Technology Planning, Trends
5G Technology: Why and How Your Nonprofit Should Utilize It
By: Jori Hamilton, freelance writer
Think back to the days before you could punch your location into Google Maps and find the fastest route. Go back 20 years, and we all relied on roadside maps. Ten to 15 years ago, we would diligently print off d...
April 28, 2020
Productivity, Trends
9 Effective Apps to Help You Overcome Stress & Anxiety
By: Clara Masters, entrepreneur and content marketer at Massageaholic.com
According to Statistics Canada, 27% of working adults feel a lot of or an extreme amount of stress on a daily basis. Further, 62% of respondents reported that work was the ...
October 24, 2018
Security, Trends
6 Recommendations to Ensure Your Nonprofit is CASL and GDPR Compliant
By: Antoine Bonicalzi, Marketing Director at Cyberimpact
Many articles have been written about the impact of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation - the new European privacy law) and CASL (Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation) on nonprofit organ...
July 04, 2018
Finance & Accounting, Trends
Empower your Nonprofit with Blockchain
By: Emie-Claude Lamoureux, PR Director at MLG Blockchain Consulting
The vast amount of focus that blockchains have garnered in the past couple of years has been primarily on reforming financial services. Despite the hype within the financial sec...
June 28, 2018
Email, Communications, Trends
6 Things I Learned By Signing Up to Get Emails from 152 Canadian Charities (Part 2)
By: Brady Josephson, Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter.
In part 1, I shared 3 of the things I’ve learned from doing 152 email signups as part of research for The Canadian Online Fundraising Scorecard. They were:
Organizat...
June 19, 2018
Email, Communications, Trends
6 Things I Learned By Signing Up to Get Emails from 152 Canadian Charities (Part 1)
By: Brady Josephson, Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter.
This post is part 1 of Brady's lessons from email marketing series. Read part 2 here!
Working for a fundraising research lab is pretty cool. I get to learn a bunch...
June 12, 2018
Cloud Security & Privacy, Communications, Data & Relationship Management
Digital Rights 102: Highlighting the issues affecting Canadians
This post is second of two in our blog series about digital rights by guest authors at AccessNow. Read the first part, Digital 101.
In our last blog post for TechSoup Canada, we talked about how technology affects human rights for all. It both exp...
May 01, 2018
Communications, Community & Social Media, Trends
Why Nonprofits Need Public Relations – Leveraging Helpful PR Tools and Strategies
By Alyson Iuchs, Library Science specialist and freelance writer
How do you cut through the noise and attract donors as a nonprofit in our digital world?
Staying relevant and in the public eye is crucial to your overall success. It’s also one of t...
April 04, 2018
Communications, Community & Social Media, Multimedia & Design
Podcasting for Nonprofits
By: Matthew Couto, freelance copywriter and journalist
Podcasting engages your community by creating a conversation that uses tone of voice to connect you to your audience in a way writing can't.
Consider podcasts as internet radio; they're audio ...
March 21, 2018