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. Cloud for Good | Web-Based Computing Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations 10.04.09

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APRIL 13, 2013

Past winners have had a hand in creating and funding the biggest organizations in our space, built nonprofit technology communities large and small, and are exploring and sharing some of the most interesting and innovative technology models. 2008: Vince Stehle. The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. 2011: Judy Hallman , RTPNet.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

All over the world, people who care about the future of the Web are joining together to organize events and activities in their towns, growing the OWD network from the grassroots up. In 2008, OneWebDay organizers documented volunteer-driven events in 34 different cities across the world. What’s OneWebDay.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Our new SharePoint web-based version how many organizations we can serve. What does the database do and how do people in the organizations you serve use it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. How busy is it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) A large chunk (the majority?)

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009. There are 1,280,739 registered 501(c)(3) organizations with the Internal Revenue Service. seen in 2000 and 2005. and Linda H. Kaufman to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

This spring, the New York City Elder Abuse Center (the Center) began its journey from a traditional, “non-social” organization to one that uses and embraces social media in both its communications and internal processes. Or: “not many of us are on LinkedIn, how should we use it to help the organization?”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP. apps out there.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

For the last four years, OneWebDay has attracted a global network of partner organizations and individual activists committed to broadening the public’s awareness of Internet and Web issues while deepening a culture of participation in building a Web that works for everyone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. several midwives used Ushahidi to self-organize and help pregnant women cope with being unable to make it to the hospital to deliver. These folks do astonishing work. So much innovation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. In fact, they are the future.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. Because the nature of their relationships with these organizations compels them to.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

For the last three years, OneWebDay "has attracted a global network of partner organizations and individual activists committed to broadening public awareness of Internet and web issues while deepening a culture of participation in building a web that works for everyone.". This year events are happening in over 50 cities in 20 countries!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Amy is a blogger and trainer focused on supporting and educating organizations and changemakers in the use of evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities. I like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share. Sharing is caring, so they say!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy?

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

Students explore their city’s roots reviewing historic documents. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the area’s extraordinary, nationally significant heritage. installation of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 improved. and the next big thing. helps us connect to the past.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. Some organizations gather data such as program expenditures, customer satisfaction or program outputs (e.g., As part of a.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Sure there are special broadcasts that detail typical training regimens for certain prolific athletes, and I for one am quite interested in attempting to eat the 2008 diet of Michael Phelps, who famously proclaimed he was consuming 12,000 calories a day. However, I am sure that sounds a little more glorious than the actual act would be.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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See3

FEBRUARY 3, 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 FEB 3, 2008 Yes We Can. Yes we can.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. Finally, answers! And a green solution! Thank you, Gavin. So you wanted to go to this year's SXSW conference but can't make it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Note: These rates are not for nonprofit organizations – they are the standard rates. Some organizations who were not already members of NCNA have even joined their State Associations in order to gain access to these rates. Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. Have a great day, Tracey 2 admin 08.17.07

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

They understand that an organization, or a campaign, must tell a story to build an audience, and then activate that audience with a compelling call to action. Perhaps most importantly, they are committed to a culture of documentation: they record almost everything. That’s why See3 offers hands-on training on video documentation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. And, through analytics and a culture of testing, some of the best advocacy and activist organizations are transforming how they listen to their supporters online. Communication isn’t just about speech. It’s also about listening.

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Care2

JULY 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) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On the federal grant side, and increasingly on the foundation side, new regulations and policies have made survival as a grant-funded organization more challenging by adding additional layers of accountability and complexity for grant recipients. In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

As a grantmaking organization, you know you need a way to organize your funding requests. And you need a way to organize the contact records for the people behind the organizations who apply. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018? Like peanut butter and chocolate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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