Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. Bell was on networked TV apologizing. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2: 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 13, 2010

One in five Americans now access the Mobile Web daily. Smartphones are transforming the Internet and how individuals access the Web. Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The average person worldwide has five social media accounts and spends an average of 1 hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day. The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. Bold imagery. Large font.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media. They use their creative impulses to come up with innovative mobile and social media campaigns for their own nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2013

With mobile payment processing tools , you can accept mobile donations from anywhere, at any time. We've compiled tools and resources on mobile payments from TechSoup and beyond and explain some of the technologies out there. Google Wallet is currently only supported on the Sprint Network. The Deal with NFC.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As smartphones and tablets grow in popularity, mobile optimization is something libraries and nonprofits should pay close attention to in the coming year. 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. Why Mobile?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

So much so that many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

56% of emails are now opened on a mobile device ( Litmus ) and the number activity on smartphones is reading email, not gaming or social networking. 4) Increased Adoption of New and Improved Mobile Fundraising Apps. 5) The Nonprofit Sector Embraces the Internet of Things.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. Many nonprofits don’t even bother to upload an avatar or channel background, or add links to their social networks or website. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

He also touched on what skills and mindsets fundraisers need to adopt, including using Behavioral Economics as discussed in the book Change for Good. This roadmap illustrates six different digital areas, beginning with the rise of the Web/Internet. The Fifth Era: Automation – Robots, Bots, and Algorithms.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

adults still don't have broadband Internet access at home. The June 2015 FCC proposal calls for an expansion of Lifeline to provide low-income households with a choice of subsidized phone service or broadband Internet access. digital divide than anything I can think of since the invention of the Internet. A Human Right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

billion mobile telephones being used on the planet. “In 2014, mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet usage,” according to recent statistics released by mobiThinking. And already in 2011, “more than 50% of all ‘local’ searches were done from a mobile device.”

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 7, 2014

China’s Internet Users Increase Weibo Logins - eMarketer : Social users interact with brands, follow popular personalities and shop The majority of internet use in China is done via mobile devices.

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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. Now that same concept is emerging in mobile communications. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Snapchat is making a concerted effort to increase its viability as a marketing and digital payment processing tool for brands and for those nonprofits that have the time and resources, early adoption would be a good bet. The app and its interface is confusing to most people who came of age accessing the Internet primarily through a keyboard.

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JULY 13, 2011

Staff Networking. One of the first things you may notice on Twitter is the number of individuals who work in technology and/or nonprofits–likely due to Twitter’s early adoption at SXSW, PDF, NTEN and other nonprofit conferences. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well. Developing countries are moving toward LTE or WiMAX to generate data networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’m passionate about changing the world through community building because it is only by empowering and supporting communities to form, to network and collaborate, and to make real change that we can truly change things. Successful community organizing across history has always been networked.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

So, why would you be interested in the debate about getting broadband Internet access to under-served communities? You need access to high speed Internet to participate in our society. If you care about your clients, if you care about your community, you need to care about the Internet. Who controls what is on the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Telework By Any Other Name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Next up was an armchair discussion with Lela Janah, Founder and CEO of Samasource with Noah Wintroub, Global Head of Internet and Digital Media at JP Morgan. These are mobile, sensors everywhere (wearable technology), location data, social networks, and big data and machine learning. Sama” means equal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

was about networking, and Web 2.0 Michelle Martin, reflecting on Nancy White's musing on Second Wave adoption of social networking tools, wrote about the nonprofit technology adoption curve and pointed to some theories on innovation adoption curves. JP's Philantherapy Blog informs us. that Web3.0 Think about it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

Social media adoption continues to grow and technology becomes more accessible. A recent study finds that 73 percent of Internet users in Europe use social networks. In the United States, 66 percent of Internet users are on social networks. TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Let us look at some of the top technology trends taking place in the training and Development Industry: Mobile Learning : According to e- Marketer, the number of smartphone users in the United States is estimated to reach 207.2 This widespread adoption of mobile phones as well as other mobile devices such as tablets, e-reader, etc.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2014

Emmett Global and Respect Network. I first learned about Web Pal from Respect Network launch event in San Francisco. Respect Network is a global initiative for advocating privacy online. According to Lefkowitz, Emmett Global works with nonprofits on privacy, data collection, and cloud adoption.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Conference apps help organize virtual conference events, offering features like schedule management and attendee networking. Other important features to consider are communication tools and mobile accessibility tools. These templates are also mobile responsive to allow you to reach your event attendees from anywhere!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. is a solid blog site by Lauren Hunter that covers an array of faith-based technology topics including social media, online giving, improving church websites, church AV , and mobile technology (including automated SMS messaging).

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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. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2014

As more and more Americans are abandoning landline telephones in favor of mobile devices, traditional landlines or "plain old telephone systems" (POTS) are becoming a thing of the past. AT&T and Verizon are seeking approval from federal regulators to replace phone networks in this region with new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. The majority of the room had experience in social networking sites and tools, both personally and for their organization. What are the best examples of social networking use?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The growth of social media and the rapid adoption of internet-enabled mobile devices have changed the way Americans engage in the political process. If you are looking to squeeze in a few events this week, check out my top 5 must attend events. Digital Politics, Wednesday, February 20th.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

As an audio-based app, Clubhouse doesn’t have the same limitations as other platforms that require a connected infrastructure, high-speed internet access, and video-enabled mobile devices. If you’re interested in checking out the platform, ask a co-worker or friend in your network if they have an invitation to spare.

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