Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Sorry, Amazon. Amazon has this thing sewed up tight, whereas books are to be shared. Kindle is a bust for me. { 3 Ann 11.26.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Amazon seems to be leading in the next wave of evolution of hosting – pay only for what you need, when you need it. The news today, and why I’m bothering to talk about this, is that Red Hat announced that it will offer RHEL – their enterprise distribution, on Amazon E2.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced. Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. What is public?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

In 2008, Will was named a John D. After a brief career in professional basketball, and a number of years in corporate marketing at Procter and Gamble, Will returned to his roots as a farmer, using his retirement package to purchase a plot of inner city land with greenhouses, where he has built the country's pre-eminent urban farm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009. Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits on Amazon. Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Foursquare): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way. Amazon discontinued their program after its inaugural year, opting instead to offer consumers a pre-determined list of charities to support. This is not a program that one or two people — who have other corporate responsibilities — can do in their spare time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? Here's how it works. Join the campaign.

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MAY 29, 2009

2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report. If you want to learn how to do it yourself, CNET has a new " Experts Guide to YouTube " Amazon Payments will process your donations for free through September 30th. Just think of the nonprofit applications. No, really: think of them, then implement them. Did you miss any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Amazon and Netflix are able to offer us recommendations based on our (implicit) browsing, (implicit) buying and (explicit) rating behavior and comparing it to the behavior of other people like us. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. Over and over again.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

This is a very important technique, one that Amazon and Google for example use very effectively, and one that with a little practice is easy to experiment without a budget. January 22, 2009 | Jill Foster Copyright © 2008, Care2.com congrats to you on Frogloop and Care2! All rights reserved.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

April 14, 2009 | Martin Smith Not to beat a dead horse, but how we would look at Amazon differently if they had picked up right away that folks were using the #amazonFAIL hashtag and responded. April 15, 2009 | Gwynne Kostin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com April 14, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Jen Excellent counsel. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. All rights reserved.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. All rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

Indeed, one Amazon review is titled “ Green IT Not Just For Dummies.” In 2008, while working as a research director for IT security software for Aberdeen Group , I began researching green IT and sustainability. I started work in 2008, giving up all my free time to work on it nights and weekends.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast! Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast. Chad: baudcast. We’re live… ! Who is your audience? existing and target. about 50/50 male/female.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. Amazon Web Services, which is the big kahuna in cloud computing is doing badly, using only 15 percent renewables. Cloud Computing.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Well, I think my editor (Wiley) would be upset if I did not use this as an opportunity to make a quick plug for my new book: People-to-People Fundraising (which you can buy on Amazon, by the way). March 13, 2008 | Carie Wow! November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Seriously tho, great interview!

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Well, I think my editor (Wiley) would be upset if I did not use this as an opportunity to make a quick plug for my new book: People-to-People Fundraising (which you can buy on Amazon, by the way). March 13, 2008 | Carie Wow! November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Seriously tho, great interview!

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. In 2021, the five largest platform companies in the world—Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft—accounted for 19 percent of all US market capitalization, valued at a whopping sum of $10.2

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (February 6, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 5. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (December 22, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 6. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. Halle Butvin Founder and Director, One Mango Tree. Share Tweet.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Big thinkers like Jeremy Rifkin predicted that the costs of exchanging and distributing goods and services could soon become “near zero” with the platform revolution. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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