Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2010

I’ve been working with nonprofit organizations on technology issues (strategy, implementation) for about 15 years now. Plenty of conservative organizations use Drupal, Salesforce, online fundraising, Facebook and Twitter – using those technologies to push for ends that I am far from interested in seeing come to reality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? How do you keep up?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Privacy , security , and liability came up more frequently than in other sessions I’ve done which is not surprising that this group represented board members and CEOs of nonprofits and foundations. And, they’re issues not to be taken lightly. Could this be done on Facebook or other public social media channels?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. That’s super depressing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. We cover an issue from beginning to end. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I call it thorough.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

60) Search « Email Is Most Popular for a Reason: Its the Strongest Performing | Main | Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session » Wednesday Feb 06 2008 Worldwide Protest Organized on Facebook Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:43AM | by Caitlin Ochs Need more proof of the organizing power of social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They are using Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page to grow an audience interested in carefully vetted research. In early 2009, the Compete Blog posted its media trends for 2008, suggesting that publisher media continue to integrate social media. . Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 . They rely only on credible sources.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] Everyone also steps up to take on responsibility, and to take on the more difficult task of discussing process issues.”

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. How did they do it? And now to the interview.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. How did they do it? And now to the interview.

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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. Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

program on FaceBook was flawed, that groups were unfairly eliminated and that Chase was not transparent in its management and communication of the program. (For Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way. The debate was triggered by allegations that Chase Bank’s Community Giving.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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APRIL 7, 2021

Other issues you may run into that deter you from hosting an over the edge event are: Not being able to secure an over the edge event license Or not having a donor base that’s willing to fundraise on your behalf A lack of corporate sponsors willing to take part in fundraising could also be difficult.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. Comment Notification.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

I haven't made up my mind for sure about anything yet, but I appreciated his exploration of the issues. In the book, Lisa Witter, and co-author Lisa Chen, outline the four C's to use when marketing to women about your issue, or cause: Care, Connect, Control, and Cultivate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Through Facebook, I've been able to connect with friends from elementary school , high school, and college. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?&#. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, " Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies ", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. " As you can expect, I use LinkedIn and Facebook a lot for networking. Can Facebook Replace Face to Face by Social Citizen Blog

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Source: Facebook vs LinkedIn Traffic. The illustration above shows the overlap between people who use LinkedIn and Facebook. What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

I recently learned that online fundraising made up only about 5% of total annual giving in 2008. Because I spend all day, every day in front of a laptop tweeting about my Facebook links. Of course, digital divide issues are not new: We've been talking about them for over a decade now. I was floored.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

It wasn't ignorance, it was more about a lack of time and focus on what was perceived as "surface" issues. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. I did it in order of least traffic to most, making the Twitter and Facebook changes last.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When you gain me as a fan on Facebook, I receive periodic updates and my friends see my interactions with you. The tech to connect Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell, email, addresses and other PID is here -- and it improves by the day. There are many articles coming out about legal and illegal acquisition issues of our data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Also, there is the perennial issue around expertise groupings — the tension between mixed levels and like cohort groups. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Barely a week goes by that I don’t see at least one status update or tweet from a nonprofit colleague lamenting a hacked personal account, including email, Twitter and Facebook. The issue of privacy is of huge importance to my field of sexual and reproductive health as well as anti-violence work. I’m not a lawyer.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. It's not about the "network".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." I followed anybody who seemed knowledgeable and well respected in areas like social media, social entrepreneurship, health issues, autism, non-profit technology, philanthropy, micro-lending, and Islamic finance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. More >> Types. Organization. Information.

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