Technology
Purpose-Built Platforms
An excerpt from The Tech That Comes Next on the technology needed to create a more inclusive, equitable world.
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Amy Sample Ward
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Nonprofits
Social Change Anytime Everywhere
Social Change Anytime Everywhere outlines basic principles for connecting to a target community, principles applicable to any type of movement.
Nonprofits
Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?
Community-focused approaches disrupting the nonprofit sector.
Technology & Design
You Can Has Memesez?
Three guidelines for any nonprofit looking to join an Internet meme.
Technology & Design
Learning to Draw, Socializing Fundraising, and More from the Nonprofit Technology Conference
Top takeaways from the 2012 NTC conference.
Fundraising
Can “Giving Days” Strengthen Your Community?
A Case Foundation study explores how a new type of online fundraising event can benefit nonprofits and communities.
Technology & Design
Data for Promotion, Engagement, and Reporting
The more we share our data with each other inside and outside of our organizations, the more data-driven we can be in our work collectively.
Technology
Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting
Don't be fooled into thinking strategies for online engagement can be cut and pasted from one platform to the next.
Nonprofits
What the New Facebook Changes Mean for Nonprofits
Use of Facebook (or any other social media platform) should be guided by a larger strategy with goals that further your organization's mission.
Technology & Design
Worth a Look: Scoop.it Digital Content Tool
Scoop.it makes it easy to share the things you're reading, talking about, and interested in without adding a whole new platform to your daily work.
Nonprofits
A New Tool for Digital Storytelling
There’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to advocate for the change they want.
Fundraising
How Does Celebrity Impact Fundraising?
Celebrities are out; trust is in. So just how do organizations earn the trust of Millennials?
Civic Engagement
Slacktivism, the Gateway to Change?
Two points of Slacktivism: 1) organizations create and endorse the level to which people take action 2) “slacker activism” is a gateway to lasting change.
Civil Society
Innovating at the Speed of Communities
When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need.
Collaboration
Reflections on Jumo & Need for Co-Creation
If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.
Technology & Design
Are we addicted to Slacktivism?
Does every social media “call to action” need to have a cause?
Technology & Design
Be Human: Temporary versus Permanent Networks
The power of networks and engaging them across platforms.
Nonprofits
Community Building in a Big Backyard
We should strive to create a thriving community both online and offline.
Technology & Design
Global Tools for Going Local
Just as our tools get more interesting and dynamic for global collaboration and impact, so do they for locally-focused work, campaigns, and communities.
Fundraising
It’s Not about Apple—It’s About Community
How are your tools defining the way you can work or the way you can engage with your community?
Technology & Design
How Our Tools Define “Community”
Many of the tools in the social technology for social impact sector require us to operate a traditional hierarchy and distribution of responsibility, instead of distributing responsibility, and developing in an agile, organic way.
Nonprofit Management
Give Permission to Peer Influence
By using permission and peer influence in the correct way, nonprofits and other leaders can grow and empower their communities.
Technology & Design
The Effects of Joining the Conversation
Best practices for organizations to utilize social media more effectively in order to join important conversations online.
Fundraising
Social Media Fundraising: Power of Individuals
Organizations should recognize the need for being “real” online and can honor that by being proactive in online relationships.
Technology & Design
Causes: Causing a Stir for Social Impact
The dangers of letting technology, rather than the communities on the other end, lead.
Nonprofits
Back to School, Back Online
Global Issues
Online Community Building: Gardening vs Landscaping
Nonprofits
The Power of Vision: Review of The Pollyanna Principles
"For social benefit organizations to truly "work" we all need to be part of the design, the process, the success." -the author
Global Issues
Swine Flu: Why Local Organizations Matter
The author uses the case of the Swine Flu to illustrate why non-global organizations matter.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit Advantage for Future of Twitter and Search
Twitter and Search prove promising to the nonprofit world.
Nonprofits
Dissecting the Network Approach
Having an effective online presence goes beyond simply having a Web site.
Nonprofits
The Changing Role of Nonprofits
The author initiates a conversation about the new role of nonprofit organizations in the current social media and/or technology revolution and invites readers to continue the discussion.
Nonprofits
Will 2009 Bring Social Learning Spaces to Life?
Using social media tools to engage people online requires more than just setting up Facebook groups and blogs. It involves effectively creating "social media spaces."
Nonprofits
People-Powered Content: It’s Driving the Web and Could Drive Your Community!
Citizen-created content benefits nonprofits in myriad ways.
Global Issues
Social Media: Means vs. Ends
Should social media communities be focused on the means or the ends?
Global Issues
The Shotgun Approach to Streamlined Work
How to sort through the world of social media.
Nonprofits
We Are Media Project: A Lesson in Eating Your Own Dog Food
A new project is building a toolkit to enable nonprofits to use social media strategies effectively.
Nonprofits
Openness for Technology and for Techies!
Techies can become leaders in the strategy development process.
Nonprofits
The Leadership Gap and Technology Gap Working Together for Good?
Using technology to retain organizational knowledge could help nonprofits weather the impending leadership gap.