Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Connecting to the Internet Digital Divide GreenTech International Networks Green IT WiFi tsgreentechnology BRCK Ushahidi' Find out more about this here.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Use the Internet to spread your message. Instead of trying to recruit people who are brand new to your mission, it’s often more efficient and successful to rely on existing relationships when mapping your advocacy campaign. Use the Internet to spread your message. Rely on established relationships. Introduce your characters.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

Google, World Bank use Map Maker to improve Africa's disaster response( - Internet-based applications and services ) : Innhold a- Google, World Bank use Map Maker to improve Africa's disaster response o Michael Malakata 19.01.2012 kl 18:33 | Computerworld Zambia By providing access to a Web-based community mapping tool and data, World Bank and Google (..)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2010

Miller-McCune has a story this month on geographic information system (GIS) mapping and the growing role it's playing in city-planning advocacy ( via ). Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 One organization used GIS to correct a decades-old disparity in water services. Tools Web Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

The above map that Chad explains gets at it. They use Internet tools and regional trainings to support learning across the network. He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map uses a " multi-tentacled hydra." See also: Pew and the Internet Life Project: Internet in 2020 Social Media Gurus Predict Trends for 2009 What to do in the nonprofit sector to offset the economic crisis?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Find a Grant Management System That Works for You Now—and in the Future Now that you have your functionality identified and timeline mapped out, you are ready to dig into the different systems available. Once you’ve narrowed your list down to a few vendors, contact each one for a live demo. And most importantly, be clear about your needs.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

In particular, he reflected on five strategic uses of the internet which, when combined intelligently, have influenced the actions of the entire US Congress. Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait!

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

When updating the DNS, which is the process in which servers tell the internet where new website living, there is a period in which the site will alternate between the new and old site. Keep a spreadsheet containing a list of old urls that map to the new ones so you have an idea of how users are reaching new pages from old urls.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

." Why Being Good Enough Is Never Enough on the Internet – Forbes – This is an important post I think everyone should read! The Internet is indeed a blank canvas in many ways. Moreover, mocking people or organizations whose maps don’t succeed hardly seems noble, and could even deter experimentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. Change the internet?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2022

Display and contextual advertising: image or video ads that serve on websites across the internet, designed to target specific people or types of websites. For search and display advertising, think about how your prospective supporters search the Internet. People will always donate to save animals! Get Creative with Keywords.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 25, 2022

billion internet users, with the average user spending nearly seven hours a day online. . Become a career resource for professionals by mapping career paths for various roles in your industry. Technology is irrevocably integrated into our daily lives. Here’s how to boost the effectiveness of your association’s career center: .

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The evolution of technology has, however, made it easy to rapidly put credible solutions in place, and, in many cases, this internet strategist is here to tell you that you just need to dispense with the rigor and go for it. Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2021

The answer is having a mapped out 2021 Nonprofit Social Media Marketing Calendar. You can access the course from any computer or smartphone with internet access. How can you re-focus, re-prioritize, and get yourself back on track with your social media marketing? And in this live training, I’ll show you how to create one!

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Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

Call logs, service requests by email, and FAQs you respond to over and over again are all clues to mapping and anticipating customer experience needs. . But with a better understanding of the challenges outlined above, there are actions you can take now to get started: 1) Map your timelines. It can’t happen overnight.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV&# stations.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And yes, earlier this year, Sesame Street’s Elmo broke the Internet when he asked the simple question, “How is everybody doing?” Have you mapped out distinct user journeys and opportunities for engagement for every step of the marketing funnel? How will you build bridges that connect advocacy with financial support and back again?

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

KDVR Photo) Evacuating the Family One of our staff found themselves cut off from power, phone, internet, and water. Douglas Zimmerman VisionLink www.visionlink.org (Note, you can learn more from our disaster maps at boulderflood2013.communityos.org He took amazing photos and videos.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ But this level of detail is not easy to come by; when it is available, it’s often dispersed across the internet—buried on funder websites, local news stories, or press releases. . billion dollars. Corporate funders are for-profit organizations funding philanthropic work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . He is a self-described " Internet Sociologist " and developer of NodeXL. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. when we search for tagged items.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. Here are four that currently have my vote – please share yours! Historypin.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One Internet upstarts (eg Business Insider, Politico), corporate/owned platforms and social." " The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Have a strategy in place in case your internet goes out, such as a mobile hotspot or another host who can take over from a different location. Determine next steps you’ll take in case a remote guest speaker doesn’t show up, or has internet issues. Monitor presenters’ internet connections during the tech check.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The countertrend has sparked a debate over whether the conventional wisdom that the Internet and social networking inherently tip the balance of power in favor of democracy is mistaken.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Don’t forget corporate email, maps and directions, and messaging. Some apps (like maps) keep pulling data in the background even when you’re not using them, and that’s a waste of precious MB. Speaking of maps, turn off location settings when you can. Shut down your apps when not in use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. intl/en/landing/internetstats. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

According to the Pew Neighbors Online study recently released, 27% of American adult Internet users (or 20% of adults overall) use “digital tools to talk to their neighbors and keep informed about community issues. Meetup Everywhere is “an open and free internet platform for sparking Meetups everywhere about something.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some data that inform this assumption: 95% of the US has a smartphone ( Pew Internet ). Apple’s top apps of 2018 were YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Messenger, Facebook, Bitmoji, Netflix, Google Maps, and Gmail. People spend 2.5 hours a day on their devices (Comscore 2017). 77% of this time is spent on apps (Comscore 2017).

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

It leads to a smart conversation by answering the questions with maps, images, videos, and text. It operates in many languages via access through the low-band internet. . An example of innovative AI is The Yeshi chatbot, created by Charity, which educates people about clean water. Raising funds for orphanages.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. For those with limited access to technology, printable city maps can be downloaded and stickers can be found on café windows.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested?

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