Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector? How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 2 admin 04.03.09

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Historical support shows that charitable response is swift in response to natural disasters, financial crises such as the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009 and the pandemic, as seen below: Revenue Trend: Human Services Benchmark. Source: One & All human services clients; excludes gifts of $10,000+. Follow the Leaders.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

My point is that companies like Microsoft have almost nothing to do with providing good software — the marginal gain from selling better software is miniscule in comparison with the potential income from spreading some FUD and reaping the benefits as everyone re-evaluates their risk positions. 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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JUNE 5, 2010

Charitable Giving Dropped 5% in 2009. The bad economy had a big impact on nonprofits and charitable giving in 2009. between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at. I’m creating a new practice, called MetaCentric Techology Advising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

at 9:54 pm I strongly recommend that all nonprofits track site stats to help evaluate the effectiveness of their online communications, but unless there is a specific, clear benefit to releasing a particular site stat, I don’t see the reason why a nonprofit should be compelled to share all the data. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. I felt I needed all of these features to make this successful. However, I have realized that it is presently impossible have all of this in one package. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use.

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MARCH 17, 2008

I mean, we have Windows and OSX everywhere… 18 Mar 2008 daniel hartman does this mean you’re finally gonna get one? 18 Mar 2008 Recent URLs tagged Davidpogue – Urlrecorder [.] recorded first by johngibbs on 2009-01-09→ iPhone 2.0 – Bigger Than Sliced Tomatoes [.]

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JANUARY 15, 2008

The winner will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to the 2009 NTC to be held in San Francisco. Entries will be accepted until February 15, 2008 at which time finalists will be determined. beginning March 1, 2008; individuals will be able to vote on their favorite entry through March 20, 2008. net www.dogooder.tv

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

on Condoleezza February 07, 2008 3:40 PM Justin Rood Reports: The State Department is defeating terrorism one “strong, engaging&# online video at a time. It’s spent roughly $350 million a year in 2007 and 2008.) Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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JANUARY 7, 2008

It’s a 4-part prime time PBS event scheduled for 2009. to be broadcast in 2009 on PBS. “THE CALLING&# is projected for broadcast on PBS in 2009. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! But he keeps making those broadcast documentaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable.

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MARCH 26, 2009

60) Search « SXSW Panels Offer Key Advice to Nonprofits | Main | GuideStar Study Says Nonprofits Need to be Transparent » Wednesday Mar 25 2009 Convio Releases Nonprofit Online Marketing Benchmarks Study Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:02PM | by Allyson Kapin Allyson Kapin, Editor-In-Chief ‘Tis the season for benchmark studies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Smart organizations are not only looking to make their acquisition and renewal campaigns more efficient, they’re also evaluating places where they may be leaving money on the table. That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. Here are a couple examples of money left on the table, from the donors’ point of view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Thanks, Ian 3 Jan 2008 lili Thank you very much for the great information. Thanks website for non profits 23 Sep 2009 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Can anyone help me.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Thanks, Ian 3 Jan 2008 lili Thank you very much for the great information. Thanks website for non profits 23 Sep 2009 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Can anyone help me.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. It’s not hard to imagine the ACCME eventually extending these requirements to all CME providers, or putting restrictions on the quantity of credit that low-quality providers could award, thereby constituting a system of value-based accreditation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. The other thing we cut out was the old paper based session evaluations. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. I bet a few people still grumbled, that’s okay.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. It was organized by Ed Schipul. about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. The previous sentence is a clumsy attempt to use langage from both parties in the conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Business people evaluating process advice have a much harder task: they have to evaluate the product based on their experience and the reputation of the author, and if they do try to “run&# the advice, they have to do it in the real world of their enterprise at a very high cost for failure. These worlds are radically different.

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JULY 23, 2009

Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations. At the 2009 NTC, we decided to give this system a major tech overhaul by implementing a mobile text messaging version of this: the Mobile Evaluation. This would trigger the next question, and so on until the evaluation was complete.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

We have no idea what the financial potential for in-app donations is,as we haven't had a meaningful opportunity to evaluate it yet. "Only $10k was raised" is meaningless -- the two month's that Paypal supported donations was not enough time for the app ecosystem to learn about it and adjust their apps to take advantage of it.

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MAY 4, 2011

Zooop — fast-forward to 2008: Charity Navigator gets new executive leadership in Ken Berger. By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things. However, thats hard enough to do when evaluating any one nonprofit organization, let alone the many thousands that we would like to compare. But thats okay.

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APRIL 5, 2010

For those of you who have not seen this before, the study looked at nearly 500 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled a series of benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. 61 percent of all organizations saw their average gift drop in 2009. percent in 2009.

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MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Have a response process.

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APRIL 13, 2011

The first step is to evaluate the projected long-term value (i.e. If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be As Roger Craver points out, new donor conversion rates continue to drop, while the USPS continues to increase postage rates.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Set high expectations and focus on achieving better results in 2009. Start by evaluating whether you are committing a comparable amount of resources -- people, time, and planning -- to your online initiatives. In January 2008, the Barack Obama campaign raised $28 million online-88 percent of the total funds raised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Evaluated them against our expected consequences. link] com/2008/07/02/tweetup-blood- drive/. link] com/2008/07/05/blood-drive- tweetup-a-success/. So we’re increasing the quality of the content from our embeds. CONCLUSION. So we tried a little experiment. To see if we had an accident or accomplishment.

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