Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008, at 10:31 am. Filed under photos , unplugged. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. This was written by Steve Bridger. Tagged photos , walk.

Burma 40

Burma Mexico Flickr Bookmarking 40

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

As we sift through the data, we’re learning some interesting things and finding correlations with other data that can help nonprofits make better decisions. I also did a little, non-scientific analysis of some of the cities that had jumps of 20-30 places in their 2008 to 2009 ranking.

Austin 28

Austin Online Learning Minneapolis 28

Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop.

Flickr 40

Flickr Burma Mexico Storytelling 40

Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 1:16 pm. Filed under flickr. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? The feedback was great. This was written by Steve Bridger. Tagged charities , flickr , workshop.

Flickr 40

Flickr Burma Mexico Storytelling 40

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

Knowledge 60

Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets. State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - It doesn't work.

Twitter 50

Twitter Practice Bookmarking Profile 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

If any of your readers are interested to learn more, or to sign up to the program (competely free of charge!), I would love to share with your readers that we have a very generous Education Progrm underway, weherby we are giving large blocks of Premium accounts to Universities nationwide. they can read about it at [link].

Search 100

Search Web Open Source Audio 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In 2008, Convio pioneered a new program called Convio Go!™ 8 percent of file are donors. Do you need help getting your leadership or board on board to make the move to a more robust online fundraising program? Organizations of all sizes can get into the game, you just need a playbook. You can’t afford to wait any longer!

Convio 76

Convio Mail Newsletter Game 76

NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. HSUS had already built a mobile subscriber list of about 12,000 activists through Mobile Commons by December of 2008.

United States 44

United States Mobile Test Advocacy 44

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. Working with our counsel, we filed all the necessary paperwork for a DBA (doing business as) Fight Colorectal Cancer. And each of us explained it a little differently. One less detail to worry about. We'll work that out over time.

Cancer 226

Cancer Phase Research Change 226

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

Disaster 206

Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. As their giving grows and you learn more about them you can retain them and get them giving more by developing a cultivation plan that honors their interests and sets a revenue goal for your ask. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do?

Retention 37

Retention Donor Change Blackbaud 37

Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2011

A couple years ago I learned about some crazy happenings at the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio : they didn't go to work. Your files could only be found in massive file cabinets. The Internet and options for storing files outside of standard onsite servers became available around the same. Author: Cheryl Black. Ten years ago?

Technology 32

Technology Environment Laptop Files 32

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Even though the study is from for-profit emailers, we can learn from the results. Here's a gem of a post from Peter Genuardi in 2008 that addresses this exact point. Organizations used to get bragging rights for having the largest number of emails on their file. You can use their behavior as a clue for this.

gMail 31

gMail Hints Rate Info 31

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

Change 73

Change Social Model Myanmar 73

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

Change 73

Change Social Model Myanmar 73

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. As their giving grows and you learn more about them you can retain them and get them giving more by developing a cultivation plan that honors their interests and sets a revenue goal for your ask. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do?

Retention 55

Retention Donor Change eBook 55

Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. Working with our counsel, we filed all the necessary paperwork for a DBA (doing business as) Fight Colorectal Cancer. And each of us explained it a little differently. An example of our early “brand&# circa 2005. One less detail to worry about.

Cancer 100

Cancer Phase Research Change 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The traditional method of receiving tax-deductible donations is to file for 501(c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, an application for 501(c)(3) status designed for a religious, charitable, or educational purpose.

Model 53

Model Fund Social United States 53

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) A blog tends to be specifically personal posts, in date order. Learn more: WomenWhoTech.org. WeAreMedia.org.

Tools 100

Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. tjs 4 Ariel Arjona 11.20.08 at 3:04 pm I used cake 1.2

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Model AJAX 100

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

Lesson 96

Lesson Cancer Learning PDF 96

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In honor of C3's 5 year anniversary this month, I present to my fellow techies in young nonprofits my 5 simple lessons learned from 5 years of operating in the cloud: 1. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

Lesson 96

Lesson Cancer Learning PDF 96

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

And finally, we’ll learn from a few case studies and go over some production best practices. data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast.

Podcast 123

Podcast Support Files Audio 123

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) Learn more: WomenWhoTech.org WeAreMedia.org Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Case Studies , Conferences , Online Advocacy , Social Networking , Technology , Web 2.0 , nptech Reader Comments (1) A good summary of the actual seminar! All rights reserved.

Social Media 34

Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. can transform the teaching and learning experience. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).

Software 100

Software Free Ubuntu Open Source 100

sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What about nonprofits that don’t file an IRS Form 990 ? Only $10k was raised" is meaningless -- the two month's that Paypal supported donations was not enough time for the app ecosystem to learn about it and adjust their apps to take advantage of it. Only 501(c)(3) organizations? What about 527 political organizations ?

Trend 75

Trend Nonprofit Blackbaud Aggregator 75

Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2010

Overall, 69 percent of organizations raised more in 2009 than 2008, while 31 percent saw declines in their online fundraising. Organizations with fewer than 10,000 email addresses on file, many of which are participants in the Convio Go! Email files continued to grow strongly. Small organizations grew fastest. percent in 2009.

Convio 35

Convio Benchmark Files Metrics 35

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If a disaster renders your organization's servers inoperable, System Recovery lets you quickly restore the entire system, or even just individual files and folders. Plus, if you're running Windows Small Business Server 2003/2008, there's a version of Backup Exec optimized just for (admin fee: $106).

Disaster 36

Disaster Library Spam Laptop 36

See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

There are two ways to upload your video: by using our Single File Uploader and the YouTube Uploader. Videos uploaded through YouTube’s Single File Uploader have to be under the 100MB file size limit. Programs like these allow you to edit your videos, add soundtracks, and compress file sizes.

YouTube 40

YouTube Files Video FAQ 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

See3

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When I explained to her that she didn’t have to use her thumb drive to transfer the file from one computer to her school computer — she just had to login to Google — she loved it. So, listen to what Shpigler has to say and maybe you can also learn something about negotiating too. Try Google Docs.

Advice 40

Advice Yahoo Doc 40

Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

While there are several elements of communication that are different between the two channels, I offer the following five tips to online fundraisers from a direct mail dinosaur: Segment your file: Not all online subscribers are created equal, nor should they be treated equally. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

Mail 28

Mail Social Media Online Fundraising 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

While there are several elements of communication that are different between the two channels, I offer the following five tips to online fundraisers from a direct mail dinosaur: Segment your file: Not all online subscribers are created equal, nor should they be treated equally. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

Mail 28

Mail Social Media Online Fundraising 28

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The eye images were posted to the site, and the incantations were layered over the top of each other in an ever-growing audio file. The game website is here.

Museum 20

Museum Game Evaluation PDF 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. And if it's not something you've done before, not part of your daily practice, you might want to avoid learning the technology, no matter how simple it is.

Wiki 23

Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Filed under Uncategorized. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing! Posted on at. Bookmark the permalink. Am I missing something?

Flickr 40

Flickr Charity Social Media Hurricane 40