A ‘Social Revolución’ Gives Attention to Latino Causes
Armando Rayo, a vice president at the communications firm Cultural Strategies, is a veteran of the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. In recent years, though, he’s...
View ArticleBalancing ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Technology Costs
When making purchasing decisions on, profit technology managers need to think about both “hard costs,” such as the price of a new software program, and ”soft costs,” the most important of which is...
View ArticleGreenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure
Greenpeace has never acted much like other nonprofits. As Michael Silberman, a global director with the environmental protection group, put it in a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference on...
View ArticleNonprofits Need to Think More About Mobile
The growing number of people using their cellphones to go online is a compelling reason for nonprofits to think more about how they make mobile technology a key part of spreading their messages and...
View ArticleFacebook Fans Increase by 70 Percent at Some Nonprofits
A new report delves into the Facebook activity of 37 large and medium-size nonprofits, including Earthjustice, Easter Seals, and Oxfam America. The organizations in the study had a median of 31,473...
View ArticleYouTube Adds Tool to Hide Identities in Sensitive Videos
YouTube has released a new feature to help nonprofits and activists protect the identities of people who appear in their videos with the push of a button. The new tool allows people posting a video to...
View ArticleTweaking E-Mail for the Mobile Age
Ever since e-mail programs gave users the option of blocking images, many organizations have added short notes to the top of their messages—variations on “Trouble viewing this e-mail? Click here”—to...
View ArticleNonprofits Are Excited—and Confused—About Cloud Computing
A survey of nonprofits around the world finds both great interest and significant confusion about the potential of cloud computing. Representatives of more than 10,500 charities from 88 countries...
View ArticleAre Online Philanthropy Contests Worth the Effort?
After this year’s Chase Community Giving contest closed after a troubled start, some nonprofit leaders debated the costs and benefits of participating in these type of vote-driven corporate...
View ArticleFoundation Grants Aim to Boost Civic Engagement
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on Tuesday announced $1.3-million in grants to technology projects aimed at getting people more involved in improving their communities and issued a report...
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