Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. Add a pop-up!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2016

You’ve got the usual list of suspects at your organization: the online engagement tool, a blog, social media platforms, and a website. Out of all of these tools, your website is getting the most visibility. A website is a bit like a car. Is your website down, or is the router acting up again? That’s a lot to manage.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. Be Out There.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2009

These are the last 10 sites I bookmarked on delicious.com: VideoPress — Quick and easy HD video sharing for WordPress. MockFlow – Easy Wireframing for Software and Websites. Welcome to Aviary. Mozilla Labs – Weave Sync :: Add-ons for Firefox. How to Set Up an SMS System | MobileActive.org. Spicynodes : Home.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites."

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 16, 2010

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. read more ). read more ).

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3rd Sector Labs

JANUARY 16, 2014

Booster Pro’s SaaS platform utilizes a D7 multi-site architecture to generate and support hundreds (then thousands) of websites. It’s useful to bookmark a few performance tips posts for easy reference. Many sites, each user has a slightly different view of the content, and that makes authcache unworkable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Since then, the site has collected 57,384 comments, or “voices,&# from people around the world, via SMS, Twitter, and on the Demand Dignity website. "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog. Then use what you learn from them to grow your site! Once you’ve digested this article check out the rest of his site. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Put these tools in place.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The research was carried out for donation website See the Difference, which will be launched next year. Does Directgov Deliver?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

" Marshall Kirkpatrick explains: "Yahoo's social bookmarking service Delicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on Twitter to deliver what it calls the hottest news from around the web in real time. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This fund supports the continued development and upkeep of several key open government websites, including Data.gov, USASpending.gov and the IT Dashboard.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. " What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2010

Like any other technophile out there, I'm constantly finding new ways to clutter up my virtual space with gadgets, feeds, and bookmarks. I realized in doing this that there are a lot of analogies between the closet content and website content. Conversely, websites like The Hampster Dance are the Zubaz of the web world.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

"After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication. So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 18, 2009

About Us | Overview | UX Test Kitchen - "The UX Test Kitchen is a nonprofit interactive agency providing free website and media development to other nonprofits. IdealistNews - New partnership with Idealist.org and Reddit has created the IdealistNews site where you can see some of the hot news items in the nonprofit sector.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our Vote Live: If you experience problems while you are at the polls, you can report them directly to the Our Vote Live website , which will map and respond to voting inquiries and incidents. Nate Silver who founded the site has a stellar repuation for predicting all the races. You can also use the hashtag #OVlReport.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs - Is a website redesign in your organization's 2009 plan? On this site, you can write, edit & remix each other's words - along with those of the past years' presidents - to create an inaugural that reflects your collective viewpoint.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The multimedia platform is managed by Link TV and utilizes a back catalog of development-related videos as well as new content procured for the site.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For example you will now be able to see how many active visitors are on your site at that very moment, what platform they are using to view the site and if they are using a mobile device ? You'll now have access to see what kind of mobile device, and even click a camera icon to see how your site appears on their particular device.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Donors are following their favorite charities on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. content to your social streams that leads to a mobile-optimized site. If your site is slow to. If your site is slow to. Don’t make givers bookmark your site. This is the lynchpin, where everything else leads.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. The site is aimed at baby boomers who want to explore their passions, keep in touch with friends and connect with interesting people. Getting Social.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Your website might look fabulous, but do you know if people are actually visiting it? Web analytics can help reveal how much traffic your site is getting and how people are finding it. You can also use analytics to see how long people are staying on your site and which pages are the most popular.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A sponsor who provides monetary donations or in-kind donations like services or a venue can be listed on all the marketing materials…banners…bookmarks…t-shirts and so on. Most of these sites charge a percentage of gross bids. Community/Fun Events are great for corporate sponsors , too. Shop around and look for the best value.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Image 2: The NetSquared site 1.0 ( cambodia4kidsorg ).

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Postrank Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. And as readers start to respond -- commenting, tweeting, bookmarking, etc., Should also note, re.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2009

WOMM (word of mouth marketing) and earned media should be key components of any communications plan to market your nonprofit’s website. RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. Bonus points!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

He also pointed me recently to a tool called CoReap ( www.coreap.com ), a social search and bookmarking add-on for your web browser. If you bookmark web sites and web pages on a regular basis, or do team research on the web, then CoReap is just the tool for you! and then of course getting enough colleagues to use it.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Neff of the American Cancer Society, and Carie Lewis of the Humane Society offered insightful tricks for getting traffic, attention, and subscribers for their sites. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Bookmark the page. In the "Website URL" box, enter the landing page you want to send folks to. For "Campaign Source", I generally enter the origin of the message -- our CRM (netforum), blog, a partner's web site, etc. Tags: Data E-mail how-to Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications.

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