Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Saw him speak in 2007: Obama in Oakland. • He has an amazing new site up, Change.gov: Office of the President-Elect. . • Listed Dreams of My Father as one of my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. • And saw him speak again in 2008 at the September 11 Presidential Forum on Service. But today is the first day it feels real.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 25, 2009

Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent. in 2007 and 2008. The study reports: Positive year-over-year growth in all of the key areas of online success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Secondly, we look at the traffic driven from these channels and if they trigger a conversion event on our site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

My main personal site will be migrated to Drupal 7 soonish. My main sci-fi author site is already on Drupal. In the relatively rare case where I need to use HTML/CSS for web pages (there are a few legacy sites I maintain for friends) I use Bluefish (on Ubuntu.). I have hosted with Dreamhost since 2007. Stay tuned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that. Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As the first fundraising app launched inside of Facebook, since its founding in 2007 it has raised more $40 million for over 27,000 nonprofits. Availability: U.S. Nonprofits Only. Most nonprofits that are active on Facebook know about Facebook Causes. 2) FundRazr :: View App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 6, 2009

I’ve been struggling with this for as long as I’ve had this site on WordPress (since January 2007). Strangely enough, when I checked the theme in WordPress Appearance settings, it would be set to the correct theme and say the files where in the right place, but the site would look like something else. Yes, I did.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

There are multiple threads on multiple sites about problems with the iPhone 3G – clearly, some software fixes need to happen, and the faster they happen, the happier I’ll be. But getting them onto the iPhone, or getting them to work, is sometimes a pain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

at 6:32 pm Mistakes non-profits make with Web sites « No newsprint here 08.04.08 Check This List 07.28.08 at 11:37 am Biggest nonprofit website mistakes « Do Good Well 07.28.08 at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

= Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But for much larger/high-traffic sites, or sites that fluctuate a lot, it might be a great idea, especially if you want dedicated hosting. at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 Brian 11.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Here's how it works: NTC conference participants and local DC area volunteers team up, pick an organization to share their skills and expertise with and spend a few hours on-site. The projects are appropriate for a short-term volunteer engagement - software skills coaching and local area network documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# First, they are putting the wraps on a new version, and there are some interesting projects happening, like integrating voter files, phone banking , and my favorite, case management. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! It looks interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! Letting people know Changing the DNS of the old site (and changing the site on wordpress.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new blog!

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

But, a very nice soul at MayFirst/people-link, where we house the NOSI site, set up Limesurvey for us, so we’re using that. I had originally done the survey in Surveymonkey , which is a slick on-line survey tool. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Online Courses November 6, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about giving online courses in the use of open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Everyone (including them) gets better data. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Blackbaud hasn’t been doing so well , in the stock price department either.

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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. Why bother having a web site at all? Your site, zenofnptech.org, is already on Quantcast.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. So first, what is data portability?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). 25 median donation amount. 35,000 causes have received at least one donation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. (That’s right, trivia lovers: UA originally stood for Urchin Analytics! Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies. read more.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

”) requires nonprofits not to focus entirely on bringing people to the nonprofit’s site, but to expand this focus to include taking the NPO’s mission outward to other communities on the Web.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since 2007 Facebook has found great success in serving ads to its users at what could be considered a shockingly specific level. privacy features, because the information goes through your own server and not through anything placed on the site. A glimpse at a cookie free world . CAPI also looks to be the workaround to iOS 14.5

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007. Peter received his Executive MBA from Imperial College London and primarily focuses his time on business consulting, marketing strategy, site architecture, frontend/backend development, SEO/SEM, and interactive media.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. 60) Search « Care2.com

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Taking that thought a bit further, think about how using social media on your site will accomplish those goals.

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