Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. To access everyone across all demographics, your nonprofit must utilize many different tools. That said, the idea brings up a very important point. Or blogging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Nonprofits should diversify their brand online for a number of reasons, but below are three important ones to consider: 1) There’s no one-size-fits-all Internet anymore. To access everyone across all demographics, your nonprofit must utilize many different tools. That said, the idea brings up a very important point. Or blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology. Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Earlier this year, we told you about all the resources available at TechSoup for learning to use technology. Finding Quick Technology Answers Beyond TechSoup. Because we know that TechSoup may not be able to answer all of your really specific technology questions, here are some of our favorite sites. But what if you need more?

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

In the nonprofit world we use this acronym to mean “Constituent Relationship Management&# , generally. From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). 2) Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on July 27th. Tags: opensource CRM Technology Zen Nonprofit Tech Linux CMS nptech. Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? 3) No More Custom CMS.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

While this seems to be quite frequent, and perhaps more often than some of you may like, if you think about your website in terms of technology, four years is a very long time! The top 3 reasons your nonprofit website needs a responsive website: 1. Did you know that organizations update their website, on average, every 2-4 years?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Wow – that’s a problem almost every nonprofit would like to have, right? Let me offer one piece of advice: let’s not get distracted by the story and instead focus on the epilogue – the Ice Bucket Epilogue: it’s about the data.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. What Is Web 2.0? Text messaging.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Does your nonprofit have a digital marketing plan ? Why Nonprofits Need A Digital Marketing Plan. As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. How To Build A Nonprofit Digital Marketing Plan (That works). Ready to get started?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. So often, nonprofits feel pain triggered by the decision of another department. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift? Own the technology. Don't let the technology own you.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I've just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin and I'm pumped! I had the chance to connect with more than 25 NetSquared organizers during the week, and that face-to-face time was a powerful reminder of the deep learning that happens when nonprofit techies get together in a room.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

Beyond sending emails, in Brett's time at NTEN he helped create a community of nonprofit leaders who were excited to learn and share with each other, he wrangled a website with the best of them, and he provided insight and guidance to our strategic direction and evaluation of our work. Curious if other readers have taken the link bait yet?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

source: wikipedia ). If you measure by surveying publicly accessible websites, you get Linux first at 41%-74%, Windows second at 20-42% and proprietary UNIX third at 2-5%?. This underestimates servers inside enterprises.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? He has seen it all. Welcome to the U.S.,

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

In today’s technology-driven world – and with nearly 300 million Internet users in the U.S. alone – you already know how vital your website is to your nonprofit. Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? What else can my nonprofit do to influence the future of NGOs and the world? And that’s just Google – 3.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. They may require some to customize in particular kinds of ways, but I’d say most nonprofit websites don’t need to do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. This might be of value to nonprofits that need this sort of granular privacy control, but of course it all depends whether this platform becomes a mainstream hit and that’s unclear. Jerry Michalski is the moderator.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Yesterday I made the case that women, not men, have become the most vital market segment to reach, not only for consumer brands but for nonprofit organizations seeking to change the world. Armed with this information, smart nonprofit marketers will realize that we cannot afford to be gender blind in our outreach efforts.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. the Open C and the Open II.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. This is a watershed moment for many of us who've enjoyed the Encarta CD-ROMs packaged with PCs for years.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2009

Wikipedia can help you decipher some of it. Our recent article, Unified Communications Options for Nonprofits can too. Today, I want to talk about one of those technologies that I think could actually be a windfall for small and very small (1-2 people) organizations; the virtual PBX. PBX, POTS, PSTN, Trunk Lines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

So, I thought I would round up some of the thinking on these two terms of the nonprofit space. A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. How would you define these terms as they are applied in the nonprofit world?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Even before our current health situation arose , technology has been the leading method of engaging employees in today’s society. updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . In the span of one year, from 2016 to 2017, remote work grew 7.9%. Smithsonian Institute : T he Smithsonian Institute?offers

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. But the real story is much more complicated.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

It’s time to get face-to-face with your nonprofit tech friends! Vancouver, Canada: June 4: Maximizing your Google Grants budget for Nonprofits. Toronto, Canada: Technology, human rights & movement building around the world. Portland, OR: Getting People to Click DONATE on Your Nonprofit Website. Thursday, June 6.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Not only will you be contributing your skills to local nonprofits, you'll also be building your reputation and connecting with your tribe. Kitchener, Ontario: Monthly Nonprofit Sysadmin Meetup. You should, because it's awesome fun.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities.

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