Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. Of course, I totally agree with you that more eyeballs on code leads to more vulnerabilities shown. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Of course, you can't know - nobody knows but Google. Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. But the newspapers have provided a concentration of resources for serious journalism that the new media alternatives, such as The Huffington Post, let alone individual bloggers, have not yet demonstrated an ability to replace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Analyzing Your Blog Content With Metrics and Insight Of course, you need to set overall goals for your blog and understand your audience. You should be looking at monthly trends over time. If not, why?

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It will be a powerful grassroots greening machine; with bloggers, writers, and volunteers all contributing to local greening efforts; and held together by the added sticky-ness of good dynamic content, great search engine optimization, and of course that Web 2.0 Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The solution was to get impractical proposals on the table.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. If you've already got an idea for an organization you'd like to create, the deadline for Echoing Green's 2008 Fellowship applications is December 3, 2007.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. For the first time in U.S. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. But of course mapping has gone public.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." In particular, it is important to think about what young women need to be thinking about in this moment of time.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. There was recently a New York Times article on the inverse relationship between expertise and ability to innovate. Now, on to the lessons thus far. First, let's talk process. It's social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based?

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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. Daniel’s Bio.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

We’re going to say some time at the end for Q&A. So they’re not all the same trends, of course, but there is a lot of correlation. And so this, of course, includes the more traditional assets like stocks, and bonds, and land, but also this exciting new asset, cryptocurrency, which is why we’re all here today.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. 4) Response rates to new-donor acquisition efforts by mail have been in gradual decline for some time. However, direct mail is still the fundraising mainstay for many thousands of American nonprofits—and I can assure you it will continue to be for a long time to come. I tweet from time to time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

We’re going to say some time at the end for Q&A. So they’re not all the same trends, of course, but there is a lot of correlation. And so this, of course, includes the more traditional assets like stocks, and bonds, and land, but also this exciting new asset, cryptocurrency, which is why we’re all here today.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Race is a remarkably social exhibit; visitors spend a lot of time pointing things out to each other and talking about them. When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." Pointing is a social behavior that works best in physically proximate, real-time situations.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

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. Fortunately, over the course of the six requests, fourteen people participated to create a total of thirty-three artifacts.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks?

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