Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

SO much work on fundraising widgets, but so few vendors in the case management space and even fewer providing an open API. Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head! I can’t agree with you more.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Some of the items above are simple widgets and plug-and-play doodads that allow one to take a little snippet of code and incorporate it onto a web page. The social aspects of the site rest in use of Facebook and Twitter social plugins/widgets for sharing as well as liking the campaign. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. The widget's resources. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2007

com/2007/01/31/fundraising-20 -il-social-network-che-fa-la -differenza/ ) he also translated part of my widget fundraising case study and he has used it several times in his workshops. In January, he started writing a blog about Internet fundraising ( [link].com com ) that was the first italian blog on this subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath, February, 2007. If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Facebook: 2007 "We own the social graph, you bring the objects." Will google set it free in 2007 ? NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning. A community tag stream. Viral sharing. s 35 innovators under the age of 35.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12). October 2007 (14). September 2007 (14). August 2007 (12). July 2007 (12). June 2007 (10). May 2007 (11). April 2007 (11). March 2007 (11). February 2007 (10). January 2007 (12).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. You can browse, organize, or search one RSS Feed or many. For example, for my blog I can create an index with key words organized by concept just for my blog or for all blogs. Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Other notable fundraising applications include Firstgiving's Fundraising application, the Justgiving application, and the ChipIn fundraising widget. Note : The original version of this article was written in 2007. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. 1) Raise Meaning B efore Money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

On October 1, 2007, Sarah Bunting announced that it was time to do it again. From my experience, you can't simply put the widget on the side bar, announce your campaign, and go on as business as usual. It takes the ChipIn / DonateNow / Widget / Facebook fundraisers and accelerates them.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. A more complex knowledge sharing platform might include: the ability for users to upload documents, links, or just pose a question. commenting on any item. rating items.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

It also has widgets. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. There was also a session announcing the " All for Good ," an application that makes it easy for people to give back to their communities through volunteering.

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See3

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. 20 Oct 2007 sara Has Michael ever used Convio?

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The campaign employed widgets and leveraged Care2, and CI’s page on MySpace, as well as blogs, to spread the word about their campaign. Project Bread won the “Special Events Fundraising” prize for growing online donations 200% in two years, exceeding $1 MM in 2007.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 14, 2006

It isn't likely to change soon: The beta of Microsoft Outlook 2007 sticks with these conventions. Snippets: A really nice carousel widget for your websites Via mhub I found this flexible javascript code from Bill Scott. A pane for folders, a pane for folder contents, and one showing the selected email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. One hopes that once the CyberYenta solves her blogging platform issue , she'll jump on a job posting widgets for that nonprofit job list.). You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Notice the larger jump in giving in 2007? Facebook Fan Pages were launched late in 2006 and grew by the millions in the nonprofit sector throughout 2007 to the present. But if they were strategic, they also used it to build their e-newsletter lists and drive traffic to their Donate Now pages. Guess what happened that year?

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Charity uses widgets to provide accountability to donors: "October 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A children's charity is using widget technology -- traditionally used with a single purpose application like updating weather or news on a Web site -- to help it show donors how their money is being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). More detail ClickTracks Web Analytics Education Series, Virtual World : Feb 26 & 27, 2007 ??? I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

But then you also have widgets. Widgets are big. Widgets are little applications that live on some other page on the web, where the info in the widget comes from some server somewhere else. Technically, an ad server is a widget – displaying a banner coming from DoubleClick, for example.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

And, they have this web widget with the countdown. They are hoping to pressure the parties to continue the momentum from the Annapolis meeting, resulting in a Palestinian state at peace with a secure Israel. One of the tools they are using are large public countdown timers in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. You can learn more on their site.

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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. If I look at the RSS subscriber trends, that is a whole different story: My readership those who subscribe has continued to grow over time In June 2007, I had 1,260 subscribers. I had less of those in May, 2008 compared to May 2007. What does that mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The widgetization of the web will only accelerate this." These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. This eliminates the need to click from one page to another. Answer: I don't know).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Twitter found that out in 2007.) It had a link to the Share Our Strength online giving form, another to a zip code search tool to find local food agencies to volunteer, and multiple tools for sharing the message - including a widget that showed the current tally of the Pledge to End Hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. Change.org now also sports a widget. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. ICT in the Developing World.

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