Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately. Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Meet Jessica Cronk, Vice President of Marketing . Jess: Over the last two years, the marketing department has more than doubled in size! I am most proud of developing a team of stellar marketers to better support our customers and our company’s departmental goals. Jess: Your voice matters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Today, she uses her consulting skills and ethnographic experience to help clients on their sustainability journeys. Emma Visman.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

More than 35 sessions took place across the Summit’s key event tracks, which included Manage Your Nonprofit, Direct and Expand Your Programs, Grow Fundraising Impact, Drive Marketing Performance, and Govern and Protect Your Data. Senior Vice President, Go-To-Market at Salesforce.org. Nonprofit Cloud Innovations. Watch On Demand.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Create impactful messaging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. So what LMS should you look at?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Nedra Weinreich hosted the " Best of Nonprofit Campaigns " carnival of nonprofit consultants. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008.

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APRIL 12, 2011

The Truth About Donor Research This comes from the report Money for Good: The US Market Opportunity for Impact Investments and Charitable Gifts from Individual Donor and Investors. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

It’s still mighty small (still around 2%), but Linux Desktop market share grew from 40-60% (depending on who you ask) from last year. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. Why do we nptechies care?

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Take a minute now to Google yourself and all of your top staff or consultants. 23 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. You might be surprised at who else comes up. Here it is.

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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. A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. What is public?

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JANUARY 15, 2009

" Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketer - Community Platforms reviewed on the Forrester Research blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Here are some things to watch for: Your software will not integrate with your donor database/customer relationship management platform, email marketing platform, or other key software that your organization uses or plans to add soon.

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MARCH 26, 2009

I came across a great white paper about the use of social media by marketers. We're all just learning about this, actually -- which is why the nonprofit community should be excited about getting in on the ground floor with these marketing tools and strategies. A total of 880 marketers took the survey. Kudos to Michael A.

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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 Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Here are the details: —————————————— Free Online Video Consultation at Nonprofit Technology Conference Not sure how to use video to its highest potential in telling your organization’s story and begin incorporating video into your messaging?

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JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. What do you think? Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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MARCH 25, 2009

In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Well, pro bono consulting can happen entirely on digital platforms. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. Each of these things is a function within a company – marketing, data analysis, finance – and is incredibly useful for fundraising.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

"We don't necessarily expect to go to the farmers' market to get our vegetables and have someone beaming a big smile and offering us a hug. She is the creator of the Inner Wealth Deck , and is a choreographer, dancer, intuitive consultant , retreat leader , and mom. These things break the trance of the culture, and I love that.

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JULY 5, 2012

This post was authored by Declan Murphy, marketing and social media coordinator for Giftworks. After foundation endowments and many corporations were battered by the 2008 recession, the buzz moved away from grantseeking as a viable long-term income source. Register today for this free grantseeking webinar.

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MARCH 26, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) “People are still giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

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. In 2008, Will was named a John D.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

(For an excellent summation of the controversy and attendant commentary, see writer and consultant Beth Kanter’s blo g.) What’s missing from the current debate though are the perspectives of marketers and corporate philanthropic managers who sponsor and manage these programs. They can be extraordinarily expensive to run.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

I had the opportunity to chat with executive director Lisa Hoitsma and marketing and development manager Carly McCoy about their recent website redesign. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. ” Gateway brought in a consultant for a branding project. “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser. I chronicled some of these back in 2008. Nonprofit Marketing Guide: Creating Your Nonprofit’s Ice Bucket Challenge. Sadly, Griffen, died in a drowning accident on August 16th.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I haven’t decided what to do next and am considering doing consultancy work. How do I market myself given that I’ve never done this kind of work before? How do I now market myself for this field when most of my education and research has been in another field, and primarily in the US. The questions are: 1.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

Because she had a knack for doing computer stuff, she became the de facto IT person and over time developed their infrastructure, which is now based on Microsoft Server 2008 , with the help of consultants from time to time. Because they are national programs, Heather has to keep track of a traveling staff with complex scheduling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Matthew Dubins, founder of Donor Science Consulting, performed an exhaustive study of the impact of the Great Recession of 2008 on Canadian nonprofits and came to the following conclusion: “…during a recession, it is? That instinct, while logical on the surface – may also be a grave mistake for most fundraisers.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Gives me hope! All rights reserved.

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