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. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations.

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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. There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In June of 2007, nearly over 35% of Facebook traffic came the 18-24 year old segment, compared to around 22% in June 2008. They started with a survey to examine people's experience using social networks. This is more in line with what people call a LinkedIn LION (LinkedIn Open Networker). How do you use social networks?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Overall, the experience has been positive. We focused on the science and policy. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. Tip #3: Be open to anything. But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? How cool is that?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open? If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. The result was an in-depth eleven page report. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. The result was an in-depth eleven page report. All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Then a social enterprise approach opened the door to social investing, especially bank financing, for an otherwise unattractive opportunity. Banks were not lending. Clean the World, 2015).

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Given the email clutter your subscribers battle daily, how are your organization’s e-newsletter open and click-through rates looking these days? Dig Into Your Data: Look at your statistics and find out which subject lines are generating the highest open rates, and which articles and subjects are generating the most clicks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Overall, the experience has been positive. We focused on the science and policy. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. Tip #3: Be open to anything. I couldn’t be prouder of the Fight Colorectal Cancer team that we pulled this off with as little to spend as we had.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. I truly believe that being present in an open, giving, and transparent way in spaces where your supporters are already spending their time will lead to a stronger loyalty to your mission. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

There will be typos and I'll clean up later Day 1: Morning Opening Session Malcom Downes, Deputy Chairperson, CISA Inc. Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. She then asked us to talk in pairs about our experience with online networking and asked people to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

I'd argue it makes your organization look open, inclusive, and accessible. Here are some examples from Beth from November, 2008 - I'd be interested in hearing about more data and experiences myself. We are a workforce development organization, and my superiors think it could be misconstrued.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Social Media Nonprofit Poetry Slam When: Saturday, March 14th from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Room 18BCD Description: Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. AD: It was a pretty incredible experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. The museum presents changing temporary exhibitions, but the permament exhibition has remained the same since opening.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Update: YouTube product manager Jim Patterson confirms that there is no revenue-sharing built into the API, although he also points out that the API is open to YouTube Partners, who do share in the advertising dollars. It is a YouTube-branded experience. YouTube is now a platform. It is not a white-label service. It is free.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The campaign attracted 96,000 participants, and Starbucks did eventually change their policy, thereby benefiting poor farmers in Ethiopia. Precept Ministries won the “Best Web Site” prize for having an excellent homepage and for effectively using pathway design to drive different audience experiences. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. Now find out what it really takes and learn from their experiences. May 24, 2009 | Not for Profit Marketer Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

You can also see how that translates into cost per action or email viewed (opened). Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

But there are policies that museums control--from open hours to photography rules to digital access--that significantly impact the kinds of co-option that are possible or institutionally supported. From a museum perspective, I'm more interested in evaluations of the audience experience of participation.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Make your potential vendor prove they are open to data imports and exports without having to purchase expensive additional APIs. I can speak from first-hand experience that we at Artez provide access to the identical set of code/tools/platform to all of our clients; some nonprofits raise millions online, and some raise $50,000.

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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. Flaws in the Causes Application It’s ahead of its time Regardless of the fact that Facebook is now open to everyone, the majority of active users are still under the age of 24.

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Care2

JULY 24, 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. Flaws in the Causes Application It’s ahead of its time Regardless of the fact that Facebook is now open to everyone, the majority of active users are still under the age of 24.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Nonprofit organizations would get far better results from improving their own online giving experience. 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. Is Apple's policy the worst threat to NPOs today? Probably not.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And also for Old Navy, when the flagship store opened in New York City, I got one of the first jobs at the cash register. I was the chief external affairs officer and so responsible for marketing, communications, development, and policy. Oh, my gosh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

What does your foundation need to do to open to free agents or how do your grantees need to change? We discussed the importance of a social media policy – not just cutting and pasting from another foundation or nonprofit. Photo by Christine Beddia. What’s holding you back? What move your forward?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

You may want to open a window with the ScratchR homepage so you can refer to it throughout this post. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). There are four sections to this post: An overview of ScratchR user types and related statistics. Why people participate. First, a look at statistics on user types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He shared his experience of posting to the blog twenty times per day, five days per week with a gazillion people following his moves. My first thought was how is the experience of one of the most popular, persistent bloggers relevant to most people starting out or blogging for non-profit organizations. Blog as a Broadcast.

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