Online Engagement

4 Tips for finding your inner nonprofit blogger

The idea of a blog is great. It brings more traffic to your nonprofit’s web site, it increases your SEO, it helps you position yourself as the thought leader you are in your field, and most importantly, it helps you connect with your supporters. I’m not sure if anyone else has this problem, but when… Read more

Three things that make your database painful to use, and how to fix them (Part 3 – indecipherable codes)

Do you ever want to break up with your database? Sit it down and give it the “It’s not you, it’s me,” speech? Ever thought that it might actually be you? I’ve been working in the nonprofit technology world since 2004 and I’ve met many organizations who want to break up with their databases. Sometimes… Read more

How does text to donate fit with your database?

Text to Donate is a tantalizing option for many Nonprofits seeking an extra channel to engage donors. The most appealing aspect of the Text To Donate mechanism is that it couldn’t be any simpler: All a donor has to do is text a short code to a special number and they are automatically billed for… Read more

Technology for Change turns one!

Happy first birthday to Technology for Change! No, not our company tagline, our blog. This has been a year filled with learning opportunities for our contributors, and especially our blog editor. We’ve researched and discussed every angle of this blog. “How many contributors should we have?” “What is the ideal number of posts per week?”… Read more

Three tips to keep from drowning in social media

Social Media. The bane of many small nonprofits’ existence. We have all heard why social media is important, that we should have a presence on it – but finding the time to be on social media is the difficult part. First, you need to figure out which social media channels you want to be active… Read more