Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Qgiv: What advice would you give to a young woman interested in software engineering? Qgiv: What advice would you give to a woman aspiring to become a tech company leader? That ownership changed my definition of what “design” even meant. Qgiv: What advice would you give to a woman aspiring to become a tech company leader?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.

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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. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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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. Flash forward four and a half years. Executives have come a long way in understanding the Social Web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. It was quite a shame to have to give that up , but it was either that, or make due with either not using a Palm, or modifying dramatically how I dealt with my PIM data. And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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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. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S. mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. It’s better to utilize a few tools very well than many tools poorly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. There is no question that you will get out of twitter what you give.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. It's definitely time to start thinking about your end-of-year e-mail. To give a lift to nptechies in the Boston area, Idealware and Third Sector New England will.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 11:10 am I’m too much of a junkie to give up my social networks right now, but I completely share your concerns, Michelle, especially given that I am a big proponent of openID and microformats. at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. 4 Ruby Sinreich 08.11.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

But unlike other campaigns where the idea to incorporate a meme was part of a campaign organized by an organization or central entity (for example, Giving Tuesday’s “ UnSelfie Campaign “), the fundraiser itself was a meme that went viral , not only as a fundraiser, but its own Internet meme (see this Star Wars version and others ).

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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. I know how technology can help, and I definitely know how it can hurt.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. 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?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Life would definitely be easier if there was one piece of software that could do everything we needed it to, from donor management to email blasts. In 2008, NTEN began asking the community to tell us what they thought of the tools they use. Today, we are very pleased to announce the release of the Data Ecosystem Report. We wanted to.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

I have always believed that if “outsiders” could learn of our charity, they would want to help, as we give such great reporting and photographs of the kids helped, and because our overhead is so low. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Which source of traffic worked the best?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I want to share some lessons this celebration of gratitude and giving and the program's approach that I think are relevant to organizing social nonprofit campaigns. Simplicity played a big role in the success of the first TweetsGiving in 2008. Simplicity Rules.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

I have always believed that if “outsiders” could learn of our charity, they would want to help, as we give such great reporting and photographs of the kids helped, and because our overhead is so low. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Which source of traffic worked the best?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

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. Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

A text to give campaign will make its major league debut at a professional sporting event on the July 13th ??? During the game, the Nationals and Major League Baseball will launch a mobile giving campaign. More from MobileActive about Text-to-Give campaigns in America and elsewhere. Photo by Christopher Dale. Children???s

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

In her first year in business, she had served over 100 different clients -- many of which wound up giving her more work later. Texas is definitely on the list for future trips, as well as North Dakota. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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See3

MARCH 14, 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 MAR 14, 2008 MySpace Launches Applications Heather (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

In her first year in business, she had served over 100 different clients -- many of which wound up giving her more work later. Texas is definitely on the list for future trips, as well as North Dakota. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats? I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In her first year in business, she had served over 100 different clients -- many of which wound up giving her more work later. Texas is definitely on the list for future trips, as well as North Dakota. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

On the one side you have the traditional way to raise money — rich people asking other rich people to give. An individual may give $2,300 per federal election. So if I give $2,300 to Clinton I am “maxed out&# and the only way for me to do more is get $2,300 from my buddies. 350,000 donors!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent. One in three. One in four.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

are some of the many excuses nonprofit leaders give for not focusing on the health of their board. But there are definitely places where I could do better. Prior to joining BoardSource’s leadership team in December 2008, she served as the vice president of development at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. HSUS had already built a mobile subscriber list of about 12,000 activists through Mobile Commons by December of 2008.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

New giving methods for your nonprofit. And yeah, just happy that you two are sharing your knowledge today because like I said, this is definitely a hot topic and one I don’t know anything about. So now I’ll let Matt give a quick highlight to you and then we’ll get into the agenda. Matt: Thanks, Carlyn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. 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.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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