Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Last year when Myspace announced that it would be launching a redesign, I was very intrigued. Even more so when they released a video last September teasing what the new Myspace would look like. The design was good – very good, in fact. For months I was anxious, excited even, for the new Myspace to launch. For those who don’t know the history, the @ NonprofitOrgs brand launched on Myspace in February 2005.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Facebook’s new Graph Search is very different from Google search.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. I’m honored to join my fellow contributors in sharing practical lessons we’ve learned throughout our journeys towards actualizing positive social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Most of think about infographics as part of our marketing and communications tool box. Therefore, we want an end product that looks good, professional, and captures attention and if we lack graphic design chops we turn to in-house graphic designers or hire professional designers. I couldn’t agree more! But there is another reason to consider “DIY” infographics – as a sense-making technique.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Winter Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a demonstration of how nonprofits can successfully design and launch a YouTube Channel for both desktop and mobile viewing – even if the nonprofit isn’t currently producing videos.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Even those of us living under a rock can’t help but peek our …

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2013

The National Day of Unplugging is a 24 hour period – running from sunset to sunset – and starts on the first Friday in March. The project is an adaption of the ancient ritual of carving out one day per week to unwind, unplug, relax, reflect, get outdoors, and connect with loved ones. My work is online and increasingly I rely on the Internet for many parts of my home, personal, and family life.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

posted by. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “The impact of new technologies is invariably misjudged because we measure the future with yardsticks from the past.” - Stephen Baker, a technology journalist in a recent NY Times Blog.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Here is our round-up of free non-profit webinars for March 2013.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. These peer learning groups are focused on transformational change – to help participants transform into data-informed nonprofits one small step at a time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, report

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

All organizations that I talk with confide in me that they wish that their web content was more compelling and useful. They want their content to tell a story and to use data to show that their activists and donors are making a real impact on the ground. Developing good content is challenging for all organizations. It takes planning and patience, staff resources, research, and a big commitment.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Here are five of the tastiest posts we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. You have to do it one component at a time. The first and most important component is identifying success or the most important result and linking the right “Key Performance Indicator” or data point that you will collect along the way to understand if you are making progress toward your goal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

posted by. Donnalee Sarda, LPC , Executive Director. Defenders of Children. The year is 2008. Overnight, banks and financial institutions are in crisis, the stock market plunges, interest rates and housing prices drop, corporate sales and profits dip, employment lines grow, funds everywhere dry up. Nonprofits, the fifth largest industry in Arizona, historically the recipient of a most generous donor base, now wear the burden of the downturn in the national economy.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. But did you know that when Allyson isn't running her consulting firm Rad Campaign , or writing and editing Frogloop, or running popular conferences, she writes books?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

It's not our first time advocating for charities and libraries in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress, but this time I've created a catch phrase that I hope will capture some hearts and minds of policymakers. I call it "humanitarian electronics recycling and refurbishment." Perhaps I should explain. TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Recognizing remarkable creativity and effectiveness by non-profits across the globe, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 million, depending on the size of its budget.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. As part of this pilot, 19 people representing organizations large and small are working together this year to try to unlock and solve some of the challenges nonprofits face when it comes to: measuring and managing data making data-informed decisions and sharing the results with colleagues, partners, funders, and the public.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Great customer service tips from author Micah Solomon's book, High-tech, High-touch Customer Service : You provide value when you deliver the four components that reliably create customer satisfaction : A perfect product or service Delivered in a caring, friendly manner On time (as defined by the customer) With the backing of an effective problem-resolution process Micah has been named by the Financial Post as “a new guru of customer service excellence.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

If you work for a nonprofit, especially a young nonprofit, you can. probably count your other coworkers on one hand. This, in addition to. the fact that your work is never truly done, makes it likely that you. are indeed overworked. But that's okay - because you're doing something great !!! An organization devoted to helping others deserves aid as well.

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Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2013

I’m sorry to say it, but.your social media presence is not the key to fundraising. However, that being said, data acquired through social media holds the key to dramatically improved fundraising.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

NTC is only about six weeks away and now's the time to get planning! The best place to begin is your myNTC page. This is your one-stop shop for all your conference planning, where you can add sessions and events to your schedule, connect with other attendees, check out sponsors and vendors, and stay up-to-date on the latest conference happenings. It's also the place to go if you're l ooking for a ride to the conference or to share a hotel room.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

According to authors Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , when a leader does not create a climate of trust, people: Question decisions Have moral problems Fail to participate fully Avoid taking creative risks, and ultimately leave the organization And, when employees do these things, the authors explain that the organization is deeply and measurably impacted by: Reduced quality of the product or service Increased cost of turnover, hiring, training Missed opportunities that would have been captured by

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Here at TechSoup, we’re big on stories because we believe they can change lives. That's why we’ve created a month-long global campaign built around the transformative power of storytelling, uniquely customized to the nonprofits, libraries, and social benefit organizations we serve. Have you heard of the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge ?

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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.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Is it just me, or is everything coming up data in 2013? Hoping to strengthen organizations, NTEN launched Communities of Impact this year.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. With the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference coming right up, this might be a good time to think about what you're going to pack. Could you leave your laptop at home ? Be honest, now. If you can stop working for a few minutes, it may be for the best. More and more research demonstrates the need to take breaks, be those short naps or long vacations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Are you a leader contemplating starting a new business? Or, has a budding entrepreneur turned to you because of your leadership skills to ask for your help? Here are 11 questions you or that entrepreneur should ask before starting a business. Is there a true need for my product/service? What is the competitive environment and how will my product/service be unique, different or better?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Ellen Mowrer is business development advisor for GrantStation. She works with. both clients and the GrantStation team in marketing, Partner Depot. advertising, surveys, reporting, and business analysis. I’ve spent quite a few years in the space between nonprofits and for-profit businesses, most recently as business development advisor at GrantStation.

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