Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Are the new Facebook Pages here? Well, yes… kinda, according to Mashable. It’s been one heck of a long, drawn out launch riddled with false starts and confusion, but it does seem that at last the new Pages are finally here. Well, kinda. The new Pages accidently went live yesterday for a few minutes before Facebook was ready, but just long enough to let the genie out of the bottle.
NetWits
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Armed with a fundraising page and email tools, peer-to-peer fundraisers turn their family and friends into donors. They reach out to people across the country and around the world. Several years ago, I had one friend reach his goal of finding a donor in all 50 states, and this got me thinking about what makes a campaign successful. So, I thought I’d share five ways your organization can increase peer-to-peer fundraising revenue. 1.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Programming languages and I have issues. By now, I’ve learned quite a number of them (I think 9 by last count), but for some reason, I seem to choose my work on them just at the top of the curve, or as they are going down. I have yet to manage to pick one early. I learned C at the height of its popularity, just as C++ was beginning to rise. I learned Fortran when it was almost dead, mostly for fun.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 17, 2010
As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations. In 2010, Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group examined once hidden government documents from Guatemala and Chad that provided key evidence needed to hold former national leaders and security forces accountable for human rights violations.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Organization: The Nature Conservancy. Organization Size: +1 million members, +3800 staff. Name: Amy Ganderson. Title: Associate Director, Digital Marketing. Website: www.nature.org. Mobile: m.nature.org. Blog: blog.nature.org. Facebook: facebook.com/thenatureconservancy. Twitter: twitter.com/nature_org. YouTube: youtube.com/natureconservancy. Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. 1.
NetWits
DECEMBER 16, 2010
You may have inherited a vast pool of web content written before your time, or you frequently receive lengthy “expert” articles and other contributed pieces to add to the web site you now manage. Not every expert who contributes to a web site is also an expert in writing for the web. Fortunately, in most cases it’s easier to clean up existing writing than to create the original piece.
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Judi Sohn
DECEMBER 11, 2010
After trying more webinar/meeting tools than I can possibly count, I'm pretty happy with Citrix GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar. As a nonprofit registered with TechSoup, you can get a full year of the complete GoToWebinar package for just $94 a year. Regular price: $4,788/year. Killer. At the Coalition, we're getting our money's worth. We use it for internal meetings all the time (GoToWebinar includes GoToMeeting).
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 13, 2010
I tell ya! My head is spinning from the large number of vendors now available to the nonprofit sector for “Donate Now&# buttons and peer-to-peer fundraising. I have a couple of favorites that will be discussed in the book , but I know there are some other good vendors out there that are not on my radar screen. In terms of “Donate Now&# buttons, some basics are necessary in order to maximize your nonprofit’s online fundraising campaigns: 1.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 16, 2010
In this month’s chat,we had some good discussion around social media guildines and online community moderation. We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! Read the full transcript here! Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated.
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 15, 2010
Are you wrestling with how, exactly, technology can help your nonprofit do more with less? Farra Trompeter's presentation on "Nonprofit Leaders and Technology" gives nonprofit leaders a practical step-by-step approach to planning a purposeful use of web technology and social media.( read more ).
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio
The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 16, 2010
According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I was hoping this was just a rumor. Oh, say it ain’t so … but this TechCrunch confirms the demise of one of my favorite tools pointing to this post by Liz Gannes. My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 14, 2010
As I mentioned in my post, Community, Beauty, Party, Wisdom: More Reverb 10 Reflections , one of the highlights of 2010 was organizing a virtual social change book club. A few people have asked me how to organize their own virtual book club, so I thought I'd share the process with you. 1. Find a handful of people who want to read the same book as you.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 15, 2010
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 December 15th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 13, 2010
If your wondering how your organization measures up in the online world, you might find the Digital IQ Index: Public Sector (PDF) study interesting. Conducted by George Washington University School of Business and L2 (a think tank for digital innovation), the study "measures and ranks the digital competence of 100 organizations across four dimensions: effectiveness of an organization's site, digital marketing, social media, and mobile.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 12, 2010
My Best Buy Recommendation Sheet. You might have read this New York Times article “ Apple’s Ban of In-App Donations To Charities &# which outlines this nuanced issue or one of the numerous nonprofit blog posts or articles that appeared in the technology trade. That’s why I am ditching my iPhone in protest. If you think Apple should consider changing their in-app donation to charities policy, sign this online petition.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Who can help? Has this been done before? What is the best route? How can this project be sustainable? Crowdsourcing is being used to help find the answers to these and many other questions. According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.
Care2
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Want to raise funds via Twitter this holiday season? You’re not alone. But in order to be successful your tweets need to stand out from the rest of the noise on Twitter. The words you write must be centered on donors; what’s important to them; how they helped your mission; and of course your appreciation for all they do. Being donor-centric brings in the money.
