Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Perhaps even ask for a raise — it never hurts to ask. Ask for an office smartphone. You are going to need it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. I am also experimenting with running a TextMark… you can subscribe at www.textmark.com/NONPROFITORGS. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I’ve had a fair bit of experience with Drupal – nosi.net is run on Drupal, and I’d done a Drupal install once, and helped with some now and again. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued. So I like Joomla.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I co-administered that box for a few years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. LG: Definitely. Rather than focusing exclusively on your day-to-day work, you start to bring the insights you’ve learned from your pro bono experience back to your job.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

Here goes … My experience in the nonprofit sector started a little differently than most. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Fewer white boxes, more immersive experiences, multi-sensory, interactive elements (even in art museums), willingness not to take oneself too seriously. We transformed from transmit to recieve.

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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. &# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

This is the first time I ran it for people all from the same organization, with a limited amount of time, and mix of experience. Using it an internal training, it is important to have someone with hands-on experience in each group and this spreads the organizational learning. . It was from April, 2008!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will. If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06 7 Todd Sieling 09.28.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ). Did you know that mobile web use increased by 230% between 2008 and 2009? [1] And 92% of surveyed nonprofits plan on using at least one of these tools in 2011.

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See3

MARCH 14, 2008

Anyone else out there experimenting? Heather will be demonstrating the new MySpace Apps in a webinar in April. You can learn more about her webinars here. Share and Enjoy: 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Our campaign managers in the field have been experimenting with using SMS to reach target audiences to spread news and information, campaign messages, and news about campaign activities. Brooke Sadowsky, Program Manager, RARE Conservation. Bogii partnered with Mobicom, the largest mobile provider in Mongolia. and regional offices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. It's been a great experience so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I want to create presentation formats of this materials as well as experiment with e-books. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. We wanted to find a way to really connect with our members and understand what experiences they value most at the Whitney.

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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. CH: I was a foreign correspondent in Nepal from 2003 to 2004 and had a really amazing experience in Nepal. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office. My definition of success has been watching women grow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

We have definitions of legit nonprofit. She then asked us to talk in pairs about our experience with online networking and asked people to share. Personal experience, to connect to younger groups. Do you think you have responsibility that money is donated through your network is well spent? It's a simplistic vetting process.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r This list goes on and on.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r This list goes on and on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Social Change for Zero Dollars a Day Using Social Networks: Join SM4SC's co-founders, Gradon Tripp, Meg Fowler and Matthew Knell as they talk through their experiences raising money for needy charities with no fixed budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Social Change for Zero Dollars a Day Using Social Networks: Join SM4SC's co-founders, Gradon Tripp, Meg Fowler and Matthew Knell as they talk through their experiences raising money for needy charities with no fixed budget.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Refining the Process Figuring Out What Works Over the first few months of our grant, we continued to experiment with our ads and keywords, and to monitor how each of our campaigns was performing. Back to Basics We’re still keeping a close eye on the performance of our campaigns, and experimenting with new topics, ads, and keywords.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. July 31, 2008 | Jordan Viator Hatef, Your article is very informative, especially for new social media users like my self. Everyone is on YouTube.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this. December 11, 2007 | çad?r This list goes on and on.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based Many right now are just starting to get their feet wet and experiment so I would say that the best is yet to come. July 31, 2008 | Jordan Viator Hatef, Your article is very informative, especially for new social media users like my self. Everyone is on YouTube.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Its easy to extrapolate from one bad experience/example and assume that corruption is rife throughout the sector, figuratively hiding in the kitchen cabinets, under the refrigerator, and even in the walls themselves. Thats a pretty disturbing statistic! But it IS tough.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Social Change for Zero Dollars a Day Using Social Networks: Join SM4SC's co-founders, Gradon Tripp, Meg Fowler and Matthew Knell as they talk through their experiences raising money for needy charities with no fixed budget.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

That said, even if you are the resident marketing guru, your number of Facebook friends is far more important than your number of years of experience. Its all about the Causes Champion and network Since Causes are started by users, the success of a Cause is highly dependent upon the user who began it. Is it a random sample?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The PPSR report is focused on the participant experience and the extent to which participating in science research changes people's understanding of and attitudes towards science. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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