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

JULY 13, 2011

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( The best work is embraced by a reflective board and staff leaders alike, and is embedded in the organization’s culture and business model.

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JUNE 9, 2010

I invited Heather McLeod Grant to write a reflection base the case study of KaBOOM! Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! which you should read in full. By Heather McLeod Grant, Monitor Institute (and co-author of Forces for Good).

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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. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. " Michele Martin talks about the barriers to adoption of google tools in government agencies and nonprofits.

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JULY 24, 2007

Here's some reflections: The Better Gmail Firefox extension has been wonderful. The google calendar doesn't sync with my treo, although I can read my calendar online if I have an Internet connection. Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, July 20, 2007. The color coding of labels has been very helpful.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

18 Oct 2007 facebook » Convio Open – Why the Convio Facebook Application blows away Causes [.] 19 Oct 2007 Non-Profit Tech Blog » Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right now [.] 19 Oct 2007 Michael Hoffman Allan, you are mostly wrong. Your cavalier approach on SLAs reflects that difference.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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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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MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 Check out NOSI 's plans for NTC.

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APRIL 13, 2007

DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search. Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. Now, when I go back and look at my "on-site" visitors or monthly unique visitor or visits in my analytics program, Google Analytics, that number is steadily growing. I had less of those in May, 2008 compared to May 2007. What does that mean?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

People are not choosing museums over google when they need to find something out, regardless of how trustworthy we are. You may remember the NPR stories in 2007 about changes in the way that doctors acknowledge mistakes and offer apologies. It's great that museums are a trusted source of information. But is that really our mission?

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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. First, I want to say a few words about my enthusiastic support for the critique of closed licensing offered by Michelle by reflecting a bit on my past actions in this regard.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. Even networked packages like Google's Sketchup do not allow designers to work with each other real-time. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. We’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing? How does charity:water do that?

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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. Geotagging Photos.

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MARCH 7, 2007

This illustration along with the notes tool in flickr shows how the NPTech Meta Feed 2007 Version 1 - which is an aggregated feed of all sources that people tag resources with the nptech. I decided, perhaps stupidly, to disrupt my work flow by switching to Google Reader for a variety reasons. I fondly refer to it as the firehose.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This includes using email, web site presence, google ads, face-to-face events and reaching out to the online and mainstream media. . In May, 2009, Peter Dietz, founder of Social Actions , reflected on the future of online fundraising and wrote about a shift in donor expectations. Donors As Program Partners Not Just Check Writers.

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MARCH 16, 2007

Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Today I Cried resigns ! Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This growing trend, often described as telecommuting or e-commuting, reflects a fundamental change from the traditional concept of work (performed in an office, on a nine-to-five schedule) to a more adaptive, results-based one. Examples include AOL Instant Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, and many others. University of Minnesota, 2007].

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