Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution. They have mentorship programs, they are building regional networks, they have almost unparalleled bulletin board, email and IRC community support. That’s about it.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Back in February, I saw a great post from Mashable on how to build a landing page for Facebook and instantly thought of it as a great way to promote an upcoming fundraising event. If you know HTML, you could build this page by hand. You may also want to visit some of our upcoming classes to learn more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Public Administration Review , 64(5), 529-538.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. 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. An important lesson, yes?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2012

Plus, our refurbished computers now come with Microsoft Office 2007 Basic (RCI computers previously featured Office 2003). Note that PowerPoint is not included as part of the Office 2007 Basic package, but is available as a separate donation through our Microsoft Software Donation Program. Mid Tier (3.0 A monitor is not included.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

The donation will cover installation and maintenance of necessary equipment, which will build upon existing free Wi-Fi areas, like City Hall and the San Francisco International Airport. Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Powering Communities with Tech.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This blog will provide some suggestions on building your chart of accounts in a manner that is practical and that will satisfy as many users of the financial statements as possible. Building Your Chart of Accounts. Think of the chart of accounts as the foundation for a building you are about to construct.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. Washington, D.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

February 1, 2007 Washington DC Members Only Software, Inc is pleased to announce that we have entered into a strategic alliance with Orchid Suites Inc., based developer of Content-Management and Community-Building Tools. Here's the announcement copied from the Members Only website. said Tanya Renne, Orchid Suites CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. I am now significantly more likely to take another class than I was before.” Are you building a culture in which "failure" is acceptable?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It wasn't that Simon was throwing out the housekeeping rules of the gorgeous but often imposing downtown museum building. Ideas include combining Santa Cruz's famous love of yoga with life-drawing classes, having models incorporate yoga poses for the sake of the would-be artists. Simon is a remarkable "get" for the museum.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Instead of spending the months necessary to build credibility and then inserting yourself into the debate, why not hire an expert Wikipedian to fight the battles for you? September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Instead of spending the months necessary to build credibility and then inserting yourself into the debate, why not hire an expert Wikipedian to fight the battles for you? September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I've seen people's concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Also, you remember how much work you got done when a substitute teacher came to class?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. If you have some land in the front or backyard, build a planter box, or grow some food from the ground. Kellogg Foundation. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Today I’m posting Karen Nyhus ‘ advice, originally posted on NTEN’s nptechconsult forum (for members only) in response to a request for “resources and tips for our nonprofit technology community to help them start things off right in 2007.&# Build this into your time and budget plans. Attend conferences.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I followed the blog around the time of my travel to Venezuela in 2007 during which time the blog reported on the controversy surrounding the license of privately-held RCTV. Blogs Build Transparency. He also teaches classes on podcasting and social media. FM , a community radio station serving the Kansas City area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

The 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its fifth report on what the science tells us about how fast human created global warming is affecting the biosphere. The Big UN Report on Climate Change. The device is an electricity generating soccer ball called the Soccket.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

In the US context, we are focused on building an awareness of issues involved in genocide and post-conflict peacebuilding as well as connecting American youth to our partners in other parts of the globe to plug them into cross-national, cross-cultural collaboration. I also grew up with domestic violence in my family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I say all this not to harp on political correctness, but rather to point out that there seems to be a disconnect in the discourse about politics and technology with the actual grassroots, civil society groups who are so often organizing “on the ground”—and the very civil society groups who are doing the hard work of building democracy everyday.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I think a large number of women's rights mobilizing efforts are really focused around building and strengthening economic independence for women.

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