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Best of Nonprofit Technology November 5, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 IMPORTANT: Only 5 days left until Give2TheMax Day!! Have you marked your calendar – November 9 – for Give2TheMax Day ? Here are just a few MORE of the nonprofits you can help in this massive one-day regional fundraising effort. Dreams For Kids. ” Dreams for Kids Overview from Dreams for Kids on Vimeo. Boys Town. ” Latin-American Youth Center. MORE >> 2 Tweets. BAMBOO PROJECT | SA [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 4, 2011. AFP BLOG | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011 Amit Gupta's Social Media-Fueled Battle With Leukemia Reverberates Around The World | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation Amit Gupta's Social Media-Fueled Battle With Leukemia Reverberates Around The World | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation : ou may have heard this all before. It's a powerful example of how social media can make lasting, life-saving change--not just for one man, but fo [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 2, 2011. AFP BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 Fort Worth Zoo visitors check out exhibits online, virtual video conference | The Republic Fort Worth Zoo visitors check out exhibits online, virtual video conference | The Republic : The answer for Dorris came by investing in much-needed technology and joining Connect 2 Texas, a network of museums and scientific nonprofit organizations that provide lessons via video conferencing for a relatively modest f [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology October 31, 2011. CONNECTION CAFE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011 7 Questions To Ask First Author: Jennifer Darrouzet. third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. It doesn’t have to be a “buyer beware” situation, after all. The Seven Questions. Can I see it? MORE >> 1 Tweet. BETH'S BLOG: [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology October 30, 2011. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011 Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post. This week marked a first-ever gathering of human rights activists with Silicon Valley technology developers. The Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference hosted a series of discussions about how technology is used to expand and sometimes undermine essential freedoms around the world. MORE >> 1 Twee [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology October 29, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011 Design around people. I have a huge geek crush on Paul Adams, the UX designer whom you may remember from this post (or this one ) and who has since left Google for Facebook. If you have time this weekend, please take the 45 minutes or so to watch this talk Paul gave recently at UX Week, a conference for web designers. You won’t regret it. MORE >> 5 Tweets. GAVIN'S DIGITAL DINER | SATURDAY, OCTOBER [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 14, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 Twitter for Nonprofits Program Twitter has recently announced their Twitter for Nonprofits Program. It’s short, so I’ll just repost the information from the Hope140 blog post here: 1. Promoted Campaigns for Good. Pro-bono: Select numbers of registered non-profit organizations can receive pro-bono tweets and accounts. Fill out this query form for an application. MORE >> 33 Tweets. NCE SOCIAL [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 13, 2011. FROGLOOP | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 Rock Your Year-End Fundraising Year-end fundraising is here. This is the time of year that your organization should be raising up to 40% of its donations online. Yes, that’s right - up to 40% of donations come in at the end of the year for many nonprofits that have a solid year-end fundraising plan in place and an engaged list of supporters. Fundraising Facts. billion. MORE >> 21 Tweets. HAVE FUN - D [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 9, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011 BIG SOCIALFISH ANNOUNCEMENT We are super excited to announce that we are establishing a joint venture with CommPartners , a long-established company in the association industry that focuses on online education programs, knowledge communities and multimedia events for associations. Strategy and planning to manage social media effectively across an organization. Cheers!! MORE >> 37 Tweets. HAVE FUN - DO [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology November 7, 2011. NONPROFIT TECH 2.0 | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 HOW TO: Create a Google+ Page for Your Nonprofit Exciting news! Nonprofits can now create a “ Page ” on Google+. Login to your personal Google+ account. Again, please read my Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and then while logged into your personal account, visit plus.google.com/u/0/pages/create to create your page: 2. Enter your nonprofit’s information. e-Newsletter. MORE >> [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 11, 2011. ROBERT WEINER | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011 Lame spam of the day: free Southwest vouchers I've seen spam like this before ( here's an example using Facebook ), and it might have a chance if they'd just used the first sentence. But they also used some random text generator that makes the message gibberish. baby spammer taking his first steps? Sender: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Subject: blank. Hurry fast, Don't hold off any time. Phishing Spa MORE >> [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 10, 2011. