Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Security Camera - Photo by Sirius Rust. In the case of your computing resources and personal data inside that box you call your laptop, or protecting the whole of your home or office network, security is a matter of using specific tools that prevent unprivileged outsiders from getting in. are the tools of the trade here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

After 10 years of experimentation, nonprofits are learning that there are correct (and incorrect) ways to post on Facebook, format a tweet, upload a photo, and send a text alert, but if your nonprofit doesn’t know the science, then math isn’t going to work. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. You can access VoIP services from any location with a phone, mobile phone, or any Internet-connected device.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office. Something as basic as a laptop is a lifeline to a child who is isolated on a cancer ward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

After 10 years of experimentation, nonprofits are learning that there are correct (and incorrect) ways to post on Facebook, format a tweet, upload a photo, and send a text alert, but if your nonprofit doesn’t know the science, then math isn’t going to work. There is also a science to social and mobile media. Blog Unique Visitors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

This is our story on how we use Box, the online file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. We needed a simple and easy-to-use solution to share PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, photos, and videos within and outside the organization. We have lots of photos, and they're a challenge to organize.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Did the story have a strong accompanying photo or video? You need a strong photo, preferably of a person or animal looking directly into the camera. If the reader can’t connect with the eyes of the person or animal in the photo, it’s a bad photo. Was the story you told in this email powerful enough? Make the right Ask.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Qgiv also offers web-based bidding for people who are participating from their laptops and mobile bidding for those who prefer to place bids from an app on their smartphones. Use photos and videos. Bloomerang – Constituent Relationship Manager. Need help planning your next auction? Include multiple bidding options.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office. Something as basic as a laptop is a lifeline to a child who is isolated on a cancer ward.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You can also use calls to action throughout your blog posts or services pages. Lastly, you must ensure that viewing your nonprofit’s website is an equally enjoyable experience for smartphone users and laptop/desktop users alike. Resize your photos so they don’t appear distorted in the mobile view. ? Mobile-friendly formatting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. One of the features is a new lens blur mode, which lets you play with the depth of field in your photos (you can find a similar feature on Instagram). 2,000 were tablets.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Consider sharing information about successful programs in other states, sending kudos to other nonprofit executives in your community, and serving as a resource for other social service organizations. This mix of information about the community, as well as your organization, will make your social networking efforts a success.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For your website and blog to be compatible with desktops, laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc., Your NGO must invest in an email marketing service. Email is not dead , in fact, it’s growing in popularity and power with all age groups. 10 Website Design Best Practices for NGOs. your NGO must mobile-optimize your content.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Using before and after photos instead of just the sad “before” photos can be more compelling because it conveys hope, and therefore does a better job of showing how your organization can make a difference with a potential donor’s funds. . Do you think they’ll go grab their laptop or switch to their desktop?

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

They watch TV, read magazines, and yes, use their laptops, tablets and phones. In the case of those that receive white glove service as high dollar donors, it might be worse. Photo via Hugh McCleod. Donors, volunteers and advocates don't consume one form of media or another. They don't go home and Facebook for three hours.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. It's promised battery life is ten hours -- longer than any laptop to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

They all have free elements to their service. Encourage Live Tweeting during the event and don't forget to encourage photos. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Be creative. Also encourage people to live tweet from the event. Keep in touch.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

There are rumors that Microsoft will release Windows 8 along with a full app store with greater use across the board for desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone users, but so far, it's just speculation. Laptops use 15 to 30 watts of electricity per hour when plugged in and in use, and approximately 50 watts per hour when they are charging.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Celebgate Is About More Than Photos. There was no intentional sharing by the celebrities — they were hacked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. But "Terrorists might also use our bus service to move about the city undetected." Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? That could just be me and my own laptop induced add. Well, yeah.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

"Open source software developers like these fill an indispensable role," says Joseph Mouzon, the Tides Foundation chief of staff, a Pizzigati Prize judge, and the former executive director of Nonprofit Services for Network for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

For catastrophic hardware issues, I have my back up computer - my laptop and I can plug my desktop keyboard, modem, and monitor) and viola I'm up and running. Second, I have all essential data - documents, photos, multimedia, email, etc backed up - both in local copies and if possible online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. donation program provides discounted pricing of services and equipment for credit/debit card payment processing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. Our IT budget mainly pays for monthly cloud services fees and Internet service provider charges. " Jon was very matter of fact. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. Jane mentioned that the gamer community we works with are compassionate and want to be engaged in service in the real world – not the typical stereo type of a gamer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

A dedicated process to giving auction items to your virtual attendees, whether you’re using a delivery service or setting a pick up location. For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet. Experiences like massages or other grooming services are great ideas! Garden Party Auction.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. Our IT budget mainly pays for monthly cloud services fees and Internet service provider charges. " Jon was very matter of fact. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag. and I knew where I could find it.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. Get another year out of laptops/software, etc. It stinks, but you have to do what you have to do. Then, evaluate joint IT/Business processes.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2009

Flickr Photo: _heather_r_ My mother-in-law is famous in our family for one phrase: "Get Over It." We need combine evaluation with prognostication to imagine what the future will look like, then design programs and services that will meet the needs of our future. What if I could phone bank for you from my laptop?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. a-month phone service or home broadband — their choice. One of our laureate predictors each year has been Peter Campbell of Legal Services Corporation. Peter Campbell Sums It Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The session will be very hands-on, participants will be encouraged to their cameras, laptops, and clips. We will also organize a flickr collaboration during conference, for example we might take digital photos of the event around particular themes and stream and project our photo stream so everyone at NTC can view it.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

You could have your caterers provide pick-up meals for those virtual attendees or provide a delivery service gift card. You might auction off laptops, school supplies, and other similar items. Plus, you can use these photos in your social media posts promoting the event to entice your followers to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Every decision you make should be in service to one or more of these three goals. That’s because the cameras on our laptops and desktops are not nearly as sophisticated as the broadcast equipment we are used to seeing on TV, nor is the lighting in your home or office. Stories, data, and explanations are your tools.

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Media Cause

JULY 1, 2021

June is the month we celebrate Pride, but it does seem like the only month out of the year that brands are actually OK with engaging with the LGBTQIA+ community to promote their products or services. It’s still political to use photos of queer people in content. There are a few reasons for this. The Problems We Face.

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