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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

You’ll find it sprinkled throughout your social media feed and making headlines at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Here are a few examples of what purpose-driven companies do that set them apart. For example, at the heart of Alaska Airlines is a sense of stewardship for the people and places it serves.

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Google Chrome

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.) I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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