Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007. Cause Camp helps give attendees the tools and confidence to manage that reality.” I will show you just how to introduce these awesome new ideas in a way that will have anyone in your organization excited to implement them!”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? There are two areas - one where applicants collaborate and one where we the funders collaborate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. So it doesn’t happen. This reminds me of a true story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. The other arm is learning. I can’t do what I do without being a technology expert. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. And in this case, the value is in the data, not in the source of the application(s) using it. 2 admin 11.22.07 That was all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Photo by D'Arcy Norman. I've had a long relationship with CSquared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we believe game-based technologies can serve as powerful tools for advancing social action, civic engagement, and health for youth. Ben co-founded Games for Change and served as a co-director until 2007. Barry stopped by the Nonprofit Commons last month to discuss all the cool things he has been up to recently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Sometimes easier said than done!). Encourage brainstorming.

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Care2

JANUARY 18, 2012

If we choose to only invest in tools or platforms that we are not engaged with, we are putting too many eggs in one basket. If we invest in tools and communities that engage with us to build the solutions we need, we put ourselves and our missions in a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Mary did a fabulous job!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. But I guess they won’t, given their position. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Tools for Training Staff Online. Provided below are a few useful webinars (made using ReadyTalk) from our TechSoup site about training using online tools. Getting to know Online Conferencing Tools. Meeting Archive: Online Collaboration Tools. Intro to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 Stop thinking that adopting social media or social software or online collaboration tools is a matter of selecting a tool off a menu. What style of dancing?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Evaluation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

But what about for internal coordination/collaboration? . There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. So this essay provides some contextualization and principles from online collaboration from the Web 1.0. Collaboration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

4) provide collaborative opportunities within, and between organizations? So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors? 2) communicate the message? 3) keep stakeholders informed?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket , who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. Our goal is for stakeholders to view us as the credible source of knowledge and tools for those who lead, manage and support nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link]. Produce great tools for effective UK campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s 4) Conversational Collaboration Win-win initiatives that open a dialogue toward reaching a broader goal. In Edelman???s someone like me???

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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

JANUARY 30, 2007

After a cardio and yoga workout at the gym, spent a good part of the day obsessing about the design for an evaluation on mobile technology tools for health care outreach workers. " Is a wiki really the best method for on-shot feedback or is it better for deeper collaboration over time?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket , who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The organization works to provide donors and the charities they love with tools, ratings, and information needed for informed decisions and investments . Classy Awards Finalists will be announced at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions on June 9, and Winners will be announced September 28. . Michael Thatcher. President and CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Tools To Change the World.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

JANUARY 11, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

JANUARY 9, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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