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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. And Cisco says that 90% of the world’s data will be video in four years. Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like science fiction, but let me share a few examples I heard about at the conference. One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia. Lacking space to set up the remove video conferencing station, they took over a supply closet.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonetheless, I wholeheartedly agree with the concept and philosophy that giving donations to causes is better than giving stuff -- and we've been doing this for years on our own directing people to give gifts to charities we care about. The world of group fundraising websites has already witnessed its first round of consolidation.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The nonprofit then fundraises for the project in cooperation with TechBridge. It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again!

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. The way Thunderclap works is that a user invites followers to support her or his Thunderclap on an important tweet like an end-of-year fundraising pitch.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. That’s sounds good for world economic growth, maybe not so much for our privacy. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Solutionary Women: Katya Andresen

Have Fun - Do Good

My job is motivating people to give to their favorite charities through www.networkforgood.org – a nonprofit that was started by Yahoo!, AOL and Cisco in the wake of 9/11 with the vision of generating more money to charities online. This ensures a steadier stream of resources for charities. And that’s about it.