Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2017

It’s Time | Marriage Equality. If you work at a NGO, nonprofit, or charity, please volunteer 4-7 minutes of your time to take the survey. Anti-Defamation League. Follow the Frog. Rainforest Alliance. The Things They Said… Survival International. World Hunger: A Billion for a Billion. World Food Programme. You can too.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Leading during times of turmoil. from 2007 to 2011. And in his book, he shares much about his time at Blockbuster and that company’s journey. Keyes recaps his learned business lessons for top management and CEOs at companies of all sizes. He covers: Discovering what customers truly care about. It’s convenience, not products.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2018

The theme of the summit was Leadership in Times of Transition. They discussed leadership in times of transition, and how our sector can be effective under current conditions. They discussed leadership in times of transition, and how our sector can be effective under current conditions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2007

Sundance had sent two senior executives and four director/producers to spend time with us. He then went to point out that Martin is in San Francisco and he is in Nairobi, and the time difference made for late night calls talking about KickStart! The second was all about story-telling. That was the best part for me.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

After what was hopefully a successful #GivingTuesday and year-end campaign at the end of 2021, it’s time to plan how you’ll approach your year-round engagement and donor communications throughout the year ahead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Since the launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007 many mobile fundraising apps have been released, but few have been successful. Some apps were based on good ideas, but ahead of their time and others simply weren’t good enough to keep users interested.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. Mark Johnson, founder of Playing For Change, reinforces the message, stating, “The time is now; to unite as a human race.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

The 2007 NTC Conference is around the corner, well in April, but some discount pricing deadlines coming right up. My virtual volunteering lets me offer help to people in remote locations and time zones. I'm more stingy in my giving of my face-to-face time. I'm excited because this will my seventh one!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. You can lose weight and bolster literacy at the same time!)" If you do decide to join the 2007 Blogathon, let folks know in the comments of this post.

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NetWits

JULY 28, 2010

On May 18th, 2007 at 5:18pm I tweeted for the first time, saying "@Ruby. I was at the 2007 Personal Democracy Forum , and if memory serves correctly, I was replying to a general question another attendee, Ruby Sinreich, was asking of other attendees. I vote teleporting."

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Nonprofit Org in TIME's Top 10 Websites of 2007 | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "2007Submitted by Annaliese on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 2:21pm.nonprofit technoloy | NPTech | NTEN | nten membersLong-time NTEN member organization VolunteerMatch made it into TIME's list of Top 10 Websites for 2007.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 12, 2022

Pardot was founded in 2007, and it’s a recognizable product name—I will miss smiling when I hear a new client pronounce it “Par-dough” instead of “Par-dot.” . It spends an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources on both Marketing Cloud Engagement’s roadmap and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement’s roadmap. So, what’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To be more productive with the time I spend online and put some of the suggestions that Ed Hallowell in his book, Crazy Busy suggests about avoiding online time wasters. I'm disciplining myself not to think of play as wasted time, it's important. It probably means to slow down and not try to do so much at such a frenetic pace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. Some were ahead of their time and others lacked the design and functionality necessary to hook smartphone users. The reality is that mobile and social media require time to use effectively. 4) Maturation of Mobile Fundraising Apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

" There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? This is a time pressure question!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Also, there are times when our ability to work together amplifies our service delivery, which would be harder to accomplish if our clients worked with one organization alone. He has been in the nonprofit sector since 2007. There is an African proverb that states: “It takes a village to raise a child.” C havez is also a former U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2007, Ron Wille, the co-CEO of what was at the time called NimbleUser, and I attended Dreamforce , the Salesforce user conference. Today, modern systems leverage enterprise platforms, like Salesforce, because of what they offer: Big-time scalability and off-the-charts performance. Why enterprise platforms rule. Ecosystems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Time will tell. { It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time. I’m spending about 1/2 of my time being Coordinator of NOSI. It feels quite good, actually. And I have lots of thoughts about what I’m doing. As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been pretty busy lately. I love this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson.

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See3

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Vinay Bhagat, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer over at Convio has a new blog post about why to invest online in the tough economic times we are having. “As direct mail-based fundraising has become less effective, online fundraising has grown significantly.&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. Plus I hope to be that expert, or close to it, when the time does come!) ;) 4 Beth Kanter 08.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Also, I got to work with an organization that was completely different from the type of organizations that I was typically working with at the time. I'm so glad that Sean was so forward thinking at the time to create this - and thus enable us to some sort of archival record. Our project was software coaching for excel and outlook!!!

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

This can be a huge time saver for your staff and volunteers. In 2007, Qgiv was founded by a couple of friends looking for a way to make it easy for nonprofit, faith-based, and political organizations to accept online donations and payments. Why is a fundraising platform important for fundraising? of total giving in 2019).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I succumbed. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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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’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. The event itself has been fab.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The last time I coded in a CMS was when I was working on the (now dead) perl CMS I wrote many moons ago. I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

My suggestion: if you like gadgets, are addicted to being connected at all times, and you feel like you need reading glasses to read email or the web on the Blackberry screen, the iPhone might be a good bet, but I’d wait until software version 2.1 comes out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Mission Statement August 30, 2007 I have not at all been tempted by the 31 days to a better blog challenge. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine.

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