Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Responsive web design (also known as mobile optimization) refers to designing a site to provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. Multiple studies have found that more people are accessing the web from a mobile device. Responsive Web Design. Mashable calls 2013 the "year of responsive web."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

allow individuals and brands to launch their own Web-based “TV&# channels. Very few nonprofits are currently streaming live programs on Web-based TV channels and if there is one thing I have learned in 15 years of online communications for nonprofits, it’s the early adopters that always win big. and Justin.tv

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Show the real impacts that year-round donations can have on your mission by using compelling images within your website. Choose images that show interactions between people, whether it’s your volunteers and constituents or your donors mingling at previous fundraising events. Intuitive user experience. A fast load speed.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Consider incorporating interactive content into your blog, such as: Quizzes Polls Image galleries or slideshows Interactive maps Interactive videos Your nonprofit’s content management system (CMS) may offer built-in tools or add-ons that make it easier to create interactive content. Simple language free of jargon.

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TechImpact

JUNE 10, 2014

Image courtesy of nsemo. On this blog, and undoubtedly many other just like it, you’ve been encourage to steer your nonprofit to adopt a mobile first mentality. On this blog, and undoubtedly many other just like it, you’ve been encourage to steer your nonprofit to adopt a mobile first mentality. Facebook refers 29.4%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Consequently, some of the nonprofits best known to be early adopters are pinning away too: National Wildlife Federation , Amnesty International , SFMOMA , Water.org , and the AARP. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Upload your first Pins.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

And infinitely more websites are adopting the new API, so if you haven’t encountered it so far chances are you will soon. Mobile-friendly reCAPTCHAs already include image matching games, much more enjoyable then deciphering the previous jumble of hard-to-read text and symbols.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. The person scanning is then sent either to a mobile Web browser to view the link inside the QR Code, sent a text message, or prompted to dial a phone number. So, what are they?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images. Absolutely not!

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Byte Technology

APRIL 14, 2016

And lastly more designers are putting greater emphases on hi-definition images, which have been proven to effectively grab a visitor’s attention and encourage further exploration. • One concept many web designers currently agree on is that animation is making a comeback in a big way. Material design versus flat design?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Website: Create web pages dedicated to the various aspects of your nonprofit, such as an “About Us” page that summarizes your vision and a donation page with integrated payment processing. Provide them with the necessary resources, such as information, images, and videos , to create compelling content. Problem solve.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K., Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Flickr is the largest photo-sharing social networking community on the Web and should be your starting point for your online photo-sharing campaigns. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads. Some even think Web 3.0 = The App Economy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2015

To ensure that your nonprofit’s infographics have the best chance possible of success, then adopt the six best practices detailed below. Upload your infographic in full-size as an image (not a PDF) to a landing page. You’d be surprised how many nonprofits launch their infographics in PDF format.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Over the years these terms have evolved to fit the adoption of new marketing channels. Web crawlers scan the internet indexing websites and following any linked resources it has access to. This includes adopting pay per click (PPC) ads as part of their promotional strategy to increase revenue and create brand awareness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Nonprofits might also think that the Mobile Web is a somewhat abstract concept that they need to focus on in a year or two, but as of today one in five Americans now access the mobile web daily. They also send 2.5

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Add “pin it” buttons to your blog or web site so your visitors and supporters can create their own pin boards that highlight your cause. Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2014

Whether compared to adoption of the wheel, the car, or even fire, the mobile phone is the most popular tool in human history. But with over 28% of web traffic now coming from mobile devices , the truth is the mobile age isn’t coming, it’s here. Check out their devices and plans. It’s easy to switch. Less is more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. Cropping images, adding borders or text, and creating visually compelling slideshows are skills acquired only through practice. It’s rare that any web-based activity lasts longer than 30 minutes.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2023

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. For example, if you’re hosting a webinar, you can integrate Zoom into your website by using the Web Meeting SDK. Designing matching gift CTAs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2014

Web Pal, a tool from Emmett Global , not only promises to block ads and trackers from the websites you visit, but also speed up your browser. Always eager to try out a new privacy tool, I gave Web Pal a test drive on my work computer. I first learned about Web Pal from Respect Network launch event in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2016

Birgit Pauli-Haack , a web and mobile developer for Pauli Systems and Relevanza, serves businesses, professionals, and nonprofits with websites and digital marketing. Ben Williams is a data services analyst with Tech Impact, where he creates training plans for tech adoption. Image : Startup Stock Photos / CC0. About Our Experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. 4) Rinse, Repeat, Leverage. . Caption Contest. Caption contest.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Technology has enabled rapid adoption of telework (also called telecommuting) since the turn of the century. I mainly used TechSoup donor products: the Skype chat application; and ReadyTalk audio, web, and video conferencing services. Image 1: TechSoup. Image 2: Jessica Galeria. Image 3 : Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Click the image above to view the multimedia slideshow. As an early adopter at this point, you need to look beyond the bugs that inevitably pop up in beta and buy in to the vision. Because of its "pull content as you go" quality, literally the entire web is your content playground. From Alpha to Zeega. I can feel it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce Lesley, President, of First Focus share their approaches.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. Though, you’ll see in these images (just like on Facebook), that when you comment or interact with a friend’s post, you can then be interacting with people who aren’t in your circles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Like many people, I donated both on the Web and for the first time via text to the Red Cross. The Extraordinaries have pioneered the concept of "micro volunteering" that allows people to complete micro-tasks for organizations or efforts passionate about, using a mobile phone or web browser, in a few minutes of spare time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Analytics :: analytics.google.com Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

Let’s consider how much has changed in tech over the last 4 years: Since 2013, we’ve seen the adoption of the smart phone, the start of smart watches, selfies, and touch ID. What is responsive web design? This means that a site’s content and images respond to the dimensions of the devices its site visitors are using.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Yes, there are dangers, but that profound impact on culture and society is the best reason to begin understanding this technology and to become an early adopter. Often copywriting, campaign planning, media buying, and web management are all assigned to the same over-extended staffer. AI’s ability to manipulate images is prodigious.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The statistics on mobile device adoption and usage are probably familiar, but we'll quickly recap them. A few more reasons to pay attention to mobile: 47% of all email is opened on a mobile device ( The Next Web ). web traffic is from mobile devices, and this percentage is significantly higher in Africa and Asia ( Mashable ).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. It features a collection of articles scoured from the web and by Eric Granata. Huddle is a web-based project management, document sharing and collaboration service. That’s the highest adoption rate in the nonprofit sector. Image: Aftab.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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