TechImpact

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Engaging with constituents is becoming more difficult given contemporary society’s short attention spans, and tendency to multi-task everything. A well documented fact, mobile use is positioned to not only take off, but take over the internet. Industry News Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech technology trends'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What will it take to get the climate some attention? org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. Several years ago I created the Cute Dog Theory, a node to a Nicolas Kristof quote about how puppies get more attention than dry statistics about Darfur. Cute Dog Photos!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With 24/7 internet access on smartphones and tablets, folks these days are drowning in information. As screens and attention spans shrink, so too must our content. Data infographic Nicole Lampe nptech nten Communications Fundraising' Any marketer worth her salt can tell you a powerful infographic is social media solid gold.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

Another fad that did not warrant garnering a lot of attention or energy. IT is contanstly changing, morphing, and is one of the few places on the internet wheer posting so often is acceptable. Industry News Social Tech fundraising nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech social media supporters'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improvie their safety and security on the Internet. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Five Hot Conversations. The proposed call agenda is here. Change the World!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog. tools into your PR messaging?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

How Women Use the Web [REPORT] – "In the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet (Internet)&# report, comScore concludes that women are the digital mainstream, a group of savvy Internet explorers who are more engaged than their male counterparts, and are the primary drivers of online and group buying."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Now I primarily only watch the PBS News Hour and listen to NPR and the BBC on the Internet more often, but not all day.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. "If you didn't grow up with access to the Internet," Zuckerberg said during the keynote, "you may not know the reason why you'd want a data plan." What mobile trends are capturing your attention?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Tags: NPTech Fundraising blackbaud email. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving. Now you tell us: does this match your experience with your online donation programs?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

With 24/7 internet access on smartphones and tablets, folks these days are drowning in information. As screens and attention spans shrink, so too must our content. Any marketer worth her salt can tell you a powerful infographic is social media solid gold. But what is it that compels people to share, like, or tweet?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. Tags: Mobile net neutrality NPTech tmobile Communications. Since the earthquake in Haiti, we've seen an explosion in interest for all things mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

A recent meeting of the donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Group reviewed online and offline giving between 2005 and 2009. This is a positive acquisition and retention trend that nonprofits should give some attention. . Steve MacLaughlin is Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions. Multichannel is Magic.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Think what the cost would be to replace every piece of computer hardware in your organization, including any internet related hardware, servers, even printers and tablets. As the scale of nonprofit losses from hacking becomes clear, #cybersecurity finally gets the attention & funding it needs.

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Care2

JANUARY 14, 2013

This list of 133 blog p osts about nonprofit marketing by Avi Kaplan of Rad Campaign (the web agency I run) is a terrific recap by the nptech blogger community. It's not bookmarking : You don't need an Internet connection to access the content at a later time. Nonprofit Marketing P osts of 2012. Full article here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations. My curiosity drove me to investigate: ? Can we listen to the tides of Internet conversation on an issue, and learn to predict and ‘surf’ them? ? Can we use the momentum of focused attention to raise an issue above the noise?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 functionality. The punch line: … there’s a good chance that underneath the shiny is something that isn’t very interesting. Not always, but often.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Small or large scale, live-tweeting is a great way for your organization to create buzz, join conversations, draw attention to your causes, and gain credibility (and followers!) -- all at a relatively low cost (your time). Is it to bring attention to a certain issue? Tags: NPTech NTEN. Don't Let the Conversation Go Cold.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

She turned the organization from a debt-ridden, "old school" not-for-profit with offices in multiple cities nationwide, to a fast-moving internet-y company capturing the attention of a generation of doers. Tags: Change Management Leadership NPTech NTEN. Read Nancy's full bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Build your network around mutual trust, a sense of community, and personal attention. guest blogging npfundraising nptech social media twitter. So use Twitter for listening, communicating, and promoting, but don't overlook the platform as a vehicle for real-time action.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

Think about it like when the Internet became popular — you wanted to secure your domain even if you didn’t plan on using it right away so others wouldn’t register it. It shows that you’re paying attention and that you’re grateful for every bit of support. Fill out your profile completely. Identify and interact with influencers.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2013

If polar bears learn to use the Internet, we're all in trouble.). Yes, you too can try to attract the attention of folks looking for specific information with 3 lines of text next to Google search results. The searchers, not the polar bears. But it can be hard to get started, and even harder to optimize and track.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The Evolution of NPTech: Where we came from, and [maybe] where we’re going. The Evolution of NPTech. If you have other questions, or other ideas, please share them!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Compelling content will get the attention of the public -- and the public will be able to access whatever content they want on whichever screen they want. Will the static brochure website get much attention in this new world? If you can, cut longer video into shorter clips to account for online attention spans. Not so much.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Emails should be short, sharp and easy to skim, to cater for the attention span of supporters who are likely multi-tasking and who may not read the whole body of text. Do you give each message equal attention and read from top to bottom without distractions? Emails are not letters, and shouldn’t read in the same way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

In the pre-internet days, that meant engaging some REALLY invested people, because the barrier to entry for telling a friend was pretty high. It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

If polar bears learn to use the Internet, we're all in trouble.). Yes, you too can try to attract the attention of folks looking for specific information with 3 lines of text next to Google search results. Tags: advertising google grants NPTech NTEN. The searchers, not the polar bears.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is an ever growing force in the internet space and it looks like it will be for a while. We also know that having a ‘home base’ is vital to internet longevity. Post Quality Score - One of the most important new metrics to pay attention to is your post quality score. Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day , when bloggers around the world are asked to bring attention to one social issue. It's the kind of easy feel-good meme that the Internet loves -- and that can reward participating blogs with a boost in web traffic -- but what are the real rewards for the cause? Did you catch the buzz?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. In 2016, video will continue to be the most interesting media on the Internet. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket.

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