Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. for at least 4 years. Lately, I’ve been running the 2.3

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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You must appeal to an audience that consists of young people who barely know how to address a letter, older people who are unfamiliar with WiFi and still clinging to their 2007 flip-phones and everyone in between. If you ship out a magazine, set up a version where people can pay to access the articles online. The solution?

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AUGUST 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tips for reducing IT costs August 16, 2007 Nicholas Carr, who writes the blog Rough Type , is a smart dude. We all don’t need to be on the bleeding edge to get stuff done. {

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JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. .&# are *yours* to do whatever you want with. And you have control over who can see what.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. If you are going to design your own mobile Website, make sure you check out the article Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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JANUARY 3, 2007

" article published in D-Lib in November by Elaine Peterson. What's good or useful about user-generated content and what's just entertaining or cute. Some links that might give some context: Gavin points us to the "Beneath the Metadata ??? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy."

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AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really?

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I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. Watch the demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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I also pointed her to CASE's book Advancement Services: A Foundation for Fund Raising , and CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement , which includes a chapter on Advancement Services, as well as the Association of Advancement Services Professionals.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. But he stressed that he planned to stay “engaged and connected to” Convio, noting that he will still be on the board of directors of Convio, as well as NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. {

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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.

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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.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). This blog entry from 2007 is about being open about one’s mistakes. Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 3) No More Custom CMS.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. It will likely even manage to make it into space, I think. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. { They are worth a read. {

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NOVEMBER 28, 2008

The twin book project sold over 2000 fairy story books in 2007 and more than 1000 rural students benefited from it. When I followed up with KK, I found out the story had originated on with an article on the Global Links Initiative entitled Voluntourism - A New Kind of Holiday.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. But, as the article linked above says, they don’t have an official affiliate program, so it will take some shoe leather on your part to build the business aspects.

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Post a Comment | by Share Article in Direct Marketing , Integrated Marketing , Online Fundraising , Online Marketing , Trends Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Karen Taggart is a Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Broadcast Slideshow article. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2007 Course. Office 15 Minute Webinars. Video demo of Broadcast Slideshow. What is Presenter's View? Better PowerPoint Presentations: The Office Casual Way. A full training course on using photos in PowerPoint 2010 Course. Office Web Apps Home Page.

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OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. {

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OCTOBER 3, 2006

An article of mine just appeared in the Social Enterprise Reporter, entitled High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise. Should be a great event (April 17-19, 2007). This article expands on how this is not solely the province of high tech types like me.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to see my article about my impressions of snews…see sNews – an easy and simple web publishing tool for non profit organisations Each CMS should be judged by an org, on what it can provide now for an organisation as well as in the future.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Here's an article about a similar batch in 2007. They included an attachment called bbb_logo.jpg but no graphics in the message body. 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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JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

This week, the newsletter featured an older TechSoup article, Five Principles to Design By. Guest writer Joshua Porter contributed the article in 2007, but his advice is as fresh and pertinent as ever. These tips aren't only about design: they're about keeping people at the center of your nonprofit's projects, not technology.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

1] Education, religion, age, and income are some variables that are typically studied in relationship to formal giving and volunteering, informal or personal giving and volunteering, and secular and religious volunteering (Sundeen, Garcia, and Wang, 2007). [2] Like this article? Sundeen et. Get another! Sources: ^ [1] Sundeen, R.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

While there are pages and pages of keyboard shortcuts and tips posted around the web in articles and knowledge bases, we'll start by focusing on 5 that we think may be particularly useful to nonprofit and library users.

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MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, There are so many ways to give.

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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). Like this article? What about volunteers in Arizona and particularly senior volunteers? Pugliese, J. Get another!

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