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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. 2) Social Media Takes Time to Do Right. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not hours.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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? Read an interview of an Android developer. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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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. At the time, my husband was in medical school and I was going insane trying to keep myself occupied, so I started writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Unrestricted and capacity-building support held steady, and foundations even reduced grant approval times from an average of 90 to 60 days.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy. It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

(Those are all "How-to" links, by the way, but) if you're short on time, here are 50 Web2.0 NTEN's own Holly Ross suggests a simple formula: (Time & Money Saved + Money Earned) - (Time & Money In) = ROI. Money earned is easy, but how do you figure if you're saving time and money? ways to tell a story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

I’m not going to embark on the 31 days to a better blog challenge , it’s a bit too much for me to plunge into, but I will be doing bits and pieces of it over time, as well as delving deeply into search engine optimization (SEO), which is a topic that I have pretty much only watched from a distance for far too long.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Adding PayPal, the most popular online payment service, has been a frequent request from our users for some time, so we’re really pleased to have integrated it into our donation process and become the only online fundraising platform in the UK to do so."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Setup of all three has a one time fee. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. My “Circle of Wise&# is always changing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 15, 2008

December 2008. October 2008. 2007 Best Podcaster: Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn. Call Them Equal Opportunity Bloggers,” by Jessica Guynn. Contra Costa Times. May 14, 2008. March 5, 2008. Maverick 101” by E.B. Boyd Common Ground.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I believe that new models of aging and senior life will emerge from this wave, and can't wait to see what is created, which is why I loved stumbling upon The New York Times article, For Healthy Aging, A Late Act in the Footlights. In 2008, Tim was named an Ashoka Fellow. It profiles an innovative organization called EngAGE.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Founder Erik Hersman and a group of fellow Kenyan bloggers were frustrated by the lack of accurate information or media coverage of the violence surrounding the 2008 Kenyan election. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. At the time we built our online community, it made sense to develop the platform we did. What do members give to get?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. A few Bay Area bloggers documented their experiences of living on $21 a week (a typical Food Stamp allotment).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I nominated the Sharing Foundation for the following reasons: In July/August 2007, I launched my third fundraising campaign to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit and the Sharing Foundation. That's when I used Twitter for the first time for fundraising for a charity. It wasn't the last time either.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. So much innovation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

I am pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of the TechSoup blogger community, and I’m excited to get started with my first blog post. This time, the one more thing was to take what I learned at SDFF and see if I could help other nonprofits make better use of technology. Hello everyone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

T he fourth guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Sample Ward. Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. I like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

When it comes to nonprofit board development, “I don’t have time,” “We don’t have the resources,” “How can I possibly think about strengthening the board when I’m worried about how we are going to deliver programs and meet payroll?” I work long days and don’t always have time to exercise.” I don’t have time.” “We

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AFP Blog

MAY 20, 2011

Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2008

It's time to expand my Changeblogger reading/listening/viewing list. Update May 23, 2008: Here is a compiled list of all of your suggestions: Changeblogger List + Wanna Meetup? I'll re-post the list of blogs/podcasts/vlogs you suggest on May 21st. Do you know of one? Would you like attend one? Lemme know.

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MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker I've been writing about the 29-Day Giving Challenge since it first began in early 2008 , and have known Cami for about that long as well, but I never realized the extent of the pain she endured with her multiple sclerosis until I read her memoir this fall.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

And the timing for this initiative couldn’t be better. “In the 2008 presidential election, we witnessed how the power of technology and the enthusiasm of young voters revolutionized the political process,” says Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. Elana Wolowitz (EW): I'm pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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