Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news?

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Are you a bread baking blogger who wants to make the world a better place? 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." Here's how it works. Join the campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly.

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JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. It looks very promising.

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Some bloggers, like Skelliewag, highlighted the best of best of their blog posts , while CogDog blog took the opposite approach and look at the Top 0 list.

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MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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JULY 25, 2008

There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Myspace is going with OpenID ! That’s a great step. Read an interview of an Android developer. More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. {

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APRIL 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Links April 6, 2007 There has been a little bit of blogging and the like at NTC – although it was certainly hindered yesterday, when the internet was down for most of the day.

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JUNE 10, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. We believe China and the IOC should be held accountable to the promises they made during Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. I went home and immediately included your blog on my Google Reader, but somehow only just now got to clicking on your FB page.

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JULY 25, 2011

Finally, Google+ Entity Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , so please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile. Add Google’s +1 button to your website and blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Anyway, WordPress is a blogging tool (in fact, the one that runs this blog.)

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JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. I don’t know what the next couple of months will bring, but I’ll try to generate some pithy blog posts for y’all. This will be my last tech blog entry until at least August 6th. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! {

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APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. He’s the managing editor of the White Courtesy Telephone blog. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Lost Your Tax-Exemption?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? Answer these questions: 1.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Blogger and coach, Tara Sophia Mohr, has done a lovely thing and organized over 30 bloggers to post about The Girl Effect on the same day. Many of you probably saw the original Girl Effect video in 2008, which laid out the connection between educating girls in the "developing" world and reducing poverty and HIV/AIDS.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0 So, I'm posting this here on my blog to alert my Cambodian blogger colleagues (whose email I don't have) that Christian is coming to your country.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

October 15th is Blog Action Day , an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

This post was originally published on the Fast Company Blog and is being republished her with permission. I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. I was there because 46% of mommy bloggers have contributed to a cause or a political campaign. The original can be found here.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. 21 Jan 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. This is serendipity – not pure randomness, but orchestrated.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The Rapleaf Business blog also has some great advice on incorporating user generated content instead of working from scratch. Then, of course, there are blogs , and podcasts , and video , and. You just need to give them a little shove in the right direction sometimes. What's that you say? Balderdash! Or the Women's Museum.

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MARCH 18, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. The election controversy became the pretext for ethnic clashes that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and claimed the lives of more than 600, some in grisly fashion.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

In 2008, Tim was named an Ashoka Fellow. P.S. I have three blogging classes coming up in October: Oct. 14 (Berkeley, CA): Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Bring a friend!: In 2011, he received the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award. What other innovative aging and senior living projects have you seen?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. So I thought how a couple of bloggers came together to fight hunger. The Donors Choose blog action campaign and BlogAction Day have been stellar examples.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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APRIL 13, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Its a fascinating read, and I highly recommend it. That's a difficult task.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. You don't have to be a blogger, or live in the Bay Area to take the Challenge). For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. food bank hunger food stamp blogger

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MARCH 13, 2008

Jay Dedman is going to lead a video blogging workshop in New Orleans as part of the line up for the NTEN's NTC Day of Service 2008. As readers of this blog know, videoblogging is an effective way for nonprofits to build awareness of their organization??? Bernard work one-on-one with residents who use the computer center there.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

December 2008. October 2008. 2007 Best Podcaster: Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn. Blogs “Have Fun * Do Good: An Interview with Britt Bravo,” by Beth Terry on Fake Plastic Fish. May 14, 2008. March 5, 2008. Maverick 101” by E.B.

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