Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? How do you keep up? How bleeding edge do we need to be? { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 at 7:16 am The question of how bleeding edge we need to be intrigues me.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 29, 2012

Back in September, as I posted that I was leaving Fight Colorectal Cancer to join Convio , I had a picture in my head of what my new job would be like. Outlook 2007 isn’t that bad. I’m happy to say that the reality is turning out to be better than I was imagining back then. I love my job.

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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. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I have to admit I’m a sucker for cute pictures of kittens. It’s really worth a read.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Michelle, I think you do a great job in presenting a evenhanded picture of the benefits and possible drawbacks of FOSS (and other low-cost software, in the article) – and I think it would be a mistake to assume more, especially for a TechSoup audience.

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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. I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

He’s a dog lover too – so I could not resist. When I celebrated by big 50th Birthday in 2007, I held social media birthday card contest. You can share the experience, either by taking a picture of cookies or telling the story or just sending a tweet, instagram, etc using tag #cookielove.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. I have been, unfortunately, a bit hampered by the fact that my satellite modem died last week – so we’ve been on dial up at home (and broadband at the “local&# cafe). But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. It booted fine.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2007, the company accelerated efforts to reduce waste and use fewer chemicals through its first fully sustainable product line, the earthkeeper’s boot, setting sustainable standards that have expanded to Timberland’s entire footwear line. That’s particularly true of big picture organizational purpose.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

We spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the impact of individual organizations, but how does that translate to the bigger picture? As a result, when looking at nonprofit accounting statements, a large portion of the picture is missing. Sources: ^ [1] Mook, Laurie, Jack Quarter & Betty Jane Richmond (2007).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. For example, when the staff and over 500 volunteers were on Capitol Hill for Advocacy Day in June 2010, I documented the whole experience on Twitter (#AdvDay2010) with pictures, video and updates. YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. gid=104492.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

In her keynote, Jane gave us the big picture and framework about what social learning is and why it is important. ” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. ” She used the metaphor of white river rafting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Learning from diversity: A theoretical exploration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2007

On May 5 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. Here on Flickr, our members are sharing the world that they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. More info here

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You will also need to host all the pictures that you use for your landing page somewhere, and only reference their location in your code. It does not work to upload the pictures to your Facebook page, as then all of your fans and visitors will see this album of disjointed images - you can’t hide pictures that you upload to your Facebook page.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. Also, when choosing your picture, think bigger than your logo. Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. 2007, State and regional: NewsBank. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. Schools are Failing Or Lagging."

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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. In the big picture, if people see results from social media, they’ll keep engaging, and if they don’t see results, they shouldn’t feel bad about stopping. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

Send them a picture, do a profile of a person who was helped by your work, or just take a quick video from your desk saying thanks. Susan joined the Causes team back in March 2007, long before they had fancy things like catering, a blog, or even a name. Close the Loop. Make your message understandable to the outside world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. Washington, D.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The result is that the chaff is blown away, leaving behind a much cleaner picture of the nonprofit sector. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The annual wreath laying continued as a simple company project until a picture of Arlington gravestones adorned with wreaths, covered in snow was picked up on social media in 2005. In 2007, I met a young mother at Arlington Cemetery who requested we lay a wreath together on her son’s grave. “I have never forgotten that.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. The idea is the "balcony" is the strategic, big picture and the dance floor is when we're in the thick of operations or "in the weeds."

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" An effective strategy for using Facebook does not compete with the steady flow of status updates, pictures, and videos exchanged among friends, family, and coworkers. Note : The original version of this article was written in 2007. Instead, it embeds messages about the nonprofit and cause in these exchanges.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

These are the types of data that, when combined, might help you get a clearer picture of what's happening. What channel (direct mail, email, social media) the gift came through. Dates of gifts. Amount of gifts. Purpose of gifts. Let's say, for example, that you find that the majority of those initial gifts came in the first week of July.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It certainly shows a much fuller picture, especially for the many thousands of nonprofits who depend so heavily on volunteers for mission accomplishment. Sigel Press, 2007, pg. Total obligations. Net Assets (Liabilities). This is a very different way to look at the value of a nonprofit.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

But, if you step back and you look at the bigger societal problem, like say you’re working on, early childhood education or hunger or poverty, look back at the bigger picture. In 2007, we were serving only a few people and then it keeps getting better and better. Maybe you’re just working community. Here’s our impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

You want them to tell their friends over dinner, buy that bumper sticker, make the logo their screen saver, provide an unexpected donation, go out and take pictures, and/or ask their CEO if they can send an email to the company. Never forget that this is about exciting and enabling people to carry forth the most noble of charges, your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 28, 2008

In a 2007 survey of over 5,000 Board Café readers, 52% said "most boards do a so-so job." A few tips that I particularly liked were: • Find 15 minutes on the agenda of each board meeting to either reflect upon a big picture trend or to learn about an issue that affects the work of the nonprofit. I guess I'm not the only one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Her son and her mom are pictured above. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Personal attention and trust got me involved. Jack Bora and his grandmother. Bernie's Blog. Bernadette Feeney, an adoptive parent, started her blog just to help with the campaign! This post also comes in hopes of a favor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

A Young Women's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life edited by arts activists Rha Goddess and JLove Calderon (pictured here). They will be performing in Amherst, MA December 4-9th, and in Chicago, Atlanta and more cities in 2007. just finished touring through Colorado, New Mexico and Northern California. For more info.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

percent from last year, according to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey." According to the CCNMoney.com article, Splurges Will Be Scarce This Holiday Season : "Americans will spend an average of $923.36 on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 This is up a moderate 3.7 Wouldn't be great if some of that $923.36

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