Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The Second C: Collaboration. The Third C: Community.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. How do you give them the string? Reader, I was wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

s OpenSocial API will give you the ability to cross social network platforms easily as a developer, and if you have the choice of writing for Facebook alone or writing for 12 platforms at once, including the most populous network on the planet, where will you allocate scarce development resources? ll aggregate all the data together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The DoGoodWell Blog points out that platforms for giving are different than motivations for giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. If you give a hundred people the tools to lay bricks and get them working off a shared plan, then you can build anything you want. He also had concerns about the apparent disjointed effort underway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. As Geoff points out: What???s

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet. Even in this situation the tweets should be archived for future reference (note: copy all the other posts to give context). March 3, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Good article, Allyson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Some of the largest web ventures are opening the doors to their content by giving savvy scripters direct access to the databases that drive these sites using programatic interfaces or APIs. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth is hoping that people will sign an online petition letting Apple know that people want to give on their iPhones. Should nonprofits focus on giving through iPhone applications? Not until they improve their existing online giving options and optimize their website for mobile devices. Will you get donors through a mobile app?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. and aggregates them. Tools you can Use.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. Wouldnt it be nice to give your constituents an easy way to share their affinity with your organization with their friends and family?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This data comes from the our donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking group and looks across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Just like a report of giving by city. Based on an aggregate of all donors from all organizations. Excludes donors giving $1,000 or more in 2009. Excludes donors whose state is unknown.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Today we’ll take a look which states have the highest percentage of donors giving five or more years and donors with annual incomes greater than $100,000. This data comes from the our donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking group and looks across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. I love being a creativity thief and giving my best ideas away. Make a list.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

For any project, you can "love it" (which is like giving it a thumbs-up), "add it to your favorites" (which is a private collecting function), "flag it as inappropriate," and write comments about it. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So just always have to give him props.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008. In the Meantime, Give Twubs a Try: Twubs is a 5 years old hashtag platform that aggregates tweets, photos, and videos, and recently debuted a free, Twitter API-compliant chat tool.

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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

MARCH 14, 2009

NWF's Twitter presence has grown because while I want NWF to still serve as the roll-up account for all of the programs, I wanted to give a chance to some of the program managers to create friendships with Twitter users from their specific audience. And as a kicker to have a spot for aggregated info. link] wildlife_watch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Our monitoring includes: Tweetdeck for iPhone Dual office monitors -- one for work, one for Tweetdeck "As it happens" Google Alerts for name, acronym, CEO's name An iGoogle dashboard aggregating web alerts Make your commenting policy known and fair.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. 3) The direct-mail-is-dead crowd repeatedly asserts that only old people give by mail and that young people only give online. First, any demographic study of the nation’s donors makes clear that the overwhelming proportion of philanthropic giving comes from people who are middle-aged or older.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It also means that privacy issues -- when there is a person on the other end of aggregated data are going to be much more of an issue." She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. " Find out more here. Marnie Webb.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Social media is a good thing (not a chore) and gives you more ammunition to brand your organization, spread your message and cultivate supporters. In the social networking land scape - webmasters cannot protect you from the way tags aggregate other elements onto pages which your organization may appear. Comment below!

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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Achieve

JUNE 27, 2016

This trend is slightly different from other sources’ accounts of previous presidential election cycles, such as data from the Center for American Women in Politics which found that more women aged 18-44 voted in 2012, 2008, 2004 and 2000 than men.[2]. Candidate Preference. president on the day they took the survey, the.

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