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I’m not changing the world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been working with nonprofit organizations on technology issues (strategy, implementation) for about 15 years now. Plenty of conservative organizations use Drupal, Salesforce, online fundraising, Facebook and Twitter – using those technologies to push for ends that I am far from interested in seeing come to reality.

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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

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[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0 work must be spread among staff 2.)

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. We cover an issue from beginning to end. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I call it thorough.

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An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity have lunch with Libby Leffler who works on strategic partnerships at Facebook with nonprofits. If you work in nonprofits and social media, you are likely to be seeing a lot of more of Libby as she will is doing a lot more speaking about Facebook and Nonprofits.

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Why Apple isn't the Nonprofit App Grinch | Nonprofit Trends with.

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This isn’t a new issue for her and she blogged back in June on this topic. There are plenty of well documented and researched usability issues with nonprofit donations forms that can be improved to get better results right now. You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. If anyone can solve this issue, I believe that I can.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remember the “ Take Back the Pink ” Campaign in 2012 or numerous imitators of the popular yellow Livestrong bracelets like this one ? In the early days of social fundraising in 2008, Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont’s Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. In 2012, human rights activist David Keyes took over the project based on his work to develop CyberDissidents , an important online resource during the Arab Spring. Another potential issue with Movements.org is the exposure threat to dissidents who use it.

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