Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 am glad some people are enjoying themselves. One on Open Office, and FOSS on the Mac are forthcoming.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Social networking has so far focused mainly on businesspeople and young people because they are tech-savvy and are treasured by Madison Avenue. Best wishes… 13 Sep 2007 Daniel Hartman Great article. “Facebook with wrinkles&# they call it. I invite you to visit and help as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. There are an amazing number of new sites that have launched over the weekend (I imagine people sitting in their home offices with lots of caffeine and pizza.) Folks on that list are beginning to talk about how to implement portability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace is not just a community of poor people! In fact, I think MySpace is probably the best online representative of our society in terms of race and class that exists on the Web today, but it is incorrect to assume that MySpace is only a community of poor people. Facebook is mostly used to stay connected to people you know.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Spirituality is in creation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Watch the demo. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. 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. They are worth a read. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Which, of course, is why most people buy Red Hat, instead of installing Fedora or Debian, etc.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

”) requires nonprofits not to focus entirely on bringing people to the nonprofit’s site, but to expand this focus to include taking the NPO’s mission outward to other communities on the Web. Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. And, often this can be structured as a social enterprise.

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Tech Soup

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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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2007

In order to be successful in the future, a nonprofit must truly look within and figure out what we stands for, what makes each of us different, what value we bring to society and why people should love us. Why am I buying this? Karen Taggart is a Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. One of the findings was that many of the people who said they were happy had, "generativity--the ability to give to others." Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. Check out this article in MORE Magazine about Diane Lane , one of six actresses involved in film. Check out Tara Mohr's interview with her on The Huffington Post.

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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. Most people are at home. Please be safe!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many nonprofits whose missions have a human welfare component are addressing issues that occur as a result of a lack of inclusion and respect for the rights of people who are not part of the dominant culture in America. Clients often feel more comfortable with people who share similarities, as Cecala (2016) notes from her experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia. Sometimes, but not generally.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007). In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Historically speaking, great movements occur because the conditions in which people live are intolerable. Laura earned an MA in Organizational Communication from University of Colorado at Boulder (2007) and a BA in Communication from University of Illinois at Chicago (2004). Like this article? Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Indeed, while there have been recent articles and case studies calling attention to this work and holding up the promise of “collective impact,” there is not yet significant knowledge on HOW to do this work. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. Like this article? Some charitable organizations are performing self-evaluations and making the findings public.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). But we also have 60% personalizing their home pages and 85% using most-emailed articles links on news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." When I first saw the article, I thought it was the article from a year ago where they said basically the same thing. Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic mostly likely to make a donation online. Facebook describes itself as "a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers."

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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 30, 2009

article published in our September newsletter , Blackbaud's Steve MacLaughlin. grew 44% over 2007 levels to more than $15 billion. Craft the right messaging to inspire people to take action. revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. They also found that the. 48% of the dollars raised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Later today, our family will sit down for a lovely Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

If you’re one of the 300 million or so people who used Hotmail free webmail, you probably know by now that Hotmail is no more and that you’ve been switched over to Outlook.com. This one is a bit complicated, so check out Ed Bott ’s ZDnet article: Why I use Outlook.com for my custom email accounts (and how you can too).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. Originally, adding actions manually. was difficult.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The article features the case study of our client the American Jewish World Service. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. But the Internet has changed all that.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The article features the case study of our client the American Jewish World Service. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. But the Internet has changed all that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Neylon’s answer was one of the links in Brian Kelly’s article on Quora. As I discovered with my initial forays, each question intelligently guides you to new people and new related topics and that keeps your interest in it strong. As more people use Quora, will the subject matter expertise and replication be diluted?

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