Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking. Some nonprofits will be tempted to drop many tools such as WordPress, Twitter, and Flickr to consolidate their efforts under one platform, the Google platform. Related Links: Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofits. Newly Released!

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JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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MARCH 6, 2013

offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress. It’s also a good idea that every time you launch a new social media or mobile technology community or campaign, you write a brief blog post and list specific ways in which supporters can participate. Related Links: Webinar: Blogging on WordPress for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Follow these best practices to maximize your return on investment (ROI): Create clear instructions If you want your donors to adopt text-to-give technology, make it easy for them. GiveWP GiveWP is a WordPress donation plugin that offers a variety of fundraising features, including a text-to-give add-on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private? What is public? June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Chrome September 4, 2008 The hiatus is over with a short entry about Google Chrome , the new browser from Google that I learned about on the twitterverse while I was stopped at one rest stop or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. have a look at this recent mailing list post: [link] 2 admin 01.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

However, most people don’t consider an equally startling fact: WordPress sites are some of those most commonly attacked. Why are WordPress sites so attractive to the malicious individuals lurking in the virtual world? And given these statistics, it’s little wonder why website security is such a booming business around the globe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. WordPress 3.0 (and WordPress has long been a very flexible web publishing platform, but it got a whole lot more powerful with the release of 3.0. Drupal Commons.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. WordPress 3.0 (and WordPress has long been a very flexible web publishing platform, but it got a whole lot more powerful with the release of 3.0. Drupal Commons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! I’ll send off queries to the right mailing lists and forums, and probably eventually get it all worked out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

As mentioned below, the most solidly supported functions are those related to mail.&# But if full, true integration isn’t possible (our CMS is WordPress, so our options of integration with Salesforce are a bit more limited), then a well-thought hybrid strategy can work without a lot of resources. 8 Judi Sohn 01.22.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

mail on your blog. So, if you work in the nonprofit sector or nonprofit technology sector and have a blog that uses any of the above widgets or even ones I have mentioned and want to be featured in my next screencast, please leave a comment here. Publishing tag clouds, links from socialbookmarking, etc on your blog. Commenting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Next up, let’s see how the details of migration (web, mail, address book, etc. We’ll see how that works once I am able to download some of the good wireless GUI tools out there (like NetworkManager, which I hear is good.)

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Some are successful, but messy. commenting on any item.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. EngageJoe has been helping with campaign and hopes that if you're blogging wordpress that you'll install the wordpress plugin. possibly related classroom projects??? And if you???re

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Keep members in the loop with communications on multiple marketing platforms, including email, direct mail, and text. If the platform is particularly complex, you may also need to hire a technology specialist to ensure a smooth transition. Send multichannel communications. Calculate members’ statuses and upcoming renewal dates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

" (Allan's blog isn't the only nonprofit technology blog to mix the themes of nonprofit technology and spirituality - take for example here and here.). His blog is a valuable source in the nonprofit technology blogosphere! Augustine on his blog that goes along with his tagline, "Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director."

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

And open source systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and Plone have brought these features within reach of organizations with limited budgets and staffing. . Other things have changed with the technology, such as maintaining flexibility throughout the project. Matching Planning to Site Goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits. Social Warfare is a WordPress plugin that adds visually compelling social share buttons to your website or blog. Postable allows users to easily send cards and postcards through snail mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc.

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