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 16, 2010
I was recently talking to a friend and he was complaining to me that online reviews for his business were are not so great on average - because people who are negative and like to complain are much more likely to fill out reviews/surveys than people who are satisfied. I'm sure this is the case for non-profit and membership organizations as well. So even if we discount that, after reading through each of 441 customer surveys and personally replying to each one, I was very excited to see that the
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 17, 2010
Note from Beth: It has been less than a month since we launched the Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page , a free peer learning space where we are discussing a monthly theme (this month is measurement ) related to nonprofits and social media, sharing resources , as well as answering questions and sparking conversation. The Salon has been a terrific listening post and generated some good ideas for how-to posts like this one from Kami Huyse about how to use google analytics to track social media c
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 16, 2010
[Cross-posted by Evonne Heynin g on Nonprofit Commons blog ]. After a week in the nonprofit world Jumo is making waves for its big push around nonprofit discovery via social networking. Is it working? We've sampled blogs from TechSoup community leaders in this post to help you determine whether investing time on JUMO is right for your organization. read more.
Care2
DECEMBER 13, 2010
In 1998, virtual call center staffing company Alpine Access opened its doors. All of the staff taking calls with Alpine Access — now totaling about 3,000 customer service representatives — work from their homes. In this interview, Alpine Access co-founder and current managing partner Jim Ball shares some insights from the company’s twelve years’ experience of working with a distributed workforce.
Forum One
DECEMBER 11, 2010
So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Great. And you are ready to invest the money in selecting and developing the greatest system ever. Even better. But what good is your investment if noone takes advantage of it? User adoption is a tricky beast. Naturally, clients tend to focus on the technical aspects that surround adoption: picking a solution that meets the list of user needs they have identified.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps and we all want them to get it right. As the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Quarterly reported last week, Apple’s policy has raised the ire of some nonprofits leaders. We’ve started an online petition at Care2 and it has almost 6,000 signatures collected so far sending Mr.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Exciting things are happening at TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) , which brings high-quality, donated and discounted refurbished computers to nonprofits and libraries while creating environmentally-friendly alternatives to disposing of used computers. We've Recently Updated Our Catalog. Dell or NEC 17 - or 19-inch LCD Monitors These refurbished monitors feature 1280x1024 pixel resolution, 4:3 width-to-height ratio LCD display, and connect to your PC with a D-Sub (analog VGA) con
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 16, 2010
I'm participating in Reverb 10 this month, an online project that provides daily prompts to help you reflect on the past year, and the year ahead. Below are my quick answers to the prompts for December 11-16. Feel free to share your answers in the comments. You can see my past Reverb 10 posts here. Dora helps me file December 11 – 11 Things What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011?
NTEN
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Mobile giving is one of the most talked about fundraising tools. Now's the time to move from talk to execution, from novelty to implementation -- and you can do just that at the second Innogive Conference – “Mobile Giving Applied”. Presented by The Innovative Giving Foundation , the Innogive Conference will be a one day event co-hosted by NTEN taking place on Wednesday March 16th, the day before the Nonprofit Technology Conference.
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Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 14, 2010
I’ve been complaining about Apple’s anti-charity approach , but for this post I want to share an example about how one company is encouraging acts of kindness and charity during the holiday season. It comes from Apple’s Silicon Valley neighbor, Yahoo. The program is called How Good Grows , a holiday event that is part of Yahoo’s CSR program.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 17, 2010
This post was written by GroupVine founder Darren Lancaster and originally appeared on their blog. The December rendition of the SF Online Community Meetup featured Robyn Tippins ( @duzins ) who is currently the Senior Community Manager at Current TV. You can check out more of her background and the agenda here and the Twitter stream at #octribe. Robyn, Susan Tenby, and the rest of the TechSoup crowd planned a potpourri-like event that covered three diverse topics, so it moved fast and was a pre
Care2
DECEMBER 14, 2010
The Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising webinar was chock full of great tips and best practices for nonprofit campaigners who are gearing up for raising about 40% of their online donations for the year. Check out some of the great tips Alia McKee Scott of Sea Change Strategies , Ryann Miller of Care2 , and Eric Rardin of Care2 shared. Most charitable online giving ($244.6M or 64.1%) comes through nonprofit websites. 22% of giving happens on the last two days of the year between the hou
NTEN
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Teaser: Mobile giving is one of the most talked about fundraising tools. Now's the time to move from talk to execution, from novelty to implementation -- and you can do just that at the second Innogive Conference – “Mobile Giving Applied”. Presented by The Innovative Giving Foundation , the Innogive Conference will be a one day event co-hosted by NTEN taking place on Wednesday March 16th, the day before the Nonprofit Technology Conference.
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