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. Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Compared to Idealware's guide from 2008, the new edition includes many more online, hosted grants management options. Hosted systems have the benefit of allowing foundation staff to access the software from anywhere and can facilitate more effective communication with grantees. More Hosted Options for Grantmakers.

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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. Low-technology settings require high-touch network facilitation.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. For The Tech, this is a new way to conceptualize exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. It's playful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors , which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

For those of us who have been attending blogging and tech conferences, the backchannel is not new. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. One of the reflections.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

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? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. (I

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Processing a credit card transaction or facilitating a financial transaction will always have a cost. Is there any company in high tech that is more clearly against charities and philanthropy? Compared to most other tech companies they're practically invisible. That doesn't excuse the fact that they won't do this.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." But now, I'm looking at the story of visitors pointing in Race in a different way: as a low-tech example of a socially networked platform. Pointing is a no-tech version of the favoriting system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Another blogger, Chak Sopheap , who now works as a program officer at the NGO, The Human Rights Center. In 2007 at the bloggers summit, she facilitated a session about gender and blogging. Later, Viirak and his colleagues used the cameras to document their tech training in rural areas of Cambodia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup. Submit your idea for a mashup with social impact by MARCH 14, 2008 at 5 PM PST.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Where traditional social networking is about connecting individuals, Crabgrass is social networking to facilitate network organizing. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Network Management Systems? Be Helpful.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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