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Upcoming Do-gooder Tech Events: Find a few, Share a few
Recently, Mashable posted a list of upcoming social media and technology events, which got me thinking about the must-attend events for techie do-gooders! I did a bit of research and here are a few that caught my eye:
TechSoup Webinar: Tour GrantStation - Your Fast Track to Fundraising
Join Cynthia M. Adams for a free webinar that offers a short tour of the GrantStation website. Learn how to use the tools that GrantStation provides to help you identify the right grantmaker for any program or project.
If you’re interested in learning more about GrantStation before the TechSoup special offer on August 17 and 18, this tour will help you understand whether it’s the right tool for your organization and how to get started.
When data gets political
Most days, data is pretty straightforward to us here at OpenIssue headquarters. Names, addresses, email addresses, the pesky notes field (today’s bane of our existence.) But sometimes, data is political. Or, I guess more accurately, data models. In most CRM systems, especially older ones, and ones that are less flexible, some fields can be points [...]
Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation
I’m on vacation this week and next! We’re visiting family at the Jersey Shore, but stopping in DC to take the kids to the Smithsonian and other DC highlights. You might see a few blog posts or tweets but don’t expect a fast reply via email. Playing tourist in DC, it is interesting to see [...]
List of Digital Marketing Tools & 10 Step Social Media Assessment
As part of my recent transition from my digital marketing/social media job to the nonprofit sector, I decided to put together a list of digital marketing/social media tools and a 10 step social media assessment for nonprofits to keep my brain working in high gear. I had found that a lot of the “top social media tools” type lists that you can come across online often seem to be either way too high level, listing tools that everyone already knows about, or they list very specific tools that may not be useful for the majority of organizations.
A new publication about Board recruitment
The Nonprofiteer has a piece in the new issue of Contributions Magazine.
Wireless Access for Health Project Works to Improve Public Health Care in the Philippines
On June 22nd and 23rd Wireless Access for Health (WAH) announced the results of its first year piliot project at public events in Moncada and Makati, Philippines.
WAH is a broad public-private partnership in the Philippines that has succeeded in enhancing a locally developed electronic medical record system and introducing it into four rural health units in four different municipalities in Tarlac Province, Luzon. The enhanced system is capable of generating and transmitting all 23 reports required for the Philippine Field Health Service Information System (FHSIS) over the SMART 3G mobile phone network.
Thoughts on marketing, millennials and social media
I recently did an interview with Achieve CEO Derrick Feldmann. Achieve helps nonprofits engage supporters. Here are some excerpts!
Chase: What matters?
[An excerpt of this posting appears on the Huffington Post, in the Impact section.] The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones notwithstanding, the problem with the Chase Community Giving program isn’t that it lets “civilians”–non-expert non-critics–decide which theater companies deserve a $20,000 one-time no-strings grant. The problem is that it pretends to do that–Let the People Decide!–while [...]
