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

MAY 20, 2011

In the News A big congratulations to John Merritt for his nomination and award as a 2011 Top Tech Exec from San Diego Magazine ! Azavea explores this topic in a newly released whitepaper and documents how they built a prototype mobile app (for iPhone and Android) that overlays historical photos on the modern city streets of Philadelphia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I plan to finish the book, and continuing my meditation practice in 2011. December 25 - Photo Sift through all the photos of you from the past year. I don't have many photos of myself from this year so I'll have to choose this one of me with our cat, Dora, lounging on the couch and doing nothing, just hanging out and being.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Defying its name, Tumblr user growth has accelerated dramatically in 2011 ( up 218% over last year ) and the eleven nonprofits listed below are paving the way for early adoption in the nonprofit sector. The best Tumblr blogs tend to focus less on text, and more on visuals and re-blogging content from other Tumblr blogs.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 28, 2015

You’re meticulous about keeping your Gmail and photos perfectly organized and up to date. Emails, blogs, photos, contacts—to lose it all would be an upsetting circumstance to say the least. You spend loads of time crafting YouTube videos. Your blog posts are works of art. You live and breathe on Google Drive.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

I like to think of it as what we “used to” refer to as peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P (you know, used to, like in 2011). The rollout of Facebook Timeline to most Facebook users provides some distinct opportunities to nonprofits to provide cover photo collateral to their enthusiastic supporters. A good idea or not?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. Anything else?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

So in 2011, the organization adopted an online movement-building model that they hoped would more effectively engage its community of half-a-million divers. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. million divers. Data Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here’s a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. Tech Recycling Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). The curriculum is based on the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit and includes social media strategy development as well as practical skills training. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

2011 Challenge. More than 80 organizations entered the 2011 Digital Storytelling Challenge, demonstrating a wide range of video and photo savvy. 2011 Digital Storytelling Challenge Winners. 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Winners. Storymakers2014 digital storytelling community'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Photo by Gary Clark. The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. You can download it here. Great idea!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. I’ve been….

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

Flickr photo: andercismo The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 11, 2012

As a nonprofit, your message is most likely tailored toward a specific cause, whether it’s through news, links, or photos. Your ultimate breadwinner for social media engagement is photos. People LOVE photos and that’s the way it has always been. Do you remember being younger and loving books packed full of photos?

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

And, here are all the photos on Flickr tagged "11NTC" ! If you did not attend the conference, visit the SlideShare event to review presentations. Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too! Don't fear, you can find all of his conference sketches pulled together on the Social Signal site.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Nonprofits are taking advantage of this technology; according to the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey by NTEN, Common Knowledge & Blackbaud, the average nonprofit’s fan or follower base grew by 30 percent on Facebook and 81 percent on Twitter in 2011. Sharing photos across social media garners a lot of attention for your page.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2021

You can also share these images with the guests in the photos to remind them of all the fun they had and make them feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Make sure you get permission from guests when they first sign up for your event to take photos that can be shared so there aren’t any hard feelings or discomfort later.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here's a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Flickr photo: Wendy Harman. Bid in our online silent auction through February 11th.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Learn about the pros and cons of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and photo and video sharing sites, based on the results of 6 months of Idealware research. Based on Idealware's extensive research, we'll cover what's actually working for nonprofits – and the strengths and weaknesses of each tool – with the help of expert guest speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

It was an one pager, stating violence in Nigeria facts and showing very graphic photos of victims of violence. I silently stared at the photos while she also dug out from her phone a photo of a woman who had been gang raped and ripped up from her navel to her back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

National Day of Unplugging March 4-5, 2011 "For 24 hours, starting at sundown Friday March 4, 2011, individuals, families and community organizations across the nation reclaimed time, slowed down their lives and reconnected with friends, family, the community and themselves." Photo by me (: Tweet Share. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match. Not only did they take repeated photos to see what breed of dog would match their photo, they also started to ask if we could adopt a dog. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app. Increase post sharability.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last 100 Days of 2011: How Will You Make Time for What Really Matters? Create and Connect: 100 Letters for the Last 100 Days of 2011 Photo credits: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter is by Michael Dolan. The photos of Emily, Julie and Tiffany are owned by them. 7 Ways Writers Can Give Back 6. Share Tweet

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

He’s the 2011 March of Dimes National Ambassador. My Dog ID lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition to find your dog match. The app prompts users to share their photo matches with friends on Twitter, Facebook and on the Best Friend’s User Generated Content Dog Wall. Now that’s content marketing in action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The process has opened – so you can browse and vote for the nonprofit panels you think are worthy of being on the program until September 2, 2011. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the tsumani in Japan in 2011, the Ushahidi platform was used to organize emergency responses in real-time. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Auction websites can offer detailed descriptions of auction items and many photos. Share photos and videos from the event if you send out an email campaign, and post them on your social media and website. Share the story of the cause and progress you have made through the written word, photos, and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. What is on your To Do List for 2011? For tools specifically, we use CoTweet to manage our Twitter communications and MBuzz for monitoring our social media mentions. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Flickr photo: niallkennedy. Look for the inaugural issue at the 2011 NTC !). 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. We're not joking when we say we couldn't have done it without you. Expect to see a lot from Annaliese, including the launch of a new quarterly publication for nonprofit leaders, NTEN: Change.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. The NTC is just 146 days away. NTEN Programs are growing and so is the Program Team to support it.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Teaser: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. Blog Content: Flickr photo: niallkennedy. Look for the inaugural issue at the 2011 NTC !). 2010 has been a good year for NTEN. We're not joking when we say we couldn't have done it without you. Also cat videos. We love those, too.). Are you NTEN's next Membership Director? Let's find out!

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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. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Achieve

MAY 19, 2022

For a virtual event, this is also when you’d take photos of the item. After all, do you want to spend the day before your auction taking and uploading photos of all 30+ items? Leveraging his software background, he built most of the tools his charities used, and in 2011 he launched Handbid at his own fundraising event.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2011

Finished video or photo stories created according to the challenge guidelines can be submitted at the challenge website. Pacific time, January 31, 2011. Don't know about the challenge? Read the details on the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Event page to see how you can win some great prizes before the submission period ends at 5 p.m.

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