Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

There are official rules written by lawyers to protect the corporation and presumably to ward off cheating, gaming the system, or unfair play. I was looking at the web sites and applications of some of the organizations who were in the top ten for the $250,000 category. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kevin Conroy Chief Product Officer Who He Is: Kevin leads GlobalGiving's product team, a talented group of programmers, system administrators, designers, communicators, and marketers that work tirelessly to improve the GlobalGiving website. Q: So, an API is similar in some ways to a website widget or plug-in? in Economics.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Looking for a web-based software application for fundraising and contact management for donors and other contacts? Simplify the fundraising process with DonorPerfect , a completely web-based donor management system. eTapestry is a cloud-based tool that is ideal for organizations with remote staff or volunteers. Becoming a GrantStation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2012

As defined by the project, "An 'app' (short for 'application') is a small piece of software with limited functionality. Apps can be used online (a web app), on mobile devices (a mobile app), or as an add-on to other tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on)." Orange County Library System Shake It!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers. These standards are a necessary step toward implementation, and make us, as implementers, more confident that we’ll see greater application in the next three years or so.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

The CTC Vista Project has opened its annual application cycle. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. FlowingData has mapped the growth of WalMart across the U.S. since 1967. Need a techie on the cheap?

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Convio has built a Facebook application builder as part of their Open initiative. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes. For organizations on the Convio platform, the Facebook application is a no-brainer and a HUGE improvement from Causes.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Apps can be used online (a web app), on a mobile device (a mobile app), or as an add-on to existing software tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on). We're not really looking at full-fledged applications, like a Microsoft Office Suite, or software as a service, like Salesforce.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Looking for a web-based software application for fundraising and contact management for donors and other contacts? Simplify the fundraising process with DonorPerfect , a completely web-based donor management system. eTapestry is a cloud-based tool that is ideal for organizations with remote staff or volunteers. Becoming a GrantStation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

There's a free trial plan that waives CauseVox's monthly fee (if applicable) until you raise $5,000. The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Cost: CauseVox offers pay-as-you-go plans found here: [link].

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

If you’ve ever designed, built, managed or administered a website, you’re no doubt intimately involved with a Content Management System (CMS), a specific software application or set of programs used to create and manage digital content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

The Venue Pro includes the following software: Office Mobile: a suite of basic Microsoft Office programs including Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, OneNote Mobile, and Outlook Mobile; Office Mobile applications are compatible with their desktop counterparts. These donated phones include a Windows Mobile operating system, 4.1-inch

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

As applications come in, the VC helps to narrow the pool, coordinate interviews, and run background checks. VCs could help volunteers share milestones and accomplishments with badges, banners, or widgets that can be shared with the volunteer’s personal network. Sharing of opportunities among alumni and donors could be encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Management, along with the techs, justify these restrictions in all sorts of ways: Standardized systems are easier, more cost-effective to manage. Restricted systems are more secure. Group policies restrict users from changing their desktop colors or setting the system time. Web filtering maximizes available bandwidth.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

There's a free trial plan that waives CauseVox's monthly fee (if applicable) until you raise $5,000. The platform also provides a lot of nice little extras, like widgets you can put on your site that link to your fundraising page as well as SEO tools. Unlike Indiegogo, Causevox does not have a nonprofit verification status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2009

I shared some thoughts about the Causes Birthday application design , and have continued my reflections below. Notes about application. The Causes Birthday Application Makes You Feel Good What's more fun than a birthday celebration? I love the application wall because it is is like an electronic group birthday card.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. While Google provides some nice tools to widgetize your data, there are other simple tools worth exploring to get you started. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

You can create a vanity web address (URL) for your page, send geographically-targeted emails to your Fans (using the internal Facebook email system), and install applications that leverage your other social media outposts. Also, Facebook has made it easy to extend content onto your page through their widget.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 27, 2007

When someone in your network posts something or messages you, the system wil also send you an email, so users do not need to check Facebook constantly to see what's new. But the real promise of Facebook comes from its "application" model. So the capabilities of the system just keep growing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

These solutions are similar to constituent relationship management systems (CRMs) but they manage member information rather than donor information. Benefits of membership management software Most membership nonprofits find membership management software to be worth the investment because these systems allow you to: Attract new members.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? We can help you with that.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 14, 2006

Via the Geeks Are Sexy blog I spotted the announcement of this utility from Microsoft to allow the creation of a password protected folder to your account on an XP-based system. Snippets: A really nice carousel widget for your websites Via mhub I found this flexible javascript code from Bill Scott.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

On the high end, Adobe Audition offers professional level audio editing tools, but for most podcasts, comparable quality can be achieved with the cheaper applications. Use free flash players like XSPF or Podcast Pickle's branded widget player to embed your latest or favorite episodes on your website.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? We can help you with that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

They apply the applicable framework to their regulations based on which type they are classified as, meaning they are regulated similar to traditional assets. Smart criminals wouldn’t use a system that records every single transaction on an immutable and public ledger. Myth 3: Bitcoin donors are more likely to be criminals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

some unique Facebook tools too, including the popular "wish" application, with which users can encourage their Facebook friends to donate. management system, making outreach to your supporters organized and. services that include social media tools like donation widgets and email marketing services. It provides.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Manage event building, participant onboarding, payment processing, one-click donations, and receipting—all with this powerful add-on system. These 30-minute, no-pressure sessions walk through all the systems features, from donor management, email, and donation pages to event and volunteer management, automated workflows, and reporting.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

You can even add a good deed widget for your site. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Facebook already has a system in place for recognizing your birthday and alerting your friends. For instance, you can embed a widget on your website, or you can utilize an existing fan page. You can also go to our application homepage. A: We have 150,000,000 installs on the FB application. A: Only if you want them to.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So there are applications being developed in real estate that will use the blockchain for voting, for healthcare, for finance, which is different than just money. Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So there are applications being developed in real estate that will use the blockchain for voting, for healthcare, for finance, which is different than just money. Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance.

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