Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: I’ve been looking for good examples of nonprofit mobile strategies. I wanted to find out more about how Seafood Watch integrates its mobile strategy across its communications channel, including social media. Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. Tell me about Seafood Watch.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. American Mobile Phone Recycling on the Rise. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries. Happy Earth Month!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org’s product team is constantly analyzing data, improving websites, and providing the right system and tools to their users. BlocPower , a Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund portfolio company, is a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening and electrifying buildings in America’s urban core.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

CauseVox’s Giving Day Search Page Mobile Optimized Increase completed donations by accepting multiple payment options. Ensure donors find their preferred way to pay with unparalleled ease, through credit/debit cards, mobile wallets like Apple Pay, Venmo, PayPal, and ACH. Learn more about our Enhanced Donation Carts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is held annually in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for the mobile industry for the coming year. MWC generally also has a strong showing of green technology, and this year's show was no exception. Remember how I mentioned that Mobile World Congress seemed focused on inclusion?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers. Techsoup offers some suggestions for Greening the smaller workplace.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As just one example, the Green Climate Fund now makes their proactive philanthropic approach explicit, funding “projects with a strong focus on increasing direct access and building resilience in the developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.” That is no longer the case.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It's happening in nearly every office – employees are using their own mobile phones and tablet computers for work email and countless other work things. Organizations with government grants or who are involved in healthcare are especially liable for organizational data going all over the place. Getting a Handle on BYOD.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

By keeping careful documentation of all of this personal data, the museum was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from its major donors each year. Nonprofits use donor management software or a donor database to organize their donor data and ensure its accuracy. Data segmentation. Let’s get started.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

These devices pose a data security risk for organizations that buy or lease them especially at their end of life. They also store data in DRAM memory , the same type of memory that conventional computers use. Many copiers find their way in to the second-hand markets with data on hard drives perfectly intact. What Are The Risks?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wasn't able to go to the 2010 CES Consumer Electronics Show this year, but I'm assured by TreeHugger , which reviews the show each year, especially the new green tech gadgets, that it was largely nothing much new. Despite few new green tech break-throughs, there apparently was plenty of new interesting stuff.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Upon arriving the students were greeted in the lobby and told about SAP’s Green (LEED certified) building, followed by a tour of the Data Center and Mission Control Center, where a team handles high priority customer trouble tickets. And to end the day, a presentation on mobile apps and software demos was given.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well. Developing countries are moving toward LTE or WiMAX to generate data networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I offer this set of data points, if you will, with the hope that it will spark some thinking and perhaps discussion. On one hand, you have folks saying that moving organizational data and functions into the cloud means gaining efficiencies not possible in server rooms. Green Hosting. Cloud computing. Just Google it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Mobile: m.nature.org. We’re actually going through a new web analytics implementation right now – so starting in the spring our data is going to be a lot easier to interpret and report out. Social networking sites and mobile are on the rise, but we can’t forget our traditional marketing methods bringing in the majority of the revenue.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

It was a good opportunity to get several perspectives from university researchers and industry experts on green IT and electronics recycling and reuse. mobile phone collector and aggregator. The stats in the mobile phone world are pretty staggering: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

Check out these GivingTuesday statistics sourced from the GivingTuesday 2022 impact report and broader impact data to learn more about the influence GivingTuesday has on the philanthropic sector. What started as a grassroots movement meant to balance out holiday season spending is now a generosity-driving powerhouse. billion in 2022.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. Hollywood has taught us that this is how our data or network gets compromised. So What Really Causes Data Breaches? Accidental leakage (21 percent).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2015

Once your donation is received, InterConnection will wipe the hard drive, ensuring all data is properly removed. The desktop computers will be distributed among three houses for clients to use, while the laptops will be used as mobile workstations for staff. Green IT greentech Recycled and Refurbished Computers Green Office'

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

So it's a good thing many TechSoup donor partners offer mobile versions of the technology you already rely on for your nonprofit, charity, or library. Learn how you can do more on the go with our guide to TechSoup donor partner mobile apps. lets your IT staff to provide remote support via their favorite mobile devices.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

My priority is to not silo or duplicate data. or has to be duplicated (are you entering the same donor data in 3 different places?). Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. Mobile, cloud, social media, platforms, servers.technology just carries the water. Don’t worry about what you don’t know.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

AND, it's the green thing to do. Disruptive Technology #2: Data Deluge. You know how I feel about data. Data, when handled properly, becomes intelligence -- and intelligence makes us better at our jobs, which makes the world a better place! First, they need to focus on data storage. Make Al Gore proud!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. PC Sales Continue To Decline While Mobile Sales Increase. Green Technology.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

we auctioned off these frequencies to mobile companies who then used them to create 4G LTE (fourth generation long-term evolution) wireless networks. The new 4G networks can carry much more data and so are suitable for both mobile phone and PC broadband. Digital Divide GreenTech Green IT refurbishment digital inclusion'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. Go mobile with Pinterest. Related Links: Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits. e-Newsletter. Happy pinning!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers.

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Care2

MAY 19, 2008

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) Its a rental car.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects. It''s powerful.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Each of the presenters showcased apps that allow us to better share data and take personal action to further social benefit causes. Open Data San Francisco. Joy Bonaguro, chief data officer and Jason Lally, open data program manager, demonstrated the city's open data site features and highlighted opportunities for improvement.

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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. But this isn't just any hard drive: it can hold a terabyte of data and it's adorable. Meanwhile, the BBC called the Storedot mobile phone charger a "modern-day technology miracle." Fitness Tech.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How Nonprofits Can Find and Use Public Data Effectively.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I tend to lose more followers, fans and friends on weekends than during the week, and my stats show that there is very little ROI [Return on Investment] in terms of traffic, e-mail newsletter and mobile subscribers, event sign ups, etc. Get more greens. Make sure you are tracking that data, and presenting it to staff at meetings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching. For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. I love Holly’s approach to technology. Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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