Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr. It is highly trafficked and should be the foundation for your nonprofit’s video campaigns.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. That why the “walled gardens” are great to have, it protects your privacy so when someone google’s you they wont pull up any inappropriate material that you’ve posted. 2 admin 08.08.07

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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.” Encourage brainstorming. Develop shared language.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? In some ways, I use social bookmarking tools like listible as a more directed google (I’ve yet to create any lists). It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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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. If you’re considering running this game yourself, definitely check out what we learned ! People get excited about something — tweeting, setting up Google Reader, signing up for Facebook.

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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

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. " She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect.

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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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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Mobile Active , the excellent and definitive source for all things mobile, has an exhaustive writeup covering the details of setting up and operating a text message donation campaign. Clearly, this example dates back a bit (2007). The biggest gotcha is that your nonprofit needs to have earned $500k in the past year to qualify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Here’s an example of hyperlinking (click on each to see why I used): Larry Ferlazzo says Scribd is a great tool for English Language Learners (he’s voted it fourth best tool for 2007 for ELL ). Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes)! 5 Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed! Those who read your post via a feed reader.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

A campaign (in my definition) is anything that mobilizes action. rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link]. zerostrategist : Google / China comes to mind! realize_ink : Q1. Specific goals help focus. neddotcom : Another campaign worth mentioning [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Your blog shouldn't include only news about your organization, but it should definitely include some. What "ways" am I missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. It could be as simple as opening up a google document and dropping in a few bullet points or cutting and pasting a comment. I grab a little something everyday.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search. is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

This isn’t the case for a couple of reasons: 1) The more popular these CMS get, the more people need migration help, and the more resources are available for them (just google “ joomla drupal migration “ ) 2) More people than just the person who set the CMS up can help do the migration. Definitely agree on all fronts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Google also implemented Google Friend Connect a few days ago - so the battle for access to your online identity and social graph is heating up. (See In November, 2007, Google announced Open Social API. It has been described by some as a " portable social graph." See Bryan Alexander's post.) Some context first.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

We're not going to debate: Google Reader Stats Are Bullshit - but if you want some tips on how to do that, see Avinash Kaushik's Convert Data Skeptics). These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010. This includes using email, web site presence, google ads, face-to-face events and reaching out to the online and mainstream media. .

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