For background on blockchain and why it matters for nonprofits and NGOs, this Thrive Global article, Blockchain Positive Impact: Social Enterprise and Nonprofits , provides use cases and a brief technology overview.). MORE

Social media can be useful for any nonprofit, but posting blindly without monitoring results can be a waste of time. Radian 6 and Lithium, at the high end of the price scale, go even further by measuring influence, delivering comparisons to competitors and data on your market share, and providing tangible methods of improving. Both platforms offer nonprofit discounts. License: Copyright The Nonprofit Times. PublishDate: September 2011. Author: Andrea Berry. MORE

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” While they are not free, they’re not beyond nonprofit budgets. MORE

At the higher-end of the price scale are Radian 6 and Lithium, which measure influence, deliver comparisons to competitors and data on your market share, and provide tangible methods of improving. Both platforms offer nonprofit discounts. Thanks to the nonprofit technology professionals who provided recommendations, advice and other help for this article: Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog. PublishDate: August 2011. Author: Andrea Berry. Chris Bernard. Sure, you’re on Facebook. MORE

Michael Brito is currently a Vice President at Edelman Digital. He writes frequently in his social media blog and just finished writing his first social business book, Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization which will be released in July 2011. MORE

It was a great chance to meet real live social entrepreneurs and further my quest to figure out how nonprofits fit in to this emerging field. ” to get a better idea of the background and murky confluence where nonprofits and businesses come together. MORE

kWh lithium-ion battery pack. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7 Volkswagen has provided an update on its Golf blue-e-motion electric vehicle ( earlier post ), now scheduled to arrive on the market in 2014. MORE

Obviously, I’m on an alien flight path and the damn di-lithium crystals are playing havoc with the flux capacitors again. They even have nonprofit rates. I woke up when I heard the snap, crackle, pop. A tree had fallen in the woods and I had heard it. Whatever the philosophical implications, the actual effect was that my power went out. “Damn,&# I muttered, shaking off a sense of déjà vu. It was early morning, Sunday, December 23. MORE

Here's our look at the most interesting and fun things that happened in nonprofit technology this year. Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Now the perpetual horror story of nonprofit tech and all of IT for that matter. MORE