Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07 First – thanks to both of ou for blogging about the report. We certainly hope that now the folks have seen what these reports are about, it will boost participation in future surveys to make the data even more valuable. That was my point. {

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States. 63% of respondents stated that they are very familiar with social networking, and 44% reported they are very familiar with blogging. The report is available at [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. The APIs will be without cost. That part looks very interesting. Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

com Passes 8 Million Member Mark » Wednesday Jan 16 2008 So Easy, a Chicken Could Do It: frogloop 2008 Reader Survey Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 03:57PM | by James OMalley Help us help you by taking the frogloop 2008 Reader Survey ! Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. The largest one, reporting $2.3 They reported $1.2

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 2, 2011

In my last post , I highlighted the current status of Arizona's philanthropic sector, based on a research report released by Arizona Grantmakers Forum in January 2011. The report was based on 2008 tax data for both institutions and individuals. If they had increased their contributions to the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Not about how many hours you spent at the client office, or how many reports you wrote. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 10.22.07 I infer from your comments that there is, in you view, something antithetical about providing quality consulting and making money. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., Comment Notification.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites. Comment here, or visit the original post at SSIR here. The Research. What It Means.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. 1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) Welcome to Research Friday ! To the rescue: LinkedIn.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

What Next — posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center The IRS has begun to revoke the tax-exempt status for those nonprofit organizations that have not filed some form of a 990 (information report) for three years. These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. In 2008, the Valley of the Sun made $50.1 Like this article?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2008, with support from the California Emerging Technology Fund , we established a formal digital divide program and, with the help of our community partners, connected more than 10,000 previously disconnected homes to broadband Internet. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: 1.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K. Pollak, T. Washington, D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008. Perhaps I didn’t ask the question well. It was dramatic.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

| Main | Online Video: An Interview Revealing Best Practices and Trends » Tuesday Sep 11 2007 Overbrook Foundation Reports Grantees Dont Know Web 2.0 There are a ton of interesting findings in this report, including: Overall, the grantees are firmly entrenched in the Web 1.0 To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2007

Converting Subscribers to Donors » Monday Jun 11 2007 Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report Monday, June 11, 2007 at 03:24PM | by James OMalley Care2 was mentioned in a fantastic article from Hollis Thomases at ClickZ ! To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2008

1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Crowdsourcing , Online Fundraising , Online Organizing , Social Networking Reader Comments (1) Great info in this post. I thought I would drop by again and leave the link I mentioned in my last comment.> Click here to watch the replay. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

Needless to say, I'm one of the people who believes the 2008 IMLS research that shows that online encounters with museums increase visitation. The panel will not be recorded or streamed, but I'll happily report back in the comments here once it's over. What would you like me to ask?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The result was an in-depth eleven page report. And thats exactly what Donordigital and Amnesty International USA did to compile this report. VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. Instead, test everything!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the presentation for this session, Doug Haslam used a screencapture of this blog post as an example of how a pr person can leave a comment to pitch a story on their client's behalf. (He 59 percent of respondents reported that social media performance in 2007 met or exceeded their marketing objectives. unknown.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? She recently wrote a post about how much time it takes to do social media based on some thinking from a post I wrote in 2008. Her blog posts certainly get me to think!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

Source: State of the Twittersphere Report. One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's how. Respond to Followers.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Internet traffic in the United States hit a record peak at the start of President Obama’s speech as people watched, read about and commented on the inauguration, according to Bill Woodcock, the research director at the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit organization that analyzes online traffic. From today’s NY Times.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

When the economy crashed in 2008, we all felt the negative impact, including K-12 private schools. These tools included functionality around checklists, reporting, and demographic segmentation. While overall enrollment numbers have not completely returned to pre-2008 levels, the journey back is well underway.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The result was an in-depth eleven page report. And thats exactly what Donordigital and Amnesty International USA did to compile this report. VeriSign) This is one of the best reports Ive read in a long time. Thanks to both Donordigital and Amnesty International USA for sharing the full report. Instead, test everything!

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See3

MARCH 18, 2008

Duties include managing multiple projects; contractor oversight and correspondence; editing technical reports; and providing program support to Director of Research. Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Management Co Info » The Complete Guide to Fund-Raising Management (2nd Edition) [.] National travel required.

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