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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If not, why? If no, why?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

"[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I don't have to solve the problem. Perhaps they would gain a more mainstream constituency by acknowledging the overwhelming nature of the problem, and emphasizing in their messaging that you just have to do what you can. You just have to take the steps that are available to you.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2015

Feeding a Need in Southern Nevada. We also use our ASA for VPN access so I can monitor our network at all times." " Three Square Innovates to Solve Problems in New Ways. I got a chance to chat with the organization's technology manager, Tony Caufield, who is the charity's first dedicated IT person.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

So, I was immediately interested when a link to an article, titled " Good Intentions vs. Good Results ," popped up on my Twitter feed. I think its important for us to control our knee-jerk reactions to news of corruption, questions of effectiveness, or accusations of misconduct, and deal with the problems we can see in front of us.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? Completing this project quickly, testing it and upgrading the infrastructure, and expanding outreach to get graduate students around the world using and feeding the database - will help the US and other countries understand their energy systems and transition them to less carbon-centric fuel sources.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? Completing this project quickly, testing it and upgrading the infrastructure, and expanding outreach to get graduate students around the world using and feeding the database - will help the US and other countries understand their energy systems and transition them to less carbon-centric fuel sources.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" March 27, 2008 | Tompkins Spann This is a great start to an important question. And we should.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" March 27, 2008 | Tompkins Spann This is a great start to an important question. And we should.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed. Excellent post! All rights reserved.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It?

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Its also dependant on timing. November 25, 2007 | Freddie Sirmans Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « A. Where do you work? All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" For me it was no problem. June 30, 2009 | Andi Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. I’ve been caught using the “free as in kittens&# metaphor many more times than once.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

In a nutshell, creating a social media strategy that can stand the test of time. How do you avoid the “echo chamber&# problem of seeing the same people talking about the same things? Geoff’s new book is Welcome to the Fifth Estate: How to Create and Sustain a Winning Social Media Strategy. What is your new book all about?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I completely agree with Matt, its only a matter of time. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Somehow, a while back, we slipped from solving social problems to treating social ills.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I completely agree with Matt, its only a matter of time. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. Asking, before implementing a new technology – what problem is really attempting to be solved?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. The Right Donor Data Transfer There is a lot of time and attention on what goes into getting someone to make an online gift. I definitely don't think mobile donations, and mobile solutions are a waste of time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. So you’d still have the same problem. There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. And since they seem to upgrade their OS every 6 years or so … I have a suggestion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Turns out that part of the problem was that many nonprofits didnt understand functional expense accounting or reporting rules. Zooop — fast-forward to 2008: Charity Navigator gets new executive leadership in Ken Berger. Its an exciting time. By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

2008), in which he emphasizes the importance of designing evaluations to insure their usefulness, rather than simply creating long reports that may never get read or never result in any practical changes. . It isn't a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. Police use real-time evaluation to allocate their resources.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" That being said, maybe I have somewhat of a problem reaching whoever I want to reach by the more 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. I do that with a grain of salt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Tell me what thy wildlife name is on the twitter feed-but be sure! That Twitter was the answer to all their programs' problems evermore. . `At Though I feel the time spent disputing could be better spent recruiting. My twitter feed: [link]. NWF's Twitter feed: [link]. Session Content 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The series featured stories of 12 social entrepreneurs including Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, the co-Founders of KickStart (which was called ApproTEC at the time of the series). What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How much time was invested? The time invested, is hard to say. How many staff were involved?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How much time was invested? The time invested, is hard to say. How many staff were involved?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Of course, this incredible film was produced in a short amount of time, without a lot of budget to do outreach. I had to beg to drive him to the airport to even get any time with him, because he had no idea who I was.

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