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MAY 5, 2010

Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. Most organizations saw declines in average gift size. Small organizations grew fastest.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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APRIL 15, 2009

at 4:21 pm We would love it if you’d add us (Home Free Organization) to your blogroll…we will do the same…thanks! at 4:28 pm Awww, shucks. :-) Let the love flow bidirectionally! 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09 3 homefreeorg 11.06.09

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AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. of use in very large organizations. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% and MPower at 0.4%.

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JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization: Women for Women International. Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. What can an organization use a LMS for? Well, that depends of course, on the organization. Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents.

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0 I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0 So, I’m evangelizing.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Several of our Blackbaud nonprofit customers have recently had incredible success using a personalized approach to email: 1) An animal rights organization doubled click-through rates by personalizing an event email invitation with: The last year people attended. Examples and practical tips to live by. How much the event raised that year.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We’ll share the results with you in 2010, including: Data to compare your organization to others. out the 2008 survey results to find out if you're being paid enough. Benchmarks to help you plan projects and. Statistics and information to use in grant. It should only take you about 10-15 minutes to. complete. >

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APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. It’s actually a pretty interesting resource, and worth a read.

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JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Organizations must continually evaluate which programs get priority, and at times, make tough decisions as to which ones get cut. Giving 2008 Total Giving in AZ (actual dollars). How's our blogging?

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MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I’m glad to see that.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. 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?

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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. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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JUNE 17, 2008

They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. And make it reasonably priced.

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MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. What do you think? Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

It feels like that's a way in which the arts can be visionary, be change agents, and also be really fun and playful, which is primary to living." - Gabriela Masala This month's Big Vision Podcast guest is Gabriela Masala talking about how to organize have fun do good flash mobs. Gabriela is the Founder of the One Love Alliance.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. It was incredibly well organized and smooth running, the food and snacks were great, and the parties rocked.

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JULY 27, 2011

One of the things we're tracking in NTEN's annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending report is where IT is located within organizations -- as in, where the primary IT staff are in the organizational structure. If an organization has no IT Department, what other factors can contribute to effective technology leadership?

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JUNE 22, 2010

Last week the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page reached the 10,000 fans milestone. In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. This was a Facebook litmus test for me.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Earlier this week, ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, rejected Microsoft’s bid to fast-track OOXML ( Office Open XML ) to standard status. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. I’ll keep you posted. {

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JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0 What is public? But that’s not the point of this post.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

DIOSA Communications has been offering social media webinars for nonprofits since February 2008, but the content of the webinars and the time schedule mostly accommodate nonprofits in the United States. Beginning in February 2010, DIOSA Communications will also offer social media webinars for charities in Europe on Thursdays at 2pm GMT.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. If a nonprofit organization has a server, it’s actually not so unlikely that it is running RHEL. They started out with their S3 – simple storage service.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It will be given under the auspices of Linuxchix , an organization I’ve been a part of since 2000. I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. { I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. {

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