Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 13, 2010
I’m excited to say that my panel submission for Jeff Pulzer’s latest conference, BrandsConf , was accepted! I’m also hoping to find some panelists to join me! Here are the details: @BrandsConf is a new event taking place in early December 2010 that will explore the “Humanization of Brands” and the underlying effects this is having on business.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. I’ve gone from being a Mac/iPhone user, to being a ThinkPad/Android user, and not looking back. I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. Once I sell my iPhone (fairly soon) I will be free of Apple hardware for the first time in 25 years (yikes!
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NCE Social Media
OCTOBER 12, 2010
According to a new report by TNS Digital Media , using social media is the thing people spend the most time on when they’re using their smartphones. The report found that 4.6 hours are spent on social media per week while 4.4 hours are spent on email. If you are the 1 in 3 Americans using a smart phone, how are you spending your time on the phone?
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 13, 2010
If your nonprofit is a small "one-person shop" - you're doing it all, alone - then social media can be your best friend. That's why Pamela Grow has organized #smNPchat, a weekly Twitter chat designed to help small nonprofits with fundraising and marketing questions.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest Fundraising nptech Marketing Social networking Non-profit Communications Twitter crowdsourcing chat social media non-profit nonprofit.
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.
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 15, 2010
More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. Today, 2.5 billion people lack access to toilets. This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease. As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 14, 2010
Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. And since, the busy season is coming up for all you nonprofit fundraisers – year end giving and Network for Good has just announced a Year-End Giving Challenge , I thought a guest post from Michael Hoffman about you can incorporate video to power your campaigns was in order.
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 9, 2010
This is a guest post by Trish Hudson, MPsSc. Trish is the president of the Melos Institute, an international think tank dedicated to finding new ways for associations to deliver more meaningful experiences for their members. Visit them at www.melosinstitute.org. Our beliefs about volunteerism are formed early in our professional careers. Someone teaches us “how it is.
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 14, 2010
I’m honored to have a guest post up on Care2′s Frogloop blog today! Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). —– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 13, 2010
The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we’d have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decisionmaking to outside influences. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance.
NTEN
OCTOBER 13, 2010
By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission
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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.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 15, 2010
What’s keeping your organization from doing the very best work possible? Barriers, roadblocks, obstacles – if your nonprofit is like most, you probably have quite a list of “challenges” to overcome! Banish all those “stopping words” from your conversation, says Hildy Gottlieb , nonprofit consultant and author of The Pollyanna Principles: Reinventing “Nonprofit Organizations” to Create the Future of Our World : When we look at these as just empty conditions – they’re not good, they’re not bad, th
Amy Sample Ward
OCTOBER 14, 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 October 14th). 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).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2010
World’s Best Presentation Contest 2010. View more presentations from Amit Ranjan. I’ve been an active member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform from about November 2006. Today, I have over 200 presentations in my account, some with tens and thousands of views.
NTEN
OCTOBER 14, 2010
By Melissa Nelson, Media Production and Outreach Manager, Blackbaud. Video is a great way to engage constituents in your mission. It adds a visual element to what might be an otherwise text heavy email, blog, or website. Supporters react to hearing and seeing real people talking about issues or an organization’s mission coming to life with visual examples.
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Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Licorize.com is a new web-based bookmarking service that collects all your bookmarks into a project-based to-do list so you can actually "get links done" – alone or in collaboration – and nonprofits may request a free Premium account.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration project management application productivity management web-based software.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 14, 2010
Your Have Fun What do you find fun, amusing and joyful? How you like to play? + Your Do Good What do you feel makes the world, and individual's lives better, and does good? = Your Have Fun, Do Good A combination of ideas from your Have Fun list and your Do Good list I've been playing around with this equation, and posted some of my ideas below. I'd love it if you tried it, and shared your ways to have fun and do good.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 15, 2010
For Blog Action Day this year, bloggers around the world have been asked to think and write about water. At the Ashoka/Lemelson Tech4Society conference this year, I gained a new understanding of the importance of clean water. Water is a necessary precondition for nutrition, healthcare, security, and economic growth. Image: Ashok Gadgil patent read more.
