NetWits

MARCH 10, 2012

It got me thinking about how content is used by nonprofits to help them connect with the right audience online. The concept of creating content to engage with your audience isn’t new, especially in the nonprofit world, but it is becoming more and more critical when it comes to creating success online. What’s content marketing?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Since the one-line nature of the Twitter post limits the amount of effort that can go into polishing these "miniblogs", I'm getting a virtual hailstorm of information this way. There's no way I can begin to keep up with the flood of valuable information my friends are incessantly calling to my attention.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

There are thousands of ways to fundraise for your nonprofit, from online campaigns to events and membership programs. Whether your organization is new to the nonprofit scene or you’ve been fundraising for decades, you know the importance of securing major gifts for your cause. Why should my nonprofit conduct donor prospect research?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

If desired, different users can have different levels of control over sharing, editing, and removing information. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. Building a Wiki.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

." KnowHow’s impact — Knowhow Nonprofit – Here's a great example of how you can reinvent the way your organization reports it's impact! Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest).

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Does your nonprofit have a digital marketing plan ? Why Nonprofits Need A Digital Marketing Plan. As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. How To Build A Nonprofit Digital Marketing Plan (That works). Ready to get started?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Wow – that’s a problem almost every nonprofit would like to have, right? million donor names, emails and contact information. Discussion and debate. million new donors. It’s like winning a lottery that you don’t remember playing.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

According to Wikipedia, or Nielsen Norman Group, an Evidence-Based User Experience Research Firm, responsive web design is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is using to view a website or webpage. What is responsive web design? User Experience.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

From September 30 to October 21, TechSoup will host a free Digital Storytelling online event including expert roundtable discussions, nonprofit case studies, online discussions, live chat, and a community challenge with a final screening awards ceremony in the virtual world of Second Life. What do we mean by Digital Storytelling?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

information goods can be shared forever. For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. the web creates visible real-time reputations. Absolutely. PledgeBank.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

More information on colors is available in many places online, but Wikipedia explains it very well. nonprofit Adobe photoshop Multimedia and Graphics software marketing' Entering one set of values will automatically change the others, but a simple way to communicate an exact color is to say what the hex code is. Progress So Far.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

The only thing left to do to complete our poster is to add the nonprofit organization's logo. Select the file blog-generic-nonprofit-logo.eps and click Place. Adobe offers a good introduction to Smart Objects for more information. Lynda.com : Starting at $25 per month, but Lynda offers nonprofit discounts.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

The only thing left to do to complete our poster is to add the nonprofit organization's logo. Select the file blog-generic-nonprofit-logo.eps and click Place. Adobe offers a good introduction to Smart Objects for more information. Lynda.com : Starting at $25 per month, but Lynda offers nonprofit discounts.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. So often, nonprofits feel pain triggered by the decision of another department. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift? Learn How Well Drupal Works for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I used to participate in the calls way back in 2005 in the early days of blogging and always found the calls informative. Google + intends to make us more intentional about who we share our information with. Dave Gray shared this reflection where circles can go and they hint at other potential nonprofit use cases for donor cultivation.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Yesterday I made the case that women, not men, have become the most vital market segment to reach, not only for consumer brands but for nonprofit organizations seeking to change the world. Armed with this information, smart nonprofit marketers will realize that we cannot afford to be gender blind in our outreach efforts.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. But make sure you are explaining acronyms and providing background information, even if that explanatory content needs to go below the fold. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers. The post Need a copy editor?

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Cindy Leonard, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Why should a nonprofit care about having an accessible website? I’m glad you asked.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. thanks to our Creative Commons license.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

First, go to one of my favorite sites - Wikipedia. Wikipedia will sense that you are using a mobile device and will automatically display the version of the site that is optimized for mobile. Then, click on the link that says "View this page on regular Wikipedia." Okay, so what does this mean for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? He has seen it all. Welcome to the U.S., billion to date.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Microsoft has made several exciting updates to its software donation program to make it more convenient for all nonprofits to request software donations. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Executive Director. Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. How to Register Your Foundation. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. At the Nonprofit Commons recent launch party last month , there were concerns about griefers, particularly because of the experience of the honored guest.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. What is a knowledge sharing network?

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

Grant Howe is VP of research & development for Sage North America's Nonprofit Solutions business, based in Austin, Texas. Follow him on Twitter and read his first post in the Tag, You're IT! I've heard a lot employees and managers talk about "needing a mentor." What Is or Isn’t Mentorship?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

to see if your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or public library is eligible for the new Office. Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. URL Information (Outlook 2013) lets you preview websites without leaving your inbox.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It turned out to be a lame name, but we did compile some pretty useful information. Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. plus $2 per user license.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

How is a CIO or IT manager with limited experience in a low-budget nonprofit to keep up without breaking the bank? Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Are my staff members sharing too much information online? It's fairly reasonable for a nonprofit and works quite well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. At the time, my nonprofit social enterprise was the leading maker of reading machines for people who were blind or dyslexic, giving them the power to scan their own books and printed material.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information. For more details, see this wikipedia entry. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared).

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

By Jocelyn Harmon, Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Unless you've been living under a barrel, you know the demographics of the U.S. It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. These percentages are even worse for nonprofit boards!

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