Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Many funders, including individual donors, are averse to funding these indirect costs, preferring to support direct program expenses: food for hungry people, medical care for the sick, and childcare for working parents. Grant Makers for Effective Organizations (2007). GEO Action Guide – General Operating Support, 11, 14, 21.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. This is down from 19% in 2007 and 21% in 2006. However, since many organizations are segmenting their lists and targeting messages, some people may be receiving 10 emails monthly from an organization while others may only receive two or three.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. at 11:17 am I’m interested to know which combinations of CMS/CRM are working best for people. Integration. 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Back in 2007, I got a little obsessed with ladders of engagement – a way to describe the different stages that supports go through in deepening their involvement with your organization.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Email open rates declined 1% while a past study found a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. This is down from 19% in 2007 and 21% in 2006. Here are the highlights.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Peter Deitz, Social Actions. Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic mostly likely to make a donation online. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. and Canada. and Canada. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. This year, I decided to create a New Year's post that looks at both format and content so I have a handy reference for my year-end post for 2009! In the nonprofit space, Joe Solomon ( @engagejoe ) has written about ten best social action platforms. Ah, but what format to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. If you're an iTunes user, one of the ways you can help me celebrate this anniversary is by finding the Big Vision Podcast in the iTunes Store and giving it a star rating (hopefully a good one!), I'd *really* appreciate it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

He joined Zane Benefits as its thirteenth employee in 2007. He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. I’m so lucky to be able to lead (and be led by) a team of great people who share my number motivation: Zane Benefits’ mission to level the playing field for small businesses. Good advice.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. If you have suggestions for people I should interview in 2011, please let me know in the comments. They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Regardless of whether you believe direct mail is on its way out -- and many smart people seem to disagree with each other on this point – nearly everyone agrees that the role of online giving is only becoming more important over time. Tens of millions of people are doing business online. Consider this. Internet users, or 72.5%

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

I have transitioned markets, from the top of the runaway bull market in 2007 to the bubble-bursting plunge to the bottom in 2009. People start doing things they normally wouldn’t do: they miss deadlines, they show up unprepared, they snap at people. Therefore, people often resist it. Listen and pay attention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

February 18, 2009 was the 3rd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

With all the depressing stories on the news, you'd never know that there are all kinds of amazing people out there who not only have big visions for a better world, but are making their big visions real, but there are! Please note that because the interviews take place over four years, some people's work and lives may have changed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. This IRS action is long overdue.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. How much would you have to spend to verify what records were lost and notify all the affected people or companies? Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Not just important or famous people, either. Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks?

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It doesn’t allow people to take your organizational actions or sign-up for your newsletters the way Convio’s application does. So it might not be so easy to deliver specific messages to specific people within Facebook the way you might elsewhere. 19 Oct 2007 Michael Hoffman Allan, you are mostly wrong.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

During the calls, speakers talk about what is going on in Sudan at the moment, and what actions people can take. In 2005, both sides agreed to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Among the provisions of the CPA was that following a census, a midterm presidential and parliamentary elections would be held in 2009.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a corporate license, this means that it is for use by people within your organization. Others aren’t at all.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2009

As Holly said , smart phone usage grew 80% between June 2007 and June 2008. billion dollars will be spent on mobile marketing in 2009. We're certainly not going to ditch our mobiles , so how can nonprofits get in on the mobile marketing action? Just remember, you NEED people to opt-in before you text them.).

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

We’ll be matching people based on their skills and interests with organizations around the world that need their input. It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- Will millions of people sign-up, actively participate, and help drive change?

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on June 2nd, 2011 I’m starting a new series of short interviews with people who are really changing what’s happening in the nonprofit sector. That means find new food.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth is hoping that people will sign an online petition letting Apple know that people want to give on their iPhones. Nonprofits would also reach far more people and have greater impact by optimizing their website for mobile devices instead of just building iPhone apps. Probably not. You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

Human-based social engineering is just what it sounds like – people at a computer entering stolen credit card information to process a transaction. I cannot really imagine why people are doing these things. There are certainly pros and cons to using these but they work. Hopefully, it will be stopped as soon as possible.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

People who sit together work better together. Have the email people and the direct mail people sit together. Have the website people sit with the gift processing people. Have the social media people sit with the programs people. Focus on the seating chart. Don’t believe me? Try it for a week.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

If you wait for the emergency to happen, then it’s too late Having reliable people, processes, and technology are critical. People Does your staff have experience with prior emergency situations? There is a limited window to reach and engage supporters. Here are some key questions for nonprofits to ask themselves.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

Over 1,900 people from across the nonprofit sector will be on hand. From universal search to offsite content strategies, and from link building to location based services and local search, there’s a whole new frontier out there – and guess what, people? It’s not even on YOUR website.

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