Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

DonorPro and NEON CRM are at the top of the class, and will, I’m sure, get into Harvard Med. But its safe to say that these are good contenders, and did well. Last but not least, the grading. Who’s going to get into med school? Donor Perfect, CiviCRM and Antharia’s On Deposit have solid A’s, and will for sure get in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0 and nonprofits I’d love your input! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. " "We are using Office 2007 for our daily office work. I especially like Outlook 2007. The remaining students must hold classes outside underneath trees, if weather permits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. 4) The nonprofit community needs to understand how race , class , and age play out on social media and be sensitive to it. I just didn’t see how a Facebook Group could ever compare to a MySpace profile in terms of power and ROI (Return on Investment).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

It is an enterprise-class client/server CRM, and has the kind of features you see in such packages as Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. This post gives me the chance to finally write the very belated post on MPower I’ve been meaning to write since I got back from NTC. MPower is not a new product.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

After Jane’s keynote, Harold lead a master class with practical exercises on how to “learn the new” or manage/design and use a professional learning network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Keo Savon graduated from the local high school, steadily holding #3 and #5 in her class of 65 students. She is studying chemistry, math, physics, biology, and Khmer literature at the University where she hopes to major in architecture. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people’s learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

In their words: “CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. Debian or Ubuntu are just as “Enterprise-class&# as RHEL without Red Hat behind it. I had not heard of it until then. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. 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.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments. Not surprisingly, their advice leaned heavily on social media.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You may also want to visit some of our upcoming classes to learn more. Roughly once each month, we offer Dreamweaver Foundations and Intermediate classes which can help you learn how to use that tool to generate HTML for Facebook Pages, e-Newsletters, and websites. We also offer our Social Media for Building Community class regularly.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2007

to be held Friday, June 1, 2007, from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm at the Photonics Center at Boston, University. I'm leading a workshop at the Making Media Now: Filmmaking in Transition Conference.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The Elements Gallery, which was introduced in Office for Mac 2008, had tremendous untapped potential, especially for users who have experienced significantly improved productivity gains after using the ribbon interface from Office 2007 for Windows. read more.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). September 2007 (14). August 2007 (12). July 2007 (12). June 2007 (10). May 2007 (11). April 2007 (11).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

posted by Seth Cothrun Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. I have transitioned markets, from the top of the runaway bull market in 2007 to the bubble-bursting plunge to the bottom in 2009. The theme of the summit was Leadership in Times of Transition.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Suggestions on setting up your funding sources using the QuickBooks "Customer/Jobs" utility and your programs (what your organization does) using the QuickBooks "Classes" utility will be the subject of blog posts 3 and 4 in this series. Building Your Chart of Accounts. Stay tuned for more!

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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. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. The Nonprofit Almanac.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2009

09NTC NTENny Highlights: Starting with the 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we've recognized NTEN members who contribute that extra "something" to the work of NTEN and this nonprofit technology community every year. I'll introduce each member of this year's class of NTENnies in these weekly member round-ups.

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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., This alliance enhances Orchid's ability to deliver best-in-class integrated online management tools for communications." Here's the announcement copied from the Members Only website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Viola Vaughn "A group of failing schoolchildren in Kaolack, Senegal, once asked Viola Vaughn to help them pass their classes. Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 15, 2007

When I checked this morning, 7 more people had contributed to her loan request ( Rick , Matthew , the 2007 Pryor Class , Anish , Mark and Emily ). When I loaned her $50 yesterday (my first Kiva loan), only one other person had given her a loan, Sergio from Switzerland. Her loan is now fully funded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Nesson describes it on his blog: I n the final week of the class we will doing a first-of-its-kind Second Life event. There's still time to catch this opening happening tommorrow, January 10th: European Young Professionals (EYP) To Launch 2007 London Chapter Simultaneously. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v.

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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.” You have to be nimble and that can be hard.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Clearly, not all writers are cut out to do the kind of work Power does, but if you want your writing to have a larger purpose, here are a few resources for you: August 23-25th is the Writing for Change 2007 conference in San Francisco. It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Prior to her move to California in 2007, she served as the head of fundraising for Dyson College of Arts & Sciences at Pace University in New York City. She serves on the board of directors and as treasurer of Swish , a New York City–based gay-straight alliance. Adrienne holds a B.S. in Business Administration, with honors, and B.A.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Theres no question that such creative strategies will emerge in greater volume during 2007, and while some existing consultants are already helping groups make this work, theres plenty of room for some savvy specialists to get in the game. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

While wealthy people have always had access to exclusive experiences (country clubs, art openings), more and more people of other socio-economic classes are clamoring for personalized and exclusive experiences as an alternative to the mass-market, one-size-fits-all model. They don't fit our expectations.

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