CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

In this session, Farra Trompeter, co-director of Big Duck, will explore ways you can evaluate and improve your donor engagement efforts year-round through smart communications and activities, blending both new and traditional approaches. To reduce the year-end stress, it starts with a year-round engagement plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2008

I didn't get a chance to post my Favorite Do-Good Book list for 2007 before the year ended, so here it is. book activism Many of them were listed in my answer to the Meaningful Book Meme last October. Here are links to my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006 and Favorite Do-Good Books of 2005. What were your favorite do-good reads last year?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As you read the book, you’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position. We need everyone ­ to understand that leadership is an activity. Because leadership is an activity. You’ll discover what you learn from the book is relatable and directly applicable. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Note from Beth: I first encountered Nina Simon through her awesome blog back four or five years ago. Wiki users are often collaborators. They have some influence over the direction of the project but don’t steer it themselves.

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NetWits

JULY 28, 2010

On May 18th, 2007 at 5:18pm I tweeted for the first time, saying "@Ruby. I was at the 2007 Personal Democracy Forum , and if memory serves correctly, I was replying to a general question another attendee, Ruby Sinreich, was asking of other attendees. I vote teleporting."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

." - Seasons Fund for Social Transformation Lately I've noticed a small, but steady stream of mentions about the connection between spirituality, religion, and activism. Flickr Photo Credit: Shining Treetops uploaded by Zest-pk activism religion contemplation spirituality environment

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Most nonprofits that are active on Facebook know about Facebook Causes. As the first fundraising app launched inside of Facebook, since its founding in 2007 it has raised more $40 million for over 27,000 nonprofits. Donation Processor: Network for Good. Website: causes.com. Availability: U.S. Nonprofits Only.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. 4) Maturation of Mobile Fundraising Apps. Some were ahead of their time and others lacked the design and functionality necessary to hook smartphone users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. Well, that depends of course, on the organization.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

While No “Holy Grail,” Razoo Reports Fundraising Success - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy. Since 2007, Razoo has helped 14,000 organizations collect a total of $100 million.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! When I’m making my best efforts to try to keep up, I do it in waves, like so many other things I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

You’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position. We need everyone ­ to have understand that leadership is an activity. Because leadership is an activity. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. Authority is necessary.

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

Activate in Seconds and Sta rt Raising More from Donor Insights! To activate this integration enhancement, simply log in to your 360MatchPro portal, access the integrations tab and select the DonorSearch option. 360MatchPro and DonorSearch seamlessly integrate so you can begin leveraging donor insights in no time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Working with Women Center Stage has helped Greer to connect her interests in art and social justice activism as well. Growing up in a family of activists, she struggled with how to bridge her art and activism. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. art activism women

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

You’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position. We need everyone ­ to have understand that leadership is an activity. Because leadership is an activity. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. Authority is necessary.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

nonprofits, coupled with the 10 major activity areas of charitable organizations to diagram the relative flow of money from each source to each activity area. Nonprofit Economy NPQ’s Illustrated Nonprofit Economy explores the financing of the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day started in 2007 as the initiative of just two people. Blogging Activism Non-profit Communications social media. Blogging Activism Non-profit Communications social media. Look how it’s grown! This year, some 9,400 blogs in 150 countries are spreading the word about climate change to almost 13 million readers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 8:37 am Actually, I do – I have a client whose activities and donor base suggest that they have a lot of other work to do before they delve into social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. “I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since 2007 Facebook has found great success in serving ads to its users at what could be considered a shockingly specific level. This option is replacing browser side tracking, which uses a pixel to create a cookie that tracks activity and sends it back to Facebook. A glimpse at a cookie free world .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Here's an article about a similar batch in 2007. Subject: BBB Complaint activity report. Subject: BBB Complaint activity report. A friend posted about them on a listserve and said that clicking the link downloads a virus. This scam has been around for a while. Version 1: Sender: ::Better Business Bureau:: (support@bbb.org).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. From my perspective, the key is openness. Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Best.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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