Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

The first one is one that I’ve been using recently for my consulting business – SugarCRM. But, I’d send the query to both the nptech-related groups (like nten-discuss and nosi-discussion) as well as the Sugar folks – you might get some answers. 2 admin 04.20.08

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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. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? Throw a website at it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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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. This sparked an excellent discussion about how we identify people to follow – how do we tune our network? You can find a storify of the curated tweets and links here. Diversity correlates with innovation?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. At many conference we hear folks discuss the communication strategies, results and benefits but rarely do we hear how it was actually done. @Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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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. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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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. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux. Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I hope you’re discussing the option of buying systems with linux preinstalled in the webinar. Brian Yes, I will discuss pre-loaded systems, and you are right, they are easier to deal with, for sure. I plug in in printers and they’re automatically set up. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08 at 5:28 am This is a shame.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

At this point, many nonprofit technology providers have blogs, and use them to get their message out (and, I think, create an interesting community that is somewhat changed from the community I knew pre-seminary, which was primarily fueled by email discussions.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. school consultants. Middle school consultants. consultants. Sigel Press, 2007, pg. ASU Lodestar Center. Placements. #

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. The Non-profit Consultant. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). August 2007 (12).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I've facilitated many versions of the social media strategy game that I first co-taught with David Wilcox in the UK in January, 2007 and decided to create a new version for this group to get specific feedback on how to align the social strategy thinking process with the communications thinking process. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

Allan Benamer who writes the Non-Profit Tech Blog blogged about his announcement on the NY 501C Tech Club List to create a closed forum for frank discussion of vendors and to share experiences about their experience with IT vendors. Some consultants. Some vendors are nonprofits themselves. work part time inside of nonprofits.

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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. 9 sundar 08.24.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone The intent was a scoreboard, but a catalyst for discussion that might lead to defining exactly what influence is. In Edelman???s

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

HandsOn created a page on their site to showcase the livestreamed panel discussion on volunteering and leadership, and encouraged online participation through its live Twitter stream and Facebook stream on the website page. a strategic social media consulting firm to nonprofit organizations. Prior to founding Community Organizer 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. At AAM and ASTC in 2007, people I'd never met, people who would never talk to me the year prior, were eagerly approaching me saying, "Oh, you're Nina Simon!" I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We’ve already discussed the benefits of using surveys to gain supporter feedback, but you can also use them to learn more about supporters on an individual level. If you need a helping hand to build or revamp your digital communication strategy, consider working with a consultant. Ask about supporters on a personal level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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JANUARY 31, 2022

We’ve already discussed the benefits of using surveys to gain supporter feedback, but you can also use them to learn more about supporters on an individual level. If you need a helping hand to build or revamp your digital communication strategy, consider working with a consultant. Ask about supporters on a personal level. Aly Sterling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. " prompted some discussion. Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. era websites.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. The only costs incurred will be from consultative services if the nonprofit doesnt have in-house developers. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

It also started Facebook and Twitter feeds to allow volunteer hosts find one another and discuss their party plans. 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. Within a month, CC had eight parties being planned.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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