Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. She’s ahead of me since she actually reads librarian blogs. brilliant.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

You’ll find it sprinkled throughout your social media feed and making headlines at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Despite this, less than half of employees know what their organization stands for and what makes it different. This post was originally published on 7/28/2019 and updated on 8/5/2022.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 I think it’s different for people — for the reasons you cite. Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. While it may be ideal to have a fully integrated setup, a good stepping stone is one that feeds data directly to the CRM but appears to use the same CMS as the rest of the site. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. All of these are good questions, and will be totally different for different organizations. I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now. Which is just fine.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. Lots of great ideas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article!

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. It goes on to spell out in great detail how you might apply these 5 keys to different knowledge-transfer situations: for example, training sessions. The Non-profit Consultant. December 2007 (11).

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

While reviewing websites, we specifically looked at the different types of social media organizations were integrating into their websites. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Here are a few social websites that offer different levels of resource integration. Authenticate. Open source.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead.

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MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Kelly O’Neal, online marketing consultant, provides the following recommendations to nonprofits.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. points out that you can use different platforms to engage with different audiences. they’re curious about how you’re using their support and donations to make a difference. What is this affliction? surrounding.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

… Because of these factors, groups that attempt to use their internal, benefit-dinner videos for an online audience will find their efforts largely ignored, says Michael Hoffman , president of See3 Communications Company, a Chicago consulting group that helps charities produce online video campaigns. Feed verfolgen.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

… Because of these factors, groups that attempt to use their internal, benefit-dinner videos for an online audience will find their efforts largely ignored, says Michael Hoffman , president of See3 Communications Company, a Chicago consulting group that helps charities produce online video campaigns. Feed verfolgen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. 3 Catherine Carey 04.10.07

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Great article!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" » Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Great article!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In a tough economy, it also wanted to offer opportunities to get involved, participate, and donate at many different levels, but also not forget its core base of supporters. It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. For me, the web and 2.0 See below).

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve already scrolled through your Instagram feed three times and consumed over an hour of TikTok videos. Plus, Getting Attention’s guide to nonprofit communications points out that you can use different platforms to engage with different audiences. Picture this: it’s a Saturday morning and you’re laying in bed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks? You can then save those searches as RSS feeds, or in the application you use for Twitter. Not just important or famous people, either. Reputation: What are you known for? What do people say about your expertise? That's not all! Measure THIS!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" When selecting an online video partner, do your homework and check the customer references.

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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. That's what I wanted to bring to the world, my interpretation of that, playing with those different things, and reminding people that African-American food can be very healthy.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For more trends and insights into how nonprofits are using the Internet, check out the new book Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools & Trade Secrets Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

decrease from 2007 ($83,034), after adjusting for inflation. Average total giving to religious causes dropped in 2009 to $9,985 from $17,635 in 2007, a decrease of 43.4%. Average total giving to secular causes was also down in 2009 to $46,852 from $71,200 in 2007, a decrease of 34.2%. consulted accountants, 40.8%

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The difference is that Causes is continuing to blur the line between online and offline activity. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. The article notes that “gift cards will be the No.

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MARCH 19, 2011

Join this insider session with top SEO consultants Dottie Hodges , William Slawski , and Eric Werner to learn what’s being talked about in the backrooms and on the leading edge for SEO. Next year the conference is back in San Francisco. All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

One thing I note, however, is that proprietary software seems to require roughly the same amount of geek to install and maintain — and it’s very possible you’ll hit problems that you simply can’t solve without feeding up the proprietary food chain. Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork. Problem solved.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

Some processors will offer you different options and you should ask about what’s available. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. I recommend testing this before applying it across the board.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. These organizations had an increase of 15.8% for the 3 months ending November 2010 as compared to the same period in 2009. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This also means that it is normal and expected for organizations to have a significant year-over-year difference in their online fundraising. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. All Rights Reserved

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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MARCH 17, 2011

Using Technology for Impact: A Social Media Panel Discussion Saturday, March 19, 2011, 10:30am to 12:00 pm Led by Frank Barry , Blackbaud’s Internet Strategy Manager, the panel will challenge attendees to think differently about how social media technology can positively impact their communications with donors and the world.

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