Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 She is also realistic – she describes in detail in the post what people can do, whether they are tenured or not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. goodiness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

They reach out to people across the country and around the world. Larger teams mean more people raising more money. Include information on who you are and the people you serve. Many people will raise funds because they want to help your cause. If gift cards are not in the budget, think of less expensive alternatives.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The project aims to help improve activity levels of everyone by finding out what's already out there as well as asking people for their ideas on how they think London could become more active.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 9 Brad White 08.08.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Visitors are people who visit your blog. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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MARCH 12, 2008

What this means is that you can do more embedding YouTube into your site, allowing people to upload video to your YouTube channel from your site and having people leave comments on your site that will end up in your YouTube comments. YouTube is now a platform. It can search them better and throw up ads against them.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. One of the main drawbacks about Direct Mail is that the people who donate money, on average, are older and older. Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5% LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

When you factor in production, printing, and postage, a simple direct mail acquisition campaign runs about $20K to reach 50,000 people. One of the main drawbacks about Direct Mail is that the people who donate money, on average, are older and older. Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5% LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

CHEJ also hoped to boost public awareness about safer alternatives to PVC, which it calls a “poison plastic.” 956 people) also signed up for CHEJ’s “PVC Action Network” email list, enabling CHEJ to cultivate these email subscribers into both grassroots supporters and potential members and donors for CHEJ.

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JUNE 21, 2007

If your sites emphasis is grabbing names, use alternating shades of color and prominent placement on your homepage to make sure visitors can see it and will want to give you their name. If theres a story that really puts your nonprofit in the best light possible, make sure thats the story people read first! com , Inc.

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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. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

People definitely saw the URL in the local press and on local media websites and responded. The SRWA is just getting started, but soon enough it will be providing grassroots greening and alternate transportation programs for residents and children in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, and Brooklyn Waterfront communities. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! It was organized by Ed Schipul. Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface. Most people (57%) also want ongoing support. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ro 05.30.08 There is some great food for thought, although in some ways, the results aren’t so surprising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

at 7:05 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Charlie Crystle 08.07.07 at 11:36 am As to David’s comment – I think that we will know at some point in the future whether or not eTapestry continues to be an option, and what kind of option it is. eTapestry had only 7,000 customers, in a sector with over 1.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Sometimes, the forward march of technology seems like this train I’m riding on – inexorably traveling down the track of capitalist profit while nonprofits are hanging on to those little hand-powered trucks that we, the people who serve them in this realm are working really hard to pump up and down, so we can try and gamely keep up.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). Which leads to the question of people: who is getting involved? These people are smart, creative, and looking for an outlet/experimental client that we are thrilled to offer them.

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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. More than 85 million people have watched Barack Obama on You Tube and 22 million have watched John McCain videos—all of them include a "tell-a-friend" link. Tools you can Use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. ” People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. Phase 4: Call to Donate Morphs.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2009

It pays to spend a few hours reviewing the demographic or “technographic” details (what people are doing online). Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. Remember, social media can also be used to connect people to offline actions and events. Dealing with negative comments. by Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. From 1971 to 1974 he was the founding editor of the excellent New Times alternative newspaper in Phoenix, where I first found out about him. among many other publications.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. And I’m a man of the people. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. So the more trust both of those people feel in your process and your ability to accept their gift, the better. So don’t be shy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. exhibition.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Isn’t it curious how people who are young and enthusiastic about online communications are so firmly convinced that direct mail is dead or dying – while professional fundraisers, that is, the people who are responsible for bringing in the bucks, think the young critics are living on another planet? nonprofits in 2008.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. And I’m a man of the people. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. So the more trust both of those people feel in your process and your ability to accept their gift, the better. So don’t be shy. We’ve only worked.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Georgina will be monitoring the comments to respond to your questions. The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. For a complete report on this project, please download this PDF.

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