NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

When scanned, QR codes often take users to a mobile web page. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. Clever use of mobile technology might be just what your next campaign needs.

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NetWits

MARCH 3, 2011

Since most of the attendees at this event would be new to the organization, they thought this was a great chance to beta test the technology. When the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network designed the flyer for their awareness night, they included two new calls to action: 1) a mobile opt-in via text message and 2) a QR code. The Results.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

TechSoup is a nonprofit that partners with corporations, like Google, to help bring technology tools and other resources to nonprofits at a discounted rate. Fill out your personal contact and organization info and agree to be contacted by Google. Never enter any credit card info — even if the Ad Grants platform asks for it.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Technology for Good Gadgets – It’s All About Health and Fitness. smart socks generate heat maps of how a runner’s foot strikes the ground and sends the info to a phone app. The TV technology most likely to make your current TV obsolete are new ultra high definition ‘ 4K ’ TVs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2010

In January 2010, I was quoted by Association & Nonprofit BizNow for saying: “[Heather] envisions a mobile app with a GuideStar database of nonprofits that would make it possible for people to donate to any organization at any time. At year’s end, givers could print out all their donation info on one page for tax purposes.&#

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Blackbaud is a leader in the nonprofit technology space because of the scope and versatility of its offerings. Typical services include migration, custom configuration, and the development of overarching technology plans. Partners typically fall into one or more of these categories: Consultation services. Custom integrations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

Fortunately, accepting donations online is easier than ever, thanks to technology! As technology becomes more advanced, more and more nonprofits will be investing in online donation platforms that offer these kinds of features, so it’s important to invest in them sooner rather than later.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! The reason why The Fog is emerging is because of the amount of data overwhelming our 3G and 4G mobile networks. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. The concept of the Nonprofit Exchange is that any U.S.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Technology both simplifies and complicates our lives. Finally, social media, mobile fundraising, and a whole array of fundraising and volunteer management apps. Further still, how involved is your social media strategy, mobile giving, and text campaigning … more systems and databases? Why are we creating more headaches?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

One of the interesting dynamics of any technology provider of any stripe is the way they choose the technology they will focus on and support. I think this is something that many nonprofits, especially those without in-house technology expertise aren’t that aware of. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 31, 2011

Developing Apps for iPhone/Android using Drupal as a base system – Very interesting stuff on mobile apps. Good blogging fodder. Advanced Drush – doesn’t that say it all? Certifications and Drupal – interesting questions. Advanced Features Usage – good stuff on using Features.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Michael is the VP of Account Management and Business Development at Mobile Commons. Mobile Commons is a Convio partner and they have just launched Mobile Advocate - A new product integrated with Convio Luminate and designed to drive targeted advocacy phone calls from the web or SMS. Build a mobile list now.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mobile payments: Mobile wallets and apps enable quick donations through smartphones. You enter the info or stick the card into a device, click a few buttons, and voila! If your nonprofit is focused on mobile giving, Square has a lot to offer. Offering these methods is important for catering to younger donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 15, 2018

Thus far, nonprofits have struggled to create mobile apps that their donors and supporters want to use. Now 11 years after the launch of the first iPhone, social enterprises and socially-responsible businesses are finding creative ways to contribute to the mobile app economy with apps that combine lifestyle with social good.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Rock the Vote has been mobilizing the youth vote for almost 30 years. We called up Jen Tolentino, Director of Policy & Civic Tech at Rock the Vote to talk about their mobilization strategy and the role of technology in organizing. It enables us to know enough information about someone to mobilize them in targeted ways.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Naples, Florida: How to use Technology to Communicate and Manage Volunteers. San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day at the Salvation Army. but we all know that meetings are boring! Friday, July 07, 2017.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The good news is that it’s pretty easy to do a hard reset and clear mobile phones of personal information. The Electronics Takeback Coalition reports that we still recycle a tiny fraction (11%) of our discarded mobile devices. More and more we’ll find our mobile devices suffering from data corruption.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. If you’ve heard of only one nonprofit mobile app, it’s likely this one since it was one of the earliest mobile apps developed by a major nonprofit organization. Frogloop has you covered.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” How do we make info relevant and interesting in people’s lives?” Next seminar from Baruch College will focus on ‘going mobile’ on November 12, 2009.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. The downside?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. What if you’re a U.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads. Many organizations have acceptable use policies as standard language in their employee handbooks, defining in legal terms the appropriate behavior for using technology resources.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

I {enjoy|really like|love} the {knowledge|info|information} you {present|provide} here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home. I’m {shocked|amazed|surprised} at how {quick|fast} your blog loaded on my {mobile|cell phone|phone}. Weiner: Nonprofit Fundraising Technology Consulting ? I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

With generous support for new technology developments from the MacArthur Foundation, we now have the ability to assess and prioritize needs, enhance existing features, build new functionality and develop client and server infrastructure. Currently, you can manually enter data into Martus, or import data after formatting it into XML.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" Finally, Cameron Jones , senior director, technology solutions and services, reports: "I use two-factor verification on my Google password. "I tend to receive a lot of phishing spam, especially to some of the generic info@ email aliases that are posted publicly. Also, I use Dashlane password manager.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

This is the thing about online apps and mobile: they are the next big thing for nonprofits today. This session was an interesting look around the ever-evolving universe of online and mobile tools used to mobilize people online. Last week I attended a session on this topic at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

No longer can you get to the same Internet via your mobile device as you can via your laptop. The FCC bans any outright blocking and "unreasonable discrimination" of websites or applications on wireline Internet, but sill gives plenty of room to bend those rules in the mobile Internet space.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Virtual Fundraising Event Production and Technology. JP helped with efforts related to the Collaborative’s use of different communication technologies and digital flow. The first half of pre-production focuses on preparing your technology. Establish Communication Channels for Engagement. Start in pre-production.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

It's only natural that organizations embracing technology to achieve their missions might explore the potential of gaming for good. However, even with more funding available, improved technology means development does not have to cost much. Civic Tripod for Real-World Games and Mobile.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

How do think your target audiences will prefer to get info for this initiative? Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. (Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.).

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