Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. Finally, there are icons for SMS that you can download and integrate with your social networking icons on your website and your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Craig Newmark answered the question "How do we encourage more to give something back to their communities or volunteer using the new web tools?" Winners pushed power to the edges through their social networks and were agile, real-time learners. Nonelethess, it was an inspiring session to hear what the experts had to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment. Digital Networkers profiles African American heavy social networking site users.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees. Tags: E-Learning Event Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

allow individuals and brands to launch their own Web-based “TV&# channels. Very few nonprofits are currently streaming live programs on Web-based TV channels and if there is one thing I have learned in 15 years of online communications for nonprofits, it’s the early adopters that always win big. Websites like Ustream.tv

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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. Lync is an all-in-one tool for video calls, web conferencing, instant messaging, and voice calls.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. What Is Web 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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Care2

JANUARY 5, 2011

They love their gadgets and are constantly on the web via laptops and mobile devices. According to Pew’s latest study, “they still clearly surpass their elders online when it comes to many communications and entertainment-related activities, such as using social network sites and playing games online.&#

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

Walt Mossberg, tech journalist for the Wall Street Journal, recently updated his semi-annual buyer's guide to laptops and mentioned the following in terms of choosing between the two form factors: Tablets tend to beat small, low-cost laptops in weight, start-up speed and battery life.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It's hardly news to anyone that we're experiencing a gradual convergence of phones, Internet, computers, video, and social networking. We now have smart phones that use wireless 3G and 4G networks to receive and send data, voice, and video. We have laptops, netbooks, and tablet computers that can go everywhere with us.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They often use the Internet in some way but eliminate having to use a web browser. Most apps are games and entertainment, social networking tools (like Twitter), informational feeds for a specific topic area or a specific news source, or business and productivity tools like email that fits your particular devices' screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2008

As you know doubt know, airports are not designed for travelers with laptops. We started to chat about technology and I asked him a few questions about his use of web 2.0 sites and social networking. Alex is on route to Fiji. He was only vaguely aware of blogs.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The big ah ha after viewing the maps on the wall next to each other is that these NGOs had strong and vibrant networks established on the ground. Since we are trying to build a network of learners, it is very important to encourage participants to be the leaders and teachers. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

This means you can start working on a document on your desktop and then continue where you left off on another computer, laptop, or tablet because Office saves your work in the cloud as you go. Microsoft's Office Web Apps let your staff and volunteers create, edit, and share documents online. About Software Assurance. Sign up now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. s called a web site.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

For the high level strategy, I shared a few themes from book, The Networked Nonprofit and invited everyone to the virtual launch on June 21st at 4-5 PM EST/1-2 PM PDT. The conversational starter was “How much of a networked nonprofit is your organization? But I assure they will only be called out in a positive way !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Mobile-responsive design refers to the way that web content acts on a mobile device (tablet or smartphone). So when you’re designing your website , make sure that the content you create functions just as well on a mobile phone or tablet as it does on a laptop or desktop computer. Mobile-responsive. Mobile-friendly webpage. QR codes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. There is a huge gap in understanding between what young people are doing with social media spaces and what adults perceive.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

provide system access to field staff with little technical infrastructure and unpredictable web connections. Field staff members access the system in remote locations via their laptops either online or via an offline option when Internet connections aren’t available.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Untrained interns were fine two or three years ago, when the Social Web was still in its infancy and everyone was experimenting. The truth is, in terms of results in social media, you get what you pay for, and if you want the best person for the job, you need someone who has at least a year or two of professional experience in Web 1.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2013

Over the last few years as I have studied the rapid rise of the Mobile Web , I have become more of an advocate of launching a responsively designed website over launching a mobile site separate from a desktop site. The Difference Between Adaptive and Responsive Web Design. Sadly, it was not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

I’m not talking about plastic fish that sing along with your iPod (HIGHLY annoying), electric knives, or a subscription to the latest web-based social network cum parallel reality. I’m talking about giving people things they can use, that they would like, that inform and support their lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

News : RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" -- it's a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. First of all, what are they? From Yahoo!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. " The technology allows a single message to be shared en masse so that it rises above the noise of social networks. This change adds considerable security to web pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Wufoo allows individuals and brands to easily create web forms through a simple drag and drop interface.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

If youre buying new computers for your employees, consider laptops instead of desktops. Laptops require fewer materials and less energy -- saving you about $20 on your annual electricity bill per laptop. Then, use the web and social networking for research. Then, call a meeting to discuss those solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. His team includes writers, designers, and web producers. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. Nonprofits can use it to study past versions of their website and to monitor their progress in web design over time. Social Media. Websites & Email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Papilia Online Tax Receipts enables nonprofits to provide donors with a secure web page that allows them to view their giving history and print personalized tax receipts. CrowdFunder is another web site that lets you set up a page and collect donations for a personal fundraising effort or nonprofit organization. Here's why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I also learned more about crowdmap , a hosted version of the Ushahidi code – in other words you don’t have to install it on your own web server. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Here’s a couple of the takeaways: Share more about what we’re doing on social networks to become less of fortress.

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