Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Yes, Facebook’s new donation tools could be awesome, but only if we promote the donation tools to our supporters and donors which many nonprofits are unwilling to do at this point. Social media often distracts nonprofits from other more important, more ROI-producing online tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Recognizing the significant role of NGOs as influential agents of change on a global scale, The Global Journal has sought to move beyond outdated clichés and narrow conceptions about what an NGO is and does.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 25th).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the (nonprofit) digital divide by giving every community organization the tools and skills to accomplish its mission in the most efficient and effective way possible. Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the (nonprofit) digital divide by giving every community organization the tools and skills to accomplish its mission in the most efficient and effective way possible. Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Share your experiences in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the digital divide by giving every NGO the tools and skills to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively. Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

The survey also found that once nonprofits begin using one cloud software solution, they are likely to adopt other cloud tools. I did an internal survey of TechSoup Global’s use of cloud tools and we literally use dozens of cloud tools now. Share your experiences in the comments below. How are you using the cloud?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet as other people have commented these are more like shopping malls (which though they feel like public spaces are privately owned), than town squares – where freedom of expression and expectations of privacy are circumscribed by corporate terms-of-service. What are legitimate constraints on free speech under international human rights law?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Naples, Florida, is hosting a meetup on tools for effective email fundraising ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is hosting a series of Giving Tuesday brainstorming sessions ; and Chicago, Illinois, will explore how your CRM can save end-of-year fundraising plans. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. and the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 This would be the first step I guess to making something better that was sustainable for NGO’s. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 Thanks for a great site!!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Boston, Massachusetts: DataBasic Intro Workshop — Learn 3 New Tools for Finding Stories in Data. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

We love this grant so we contacted the Ad Grants Team for comment and they were nice enough to explain what is going on. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Learn How You Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools to Tell Stories. The link need to be like so: Africa. Tuesday, October 3, 2017.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). that your nonprofit uses. 9) Prioritize website security.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Free and Inexpensive Communications Tools | MCN (free). Thursday, June 9, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” We also sent individual thank you e-mails to our bloggers, and included sample tweets and Facebook posts they could share.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

However, access to the tools isn't enough. TechSoup will only be able to achieve our mission (which is to help you achieve your mission) when we're able to give you the tools, skills, and community to leverage technology effectively. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. Share your thoughts in the comments. TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

How can create a back channel or other social media tools that can engage people in the room, but also around the world with an interest in the topic? But how do can you use social media tools creatively to bring in others who have an interest in the topic into the discussion, but are not in the same room?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. Please log in to comment on this blog post. Anything I missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Many observers will agree that common complaints about technology projects -- resistance to change, long sales cycles, inappropriate technology, unexpected costs, unused tools -- are often the inevitable result of this technocentric planning. It's worth reading the article as well as the comments. How can we fix this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Many people left comments reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks, including James Wu from Acumen who graciously expanded his thoughts into this guest post. Social media offers some great tools, but the rules for relationship building don't change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

Steve posted a comment with some tips. Also wondering, if community's intention is to raise awareness of blogging and other tools, what special challenges does that pose? Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , online_communities , nonprofit , ngo Last week I wrote about Steve Shu's post about facilitating blog communities.

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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 ? Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Share in the comments below. Strange News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

The question about nonprofit adoption of these tools for conversation. Amy Gahran wrote two thoughtful posts about cross-blog conversation - " I wish blog comments were easier to follow! Blogs are only one type of conversational media tool. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. One last pro tip: Make sure you have a reliable text fundraising tool to make your text campaign successful! Our platform also provides personal fundraising dashboards for participants and tools for gamifying the campaign.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Of somewhat less importance are to begin using collaboration tools. Here's the stats: Nonprofit Comments. Of course we got lots of comments in the survey, mostly from people who are looking for better clarity on how to proceed in to mists of cloud computing. Only 13% are currently paying for them.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

Gliffy is a diagramming tool, in the same general family as Visio - but its a web app. Speaking of phone interfaces, Jeremy Wagstaff, in his Loose Wire blog, comments on the shortcomings of trying to use a desktop point-and-click approach on a phone. Applications Take a look at Gliffy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. I'm on the board of the ngo that I'm doing this campaign. What happens if you don't like the way the personal fundraiser has represented your NGO? What do I need to think about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Anyway, I stumbled upon a group on Facebook called " Email Bankrupcy " Most of my emails now are notifications that someone has posted, either something to do with facebook, or a comment on my blog, or a reply to a forum message I'd left, or something along those lines. technology tools, strategies, and practices into the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. bleeding edge tool, twitter. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. Also announced 2.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. Find out how to submit your comments in the Taxonomy Draft Review FAQ. with sophisticated banking tools.

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