Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

It seems like every company wants a hand in the mobile game. From apps to new devices to connected home objects that can be controlled with your phone, the market is saturated with all things mobile. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Homelessness and Mobile Technology. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things. Or helpful?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Mobile for Good is a bit of a misnomer for this month's column. But there's light at the end of this tunnel: new, free updates to Office mobile apps! " spouted many online commenters over the years. Free Editing for Office Mobile Apps. Simultaneously, the company is retiring the Office Mobile for iPhone app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Like all new tools there is a learning curve, but for nonprofit social media managers that spend a good portion of the their time on social and mobile media, Periscope is intuitive, easy to use, and a welcome break from the daily routine of posting, tweeting, sharing – repeat. Be cognizant of light and sounds in the area where streaming.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

When people scanned the QR code with their smart phone, it opened a mobile-friendly petition aimed at saving British Columbia’s Flathead River Valley. QR codes are great for a techie support base who is running around with smart phones, but that doesn’t sound like your audience then they may not be right for you. Happy scanning!

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Greater Giving

APRIL 27, 2022

Even if you’re only planning to host in-person guests at your event, letting them bid in the auction from a mobile device helps everyone. With mobile bidding, your auction is 100% prepared to go online in case of an emergency. Use video and sound production to plan ahead for your event. Please tell us in the comments!

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Be careful to comment on policy, not politics. Five —Communicate Compassionately + Sound Like a Person Your ability to engage, motivate, and mobilize your supporters when communicating in an election year is directly linked to your understanding of who they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Videos have to be formatted to stand out on mobile. Over 80% of Facebook’s users are checking out the app on mobile. The non-profit saw a huge difference in results, with the square video receiving 2x more views and 3x more shares than the landscape version, largely due to mobile traffic. However, storytelling isn’t enough.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The challenge with over 400 sessions is figuring out which ones you think sound interesting or would be valuable to you and the overall community of people attending. Your Mission “To Go” – Nonprofits Gone Mobile! The Impact of Mobile and Social Media on Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. I hope to see you there ….

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Sounds familiar, right? Knowing this is the case, make it a point to provide sample tweets and Facebook posts, hold contests that encourage social media participation, interact with your participants online by asking them questions and responding to their comments, and most of all, celebrate their achievements every chance you get.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Q: How does it sound? Will that paragraph fill up an entire mobile screen? Does this sound or look like a policy briefing? When in doubt, change it — or flag it in a comment to ask an outside editor for a gutcheck. If you read only the bits that have special formatting, does your message still make sense? In real life?

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

If your organization is considering incorporating mobile giving into their online fundraising campaigns, Artez Interactive ''s free whitepaper on mobile fundraising may be a great resource on how to do it. Sound challenging? Let us know in the comments. Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

is a solid blog site by Lauren Hunter that covers an array of faith-based technology topics including social media, online giving, improving church websites, church AV , and mobile technology (including automated SMS messaging). Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site. ChurchTechToday. Image: Aftab.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

Digital activism has, for many, meant simply mirroring direct marketing and mass-mobilization methods. But if you ask for a campaign that achieves goals based on a sound theory of change, then you can get that too. Who do we need to mobilize? Please leave your suggestions, stories, and questions in the comments below!

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Don’t forget to ask supporters to comment, share, and interact with you online to promote the organic growth of the campaign. Without your loyal supporters, raising money, sharing the campaign, and acting as your sounding board, you wouldn’t see much success. or comment on your posts.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Android is going to be a great mobile operating system. Case in point this email I received from a developer after reporting a bug that he earnestly tried to fix but couldn’t: Sounds painful. I’m sure I’ll hear from all of you in the comments too. looks promising. But even they can only do so much.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

Printing bid sheets or uploading auction packages to a mobile bidding platform. Managing online or mobile bidding and sending text message alerts. If not using an automated or mobile bidding platform: Tracking sales at the event and entering them into event software or other database. Let us know if a comment below.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Or even the next six months if the year sounds overwhelming! The third main responsibility of a social media manager is community management–answering questions, DMs, comments, maybe creating policies if you work in a controversial or polarizing issue and need to make sure your community is safe. You have to tie the two together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) No setup fees or anything else. But, of course, as with anything, look (a lot) before you leap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Kindle, at first blush, sounds pretty cool. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Elwing 11.26.07 I’ve been waiting for devices using the e-ink technology for a while now. Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, Sorry, Amazon. Kindle is a bust for me. { at 1:28 pm Look at the iRex Iliad. at 1:52 pm Thanks!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 amanda 05.22.08 Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

It all sounds like LinkedIn wants to pull all of those people who have been migrating to Facebook back into their fold, with the idea that LinkedIn is serious about business. Also, they have a partnership with Business Week – so you can see how you are connected to companies and indivuals covered by clicking on links.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

Viewers can then donate to the organization, in addition to commenting and reacting during the broadcast. This one sounds a bit unintuitive, but let’s face it, asking people to donate money to your nonprofit is a buzzkill. Call out commenters by name. Call out commenters by name. Read their comment. Say thank you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

” Her definition of an engaged leader is someone who uses digital, mobile, and social tools strategically to achieve established goals as they relate to leading people and managing organizations. Engage to Transform: How to use two-way dialogue that motivates and mobilizes followers to take collective action.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

He researched his targets ahead of time so he could sound convincing by "using the correct terminology and lingo that they expected." Information thieves find new ways to break the security features in our software on both our computers and mobile devices. Log in and comment below. Hacking is a massive industry.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

Samsung always makes a splashy debut at CES with its giant TVs and new line-ups of mobile devices and PCs. Meanwhile, the BBC called the Storedot mobile phone charger a "modern-day technology miracle." Let us know what tech you're most excited about in the comments! Small Tech That Packs a Punch. spanhidden.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08 But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

After triple checking to ensure you have your iPad, mobile phone, laptop, and all of your respective chargers in tow — you board a flight, land in a new city, and head straight for the convention center. Sound familiar? Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face? This scenario plays out time and again in cities across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. And so the debate on my Facebook wall continued with very thoughtful comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Don’t attend a meeting wishing the meeting was over while stealing glances at your email on your mobile phone under the table, or trying to sound smart during the meeting. You need to wait for other people to finish their thoughts – there will be plenty of time to make your comments. The choice is yours.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on. Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let''s flashback to 2013 when Facebook announced in a blog post that they''d start autoplaying videos: Since September, we’ ve been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook , and as a result we’ ve seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

But what they gained, and it sounds like he’s not willing to give it up – is flexibility. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 It takes more, because you own your own system. But then, you own it – you can do much more. at 10:00 am Free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

That’s easier than it sounds. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07 My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I have outstanding issues or decisions to make with my kernel not seeing all the memory I’ve given it (therefore requiring a recompile, which I have been postponing for weeks) sound, a webcam, a scanner, and accounting software. Also, having used a Mac for so long, I’m also “it just works&# spoiled.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

It sounded like an interesting and worthy project, and I figured I could set it up quickly and then return to technical project management and business development. I hope you’ll consider following my posts and submitting comments, questions, and feedback — positive or otherwise.

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