Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). About the TAG study.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 20, 2013

RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives | The Verge : Feedly appears to be the heir apparent to Google Reader’s throne, a modern take on RSS that blends some of the niceties of Flipboard (like a “magazine view”) with useful Reader features like keyboard shortcuts and tags.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

When updating the DNS, which is the process in which servers tell the internet where new website living, there is a period in which the site will alternate between the new and old site. If you use it, migrate your Google Tags from Google Tag Manager over to your new site so you can keep your basic tracking working.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother. Tags: Technology Zen android apple Hardware microsoft. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Here’s an alternate view of the new Facebook Groups from the New York Times. Tags: Facebook facebook groups features. Thanks to consideration of past privacy setting issues , Facebook set the default to closed, i.e. only people in your group can see and post in the group. Facebook Groups Logo. Facebook Groups Logo.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 9, 2010

Challenged by online alternative news sources, print newspapers are slimming down, cutting pages to cut their costs. Tags: General non-profit interest nptech Marketing Best practices events Non-profit Communications media. Offline media attention is good. Getting it can be hard, however, in the digital information age. read more ).

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Try to avoid areas where colors need to be distinguishable to the user in order for them to comprehend information or progress through a user flow, and look for alternate approaches such as utilizing clearly distinguishable iconography when it makes sense. . Over 13% of the U.S. population has a visual impairment.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This is a tough question, from what we can tell there are benefits from a tracking side and a cookieless tracking alternative. . Google has released Server-Side Tagging for Google Tag Manager and Google Enhanced Conversions which will allow for collecting and hashing 1st party data. Server-Side Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

According to TechCrunch , Bloglines experienced a major outage, leaving many who use bloglines taking a serious look at alternative RSS readers and exporting and backing up our OPML files. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

Alternatively, there is TweetPhoto. Tags: Twitter. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone or through the site itself. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. Make sure you check out your Tweet Cloud too.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free. Phoenix or Fizzle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. Here’s the description.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 31, 2023

Delighting Taste Buds: Catering and Refreshment Logistics Select a catering company that can provide a diversity of choices for people with allergies, sensitivities, and alternative diets. Putting job descriptions on name tags helps everyone know what they’re supposed to be doing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2010

Tags: Event TechSoup Help. Find yourself a tasty summer soup recipe to go with your weekend barbeque. Watch this geek-tastic clip of the Muppets doing a pretty spectacular rendition of the Stars and Stripes Forever. Bork, bork, bork!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

The companion is also intended so that if someone comes across a tool that they are unfamiliar with, like vimeo for example, they can easily understand how it may work by seeing it listed as an alternative to youtube. Tags: socialbysocial 10ntc book giveaway review. Too much information – noted! We hope it’s still useful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

If your Feedburner feed is not working anymore, you’re not alone and you basically have two choices – switch to your blog platform’s atom feed for free (no analytics), or switch to the best alternative, Feedblitz for a small fee. 1) Update your web site’s RSS autodiscovery tags to point to your native blog’s feed.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2010

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives. Back in 2008, founder Marc.( read more ).

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For another alternative, you could have everyone on your staff sign their name. . Tip : Invite them to post a photo of themselves with their gift and tag your nonprofit so more people are introduced to your cause. This kind of communication can be extremely effective as it personalizes your mission. Make a video. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

And, ultimately there is a great open source database alternative called PostgreSQL, but support for it is not universal. Tags: Open Source Software Technology Zen database mysql nptech oracle sun. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One important caveat to keep in mind, though, is that if you have a specific campaign that uses alternate colors and images, those alternate colors and images are what your supporters are expecting when they choose to give to that campaign. Make sure they see what they’re expecting.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

Some pre-chat food for thought: My new Mac’s thesaurus offers several alternative terms we could use instead of enhance: enhance (verb) increase, add to, intensify, heighten, magnify, amplify, inflate, strengthen, build up, supplement, augment, boost, raise, lift, elevate, exalt; improve, enrich, complement. Date: March, 18th 2010.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. Check out their site and if you're inspired, listen to this fabulous 20 minute interview with Elizabeth on The Artful Manager blog. What non-traditional arts venues inspire you?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

I’m questioning my choices and considering alternatives. Tagged: customerservice , Google , rant. I’ve already been burned by Android. I still use Gmail and Google Voice. The nonprofit synagogue I volunteer for uses Google Apps. Google doesn’t care, and that bothers me too. Not a model I trust very much these days.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Here's a post with Google's top tips for making a good website - originally intended for audiences like Amazon.com but you can do some minor word replacement or other alternations to make the nonprofit or government perspective more clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

I’d love to find an organization, such as a small human services organization, in need of case management software, that could use CiviCase - it would be a great, and relatively inexpensive alternative to current offerings out there. Tags: CRM Nonprofit Tech civicrm nptech opensource.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

It is an innovative alternative to commercial social networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, and contains over 2,000 member-created groups and 110,000 organizations in its directory. Tags: socialnetworks. The site was launched three years ago on Earth Day by environmentalist, writer and visionary, Paul Hawken.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

These are usually solar powered devices, equipment that have cases made of bamboo or other alternative materials, and new technologies like organic LED lighting. Tags: Acquiring Technology Green Office GreenTech Hardware Servers. We'll do other posts on how to buy green used and refurbished IT equipment and also green mobile phones.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. Tags: Software. But that’s why it’s free.). Glary Utilities — Another Windows registry cleaner: [link]. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. Essential when you want to do an email merge through Word, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

MobileCause offers a similar tool set and is a little less expensive, but for those who can not afford hundreds of dollars a month, some relatively inexpensive alternatives are TextMarks , EzTexting , and Frontline SMS. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Causes may even want to consider alternative mobile channels for communications and fundraising. " Tags: roundup bookmarks casestudies data foundations fundraising leadership list maps mobile mobile4change nonprofits nptech philanthropy postalicious report resources technology tools transparency visualization.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

In order to maximize their donation potential, nonprofits could embrace creative, diverse fundraising alternatives to monetary contributions. Don’t worry, you’re not alone—it’s difficult to put a price tag on things like logo creation or physical space. Luckily for nonprofits, in-kind donations are similarly tax-deductible!

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2010

Maybe there are other alternatives. Tags: Hardware Software. Sometimes it's handy to be able to fax from the computer rather than printing something out and running it through the fax. I don't want to have to pay a monthly fee for something like eFax for those rare instances when I need to fax from the computer. That did it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2009

Changing Work Force -- remote staff, job sharing, and alternative scheduling. Tags: cloud data itstaff NPTech NTEN presentations remote. I tried to frame most of the trends in terms of the business changes that are happening and the possibilities and challenges they create for IT. So there you have it. My two cents on the topic.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Tags: Tech Planning. There is a lot of great information on our website, but there are some pages that I tend to revisit time after time and point people to on a regular basis. Microsoft Software Donation Program Frequently Asked Questions Pretty much everything you'd want to know about the Microsoft Donation Program.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

And,voila: So, congrats, Ashli Cooper, from Eckered Youth Alternatives , you're getting the book, which was donated by Wiley/Jossey-Bass. Tags: member appreciation mobilizing 2.0 But more good news: all NTEN members can get this book at 20% discount from Wiley, by using your member discount. Same bat-channel tomorrow, kids!

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