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2011 International Human Rights Day 2011 T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwi [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 9, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011 Ten steps to building a community blog that rocks! Just presented this session at the Technology Conference on Wednesday (opposite an Ignite session, no less – so happy I had a nice crowd!). The ten steps are pretty simple and obvious, but I asked my group of attendees to ask questions after each one and share their own advice relative to each piece. Here are the slides for you. MORE >> 23 Tweets. B [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 7, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 Principles of Social Business Olivier Blanchard needs no introduction here. Flip through this excellent slide deck. Principles of a Social Business Intro 7DEE. View more presentations from Olivier Blanchard. Social CRM and ROI The Social Organization MORE >> 18 Tweets. AFP BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 Deadline extended for Colorado Gives after nonprofit donors overload computer | The Republic Dea [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 5, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 Deep dive on Social CRM at the ASAE Technology Conference This was originally posted over on the Avectra blog. If you follow Avectra (and if you’re into SCRM, you should!) then you can skip ahead to the next post in your reader. The ASAE Technology Conference is next week in DC –where did November go? Every year, I look forward to a fun-filled, possibly snowy week of techie good times. MORE >> [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 3, 2011. FROGLOOP | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011 Social Media: Just One Big Tidal Wave? You know the old saying, what goes up, must come down? Will that be the case with social media? Nothing stays around forever especially in the rapidly changing world of technology. People are fickle when it comes to tech. We love something today but then something cooler and more useful comes out and the former gets dropped like a hot potato. MORE >> 139 Tweets. BENEB [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 13, 2011. CONNECTION CAFE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011 4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features Author: Noah Cooper. And proud of it. Over the past several months I've had the pleasure of working with Convio's Engineering team on a number of new features for Luminate Online. As we begin the countdown to our Winter release, I wanted to share my top 4 list of the nerdiest, but nonetheless super cool, upcoming enhancements. If not, well. MORE >> 10 Tweets. AFP [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 14, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011 The Social Business Hierarchy of Needs Watch this 20 minute video of Jeremiah Owyang discussing the state of social business in a short presentation at LeWeb, based on the latest Altimeter report. His main points: - this is a very nascent space; if you’re working on social right now you’re EARLY. average corporate company has 178 social media accounts – way too many. MORE >> 19 Twee [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 18, 2011. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011 A Slice of the Joy of Being at Benetech My job is so much fun! get to spend most of my time talking to people about social good: what we're doing with technology, what our partners are doing and what the many cool people we get to meet are doing along the way. We connected at the recent Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference and decided we should get together. MORE >> 4 Tweets. Ho [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 16, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011 Social CRM Use Case 6: Retention Our [SocialFish] definition of Social CRM is “the discipline of applying social media to membership management”, and the 12 use cases in our white paper, ROI and the Impact of Social CRM , show this in action. In ALL cases, you should be building your community on social media sites before you even think about ROI. NEW USE CASE. MORE >> 12 Tweets. CONNECTION [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 15, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011 How Open Are You With Your Content? Must point you to a great post/presentation by Jay Baer about the Six Stages of Content Marketing. This is an issue associations grapple with every day – and are being forced to shift their thinking about: What do we provide for free, and what is worth paying for? Closed Kimono – no thought leadership vehicles; the scarcity effect. MORE >> 18 Tweets. BET [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 26, 2011. FROGLOOP | MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2011 Why Social Media Can Suck In the past 10-15 years the Internet and mobile devices have truly transformed the way we communicate with people both professionally and socially. We don’t send people letters via postal carrier anymore. We email them, text them, tweet them and tag them on Facebook. It has also changed the way we do business. Here’s why. And guess what? MORE >> 49 Tweets. AMY SAMPLE W [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 22, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011 Social CRM Use Case 7: Member Services Our [SocialFish] definition of Social CRM is “the discipline of applying social media to membership management”, and the 12 use cases in our white paper, ROI and the Impact of Social CRM , show this in action. In ALL cases, you should be building your community on social media sites before you even think about ROI. NEW USE CASE. MORE >> 13 Tweets. AFP [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 19, 2011. ROBERT WEINER | MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 Year-end donation processing As the calendar year draws to an end, charities (and ideally, donors) are focused on year-end donations and tax deductions. Here are a few scenarios for U.S. charities to keep in mind. Note: I am not a lawyer. When in doubt, contact an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law or contact the IRS for a ruling. ). and charged the credit card that day. MORE >> 19 Tweets. SOCI [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 3, 2012. AFP BLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365 11 Tips for Gathering Content to Share on Twitter - Engage365 : Information is gold in social media. Those who share quality information get noticed. Those who create quality content become leaders. It could conceivably be argued that on Twitter sharing links to quality information is the native tongue MORE >> 7 Tweets. NONPROFIT TECH 2.0 | TUESDAY [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 1, 2012. NTEN | SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2012 NTEN: Connect, Learn, Change MORE >> 20 Tweets. Hot Topics for January 1, 2012.

