Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. If I had it to do over again, I would have started a nonprofit technology organization 10 years ago. And, I think I did that. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. Otherwise – I think it depends a lot on the mission of the organization, for sure. Anyway, I’ll have more to say about Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. In any event, Kintera’s API goes a long way to help organizations be freed from yet another data silo, and they are free. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 apps out there. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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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. And the mission of the organization matters too.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose .

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MAY 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. messages per month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. at 12:59 am @sudha My organization is getting ready to launch a Drupal site with deep Salesforce.com integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article!

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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 news no doubt sent many board members scurrying to their organizations to find out if they are on the list. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” The best work is embraced by a reflective board and staff leaders alike, and is embedded in the organization’s culture and business model.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How do you determine which technology, or set of technologies, will be best suited to your organization? Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. How do you appropriately implement them?

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JUNE 5, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008.

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MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" “Of course, things got a lot worse in the fourth quarter, so these trends might not hold up.”

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization?

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Demographics: is the audience youre recruiting from the social network appropriate for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper. When and why did you implement your first Seafood Watch App? What were some of the results?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Response: Trackback at Trackback on May 1, 2009 Trackback Reader Comments (2) This is total kismet.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Response: Trackback at Trackback on May 1, 2009 Trackback Reader Comments (2) This is total kismet.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" July 6, 2009 | Anwalt Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I thought I would leave my first comment.

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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. According to Tara Hunt , author of a fabulous social media marketing book called The Whuffie Factor , there are a few things that comprise your, or your organization's, social capital: Connections: Who do you know? Measure THIS!

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MAY 10, 2011

For several years now they have gathered giving data from some of the largest nonprofit organizations. The chart below represents the 25 largest online fundraising nonprofit organizations for 2010: These 25 nonprofits raised more than $1.1 International organizations raised a tremendous amount online in 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. This was in the solidly web 1.0

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. .&#

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Invitations to participate in the survey were sent by the six partner organizations to their constituents. 36% of charities reported an increase in donations in the first nine months of 2010, compared with only 23% in the same period of 2009. The 34 page report contains a lot of information across a broad range of questions.

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MARCH 7, 2011

In December 2010, Target Analytics brought together six national nonprofit organizations to discuss event fundraising and compare fundraising performance of team captains, team members, individuals (non-team participants), and donors. The donorCentrics Events Benchmarking Group was the first time research of this kind has ever been conducted.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending September 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Remains Positive The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,376 nonprofit organizations representing $2.2 Read more about the methodology.

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MAY 18, 2011

Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,430 nonprofit organizations representing $2.21 Small and medium sized organizations had a positive growth trend, but large nonprofits were negative over this period of time.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking How Nonprofits Can Avoid Online Credit Card Fraud Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 20th, 2011 Nonprofit organizations are a big target for online credit card fraud. Here are steps organizations can take: 1.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Here’s the first one with many more coming in the future… 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica , a social enterprise that provides superior communication consulting, training, and strategy to help mindful organizations affect social change. region for more than 17 years. Are they doing it well?

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,468 nonprofit organizations representing $2.25 These organizations had a decrease of 4.2%

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MARCH 15, 2011

The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Overall Fundraising Trends The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 1,434 nonprofit organizations representing $2.19

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MARCH 18, 2011

On a first-come-first-serve basis, attendees may sign up for a personal review and ten-minute brainstorm about their organizations’ sites, conducted by Raheel Gauba, Blackbaud’s director of creative services. To have your site be one of the five reviewed during the session, register by emailing raheel.gauba@blackbaud.com.

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