Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

The millennial generation consists of 76 million Americans who are tech savvy, well-informed, and results-driven. As the generation that also pioneered blogging, generation Xers have adapted well to the rise of mobile and social media. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. He’s the managing editor of the White Courtesy Telephone blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2013

This photo of my father holding my second book, “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” was from my October, 2012 visit to see my Dad. While proud of the outside recognition, my greatest hope for the book is that it would help nonprofits get started with the joy of measurement that would lead to improved results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Google has launched Analytics Academy , a three-week online course t three-week course offers the basics for those seeking to understand the how to improve results through better digital measurement. It has been adopted across the disciplines, institutional types, and throughout the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

My colleagues, all experts, practitioners, and instigators share a passion for inspiring others to build great organizations for greater societal impact and increasing the expectation and adoption of high performance in the field. Within 48 hours of first announcing Platinum we had more than 500 nonprofits sign up as Early Adopters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The specific technologies highlighted in the reports are place along a continuum of near-term, mid-term, and far-term field adoption: One year or less to adoption: Cloud Computing (K-12), Mobile Learning (K-12), MOOC (Higher Ed), Tablet Computing (Higher Ed). The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Patrick Meier has this excellent “ behind the scenes ” post from April, 2012. He points the common challenge in using social media data for emergency response: scaling.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. We publish articles, blog pieces, newsletters, web content, and conduct trainings and webinars every day across our network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. The idea that “pictures do the talking” is also appealing to younger audiences which is why Instagram is popular with Gen Z and Gen Y.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. The Restart Romania challenge resulted in citizens proposing technological solutions to a range of real world problems such as corruption in the medical system. TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live. on the Future of Fundraising back in 2011.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics. E-mail Metrics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. Instead, there are some fundamental best practices that improve the donor experience, reduce friction, and produce better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As a result, more and more content is being produced; Facebook says on average, 1,500 stories can appear in someone's news feed when they log on. A study by EdgeRank documented that organic reach has declined from 16 percent reach per fan (meaning an average post reached 16 percent of a total fan base) in February 2012.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. What can we learn from nonprofits who have been early adopters reaching out to and engaging Gen Z donors? Optimize your search results (they do their Internet research).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Chapter 1 :: Network for Good.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

adults use smart phones as of February 2012, up 11% from May 2011 and 10% said that their phone was their primary means of getting online. To get a full write up on the session head over to the TechSoup blog and read Mobile Tips from 12NTC. NTEN 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference by TechSoup. 3) Websites Still Matter (A lot).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. Figure 1: Metal fragments from an old gunshot wound in the head of California sea lion patient Whirlybird (patient in The Marine Mammal Center’s hospital in 2012).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2016

In mid-July, NASDAQ announced that Blackbaud acquired Attentive.ly – a pioneering social listening and marketing automation tool co-founded by Rosalyn Lemieux, Cindy Mottershed and myself in 2012 — to offer nonprofits more innovation and better insights around list engagement. The Result: • 24% petition conversion rate.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Users are accustomed to retail purchases where spending money results in a new object or service rendered. While nonprofits are often slower to adopt web design and marketing trends, there are several practices that are ingrained in the nonprofit design process that can be useful for commercial designers as well. Storytelling.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But that’s a blog post for another day.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Since dairy and meat are more dangerous once out of date, basing your diet on fruit and vegetables could result in less waste and more flexibility over best before dates. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. So, what now?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Since dairy and meat are more dangerous once out of date, basing your diet on fruit and vegetables could result in less waste and more flexibility over best before dates. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. So, what now?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. Certainly it’s our mission to help the nonprofit community not be the last one to adopt it this time, this new technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” TweetCharts :: tweetcharts.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on. Certainly it’s our mission to help the nonprofit community not be the last one to adopt it this time, this new technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here are two simple ideas I’d like you to think about as you close out 2012. Oh, and those who implement multi-channel fundraising strategies that take online donors to offline channels see up to 3X better fundraising results. Check out the full 2012 State of the Nonprofit Industry INFOGRAPHIC. Mobile Fundraising = Growth.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Relatedly, racially biased facial-recognition technology has resulted in drivers of color losing jobs due to computer-assisted mismatches, without any due process or evidence of wrongdoing. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012. In many U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

The Forecasts for 2012. I guess a good place to start is looking back at forecasts from January 2012. Andrew Cohen of Forum One did one called 12 Big Trends in Nonprofit Technology for 2012. His big prediction was that 2012 would be a breakout year for mobile computing in nonprofit tech. IoT is definitely not a new thing.

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