Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Key Points: The violence in Darfur is part of a history of violence in all of the Sudan. Sam Bell, the Director of Advocacy for the Genocide Intervention Network talked about the difference between the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (SADA) and the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act (DADA), and where the legislation is now.

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JULY 13, 2012

The iPhone version, released in January 2009, built on an earlier mobile site targeted at feature phones that launched in 2007. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. ArtClix - iTunes App Store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

It has been used for the Facing History site as part of Arn Chorn Pond's story. Facing History and Ourselves trains middle school and high school teachers. We're building a website for students all over the world that profiles five different human rights awards winners. I'm so honored. The site is currently in BETA form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits. This takes some facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

Consider this simple comparison of potential reach for campaigns run by two very different nonprofits: Large Nonprofit Using Direct Mail. Susan joined the Causes team back in March 2007, long before they had fancy things like catering, a blog, or even a name. 100,000 people. Direct Marketing Reach. 100,000 people. < 100,000 people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Brudney of Cleveland State University, a base for the future has been identified from this short period of history. Accounting Horizons, 2007, 20(1). Audit committee of board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

At e-metrics, someone told me it had to do with them dropping counts from different news readers. Chris's post gives a condensed history of Feedburner and how the need for its services has changed given the social media landscape over the past 5 years. Are you using something different? He suggested MINT.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2016

Since 2007, the Peer-to-Peer Professionals Forum, formerly the Run-Walk-Ride Fundraising Council, has been the leading conference for the peer-to-peer fundraising industry. For the entire history of the conference, Plenty has been proud to be the analyst and key thought leadership partner of the conference and its Fundraising Thirty study.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. I — Inspire individuals and organizations to overcome their challenges and make a difference in the community. Its explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

How can you tell the difference? I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Dubbed a “local blogging guru” by the Washington Post, Geoff’s award-winning book “Now is Gone” was released in 2007 and has been cited by the Wall Street Journal as a valuable resource for social media. Movements versus campaigning.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

This is the first time in AJWS history that we have been able to extend such a generous offer to our supporters, so please, help us reach our new goal of $175,000 by making a donation today. For the next ten days you will write the history of this presidential election through your actions. Yes, you do good work. OK, you got me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. If you have a group blog, are there differences between authors? The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Are they tips?

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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. Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. It looks different in different types of institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice. s 2007 Trust Barometer, results showed that employees or ???someone

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. The play "Terrible Virtue" by Jessica Litwak, which looks at the history of reproductive rights and the legal system in the United States, will also show at the festival.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. We just have to think differently about how we craft job positions and expectations. That participation is powerful and scalable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Take a minute and jot down all of the breakthroughs in communications history you can think of. This is why history needs you. Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks? Oh, and with a flying lemur, because Sam Dorman had a flying lemur in his presentation earlier that day.

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 19, 2022

But before we get into why Marketing Cloud outpaces its competition, let us first take a look at how we got here through the history of marketing automation tools. . The History of Marketing Automation Tools. Salesforce Pardot was also acquired by ExactTarget in 2012 after its founding in 2007.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. It looks different in different types of institutions. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

You're making a tangible, lasting difference for both people and nature. Foundation has created the 2007 Gifts of Hope campaign in order to do just that; meaningful giving can bring hope, protection and security to the most vulnerable of our global family. Support the only national sexual assault hotline. Donations can be made here.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition | Main | Make New Friends, But Keep the Old » Wednesday Jul 11 2007 A. Make publishing history; post your contribution to our interactive epilogue. So don’t just read Momentum. Please come to my website and jump right into the mix.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Dang, she’s done a lot of Bloomerang webinars over our 10-year history and is just one of my favorite people. I’ve used Bloomerang in different gigs. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. So there are different pictures that happen. .

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. But I see this quote in a different way. Museums should be the place for that (more on this here )--for people to meet and share their love of culture, science, and history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

She talked about how hard it was to get different social groups to share perspectives on how sound should be managed. Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this. This is an interesting problem related to natural heritage and how it is shared and enjoyed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm looking to blend different perspectives and have a workshop session that can speak to nonprofits and grassroots media makers. Different metrics matter for different social media makers for different reasons. To understand why social media metrics are different from traditional web metrics. Life was good.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

knowing what the network is for After her talk she showed different types of network diagrams. Her history is with off-line organizing and so her job is to see how we can leverage social networks and integrate web 2.0 6 Aug 2007 Social Networking Bulletin – » Social Networks – The last post from Yearly Kos [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Here’s the question: Why do organizations continue to work with at rather than with their own people, the ones using the most amazing megaphones in the history of mankind, all of the social media channels, to raise awareness of issues, organize protests, raise money, share stories? AF: And I was a history major!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Jon Stahl, in his comments on my first post in this series said: “a PHP API accessible only to other PHP apps on the same machine is simply not sufficient integration in an age of web services, where people run different apps on different machines and use languages other than PHP for building web apps.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. The results differ from a study released earlier this year. Can't afford to visit Bali?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. Today I Cried resigns ! of Internet visits. ICT in the Developing World.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” I was really surprised by the range and just how much people know about history. We also talked to historians on staff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

"I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership. She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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