Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 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 #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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TechImpact

JULY 16, 2014

Nonprofits are leveraging the power of technology to store more information around their donors, to better meet their expectations, and cater to what they’re looking for. How can your nonprofit’s next email campaign avoid the trash bin, and improve its open and click-through rates? But what are donors looking for?

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Over 50% of emails are opened on mobile devices. Often times, when you send and email to someone who did not request it, that email is marked as spam; a mailbox that is often culled with just a few mouse clicks. The post 5 Nonprofit Email Marketing Pitfalls To Avoid appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

If you want to learn how nonprofits can use technology to advance their mission and generally be more effective and efficient TechSoup has got you covered with their blog and webinars. That’s why TechSoup Global also offers NetSquared, community of nonprofit technology meetups with groups in twenty countries. Sunday, April 27.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. Someone else can round up the free services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Keep your eyes and ears open for Twitter Chats relevant to your mission and programs, save the date and time, and then jump in on the day of.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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NTEN

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do you like sending deserving NPTechies to the greatest nonprofit technology conference on earth for free? It went into my spam filter, FYI.) Do you like cool things? Then the 2011 NTC Scholarship Silent Auction is for you! Every year, we raise up to $10,000 to send staffers from small nonprofits to the NTC.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Your Priority: Engage Your Audience Inboxes are flooded with more than 100 new emails a day.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” We felt so confident that I even spammed my entire personal address book with it (sorry, mom). 111% open rate, 80% participation on the site, 1/3 forwarded it. Its reception blew away any of our previous metrics. At this point, we knew we were on to something.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

Including: "More than one-half of US Millennials (51%) say they influence the technologies their parents adopt and 41% say they influence the products they buy." But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam." " Lights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. Hashtags and their usefulness are definitely open to interpretation. nptech : This hashtag stands for nonprofit technology and can be used in any Tweets relevant to how nonprofits are use technology and social media. In the case of hashtags, I am a firm believer in less is more.

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In 2020 this helped get tons of voters registered and out to vote…but it also led to consumer complaints about being spammed with too many texts. How might the new rules on email open rate tracking affect your program? . 2022 Changes: What’s Happening and What to Do About It.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 30, 2016

Be Open and Tell the Truth. This tends to put the sender at ease and, at the very least, let them know their email got through and didn’t somehow get automatically relegated to a spam folder. The post Getting the Message: More Tips for Achieving Inbox Zero appeared first on Byte Technology’s Web Design Insights Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

His other article is titled " Questions As Technology ," and while it was written in 2002, it still resonates: Because the new information landscape is streaming by at supersonic speeds, we find ourselves working overtime to ???get We open our e-mail and watch a stream of messages flow into our mailboxes. Supersonic speeds?

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, the platform is open-sourced, meaning anyone and everyone can contribute to it in the form of updates, new themes, and custom plugins that help create more functionality and give the program greater versatility and, in turn, greater popularity.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

If you have ever implemented a web submission form on your site, you quickly realized that without spam protection your environment was vulnerable to unwanted content. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA system to filter out spam robots, but quite a few systems use only visual-based tests, which aren’t accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The experience has made me acutely aware that access to information about trends in nonprofit technology, online fundraising, and social media often does not reach small NGOs – especially those in rural areas. It’s important to be aware that e-newsletters that are sent BCC often trigger spam controls and are blocked by email servers.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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M+R

MAY 21, 2021

Your subscribers have—in 2020, 33% of all email opens occurred on Apple iPhone, and of those, 36% of Apple iPhones were using Dark Mode. How to Stay Healthy and Avoid the Spam Folder: Tips from the Deliverability Doctor. Depending on the colors and the contrast, it may even turn out impossible to read. What should we do about it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In just a few weeks, we’ll be unveiling NTEN’s Nonprofit Tech Job Board, a platform dedicated exclusively to paid nonprofit technology career opportunities. We recognize that the NTEN community is special: filled with people dedicated to using technology to more effecitvely and efficiently meet their missions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Here are some tips to help you create content that your recipients will open, read, and take action on. Some are tagged as relevant, and some are not-- these often land to the spam folder. Additionally, separating inactive donors can also help in maintaining high open rates. The Shorter, the Better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Saving staffers from mind-numbing repetitive tasks and opening time to innovate are some of the best reasons to prioritize understanding AI. AI is a single technology. AI represents a growing constellation of technologies from self-driving cars to medical diagnostics. Buyer beware is critical.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Vancouver, BC: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What Nonprofits need to know before July 1. Busia, Kenya: Open web :exploring principles behind web maker ,ugunja mozilla network. San Francisco, CA: The EASE INITIATIVE business model and its leverage of social technologies. Upcoming Events. Saturday, June 14, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with updates to the four systems we reviewed in the past, we’ve added seven new open source and proprietary systems to provide nonprofits with a much broader scope of the types of systems available to them. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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NTEN

JANUARY 20, 2011

The 11NTC Scholarship Auction has officialy opened, and the bids are starting to pour in! It went into my spam filter, FYI.) The USB Modem U300 is a dual-mode wireless USB modem combining 3G and 4G technology, utilizing Sprint’s WiMAX network. Here's what you need to do: Create an account at our auction site.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members' names. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" Finally, Cameron Jones , senior director, technology solutions and services, reports: "I use two-factor verification on my Google password. "I tend to receive a lot of phishing spam, especially to some of the generic info@ email aliases that are posted publicly. Also, I use Dashlane password manager.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value. I am avoiding spamming all three networks with cut and paste streams. Wait for maturation? During the Webinar, I polled the group’s general approach.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. "I’m as big an advocate of a good firewall and a reputable anti-virus/spam package on all your systems as the next person. when asked open-ended questions about the disadvantages of the cloud. but all over the world. But is that the end of the story?

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

The CTC Vista Project has opened its annual application cycle. The return of technology as a national priority. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". (Technically, this should go under "Things that Scare Us."). Need a techie on the cheap? Economy still got you down?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC, had a lot to offer for the nonprofits in attendance, and TechSoup was no exception. Here's what we learned from the experts about the technologies that can help nonprofits like yours achieve your mission. Stay true to you. More from NTC. Image: Wes Holing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

I wasn't going to spam every person I know in the UK about my arrival. Opening doors to speaking gigs. I got to the airport, talked my way onto the first California-bound flight on American Airlines, and then tweeted about how I did it (andf that there were empty seats) to the rest of the world, but especially my Skoll Forum community.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. In the words on The Chronicle of Philanthropy: “ powerful technology will automate tedious tasks, freeing up fundraisers to strategize and build ties with donors.”.

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