January 2008

Online fundraising making the news

Two great stories have surfaced involving online fundraising. What do you think? PayPal has just released its PayPal Kit for Nonprofits which claims to take only 45 minutes to set up (even for people knew to the world of online fundraising and widgets)! Also, they are giving away $50 to the first 1,000 nonprofits that [...]

January 31, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Only hours left!

If you haven’t already done so, this is a last call to participate in the America’s Giving Challenge. A donation of $10 makes a huge difference! It is quick, easy, and very painless Donate now!

January 31, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

A round-up for a busy week

Everybody else is just as busy as I am, I always tell myself. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to share some of the great resources I come across! Here are a few items that I have recently found and hope to talk more about soon: Open Source opportunity: Learn about OpenOffice, a free, [...]

January 24, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Just $10 to help the Sharing Foundation!

Beth Kanter has been calling on the interwebs community to give small donations to help the Sharing Foundation win $50,000 in America’s Giving Challenge. You can donate here and follow the Twitter trail of donations on Beth’s blog, too!

January 22, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Ins, outs and curlicues of RSS

Marshall Kirkpatrick helped us start the 501 Tech Club series in Portland with a bang. The notes certainly do not demonstrate accurately the amount of information Marshall presented and the incredible dynamics of RSS, but here are some highlights: DEFINITION: RSS readers pull in new content from pages you have selected. Instead of you visiting [...]

January 16, 2008 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Opportunities for learning and sharing

There seems to always be a plethora of great opportunities available to nonprofits for learning and engaging with each other and the technology field. A couple recent things to mention: 1. 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards See3Communications and NTEN are co-sponsoring the video awards for a second year. The theme this year is, “From [...]

January 16, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Happy Birthday, Beth!

Today is Beth’s birthday; congratulations on another great year! If you aren’t yet, you should be reading her blog because she offers terrific advice, asks important questions, and ignites great conversations about nonprofits successfully using social media. For the past month, I have been part of a team of bloggers supporting the Sharing Foundation in [...]

January 11, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

How can nonprofits use twitter?

NetSquared’s monthly Net2ThinkTank question this month is: How can nonprofits use twitter? Should they even bother? My first response is, “Sure! Totally! Maybe!” So, my second thought is really the more important one. I have said it before and I will probably say it a million more times, but, nonprofits need to use the tools [...]

January 10, 2008 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Do you have cold feet for social media?

Lisa McNeill, over at the Ignite Social Media blog, posted great list of five steps to get over the cold feet you may have about social media marketing. Her list includes: Set up and RSS Feed Reader and Subscribe to Feeds Start Twittering Start Studying Start Filtering Start Social Bookmarking My favorite part of the [...]

January 10, 2008 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…
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