Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I am sure that you are aware of this though. Because most people will only use what they are familiar with. it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. your message will justify them. This is why your message is sad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I know it was sort of in process when I was fading out, but I wasn’t much aware of it. One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And, while we can certainly see the outpouring of support during moments of heightened awareness, such as after natural disasters, there may be more at play to the sector’s current state of affairs. These things have forced our awareness, not only of the external factors at play but the value of retaining an organization’s best donors.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above. Enter online fundraising contests.

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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. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. This also tells us something about telling stories and increasing awareness of your issue or organization in general. The lessons for arts organizations.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. Results: The concept of Red House 2009 was in sharp contrast to concepts of the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( Fundraising support also has to go beyond plans and translate to concrete action.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Its main efforts involve working with major seafood buyers to help them shift their purchases to more sustainable options, and with consumers to raise awareness about the connection between the seafood they eat and the health of the oceans, and to create grassroots support for sustainable seafood. These days, useful also means context aware.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2010

If you are here, remember to check in with your favorite location aware app. Finally, don’t forget to check out the Past Session Materials from 2009, 2008, and 2007. I’ll be using Foursquare and Gowalla. I’m guessing others are going to be doing the same. Tons of resources that are still very relevant.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

At the same time, I''m aware that only a tiny percentage of readers have actively pursued relationships with me and other Museum 2.0 The total readership from 2010-2012 was more than double that of 2007-2009 (and has been flat since 2011). It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

Girl2Woman.org started as a small idea to raise awareness about the importance of sexual and reproductive health care throughout a woman's life. For instance, our 2011 end of year online fundraising campaign brought in what we raised over the course of the entire year in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. You could easily refuse a telephone in 1949 and not be too crazy, but this is not true by 2009. I’m not a lawyer.

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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. Measure success through awareness, not dollars. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. Measure THIS! More on this: [link] ). Causes: Help spread the word.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Sometimes it’s just ambient awareness or trivial trivia. This group is comprised of 14 very large nonprofit organizations with data from 2009. Notes: Demographic characteristics of 2009 donors, broken down by the donor’s state of residence, including the District of Columbia. Just like a report of giving by city.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Sometimes it’s just ambient awareness or trivial trivia. This group is comprised of 14 very large nonprofit organizations with data from 2009. Notes: Demographic characteristics of 2009 donors, broken down by the donor’s state of residence, including the District of Columbia. Excludes donors whose state is unknown.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

2010 : mobile social media augmented reality location-based services gesture-based computing semantic web 2009 : mobile cloud computing geo-everything (similar to location-based services) personal web semantic-aware applications smart objects 2008 : grassroots video collaboration webs (collaborating on the web) mobile broadband data mashups collective (..)

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

Main | Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It » Wednesday May 27 2009 The ROI of Social Media Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:39AM | by Heather Holdridge Social media is a hot topic these days. an awareness study (before and after) what percentage of refers are coming from various sites. Here are a few examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. In September 2009, we launched mycharitywater.org , a website where anyone could give up a birthday, or run any type of fundraising campaign, for clean water any time of the year. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Twitter found that out in 2007.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

offer reliable situational awareness. . launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked. link] 01/twestival-2009-even-the- fail-whale-needs-clean-water/ If you were in the room or not, and have some great examples or resources about nonprofit social media and roi - drop them in the comments! set audience. affected people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Since September 2009, I have been responsible for maintaining WITNESS’ social media platforms (paid, full-time). Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. Awareness includes whether funders are more aware of campaigns/programs. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

TweetsGiving 2009. That may seem like a small amount, it is important to remember that millions of people have played the game since its inception in 2007. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He lays out some interesting concepts, things I’d been aware of, but not really studied enough to articulate. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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