Care2
OCTOBER 13, 2010
Can I be honest? I’m worried about the lack of nonprofit leadership creating a culture of innovation. While multi-channel outreach such as action alerts, microsites, social media, fundraising appeals, direct mail and telemarketing are good strategies to have in your toolbox to fundraise and market your organization; it’s simply not enough anymore.
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 14, 2010
by Chief Apricot Fall is an interesting time. I love beautiful colors on the trees, crisp and sunny days - but hate those days when it's all bleak, foggy and rainy! All in all, I think it's great to have changing seasons like we have here in Toronto and while I sometimes get envious of people living in places like Singapore or California, I would not want to trade places with them!
NTEN
OCTOBER 11, 2010
By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. The party started as an awkward middle school dance -- boys on one side, girls on the other -- but has become a wedding crasher style dance party where friends, family, and work all grind up on the dance floor. .
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 12, 2010
On Tuesday, October 19 at 3 p.m. Eastern time our donor partner GiftWorks (which donates its fundraising and donor management software GiftWorks 2011 Standard to eligible nonprofits and libraries) is will host a free webinar on how to effectively utilize high-skill volunteers. From GiftWorks: Kelly Kleiman is principal of NFP Consulting, which provides Board development, strategic planning and fund-raising services to charities and philanthropies.
Care2
OCTOBER 14, 2010
Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. We are very invested in sharing our experiences and learning as we go, including opportunities to put thoughts together formally like the whitepaper on collaboration we published last year.
Advertiser: DonorDock
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Get Fully Funded
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m having one of those days where I’m coming up short on something interesting or inspiring to blog about. So, I thought I’d just share what I’m thankful for. I’m thankful… for a gorgeous, clear, crisp Fall day. It refreshes me both inside and out. for the work done by the hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations around the world.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 12, 2010
I had so much fun researching Nine Fair Trade Chocolate Bars that I decided to look into which brands carry fair trade certified green tea (I've been drinking a lot of it lately). If I've missed some yummy ones, lemme know: Arbor Teas Choice Equal Exchange Honest Tea Numi Tea Rishi The Republic of Tea Traditional Medicinals Zhena's Gypsy Tea Related posts: Green Your Green Tea: Keep It Loose, Organic and Fair Trade on Planet Green Fair Trade Teas for the Fall on Green LA Girl Fair Trade is the B
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 12, 2010
The theme for week two of TechSoup GreenTech's Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign is Software as a Service (SaaS). This week TechSoup's Anna Jaeger and Peter Campbell from Earthjustice are our featured speakers for our Thursday, October 14, 11 a.m. (Pacific) cloud campaign webinar entitled Cloud Computing: Why You Should Care. Find out more about the webinar at our Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign web page.
NTEN
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Flickr: Lydia Mann (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. Members are in bold. Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) ForumOne 's Chris Wolz wrote a good piece about crowdsourcing for foundations and nonprofits.
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Forum One
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. We are now cross posting it here to share with our readers.
Care2
OCTOBER 12, 2010
There’s a broad spectrum of savvy among nonprofits in social media – organizations of all sizes, some just starting out, some with programs under way but still making the case to stakeholders, and many with years of planning and successful execution under their belts. Last week was a potential goldmine for those of you looking for resources, advice, and inspiration that will help you develop or improve your nonprofit’s social media presence.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 13, 2010
Voices from the Community is a new series of blog posts culling popular topics of interest from the TechSoup forum and other online community channels. Credit Card Processing. These days, most nonprofits are using some kind of online payment taking system to allow supporters to donate, register for events, and/or purchase organizational metrials online.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
OCTOBER 11, 2010
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