Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2022

Plus, virtual offerings remove airfare and hotel costs from the equation, opening up the opportunity to attend for more people who previously may have faced financial or geographic barriers—a win-win for event organizers and guests alike. The key is finding a tech partner that can integrate live and virtual experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

We are here to educate, facilitate and communicate,” he said. “We Opening the ability to receive stock donations provides another avenue for donors to be able to support the organizations that are meaningful to them in a contactless way. We work with nonprofits to educate donors on the benefits of donating appreciated stock.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This pandemic has forced businesses to work remotely, if possible, and to jump through additional hoops if allowed to remain open in a physical location. . Virtual event hosting platforms allow for this to be possible. Virtual Event Platform Features for Virtual Trade Shows. Live chat options.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

ValleyCAN has not only used the Salesforce platform to reach more participants in disadvantaged communities, but they have also shared the benefits of using technology to scale with other communities offering similar programs. Opens new window. Opens new window. Opens new window. Plant for the Planet. Seal Rescue Ireland.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

billion WhatsApp users exchanging more than 60 billion messages every day and that unlike other media, it has an astounding 99% open rate and 40%+ response rate. The post 4 Ways to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Digital Storytelling with WhatsApp appeared first on Nonprofit Tech for Good. Recent data indicates that there are in excess of 1.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Keep your communications open with your community.”.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

No longer just inherent to explicitly tech-based conglomerates, tech fuels everything from banks and financial services to food-delivery services and traditional retail as it facilitates the rapid migration online to meet the needs of a world spending more time at home than ever before.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 15, 2021

the dates and times, how each of the hosting formats will work, the event management platform for hosting the event online, how to sell tickets, the event marketing, and the post-event strategies. . This allows tech junkies, media, and industry experts to watch live from anywhere in the world. . Hybrid events typically have presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. Clearly define workflow for online collaboration platforms and training.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We Bentley Motors’ new digital platform is a crucial component of its goal to become a leader of sustainable luxury mobility.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This pandemic has forced businesses to work remotely, if possible, and to jump through additional hoops if allowed to remain open in a physical location. . Virtual event hosting platforms allow for this to be possible. Virtual Event Platform Features for Virtual Trade Shows. Live chat options.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In a departure from its usual format, the August session of the San Francisco Online Community Meetup was an open forum. The talk, facilitated by online community veteran Scott Moore , delved into various facets of online community. The topic questions and responses are outlined below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. Will the platforms we are all addicted to truly make us more powerful, or will they simply be participation farms?

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2014

Instead of a traditional conference with concurrent sessions and a line-up of speakers, Leading Change Summit (LCS) is designed around the idea that the best ideas can emerge through facilitated workshops and driven conversations. Use the LCS Platform to Propel Your Plans LCS is your stage! Is LCS for you?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. Richard Socher and his team of researchers introduced new AI functionality features (called Einstein ) integrated with the Salesforce platform).

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The Collaborative used virtual networking happy hours, gamification and contests, and attendee-to-attendee live chat to facilitate this. Feedback: Many virtual conference platforms offer features that allow for sending participants surveys both after specific sessions, as well as about the event as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

If you are responsible for planning and facilitating virtual meetings, here are some tips that’ll help you make your meetings more productive. Virtual Meetings Require Iron Fist Facilitation. Appoint a facilitator to function as traffic cop, spelling out the rules of engagement and calling on people when it’s their turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. In 2013, GiveMN, one of the first and longest running Giving Days, experienced a catastrophic platform fail (on Razoo).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Mapping can be done with low tech tools (sticky notes and markers) or you can use simple tools to map your own network on social media platforms or software that helps you illustrate it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

They open up a ton of flexibility in terms of scale, timeframe, and additional virtual activities to engage donors. Digital marketing platforms. We’ll discuss why each of these tools is a useful addition to your tech stack as well as a few key features to look for in each. Facilitating bids online and via mobile devices.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

Its award-winning apps help underserved youth find meals and a safe space, facilitate safe shelter for abuse and trafficking survivors, and deploy volunteers to time-sensitive community needs. More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I also work closely with our innovator community, those who have submitted Projects on our platform and participated in open innovation Challenges. Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Note from Beth: I facilitated a panel about Mobile Integrated strategy at the Innogive Conference earlier this month and have shared the notes here. Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Don’t Build That App.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Although the board facilitates the programme, it is the young people themselves who run the weekly meetings and activities independently. Generally, research has shown that to be successful, such programmes need to be open, flexible, and realistic in their approach.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Embarking on a new tech project is like building a house. If for a house construction project you want to think about how many bedrooms and bathrooms you want and how large, for a tech project you want to outline the requirements for the new system and what jobs it needs to accomplish. First, there is a design and planning phase.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

NetSquared Local is TechSoup’s volunteer-driven network of nonprofit tech meetups and salons. Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge invited Beth Kanter to visit New Zealand to facilitate some workshops for NGOs interested in networked capacity building. Johannesburg, South Africa: Open Data for Non-Profits - an Introduction.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, with the use of digital tools, like a performance management system and an online learning platform, training and onboarding became much easier. Digital learning tools and corporate learning tech has actually become an extremely popular tool among HR professionals these days. Wrapping Up.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. Or, if you are clearly visible and helping to pull together threads of knowledge building across many platforms, your organization’s name is getting valuable exposure. If you open up comments to all users, you are going to get spammers. rating items.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

After all, the nonprofit association for people working at the intersections of tech and social change should have a website to match that mission and vision. Furthermore, across our multiple online platforms and websites, there’s little to no design consistency, and the transitions between the sites are clunky at best.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nonprofit membership software is usually a platform organizations can use to manage memberships and engage participants to boost revenue and program growth. Keep members in the loop with communications on multiple marketing platforms, including email, direct mail, and text. What is membership software for nonprofits? transaction fee.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

When you go to NTC you are joining a community of tech-conscious leaders, innovators, and community changers from around the globe. The NTEN team does a remarkable job of facilitating an environment ripe for connection with no limit to how much you can learn from peers. Twitter was a mysterious platform I always forgot my password to.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It has been five years now since the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that opened the door to 501(c)(4) nonprofits and massive anonymous "dark money" political contributions for political ads. Facilitate these activities at either the local, state, or national level. And it's very easy to do an application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors , which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues.

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