Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007).

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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. But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Data – We collect only data that is on the public web like all other search engines and never display personally identifiable information (phone, email, address). I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock.

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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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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. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

In the end David is right… the absence of a good metric does not excuse the publication of a bad one. Does it contribute the information that the the project does not report their security vulnerabilities? 7 admin 04.07.09 at 9:13 am Actually, Plone didn’t have zero – it had two.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I have to admit that I went into this thinking much more about the more public types of APIs even though the APIs for internal data integration has been a real interest of mine, and a real concern, as well. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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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. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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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. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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APRIL 2, 2007

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

In their words: “CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast. It is Red Hat, with branding removed. So they take RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and repackage it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I suppose if there were a lot of charity focused intermediaries that wanted to build and market applications on top of a platform, then there would be a huge incentive to maintain platform neutral APIs. But so far Convio on top of Salesforce is the only publicly visible player in that space.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Kathleen Rogers has been the NOZAsearch managing director and product manager since 2007. All information is from publicly available Internet locations; the nonprofit is the source of the data. NOZAsearch is available through the Blackbaud donation program at TechSoup. The site contains over 78 million donations to U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Founder Richard Zimmerman started Orangutan Outreach in 2007, and the organization grew quickly thanks to a close affiliation with the Animal Planet series Orangutan Island. Here is a list of just some of the things it does: Advocate and educate on the 350 bird species that live in the region. Organize bird walks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Not at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. To stay updated on how the legal landscape develops, follow the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic blog at UC Berkeley Law.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Tom joined Convio in 2007 and has also served as Vice President of Product Management where he was responsible for product strategy and planning. Tom has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Duke University and an MPP in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? She also contributed a chapter to Internet Management for Nonprofits. Adrienne D.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

IDI) , a DC-based public affairs firm, invited us to attend an excellent presentation and guided tour of Second Life, providing an overview, debunking myths, and even offering some innovative strategies for nonprofits to tap into the 8.3 John Breyault and Kevin Reid from Issue Dynamics Inc. Whos on Second Life? Why could Second Life Matter?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Most websites will have an images folder that you can use to host these pictures without them being visible to the public. if you use Firefox, open up and view your page in a new Internet Explorer window). She previously worked in health care as a client advocate and educator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

book go directly to SEPTAR, the fledgling Special Education PTA of Redwood City. Help Survivors of Slavery and Trafficking Rebuild Their Lives The Emancipation Network and MadeBySurvivors.com , where people can help survivors of human trafficking and slavery to rebuild their lives and to have sustainable income, education and hope.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. Apart from that, the questions Naturalis has to face are how much opportunity it wants to offer the visitors for social interaction, how educational and how theatrical it wants to be. Following the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The Internet. titles of publications you've produced or articles that you're mentioned in, and topics that are relevant to your work. By going through the exercise of defining and quantifying the benefits, costs, and risks of a blog, you'll be educating your C-level executives while also demonstrating the discipline that they expect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. For me, the web and 2.0 Details are here.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. Be honest about mistakes.

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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. The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. Others aren’t at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I may just be cynical, but I’ve seen too many technology providers claim that their tools will help organizations raise money, engage volunteers, mobilize action, or generally address organizational challenges in ways that only the internet is suited to do. Facebook Causes followed the same path. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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sgEngage

MAY 18, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors.

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. Read more about the methodology.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

She is an expert in the latest trends in social networking, blogging, online video, and other online tools and strategies and advises her clients on how to cost-effectively incorporate them into their Internet plans and online campaigns.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors.

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