Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Women can bring a different viewpoint and a problem-solving skillset that’s needed within the field. Qgiv: What have you accomplished during your time at Qgiv that you are most proud of? Qgiv: What have you accomplished during your time at Qgiv that you are most proud of? Meet Jessica Cronk, Vice President of Marketing .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008. This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008. What are some your favorite do-good books from 2008?

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Stats like these suggest that it’s worth investing more time in your peer-to-peer fundraising program. How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem. Here are three signs that it might be time for a change: Your peer-to-peer participants aren’t as happy as they should be. Recruit more participants.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. But for the long term, this is not going to even begin to solve our problems. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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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. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. Zombie Harmony : For all your zombie dating needs. Wait, there's an election going on? Don't know how we missed that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. But for the long term, this is not going to even begin to solve our problems. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. I visited Daproim four years ago, and wrote about my experiences in a blog post about its founder, Steve Muthee. They have 250 part-time staff right now, and they want to grow to 800 staff by the end of 2016. No problem!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I had the chance to sit down with Lindsay and discuss how volunteering has changed over the last few years, the multifaceted benefits of pro bono programs, and the power of skill-based volunteering to help us build resilience and navigate uncertain times. At the same time, people were even more interested in giving back.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude. coming out in October.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. It helps to get a copy of a book like Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , but you don’t need it as much these days as you used to back in 2008 when it first came out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

First problem: Linux address books … suck. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It also integrated well with Mail.app and iChat. It was great. There are basically three options.

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote. Collectively we will inform each other when when the lines too long and ensure that media and watchdog groups know where problems exist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?) You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure.

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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. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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Forum One

JANUARY 9, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Astronaut Ron Garan How can you not read a book that starts out, " I have wanted to write this book since returning to Earth from my first space mission in 2008 "? For Garan, living on the International Space Station (ISS) was a transformative experience – one he believes that can help us solve the world’s toughest crises.

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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. Hunger isn't just a problem in America. A few Bay Area bloggers documented their experiences of living on $21 a week (a typical Food Stamp allotment).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. One of my all time favorite Clay Shirky quotes: “When the technology gets boring, it becomes socially interesting.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

Those under 45 have faced the changing global dynamics of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the COVID-19 pandemic–the results of these major events have been felt extremely acutely as these younger Americans entered the workforce, built families, and attempted to build wealth against these headwinds. more on average.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. My problem has been retrieval. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure. Communication.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Having had previous experience with thin-client computing, they liked the idea of attaching the USB hubs to the monitors. Over time we refined our instructions. Firefox didn't have this problem.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Having had previous experience with thin-client computing, they liked the idea of attaching the USB hubs to the monitors. Over time we refined our instructions. Firefox didn't have this problem.

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Library Case Study Studies Instruction 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

At the same time, nonprofits should be aware of the challenges and limitations to this emergent form of funding. Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study. Big Donors Losing Faith In Charity To Solve Problems. Monitor Institute. Segedin, A. 2016, June 6).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time?

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. He made a comment on Michael Kaiser's fairly formulaic "great artists lead the nation" post, laying bare the banality of most of the language used to describe and present art experiences to the public.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." Just as you needed web development experience in the last decade, I think we're going to see the same trend around open source.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time?

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See3

MARCH 27, 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 Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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