Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Your volunteer management system can facilitate more streamlined volunteer engagement and communication. Recruitment: You can recruit volunteers by reaching out to past volunteers, connecting with corporate volunteers, and advertising your open roles on social media and your website. That’s where volunteer management software comes in.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Typical services include migration, custom configuration, and the development of overarching technology plans. They are usually designed to help nonprofits address a specific need, like creating a mobile app or membership portal. What are Blackbaud Partners? Add-ons for Blackbaud products. Add-on tools come in all shapes and sizes.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The phenomenon of our shrinking school-aged population is well documented. People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. The ongoing conversation about student debt and the value of a college credential exacerbates the issue for higher education institutions.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, a donor might use a mobile bidding app at your annual gala auction to bid on your nonprofit’s best prizes. 25+ Fundraising Apps for Your Nonprofit to Consider Fundraising apps can be powerful tools for raising more for your mission, but each one is different and will provide different benefits to your organization.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Many people all over the world face different challenges and problems. How to incentivize volunteerism At its core, volunteerism is the engagement and mobilization of groups of people to support others or fight for a worthwhile cause. This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are the foundation of the learning process. The 70:20:10 rule, suggests that learning should be delivered in a manner that is 70% knowledge acquired from job-related experiences, 20% from social interactions, and 10% from formal educational objects. Learning is a fairly nebulous industry.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

When researching text fundraising , you may see it referred to by many different names, including text to donate, text to give, SMS fundraising, text giving, mobile giving, or text to pledge. It’s easy to share the campaign through social media or between friends because the only thing to remember is the keyword and designated number.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

But, what really is an LXP and how is it different from your typical LMS? At Web Courseworks , we help professional, healthcare, and trade associations grow their learning businesses with effective learning management systems. For years, the LMS has reigned supreme as the top learning platform for associations.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 31, 2019

As a fan of science fiction, I often think about these things as the lines between the physical world and the digital world increasingly narrows. Now that your gears are turning, we can agree that technology is developing at outstanding, breakneck speeds, and organizations and businesses need to keep up or risk being left as a memory.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Once upon a time, just a little more than a century ago, every factory that wanted to run its systems on electricity had to build its own electrical generating system. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. As a teenager, asserting my independence, my friends and I would take in the train to catch late night showings of Laser Floyd in their Rose planetarium. Barry Joseph and I chatted games this week.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are the foundation of the learning process. The 70:20:10 rule, suggests that learning should be delivered in a manner that is 70% knowledge acquired from job-related experiences, 20% from social interactions, and 10% from formal educational objects. Learning is a fairly nebulous industry.

Process 61

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Role of Coaching in your Learning and Development Program. As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? It must be exceedingly important.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

A CRM is no different than any other tool that your nonprofit uses, in the sense that there is a difference between using it well enough to get by, and really getting the most bang for your buck. Leverage the power of social networks with peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. Utilize A/B testing for more impactful emails.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It’s aimed primarily at developers. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. This breaks the whole thing open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop). They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. Intermediation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Michael Stein talks about three different kinds of mistakes that one can make in technology consulting, including some errors of process, and the “Hot Dog&# syndrome. A great read for anyone who does development for clients. Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants !

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. Don’t Tell the Donor talks about a dustup between Greenpeace and the Salvation Army. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate? All-in-one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

These solutions are similar to constituent relationship management systems (CRMs) but they manage member information rather than donor information. Use segmentation tools to identify connections between members, such as those who work in the same field or live in the same area. What is membership software for nonprofits?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I got some interesting comments (especially the one that said “the author doesn’t really seem to understand the distinction between free, open source, and proprietary software&# , which I thought was a hoot.) .&# As you know, NOSI is doing a survey on the use of FOSS in the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, like the tradition that the name of this blog comes from, I want to look at technology without attachment or aversion – with an openness to different ways of thinking about, or doing technology in the nonprofit sector. I initially intended to do a lot more about that, but got kinda caught up in the geeky stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website.

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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. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. Based in the U.K.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Several years ago, they were very few and very far between – mostly individuals who focused solely on Linux. Now, there are many more, and traditional Windows shops are beginning to either add staff who know Linux, or learn it themselves. But there still isn’t a lot out there. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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