Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Hire a graphic designer to prepare website banner(s) and custom graphics. Design an e-newsletter template. Design custom tabs. Design a custom background. Design your YouTube Channel. Design your blog and upload a banner. 2) e-Newsletter.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Considered one of the best RSS feed readers available, it gives a clean and clear experience, intuitively tracks what you’ve read and helps with organizing all your various subscriptions into convenient groups.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Some of them, along with my answers, include: How much time a day do you spend reading (RSS feeds)? Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 9, 2010

As I recently announced , I’m collaborating with Matt Chevy on a redesign of this website to freshen up the design, make presentations, resources and case studies all easier to find, and surface the rich conversations taking place in the comments. Definitely something we’ll be sure to tackle!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

A great looking design can increase a visitor???s We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. re catching them when they???ve ve just read a value-packed post and are feeling most positive about your content. s disposition to subscribe. First impressions do count.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

Thanks to RSS, any new post that you publish to your blog automatically gets published to your mobile website. Using elements, nonprofits can create a homepage and subpages and then using the RSS from your blog, you can easily and automatically generate articles and news stories. Step Two :: Sign up for Mofuse Premium.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Well, hear from the Causes blog about their new feature called Donor Choices: "Donor Choices allows your nonprofit to designate price points at which members of your cause can donate and modifies your donation page to display those options." I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination! Check it out.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

Like Geoff,s I often get tired of reading the same people and ideas over and over again – and like to discover new topics and thinking. Some new topics that are beckoning for me are: Effective teaching and learning techniques that can be used for designing and delivering training. If so what are they?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2009

That said, under the new design Boxes and the Boxes Tab will be removed and any current content offered in them will disappear immediately upon the new Pages launch. If not, they might look broken or poorly designed. I don’t think many fans actually click on the “Boxes&# Tab on Facebook Fan Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Blogging during the era of the Social Web is more valuable than ever to nonprofits provided your blog is well-designed and the content is good. For example, Greenpeace’s Making Waves Blog was recently redesigned to feature their “Subscribe to our e-newsletter&# pitch over the ability to subscribe to their blog via RSS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . If you would like, you can design and upload your own buttons. They must be 108 pixels by 83 pixels in.PNG format.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If not an entire site, then at the very least your organization should create select web pages that are designed to be easily read on mobile devices. Here are four reasons why: 1. To improve your text alert campaigns. Over the last month I have subscribed to receive text alerts from 10 organizations.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In our mobile, social, always on, multi-screen world it’s important to ensure that your for that your organization’s home on the web is robust, well designed, and well-built. Design – Get final sign-off from the key stakeholders. Maybe this is your board communications committee, or your top staff leadership.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

Instead, offer to communicate with them another way, like RSS, SMS, social media, a blog, or any other platforms you use to communicate with your supporters. . If you have large images that take too long to load, or designs that aren’t mobile friendly, you’ll be creating a bad experience and setting yourself up to fail.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2013

She currently serves on the design team and faculty of the NoVo Foundation''s Move to End Violence — a 10-year movement building initiative to end gender-based violence. She lives in Oakland with her 8-year-old son, Jonah Ravi, and her partner, Adrienn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

The surveys could stand some graphic design help, but you can design templates for it. Like many free and open source software tools, it leans toward the powerful, flexible side, rather than the slick, easy to use side. So it has its challenges. The admin interface is nice looking, and fairly intuitive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. They can be very complex course management systems which are designed to do things like quizzes and grading (as well as discussions and have places to store course materials.) What can an organization use a LMS for?

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Let’s help share information about what’s happening across the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

Way more folks subscribe to C3’s content via email as compared to Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds combined. Designing an email that looks good requires you to throw out everything you may know about modern web design. One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We talked to people working with public records extraction in real time, with designers building lightweight, real-time presentation sharing tools, Google engineers have some incredible ideas about ways they hope that their PubSubHubbub real-time protocol will be used – stuff like real-world sensor networks and contact info syncing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Mindful Choices: Be very selective about your content and the people you follow. Design your system to achieve your goals – whether they are scanning or to produce a specific product. It’s a thoughtful reflection from a designer about how our current “always-on&# state impacts our behavior. Technology Approaches.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I have a BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design , but I don't think I'm a very good designer. I am visual, but far more interested and capable in the production side of things than the design side. . My name is even on the cover. You can still order it on Amazon. Follow me on Twitter.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I have a BFA in Graphic Design from the Savannah College of Art & Design , but I don't think I'm a very good designer. I am visual, but far more interested and capable in the production side of things than the design side. My name is even on the cover. You can still order it on Amazon. Follow me on Twitter.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

I will|I’ll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch} your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can’t} {in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service. The {style and design|design and style|layout|design} look great though!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

Special thanks to Professor Mark Hager for contributions to this quiz and Kayla McKinney for the quiz design. This information, and more, can be found in the Arizona Nonprofits: Scope of the Sector in Brief and the Arizona Giving and Volunteering reports. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 21, 2018

Google’s search optimization algorithm, your email marketing platform and your RSS feed are just a few things to pay attention to and learn from. Stick to style guidelines, use consistent design elements and develop and maintain a brand voice. Our jobs get harder yet when we’re constantly trying to combat staff turnover.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. This means that it is easier to back up and migrate, but doesn’t scale well.

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Care2

JANUARY 4, 2010

Factual, an “open data repository&# analyzed 4 million websites via data from Common Crawl, a non-profit group designed to crawl the web and provide data for anyone to use. 19% of sites have an RSS feed. *6% Check out the stats below. *28% 28% of sites have Google Analytics. *5% 6% of sites show a sitemap file. *1%

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. Kindful helps you do that by providing fundraising tools, organizing donor data and automating insight reports especially designed for nonprofits. Utilizing CRM is vital to your nonprofit achieving its mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

I’m not a designer or photographic expert, but it’s a pretty amazing program. If you are a serious designer, GIMP has its drawbacks, specifically it’s lack of CMYK and Pantone color spaces, which, I understand, is pretty much a requirement for serious printing (but who prints , nowadays?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Manager of Curriculum Design & Innovation, ASU Lodestar Center Working as a nonprofit professional in the current economic environment can be challenging — and sometimes discouraging. Disclaimer Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-Business Relationship posted by Laura L. Bush, Ph.D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

.’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It’s designed as a basecamp clone. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. However, that won’t happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are some technical and design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

RSS Feeds: Add an RSS feed to your blog and news sections so people visiting your site can subscribe to your feed and stay updated on your nonprofits latest news. I like Google Feedburner because it gives visitors a choice to subscribe via RSS or email. I have also ranked them from easy to moderate to time consuming.

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