Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated. That’s why when I teach people about RSS Readers, I focused on the practice and offered them a variety tool options – see above slide from a recent workshop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. This year I’ve been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits – and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills become a barrier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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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. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 2 ThomasT 06.24.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. Trust me.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Entries will be accepted until February 15, 2008 at which time finalists will be determined. beginning March 1, 2008; individuals will be able to vote on their favorite entry through March 20, 2008. NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within the nonprofit community.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Non-Profit Web Design Blog. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008.

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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. There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Whiteboard: Why Less is More in Design. Critique Your Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Hughes also enlisted Scott Thomas , former director of design with the Obama campaign and author of Designing Obama.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf Some are calling it impact investing. Role of Foundations in the movement.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.).

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? Make sure you have clear processes and designate one person to communicate with the contest entrants and winners. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Great campaigning!

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MARCH 3, 2008

What were the costs associated with facilitating the competition? Make sure you have clear processes and designate one person to communicate with the contest entrants and winners. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! March 4, 2008 | Carol Rados Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Great campaigning!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. Reader, I was wrong. I said: In many ways, the ability to successfully set a powerful and useful expectation for museum experiences is MORE valuable than the ability to extend said experience.

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MAY 18, 2016

The traditional method of receiving tax-deductible donations is to file for 501(c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, an application for 501(c)(3) status designed for a religious, charitable, or educational purpose. L3Cs were specifically designed to help social entrepreneurs raise capital from a much broader range of investors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. We want to have a conversation with our audience and facilitate storytelling. For us, the card is less useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008. By allowing people to design their own events but under the original ethos of Twestival of raising money for a selected charity, the event becomes more self-organising. It is not a template.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Traditional design packages, like Autocad, are individual affairs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

We don't have traditional designer/developers on staff; instead, we have a team facilitating this process and liaising between project participants and fabrication staff to develop these virtual ideas into physical reality. The meat is people coming together to design exhibits. Yes, Second Life can be a useful prototyping space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. Access is only the first part of the equation. was about access and Web 2.0 is about effective use and connect with other people. Need time and patience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I wrote thousands of lines of code and designed more databases than I can count. What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? And I also looked at this with post-implementation eyes.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Hughes also enlisted Scott Thomas , former director of design with the Obama campaign and author of Designing Obama. All Rights Reserved

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I think I was the person to coin the term Free Agent back in 2008 when I first wrote about Shawn Admed’s work. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Free Agents and Foundations. My book, The Networked Nonprofit , helped shine a lot on the work of many free agents such as Mark Horvath and others round the world.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

However, very few would argue that designing for the entire mobile web has much more reach and bang for the bucks invested. The Right Giving Experience Yes, I would love to see how Jonathan Ive and his Apple design team would re-create the online giving experience in an app. Yes, I get that. Who plays the traffic cop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. Amy Gahran, CNN Journalist. Arlene McCrehan, Goodwill.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Blackbaud’s CEO Marc Chardon will be facilitating a panel to discuss Global Trends and What They Mean to You. It has been an amazing conference so far and things wrap-up later today. All Rights Reserved

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JUNE 6, 2011

Since around 2008, the Community Manager has become a position in high demand in the business and nonprofit sectors. (And "she" would probably have been a "he" – but I digress.). Sometime during her (and the Web's) evolution, however, she began to look and act more like that PR Professional.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

In many cases people were pointing at things that were simple in design and form--quotes, statistics, facts and figures. When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And if your people in your organization are healthy, meaning they are doing the work that they are best designed to do, if they got a little extra, that comes with the job. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh. Absolutely.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. These are seasoned activists, designers, changemakers. There is not a shortage of resources.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. Wikis are useful when a distributed team is designing a project together or managing a changing set of projects. My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing.

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