Things We Like
Things We Like (February 2010)
A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- 2009 total mobile fundraising: $4 million. 2010 Haiti earthquake mobile fundraising: $30+ million. Find out more in MobileActive.org's "Definitive Guide to Mobile Fundraising".
- While it seems that nearly every Super Bowl advertiser had been told by a research firm that men are feeling emasculated in 2010, at least the half time show was good. The Kitty Halftime Show, that is. (The Who did have a cool stage.)
- Fresh, hot 10NTC podcasts. You can subscribe on the front page of our new web site.
- Weather forced the cancelation of ASAE's Tech10 conference, but in a matter of days, nptechies organized an alternative, the UnTech10. Materials are available online, with a side of awesome.
- Ending hunger. Who could be against that?
- 86% of nonprofits characterize their messages as difficult to remember.
- Google Street View shenanigans. Move the car to see two guys in snorkling attire chase it down the street. (Maybe they had privacy concerns.)
- Mouse pointer track.
- Pew Internet, in their report on "Social Media and Young Adults", reveals that the number of teen bloggers has plummeted since 2006. Have they discovered Japan's mobile phone novels fad?
- We're not too sure how to feel about hipster puppies. On the one hand, hipsters fill us with inchoate rage. On the other, those are some cute pups. We'll compromise and hope they bite their owners.
- Should Executive Directors use social media?
- You dropped food on the floor. Do you eat it? Another in a long line of great flowcharts from the Interwebs. (And did you know the 5-second rule is a myth?)
- 86% of nonprofits characterize their messages as difficult to remember, although we think we've heard that somewhere before...
Things We Like (January 2010)
A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- They're ba-aaack. Kika has given birth to 5 brand new Shiba Inu puppies, and you can watch them grow, live, online.
Seriously, anytime you think the world is against you, check in with
these pups for 5 minutes, and you'll be ready to go again. - With the Ustream app for iPhone,
you can not only use the puppies as a way to ignore strangers on the
bus, you can stream your trip to the world. Privacy concerns have never
been so cool. - Besides, privacy is so 2009.
- Network for Good has just released the "Online Fundraisers Checklist".
It works like one of those quizzes in the personality magazines -- you
know, "Do You Ace a First Date?" or "Is Your BFF Really on Your Side?"
-- only it's helpful. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes
up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.) - Controlled serendipity.
- Primary Pad
is like Google Docs for elementary school students. "Alright, who
inserted 'Bobby is a doody head' into my essay on climate change?" - While we're still disappointed the flying cars all those science fiction movies promised we'd have by now haven't been built, at least NASA is working on it.
- Automatic voice-to-text translation. We have heard the future and it is incoherent. Hilarious, though. Apparently, technology isn't always the answer.
- List segmentation.
- The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. (And not just because the winner will be announced at the 2010 NTC.) But hurry! The nomination process closes February 1st.
- Hey, we're also mentioned in Allyson Kapin's "Best Campaigns of 2009"! How will we top Holly's "Single Ladies" remake? Hmmmmm...
- Crisis Commons. Those folks are doing good things.
- A great American philosopher once toasted, "To alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems." Now, there's a very detailed schematic (PDF) to help you construct most any cocktail for your own toasts. Where do these people find the time?
