Harvested News you can Use March 26th 2011
How the week sparked for nonprofits in the social primordial stew of the webosphere
- #SXSWi, #11NTC, Convio Report on Online Giving, NTEN e-Nonprofit Report.... these events, studies and more kept the twitterverse, newsfeeds and bloggers busy posting on Social Media and the Nonprofit sector, the theme for this weeks harvest of current events.
- Global visionaries gave a few good reasons as to why we cannot ignore the social media masses any longer.
- Data wonks rejoice- Nten has delivered the goods and everyones favorite social media maven Beth Kanter blogs the results.
- Maybe you're not ready for a mobile website yet....you're still pasting up your newsletter.... but these 22 nonprofits are and some may surprise you. (they did me!)
22 Nonprofit Mobile Websites « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for NonprofitsThe rise of QR Codes has helped many nonprofits understand the need for mobile websites, or at the very least mobile-optimized web pages. A QR code that launches a desktop-designed web page in a mobile browser just doesn’t make a whole of sense. Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. I am firm believer that a mobile website is the building block upon which to center you...- From @socialbrite this week, five great suggestions on how your NPO can use location based services. It's a recap of a presentation at #11NTC, but for those of us not present, it makes great cliff notes.
- Using location-based services for your nonprofit The Feeding America campaign using geolocal. On Saturday I was on a panel at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., discussing the use of location-based services to create awareness and raise money for your organization. The panel included Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love Little Hearts, Joe Waters from Boston Medical Center, and Dan Michel from Feeding America. Here are five points I took away from the session: Understanding use
- Even late to the tech party, 600 pound gorilla (where have you been all my life) Groupon, got in on the spin with their take on how to use the service for the greater good.
- Are you using QR Codes? How are they working for you? Wait...what is a QR?
Mobile Marketing Solutions, Trends & Strategy | CMO.comQR is short for Quick Response, which is exactly what these puppies give you. Insert one in an ad, on a direct mailer, or even a simple sign in the middle of a park, and you give a consumer instant access to any kind of information that can be stored digitally on the Internet. It also could quite possibly be one of those game-changer technologies that you'd be far better off understanding now rather than later.- And finally, Google lassoed all their services under one umbrella and packaged it just for Nonprofits, with a big announcement. I'm just still not sure how this is different from before the packaging? Feel free to enlighten me @HarvDev
- Until next week.....Cheers!PS Give Water, it Gives Life
