Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, mobile, nonprofit, nptech, web2.0 on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Online collaboration tools are not just for that migratory flock of birds, the mobile web worker — those strange folk who appear to alight for brief meetings in far-flung Starbucks, then scatter, like starlings, to cooler climes.
I keep an eye on the growing catalog of these tools not just because I deeply envy the starlings [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CRM, nptech, nten, planning, technology, techsoup on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is this like one of those “prizes” you get when you win a free watch, but you have to fly to Hawaii and sit through a three-day sales pitch to claim your watch?”
That’s something a friend of mine emailed me the other day about a deal she was considering that seemed too good to be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged nptech on February 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Google has announced a new version of its popular Apps Suite that is free and simple - it doesn’t require any more technical knowledge than entering your email address into a text field. This is great news for nonprofits who want to improve how they collaborate on documents and projects, access documents from any computer, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged good2gether, media, nptech, socialnetworking on February 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“When you read about “bad,” you want to be able to “do good.”
A new service was brought to my attention recently. It’s called Good2Gether, and it looks mighty interesting. (edited Monday February 4 - see below)
good2gether is a new search and social media Web service that connects people to causes through a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boards, metaphors, nonprofits, nptech, socialmedia, tools on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How do you prevent certain stakeholders from seeing all this newfangled stuff…the videos, the blogging, etc. and not think that they’re spending too much money on all this stuff. In other words, how does an organization get buy-in from key people it needs? Prior to establishing these strategies?
(From a comment left recently on The Nonprofit [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, blogs, communications, donors, nonprofit, nptech, PR, theater on January 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Do you think your organization needs a blog? Or is it just a “someday” thing — a back-burner item that you feel just has to wait until you can get more on track with fulfilling your mission, becoming better known and better respected, building your donor base, getting the press to cover you, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged directmail, donors, markravner, nptech, philanthropy, sethgodin, socialmedia, volunteers on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mark Rovner recently commented on the state of online philanthropy, and what I found most interesting about his post was that he framed it as an issue of “donor acquisition.” This, to me, is the heart of the problem with how nonprofits are approaching — or not approaching — social media.
The gist of his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged nonprofit, nptech, research, roi, socialmedia, UMASSDartmouth, web2.0 on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Shel Israel just posted an interview he did with Dr. Nora Barnes, chancellor professor of marketing and director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
It’s a good review of some of the thinking that went into, and results of, the study her team did last year on adoption rates of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brands, donorchoose, facebook, kiva, marketing, myspace, nptech, transparency, twitter on January 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the news articles I tagged for re-reading last week was this one from the Wall Street Journal – it’s from August 2007, but was recently tagged by somebody with the nptech tag.
The article includes a nice round-up of online places — social networks and other tools — that young people have been using [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogs, cnn.com, mediasnackers, museum, nptech, nytimes, orchestra, reddit, stumbleupon, theater, video, youtube on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The New York Times published an article by Brian Stelter on Saturday about the growing trend of workers watching short videos online during their lunch breaks, either on YouTube, CNN.com, or elsewhere.
“The trend — part of a broader phenomenon known as video snacking — is turning into a growth business for news and media companies, [...]
