Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

@ NonprofitOrgs follows more than 120,000 nonprofits, nonprofit staff and nonprofit service providers. Now, of course it’s humanly impossible to follow the tweets of that many Twitter accounts, so to make the chaos manageable I organize my favorite nonprofits and those whose tweets consistently stand out from the rest into Twitter Lists. However, at least 10 times a day I go to my “Home” view and scan through hundreds of tweets hoping to find new nonprofits to retweet or list,

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This post originally appeared on Care2 Frogloop – you can read it there and join the Frogloop community , or read the full post below. —– Who are you friends with on Facebook? Do you care who sees where you check in on FourSquare? Last month, Farra Trompeter of Big Duck and Danielle Bridgida of National Wildlife Federation presented at the Bridge Conference last week about personal and professional branding.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

According to the Foundation Center’s analysis of data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are approximately 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. According to the Q&A that Idealware conducted with Blackbaud , approximately 400 nonprofits are using Common Ground. That’s about.026 percent of U.S. nonprofits. Obviously, if you’re one of those 400 you care deeply about the demise of Common Ground.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. We have the privilege of being able to serve people with disabilities in large part because of a generous provision in U.S. copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this commun

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Launched today, LinkedIn Board Connect for Nonprofit Organizations is a new board member recruiting program that enables nonprofits to easily tap into LinkedIn’s 175+ million strong network of professionals. With nonprofits needing to fill approximately two million empty board seats annually, LinkedIn Board Connect could be the missing link in helping nonprofits make board member recruitment a much easier and more rewrding process.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

CAPTCHA stands for (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). The CAPTCHA program is able to protect websites because computer programs cannot read or understand distorted text the way a human can. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to create a positive online user experience during the transmission of sensitive data like logins, registrations, email or online payments.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I’m sitting here on Tuesday morning, reflecting on the New Year and all that has gone on as 5772 has ended. I find myself with something I’m not familiar with…a few minutes of free time. I’m off today, no one is home and I’ve got nothing I absolutely have to do at the moment besides pack for Dreamforce, finish a pair of socks and rest up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

All social media and mobile media webinars offered by Nonprofit Tech 2.0 have an individual price of $50, but through December 20, 2012 they will be offered at the following discounted rates: Buy 2, Get 1 Free :: 3 for $100. Buy 3, Get 2 Free :: 5 for $150. Buy 4, Get 3, Free :: 7 for $200. Buy 5, Get 4 Free :: 9 for $250. View: Current Webinar Schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Source: Hot Button Studio. In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.” There’s where I discovered a new passion – data visualization techniques for sense-making.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Date : September 20-21, 2012. Location : Pittsburgh, PA. Topic : Cross-Channel Donor Engagement: Creating a Strategy to Build Relationships Online. Description : To build relationships with supporters and donors in this hyper connected world, we need to create multichannel strategies to ensure our messages are connected and people are positioned to take action and make a difference together with us.

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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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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

'As we have before, passing along one of Stan Stahl''s creative and insightful essays. On this, the 225th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States, and in this combative political season, his narrative reminds us that our nation-- our union--is built on cooperation. Not a bad concept for the needed work in our communities. Not a bad reference for a software platform called CommunityOS.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Summer Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. View: All Webinars for Nonprofits. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinne

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Note From Beth: Here’s some quick tips on using Facebook Ads. The most important thing to remember is that being successful, especially with ads, depends on using measurement and metrics to learn as Taryn’s point number for suggests. If after reading these tips, you want to want some more case studies and indepth resources, please see this post: ” How A Small Nonprofit Used Facebook Ads Effectively “ Six Things Nonprofits Should Know About Facebook Ads – guest p

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Keeping website content fresh is mission-critical for non-profits. But frequent website updates can be challenging, so here are 3 tips that might help.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

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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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

CAPTCHA stands for (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans …

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

John Haydon. Partner. SocialBrite. Instead of focusing on metrics first, ask yourself what you ultimately want people to do. Archers don't aim at the point halfway between the arrow tip and the target. If they did, they would never hit the bullseye. In the same way, many nonprofits still focus too much on counting Facebook likes and Twitter followers as if these metrics are the end goal, and then feel frustrated when they're not getting the results they expected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

LinkedIn announced Board Connect , resources that helps nonprofits transform themselves into networked nonprofits by finding and recruiting board members using a networked approach. Leveraging their own networks as well as their board members’ networks, nonprofit leaders now have free access to a premium LinkedIn feature that lets them search for and connect with professionals who meet the needs of their organization on LinkedIn.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We've added a new article to our Membership Knowledge Hub that offers tips, tools and resources for creating and sharing effective meeting minutes.

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Advertiser: Syncrony

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

posted by Sentari Minor , Development Officer, Arizona Humane Society. The more I work with boards of directors, the more the topic of board governance versus management comes up. That is, there seems to be an ever-present issue of organizations navigating the very sensitive notion of where board responsibilities end and where the executive director’s duties begin.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Katie Delahaye Paine. CEO. KD Paine & Partners. Using data to help your organization succeed in its mission involves achieving consensus on what success looks like, getting good data that helps drive decisions making, and performing good analysis so you understand what is and is not working. A simple rule of thumb is that you should spend more time learning from your data than gathering it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Tuesday hopes to spark a movement of people and organizations who want to celebrate giving and encourage more and smarter giving during the holiday season. The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Could "peeragogy" enhance your events and help increase member engagement?

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Advertiser: DonorDock

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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

posted by Clyde W. Kunz, CFRE , ASU Lodestar Center. NMI Instructor. Owner, Clyde Kunz and. Associates, LLC. 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.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Carie Lewis. Director of Emerging Media. Humane Society of the United States. We realized we were trying to do too much, and we lost focus and interest and just gave up. Figure out what really matters and how you can get that data. The Humane Society of the United States has a well-established and successful online communications program. But here’s one thing we’re not so great at: the world of data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Does your nonprofit struggle with figuring out what percentage of your Facebook content should be promotional VS sharing other content from news or blog sites? Here are a couple schools of thought on finding your Facbook content sweet spot. The 70/20/10 rules for managing your content on Facebook as shown in the infographic below states that: 70% of the content you share on Facebook should be resource material and valuable content posts. 20% should be sharing others’ content. 10% should be

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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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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

If your fundraising is flat (or worse, declining) there are reasons why. Figuring out what is causing your disheartening results is the first step in fixing it. You may feel as though you’re trying everything you can think of and nothing is really working. You want to bring in big bucks, but the truth is your fundraising results are mediocre at best.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

After one of the best meals of my life at Casa Lucio I'm back from a 2-week vacation in Spain, and wanted to share some of my reflections before it all fades away into the routine of everyday life. Walking The hubs and I spend about four days in Madrid and 10 in Barcelona. During that time, we walked at least 6 miles a day around the city. Sooooo much better than sitting in front of a computer all day.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When we surveyed NGOs and libraries around the world this year about where they are in regard to using and needing cloud based IT services, we didn’t know how far things have gone toward cloud adoption. Very similar to the NTEN US Nonprofit Cloud Survey findings, we found that 90 percent of our 10,500 respondents worldwide told us they are already using some type of cloud technology and they plan to use more pretty quickly.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

As a consultant to nonprofits who are looking to create social change in this world, I spend a lot of time reading through nonprofit’s online fundraising appeals. Even though many organizations have improved integrating their online and offline fundraising work, too many “goofs” are slipping through the cracks that can drastically impact response rates.

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