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 31, 2011. HAVE FUN - DO GOOD | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 New Year, New Blog: VegCookbookClub So many people responded via email, comments, Facebook and Twitter to my post VegCookbook Club 2012: Wanna Join? that I've created a new blog for our "club" activities: VegCookbookClub.com. I'm super excited to start cooking and connecting with all of you who said you'd like to cook together from the same vegetarian, or vegan cookbook each month. MORE >> 3 Tw [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 30, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2011 Taking Personal Development Seriously It’s almost the new year, and this is typically a time that people spend reflecting on this past year and making some kind of resolution, commitment, or intention about the coming year. Frequently, these intentions are related to personal development. In human organizations, everyone takes personal development very seriously. It takes time. MORE >> 10 Tweets. [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 29, 2011. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011 Meme time! How are you going to change the world in 2012? I don’t know if Craig Newmark intended this post to be a meme, but what the hey, I’m taking that ball and running with it. First, read the post and all the great things several nonprofiteers are going to be working on in 2012. And we all know that associations also are doing great things to make the world better. For others. Chris U [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology December 27, 2011. FROGLOOP | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011 Is Facebook Good for Fundraising? The answer really depends on how you define "fundraising". recently had the pleasure of being a guest on Tony Martignetti's NonProfit podcast. The topic of this particular podcast was how nonprofits can best use Facebook. Facebook stinks for collecting donations. Shocking, I know. Facebook is awesome for fundraising. Exactly. MORE >> 42 Tweets. NTEN | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27 [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 4, 2012. AFP BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012 80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog 80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a Blackbaud Blog : Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. This time I collected all of the nonprofit emails that I was sent between December 15, 2011 a [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 10, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012 Pinterest: A Tool To Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience My Pinboards on Pinterest. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and videos you discover on the web. Think of it as social network of visuals – where you can find images from other people with the same interest or use it to curate your own visual “intere [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 7, 2012. TECH SOUP BLOG | SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012 The State of Grantseeking Cynthia M. Adams is President and CEO of GrantStation. This past fall GrantStation and PhilanTech conducted the third semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits, The State of Grantseeking Fall 2011. Many of the findings were as expected: Nonprofits continue to struggle to find the funds to do their jobs. Large grant awards come from the government. MORE >> 2 Tweets. Hot Topics [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 6, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 Social business is here. Well, SocialBusinessNews at least. In case you hadn’t heard about it yet, I just wanted to point you to this relatively new site managed by Michael Brito of Edelman, which is “dedicated to covering enterprise social media, collaboration, governance, technology, and change management.” Happy reading MORE >> 9 Tweets. NTEN | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 A Few Predictions [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 5, 2012. CONNECTION CAFE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012 Herding Cats, er, Bloggers Author: Cheryl Black. Image from wodongatafe.wordpress.com. At Convio Summit last year (that’s right, 2011 is already “last year”) I was asked for tips on managing a blog team. Good question! When you have a large team from all different areas of a company, it can be challenging. The Blogger Alias. Semi-annual Meetings. Reminders. MORE >> 12 Tweets. BETH'S [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 17, 2012. AFP BLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 Blackbaud Agrees To Buy Convio For $275 Million - Forbes Blackbaud Agrees To Buy Convio For $275 Million - Forbes : There are profits to be made in non-profits. Blackbaud, a provider of cloud-based software for non-profits, this morning said it has agreed to buy Convio, which provides fund-raising software for the non-profit sector, for $16 a share, or about $275 million. MORE >> 17 Tweets. FROGLOOP | [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 16, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Latest Social Media Tool Tips You Need To Know There has been so much going on lately in the social media blogosphere that it seems the most efficient way to let you know the most important stuff is in a quick round-up post. So here’s the latest on: Google+ and Google search. Google+ Brings Out The Big Guns (SocialMouths). I’m watching this one – lots of debate about it. MORE >> 34 [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 15, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2012 Corporate Humanism is the #1 Trend Business Trend that Matters in 2012 … at least according to the always super smart Rohit Bhargava. This slide speaks for itself; and it’s what we’re digging deep into in Humanize. The book breaks down how human organizations work at all levels, and explains how exactly you can start helping your organization become more human. MORE >> 20 Tweets. Hot [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 14, 2012. