Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. 2) KAddressBook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? I chronicled some of these back in 2008. My answer: yes and no. The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $88.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. And, of course, otters aren’t the only marine animals that people love – there’s mariachi whales. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) But I think time will tell. They have the gold standard in API and I think it will be a long time before anyone else gets to that level.

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Gyrus

APRIL 7, 2016

A recent example is of Barclays Capital Inc., Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to build adequate compliance systems, after the firm acquired Lehman Brothers' advisory business in 2008. At times, they focus on one area of a compliance program more while sidelining other elements. who was charged by The U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Direct Content. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. They each have their good points and bad, strengths and reasons I use them (I use furl, for instance, to save pages I think might go away, or become paid content after a short time being free.) It’s just so … painful.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Even if Allan’s vision does become reality some time in the future, why rush to present your figures now. Allan assumes two points here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Of course, most of the residents of Kibera don't have the tools or access required to use online maps as we do.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Of course, most of the residents of Kibera don't have the tools or access required to use online maps as we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. And, it will make your brain hurt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! We got into some back and forth - and of course, it got me interested in writing about the topic. Plus, the person took the time to get to know me over time before asking me for anything. If your pitch also has a request to retweet, include a copy of cut and paste examples.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. In 2008, Vermont became the first state to permit the creation of the L3C (Powell, Jackson-Zapata, & Kammerling, 2014), an entity that allows companies to achieve modest profits while operating under a business model that emphasizes impact over profits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)."

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Here are a couple examples of money left on the table, from the donors’ point of view. That happened sometime in 2008 or 2009. This organization has reached out to me via direct mail and email in the time since then, but always through an acquisition or renewal campaign.

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See3

MARCH 27, 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 Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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See3

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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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

“Of course, things got a lot worse in the fourth quarter, so these trends might not hold up.” For example, between 2006 and 2007, online donations grew by 26% but between 2007 and 2008 online donations only grew by 14%. Dave Steadman Hamilton College March 26, 2009 | Dave Steadman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Of course, anti-rape advocates know this line of questioning all too well (was your skirt too short? And for good reason.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. These are some of my favorit examples of nonprofits doing great, creative things with Twitter.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

If people are already on Facebook, have gone to your Causes donation page, become a "member" to your Cause, and still havent donated - they arent going to, no matter how many times you message them. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Sometimes more!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

If people are already on Facebook, have gone to your Causes donation page, become a "member" to your Cause, and still havent donated - they arent going to, no matter how many times you message them. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Sometimes more!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. These are some of my favorit examples of nonprofits doing great, creative things with Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I like Christopher Penn's example: Think for a moment what this means. " And, of course the challenges: Unproven. re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Security: Photographers might take photos with intent to do harm; for example, with plans to rob the museum or stalk another visitor. We spent significantly more time with the art to create these photos than we would have had we just been strolling through. I respect the first and second arguments. There are two parts to this.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Mary Tyler Moore acts as the JDRF’s international representative and has often represented the organization in its hearings with Congress. The ability of an organization to have a celebrity dedicate so much time and effort to a cause can be an effective means to influence other people of status, such as elected officials.

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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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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times. A couple of Care2 staff favorites, of course, include the Care2 Stickies and Petitions. The technology "enables anyone to build any application that.Facebook could build."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. Britt Bravo: Why is it important to have women citizen journalists in developing countries at this time? But at the same time, I realized a lot of the limitations that the mainstream model of foreign correspondence often provides.

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