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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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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. I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in. Note from Beth: I first encountered Nina Simon through her awesome blog back four or five years ago.

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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. Some were ahead of their time and others lacked the design and functionality necessary to hook smartphone users. The reality is that mobile and social media require time to use effectively. 4) Maturation of Mobile Fundraising Apps.

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. 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)! Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

You’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. We need everyone ­ to have understand that leadership is an activity. It’s for the activist who doesn’t have time to read. Leadership comes in moments.

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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. 3) Nonprofits as Real-time Reporters via Social Media and Mobile Devices: This is a dramatic shift in Web communications.

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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 . Privacy vs performance.

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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 It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

You’ll learn that: Leadership is an activity, not a position. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. We need everyone ­ to have understand that leadership is an activity. It’s for the activist who doesn’t have time to read. Leadership comes in moments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? When was the last release?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. 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. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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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

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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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. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. It was vibrant, active, kind and generous. Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel.

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APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at. Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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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

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. I’d had bits and pieces of this in varied places, and in my head, but it was a good time to get it all down. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 2 admin 07.11.08 Glad you like it.

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. That’s right, trivia lovers: UA originally stood for Urchin Analytics!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? I am full-time and paid, though, like everyone else in the non-profit world, my time/resources are limited, so I don’t get to do social media strategy/long-term planning all day long.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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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. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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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. Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. From my perspective, the key is openness. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2009

I’ve been struggling with this for as long as I’ve had this site on WordPress (since January 2007). The problem: From time to time, for no apparent reason and based on no obvious trigger, the theme would revert to the default WordPress theme. I Googled for solutions a few times. into the Default folder.

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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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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. My section focused on a case study of storytelling in the field, when I was a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cambodia and Kenya from 2005-2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. He thinks that time-based billing is bad. The real wealth is discretionary time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

In their 2007 Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) writes, “Inadequate infrastructure leads to inadequate organizational performance. Grant Makers for Effective Organizations (2007). Building the infrastructure needed to properly support an organization as a whole is vital to the entity’s sustainability.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

They found that individuals actively involved in activities with social organizations were more likely to volunteer. This strong relationship was also evident for informal social networks where friend and neighbor interactions significantly increased the likelihood of volunteering (Bekkers, 2005; Okun, Pugliese, Rook, 2007).

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. Planned giving activity often accelerates in tentative economic times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” One of my all time favorite Clay Shirky quotes: “When the technology gets boring, it becomes socially interesting.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today. by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen.

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