Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway. I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I wrote a blogging module into my web database project, Xina, more than 4 years ago. Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). So, here’s the post about Blogs, and their follow ons: podcasting and vlogging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 22, 2007

Sustainable Table , a project of the nonprofit, GRACE, defines sustainable as: "A product can be considered sustainable if its production enables the resources from which it was made to continue to be available for future generations." They fund projects and conduct outreach designed to improve agricultural systems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

At this conference in 2005, the backchannel was projected on the screen behind the speaker. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program, and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people. Raise awareness for your cause and projects. Organize projects, such as a volunteer beach cleanup activity.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Rosenberg says.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Rosenberg says.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? This project encouraged inmates to form singing groups and have temporary release to do performances.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” We launched in November of 2008. Is it video and audio? --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us Yes, definitely.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) Organize projects, such as a volunteer beach cleanup activity. In the Google Earth case studies, the projects all had real world impact but they remained focused on that, and not on just using everything that maps can do. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. " from a study by two Australian researchers.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan. These projects may all take off or they may all fail, and that’s ok. In a stable environment, that worked pretty well.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. maybe one just for employees as an internal stream for updates on work and projects. We’re live… ! Production.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Steven: Hey, Kishshana, we lost your audio. So one of the things that I’ve talked about a ton over the last year has been about wellness and wellbeing and what it means to lead in a changing time. Oh, my gosh. And what I found was that many of. That was weird.

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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. For a complete report on this project, please download this PDF. I found her thoughts (and the exhaustive PDF report on the project) quite useful.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

workers (and a majority of all millennials) participating in the gig/ platform economy as their first or secondary job; “freelance” workers like these were projected to be a majority of all workers by 2027. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3 million Americans were by then working as freelancers, with 36 percent of all U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Van Jones: Majora Carter in the South Bronx, with the Sustainable South Bronx project, has really demonstrated that you can bring together lots and lots of usually hostile stakeholders to create green opportunity in urban America. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit.

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