Nonprofit Tech

User research finds significant deficiencies in non-profit organizations' website content, which often fails to provide the info people need to make donation decisions.

In an era where user generated content is changing our entire culture, rare is the company that can successfully harness the collective creativeness of its community, cultivate loyalty, ...

A new whitehouse.gov launches this month. It’s a chance to reinvent the concept of the government website for the Facebook era. But where does this leave citizens who are more concern with finding information about Medicare then they are about finding new friends with twitter feeds...

“Why social media? What business results are you hoping to get

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true...

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, on ways to grow your blog with minimal time.

Social MicroFunding has become increasingly popular on networks like Facebook and Twitter. Here are 8 resources to help you give back with social microfunding.

Warren Buffet recently commented, "Beware of geeks...bearing formulas" with regard to the financial crisis, but geeks bearing formulas did pretty well at predicting the results of the Presidential and Congressional elections. Better, even, than the much-praised Iowa Electronic Markets.

What is the role of private enterprise in delivering the goods and services to the poor? Should private companies serve the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP), or is this responsibility better left to the public sector or NGOs?

Classical economic theory recognizes no other type of business. In fact, it scarcely recognizes any other human motive. Traditional economics assumes, in effect, that people are money-making machines, devoted solely to personal profit. But we all know this is an incomplete pictue of human nature...

Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone asks us to make our own "transition plan," and ask ourselves how are we are each going to help create change in America.

I’m pretty sure that every nonprofit would love to have enough money that some of the funds can be invested for the future. In the past month, though, nonprofits may have seen their investment portfolios buffeted by the markets...

Charity leaders can expect President-elect Barack Obama and Congress to push for changes in the federal tax structure that could spur giving and add new regulations for charities and donors, tax experts say.

Democrats in the White House and Congress will make it easier to push efforts on Net neutrality, trade restrictions, and copyright changes. Also: Who will be Obama's tech czar? Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Politics and Law.

There have been plenty of instances where I’ve had that same feeling Nev is describing: where the person you’re interacting with is so happy, so helpful, and so friendly that it makes your day to talk to them. It’s freaking unbelievable, and it’s really really u

Are you trustworthy? This is something we have to ask ourselves as web workers. In fact, our clients are probably asking us this very question through subtext, we just aren’t aware of it...

“My wife’s computer crashed first,” lamented Francis Wade. Then his followed a few weeks later, as if part of some malicious digital consp

Internet applications have almost entirely penetrated the work place, with 97 percent of respondents to a new survey being released today saying they use at least one Internet application. That’s up from 85 percent a year ago, according to FaceTime, which makes work place monitoring softwar

Ms. Wang is one of the most powerful female executives in technology whom you have never heard of. The company she founded, the HTC Corporation, makes one out of every six smartphones sold in the United States, most of which are marketed under brands like Palm and Verizon.

5 Ways to Find Community Members From Outside Your Fishbowl

We're in shock that Google Blogsearch has actually updated. It's cleaner and less spammy than Technorati, it's more transparent than Yahoo Buzz, it's more inclusive than Six Apart's new Blogs.com and to the big question will be whether it's faster than Techmeme.

There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier.

A couple of years ago, Jack found some anomalies in which machines would stop working in some very specific circumstances while being scanned...

Facebook has rolled out a new, more robust iPhone application. Version 2.0 brings many of the features that are found on the regular Internet-based version of the social network, but had been lacking in the first few iPhone iterations.

At long last, I.B.M. has issued software which will bring the e-mail, calendar and contacts functions handled by its Lotus Notes software over to the iPhone.

Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data you can transfer using their broadband connection — to 250GB per month

Legislation, which Web radio stations have said could mean life or death for their services, will move on to the Senate. Traditional radio stations have dropped opposition. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on News - Digital Media.

Google and T-Mobile unveiled their answer to the iPhone on Tuesday, pulling the wraps off a slick mobile device that combines a touch screen and a keyboard and is aimed at putting the Internet in the pockets of millions of cellphone users.

Do Something, a non-profit that promotes and funds teenage volunteerism, announced a social IPO last week. They plan to raise $8 million by offering 80 "units" to the public for $100,000 each.

You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new re

t its best, education is about challenging you in ways that improve your ability to think and act. With that in mind, we regularly ask our students to read and reflect upon some of the toughest criticism of development and volunteerism available.

The operating system is turning off users, so HP and others are trying to capitalize on its weakness.

Search giant has begun a project to bring a searchable archive of old newspapers to the Web, in partnership with publishers. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on News - Digital Media.

Day 1 of Open Everything at Hollyhock has passed and I'm now up far too late blogging about it. Numerous insights, but possibly the most interesting occurred...

Five years ago Lee LeFever was an online community manager for a B2B healthcare company called Solucient. Today, his voice has been heard by millions of people around ...

Google's new Chrome Web browser will make using the Internet faster and less frustrating, but this first version is rough around the edges and lacks some features, says Walt Mossberg in the first hands-on review.

Over at The Register, Hakon Lie feels that Microsoft has broken their promise to ship Internet Explorer in standards mode.

Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users, a move certain to create tensio