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012 Engineers Without Borders Canada I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Without Borders Canada. Now, I had heard of EWB before, but I hadn't grasped how large, sophisticated and ambitious an organization this is! Oh, and at least half of the engineering students here are women. MORE >> 2 [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 13, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012 Are you measuring ROI properly? Look at this: 101 Examples of Social Business ROI. Cool, right? Not so fast. Now read this: 101 success stories: yes. 101 examples of ROI: no. Here’s why. Read it, then bookmark it, then read it again when you’re ready to start writing up ROI data for your own organization. Debunking the hype Implementation Social CRM and ROI MORE >> 5 Tweets. FROGLOOP | FRIDAY, [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 12, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012 Are we trying to automate the “human” out of social media? I posted a mini-rant on Google+ the other day, which has led to some great responses and I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Here’s an excerpt: “I don’t know yet how to articulate this properly, but if you look at the Altimeter report , and the screenshot of the 5 use cases in particular – where are the people? [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 18, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012 SOPA, PIPA, and the Wikipedia blackout: what it means for associations. I’m confused. figured I’d start this post with that, just so you know that I don’t have any answers here. Only questions. At the risk of inadvertently raising political ire from every corner, I’d also like to start by saying that both sides have important points to make. For the purpose of this post [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 21, 2012. FROGLOOP | SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012 Six Tips To Kick-Start Your 2012 Fundraising Nonprofits receive up to 40% of their online donations at the end of the year since the holidays have people feeling generous, and donors also want to maximize those tax deductions before year’s end. They believe in what you do. So how did you do in 2011? Is it time to make some resolutions for 2012, so you can raise more money in 2012? MORE >> 25 Tweets.

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 20, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 Facebook study confirms there’s no echo chamber online "People are more likely to share information from their strong ties, but because of their abundance, weak ties are primarily responsible for the majority of information spread on Facebook. The figure above illustrates how a majority of influence (orange) can be generated by weak ties, even if strong ties are individually more influential." [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 19, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012 Best Practices for Content Curation for Nonprofits at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference Source: bethkanter.org via Beth on Pinterest. On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. Robin Good , one of the best content curators on the planet, will join me via skype  from Italy. In preparation,  I’m doing a [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 23, 2012. CONNECTION CAFE | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012 Sustained Giving Online: What To Do Author: Danielle Johnson-Vermenton. For many nonprofits sustained giving is an untapped resource, at most it's available on your donation form and a check box on a remit slip. As 2012 gets rolling, now is the time to plan for and launch an online sustained giving campaign. Watch these slides to learn more best practices, strategy and tactics. MORE >> 3 Tweets. [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 1, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 Komen Kan Kiss My Mammagram, PinActivism, and Newsjacking for a Cause Source: causes.com via Beth on Pinterest. On Tuesday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity,  pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at Planned [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 30, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? Content Curation for Nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good,  the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the  Social [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 29, 2012. FROGLOOP | SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2012 Seven Tips to Write the Best Email Appeals Email is a numbers game. With competition for attention becoming more of a challenge every day, paying attention to the details and best practices matters more and more. Here are a few key tips from Samuel Mesquita, an expert email copy writer who spent years at ActionAid in the UK. The ONLY bits that matter in terms of conversion are: 1. MORE >> 37 Tweets. JUDI [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 28, 2012. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012 Dr. Karen Ramey Burns A Guest Reflection by Dr. Patrick Ball, Benetech's Chief Scientist I am terribly sad to learn today of the untimely death of a friend and mentor, Dr. Karen Ramey Burns. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ). Equitas human rights AAAS Colombia MORE >> 3 [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 26, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012 Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks Photo by Aussiegal. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated. When an idea or concept makes me want to scuplt it out of mash potatoes ,   I pay attention. Danoff, it turned out, had written a paper on “Paragogy” with Joe Corneli ( [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology January 24, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012 What Comes First, Content Creation or Curation? Flickr Photo by Carissa Marie. This is definitely not a chicken and egg question! A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let’s be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says :  There is no curation without [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 18, 2012. HAVE FUN - DO GOOD | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast Wahoo! Today is the 6th anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast! You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page. or by writing a review to encourage folks to check it out. I'd *really* appreciate it. They have new job titles, work someplace else, and [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 16, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 Paull Young of charity:water on making nonprofit waves in a digital ocean A quick recap of today’s #SmartCMO chat (2/17/12) with Paull Young of Charity:Water. Lots of great digital marketing lessons from one of the smartest and most social nonprofits. Association Case Studies Featured From the Trenches inboxzero nptech smartcmo MORE >> 20 Tweets. NETWITS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 Online [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 12, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 Technology and the New Workplace Currency [Infographic] Cisco has recently come out with a new study, the 2011 World Technology report , that looks at the [internet] habits of college students and young professionals entering the workforce. The Social Workplace blog created a handy infographic: So there you have it. The Social Organization Useful Data MORE >> 51 Tweets. Hot Topics for February 12, 2012.

