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Blog Posts: 501technyc

October 27, 2011 by Farra Trompeter

Using the Cloud to Meet Your Mission

Last night I had the pleasure of chatting with a few fine folks of the nonprofit technology community about the joys and pains of cloud computing at the monthly 501TechNYC event.

September 30, 2011 by Madeleine Milan

Innovate and thrive or stagnate and die

Innovate or die? Sounds terrifying! Thankfully, it isn’t necessarily as frightening as it sounds.

Last week was 501 Tech NYC, and this month it was all about innovation. David J. Neff, who together with Randall C. Moss wrote The Future of Nonprofits: Innovate and Thrive in the Digital Age (and who was kind enough to give us Ducks access to a preview copy of the book earlier this year), gave a great presentation about why innovation is important for nonprofits and how to set about becoming more innovative.

July 25, 2011 by Guest Blogger

The One-Hour Website: Bootstrap Your Next Online Initiative with WordPress

Guest post from Jereme Bivins, Social Media Manager at The Foundation Center. He is a former progressive political operative, turned nonprofit digital marketing & communications specialist. He tweets by day @fdncenter.

February 22, 2011 by Madeleine Milan

Reaching a Spanish–speaking audience through social media

Did you know that smartphone use among the Hispanic community is growing faster than among the general population? Or that Hispanics are more likely than other mobile users to use their cell phone for social networking? You did? Oh.

November 2, 2010 by Farra Trompeter

Greening Your Nonprofit's IT: How to Save the Environment and Money

At last month's 501 Tech NYC meeting, we had a great conversation with Anna Jaeger of TechSoup Global and Mathew Heggem of The Bookkeeping Center who gave some helpful tips about how you can green your technology and your communications.

There are a lot of easy things you can do right now--so do look through Anna's slides (embedded below). My favorite comment was one of her first, “Some times changing the situation can be easier than changing people’s behaviors.”

August 20, 2010 by Madeleine Milan

Social media organizing for nonprofits

Wednesday night was 501 Tech NYC’s August meetup, so Farra and I headed off to Witness (this month’s kind hosts) to hear Deanna Zandt share her thoughts on social media, organizing and nonprofits from her new book, Share this! Social media organizing for nonprofits.

Rather than get tangled up in nitty-gritty tactics, the discussion stayed on big-picture themes for successful social media organizing – important stuff that’s easy to forget in the day-to-day reality of managing your social media presence.

Highlights included learning what Kermit the Frog can teach us about social media (answer: a lot) from Deanna’s Ignite presentation on the subject. Watch the video here, or take a look at my other key takeaways below.

July 22, 2010 by Farra Trompeter

Beyond Viral Video – Crafting a Nonprofit Video Strategy

Last night I enjoyed a fascinating 501 Tech NYC meeting where Michael Hoffman of See3 Communications and Sara Fusco of Refugees International shared some great ideas about how nonprofits should be thinking about video as part of their communications strategy.

I'm embedding their slides below--so do take a gander.  Here are some of my takeaways:

  • The first question you should ask is not how long your video should be or how you'll come up with something so hot it puts the Old Spice guy to shame, but how does video relate to your mission?
  • It's not the number of views that count, but the eyeballs behind those views. Let the goals of your video and who you are trying to reach drive your creation--and how you measure its success.
July 1, 2010 by Farra Trompeter

Who's your mayor? (exploring nonprofits + Foursquare)

Last night I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion between Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare and Shelley Bernstein, chief of technology at Brooklyn Museum at the monthly meeting of 501 Tech NYC. 501 Tech NYC organizes monthly meetups in cities nationwide for NTEN members and other nonprofiteers who wanna chat about technology, online engagement strategy, social media and more.