, this webinar is for you!

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Cloud Before Cloud was Cool

Connection Cafe

Last week, Gartner “the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company” issued a press release around the results of a worldwide survey of CIO’s in the commercial sector. The survey identified cloud computing as the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011. Author: Tad Druart.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Here's the latest.

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