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 11, 2012. FROGLOOP | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 Infographic: Measuring the Impact of Social Media Ever since social media was deemed the coolest communications channel on the block, nonprofits are continuing to question what kind of impact social media has on their bottom line. Survey results also showed that: 97% of marketers believe that social media marketing benefits their business. 75% of marketers plan to increase media spending this year. MORE [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 9, 2012. CONNECTION CAFE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012 Evernote for Nonprofits Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. This post was collaboratively written with Jonathan Weldon.using a shared folder in. Evernote !). While we like to think of ourselves as early adopters , Evernote was recently named Company of the Year by Inc. Magazine and with more than 20 million users, it’s pretty main stream. Why is Evernote Important? MORE >> 4 Tweets. SOCIAL FISH | [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 20, 2012. CONNECTION CAFE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 Interested in Pinterest? Author: Amber Wobschall. handful of nonprofits recently started dipping their toes in the Pinterest waters. You can find a list of a few to follow here. Personally, I'm not running around thinking every nonprofit needs to develop a strategy for Pinterest now. Here are a few good things to keep in mind if you decide to jump in. Pinterest is visual. MORE >> 17 Tweets. BAMBOO [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology February 21, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Pinterest for Business: 9 Tips From Superuser PediaStaff [CASE STUDY] This post originally appeared on the Realtime Report. Author Tonia Ries  kindly agreed to let me repost it here, ’cause it’s just that good. PediaStaff is not an association, however its target audience – pediatric therapists – are a classic example of the kind of target audience an association might have. [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 25, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012 Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the   GeoFunders National Conference that took place recently in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Some grantmakers shy away from funding advocacy, [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 23, 2012. BETH'S BLOG: HOW NONPROFITS CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 Using Twitter to Build Support Among Latinos for the Affordable Care Act Guest post by Elisa Batista, MomsRising.org. As a social media specialist at MomsRising.org and a Latina who has published a blog for seven years, has two Facebook pages, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn page and now a newly opened Pinterest account, easily the biggest misconception I have encountered is [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 22, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 IMPORTANT: what’s in store for associationTECH now Posterous is going to die? This post is for all of you who have contributed to or subscribed to the community blog, associationTECH. You may have heard that  Twitter has bought Posterous , the platform the blog is on right now. Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter. Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 21, 2012. AFP BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 Indian American Giving in Silicon Valley Indian American Giving in Silicon Valley : The Silicon Valley Community Foundation recently published a research paper on the philanthropy within the Indian American community of Silicon Valley. The report looks at the roots of giving in India, a history of the Indian American community in the U.S. MORE >> 5 Tweets. NETWITS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 Tell Us [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 20, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012 Eleven Ways Facebook Page Timelines Change Your Content Strategy The new Facebook page timeline layout changes the way your organization needs to think about content. Previously, a Facebook Page content strategy was primarily focused on two things: Custom Tabs – The the content strategy for custom tabs (landing tabs) focused on engaging visitors with a clear call to action in mind. Think Pinterest. [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 18, 2012. BENEBLOG: TECHNOLOGY MEETS SOCIETY | SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012 Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights! Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? Like going to hackathons and wish you could get paid to work on a good cause full time? Want to help assemble evidence used to convict dictors of war crimes? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! MORE >> 4 [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 17, 2012. SOCIAL FISH | SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 Getting some perspective. Just for fun Friday: Check out this amazing site that shows the relative scale of all things (well, not all, but a whole bunch). nice way to get some perspective. Potluck MORE >> 6 Tweets. GOKUBI.COM | SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 Visible Flaws On numerous progressive fora, I’ve read countless praises and tear-downs of Invisible Children’s tactics, motivations, and [...]

Best of Nonprofit Technology March 16, 2012. AFP BLOG | FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012 M-Payments Take Charities By Storm - Article on | CIO.in M-Payments Take Charities By Storm - Article on | CIO.in : A June 2011 poll of 233 non-profit organizations found that mobile adoption continues to grow and that there is a shift away from texting toward use of mobile Web media. MORE >> 6 Tweets. SOCIAL FISH | FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012 Rethinking the way we do business “A more open and transparent [...]