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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Write social media and mobile technology policies. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Create a Foursquare Business Page, if applicable. Unlock your Yelp Business Page. Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create a Google account.

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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

It is a meeting place, or a cross roads for nonprofit, business and civil society groups to come together around improving the state. Posted engagement policies or intuitive design will do nothing for participation on a new platform without active members modeling the way the tools can be used. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ).

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Emerging Technology, Engaging Youth, and Your Mission: YOLO!

NTEN

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. The usefulness of smartphones as business productivity tools doesn’t seem to be slowing down. TechSoup: Telework Policies. Mobile Addiction.

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Why Creating Space for Creative Time in the Nonprofit Workplace Improves Productivity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. But as Amber points out, no one was actually using it since no one on the senior management was taking creative time.

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Making Your First Donor Retention Calendar, Step by Step

Connection Cafe

Even though this quote is from a for-profit business book, I’d like to invite you to think of it as donor service. Do you have a donations policy? Why not create a thanking policy? Step Two: Make your Donor Retention more Manageable by Creating a Thanking Policy. Here are some examples of thanking policies: 1.

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Renewing Your Products and Services

Tech Soup

Symantec Enterprise Products ( Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition , Protection Suite Small Business Edition , Endpoint Protection , and Mail Security ). Flickr Pro. If someone leaves your organization and takes their Flickr account with them, your organization can place a request for new accounts through TechSoup.

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