The Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York, but has spread across the U.S. thanks, in no small part, to the new digital tools available to the protesters. While Occupy Wall Street (#occupy) has yet to issue a statement on their demands, we can already learn a lesson from how they are using web and mobile technology to organize, collaborate and spread the word.

Social change strategy firm Communicopia has published a Non-Profit Digital Teams Benchmark Report that surveyed 67 nonprofits on their social media habits to find “how non-profit leaders manage digital and online initiatives in their organizations.” The Stanford Innovation Review presents a three-part series of lessons from the study on how digital teams - staff in organizations that deal with their online or web presence - work.

It’s late at night. Someone is visiting your website and they like what they see. They want to donate to your cause, but it’s too late to call the office and too bothersome to write out a check. Where is the “Donate Now” button? You do have one, right?

Most nonprofits are heavily dependent on donations from the public to sustain their programs. A nonprofit’s website is increasingly the first public face of a nonprofit - and an excellent channel for receiving donations. Not quite sure? Watch this TechSoup webinar on making it easy for supporters to give by accepting online donations.

The Vodafone Americas Foundation and mHealth Alliance released a call for submissions for the annual “Wireless Innovation Project and the mHealth Alliance Award”. This competition identifies and supports wireless-related technologies that have a high potential for solving critical global issues.

The Vodafone Americas Foundation, one charitable arm of the mobile telecommunications company, launched the Wireless Innovation Project in 2009 to recognize innovative wireless solutions that could make a global impact. Applicants compete for first, second and third-place prizes worth $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000.

Handling social media for your organization can sometimes feel like a component of work that is difficult to control and too time-consuming to do well. New trends and tools are constantly popping up, as are comments and conversations that require responses.

The incredible proliferation of technology tools, tactics and strategies makes it hard for small teams to stay up to date and fluent in all competencies. Yet, nonprofits consistently list technology as one area that is essential for achieving their missions. One possible solution to this challenge is pro bono and volunteer consulting for IT.

What do a surprised chipmunk, “I like Turtles” and Harry Potter have in common? They are all memes—bits of culture that are shared within societies. The internet has exponentially boosted the appearance and spread of memes. While it may be bewildering at first, the popularity of some internet memes can be tapped to help spread the messages of social-benefit organizations.

A woman stops in a BART subway station in San Francisco to send a text from her phone. But she's not telling her friends she'll be late for happy hour. By sending a text to a location-based app, she's trying to save the Earth.

Through this "check-in" on Foursquare, that woman is making a donation to EarthJustice, an environmental law organization. This is one of the many ways that nonprofits are taking advantage of a new generation of applications that utilize physical location information to tie together the online and offline worlds. Location-based apps use GPS or other physical location information to map and keep track of users interacting with the service.

Do you have a story to tell? The Center for Digital Storytelling wants to help you share it as a video-narrative combining still and moving images, first-person narration, sounds and music.

Twitter announced on August 13th that they will be integrating an analytics tool into the popular micro-blogging site. Organizations doing outreach on Twitter now have much more information about how those efforts are paying off.