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. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. Be Helpful. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Finally, acclaimed journalist and producer Soledad O’Brien interviewed José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, who spoke about the power of a good meal to reignite, maintain, and grow a community. . The two discussed innovative solutions to the challenges facing nonprofits. Customer Spotlights.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Read an interview of an Android developer. Be Helpful. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I'm helping Green for All get the word out about Van Jones ' new book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Two of Our Biggest Problems. He was recently named as a TIME Magazine 2008 Hero of the Environment. Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. I’ve got to catch up. They also have, at this point, no community. I have high hopes for it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Help Wanted. Understanding why startups fail can help avoid such traps. Eisenmann : The Lean Startup movement swept out of Silicon Valley starting in 2008 or so and has since been embraced by entrepreneurs around the world. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Here are our picks for the top donation platforms for nonprofits to help optimize your digital fundraising efforts. We have done our best to clearly map out the fees and strengths of each platform to help nonprofits find the best fit. We’re asked this question a lot at Whole Whale. Online revenue is up for nonprofits. Click To Tweet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Be Helpful. I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. Be Helpful. I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. But there are some very cool and fun widgets.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. Projects interview membership. We saw an opportunity to really differentiate ourselves, the way we do with our exhibitions and programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

What better to celebrate than with an interview with Kim Murray who became the 10,000th fan. I attended a local unconference for nonprofits about two years ago with the intention of learning how I, as a blogger, could help local nonprofits… you & your blog were mentioned several times. Tell us about yourself!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I'll be starting the challenge again on October 30, 2008 so that the 29th day of my challenge will be on November 27, 2008, American Thanksgiving. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. You can read a transcript of my interview with Zainab Salbi here. You can read a transcript of my interview with Lisa Witter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. What were the challenges?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. CH: How much money can I donate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Interview with Jonathon Colman. Thanks Teresa Crawford For Helping Us Swim Upstream. 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Social Media Breakfast: Help Leverage A Tyson Foods Donation. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Harry: A Green Geek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. That is incredibly fulfilling: almost as fulfilling as seeing a testimonial from someone whom your community has been able to help. We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

1) Downer News Cycle: Last week, in an interview with NPR , I pointed to the long cycle of bad news we had experienced over the summer as one possible reason the Ice Bucket Challenge had so much appeal. But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 25, 2010

So, to help myself narrow down the options, I look for the ones that aren't just fun and enjoyable but are also interesting, will use my brain, keep me engaged and even help me learn something new. Those are the things that are most fun to me, anyway! I like to find ways either in real-time, or after a project, to share.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most nonprofit organizations engage in feedback mechanisms such as surveys, interviews or focus groups in order to gather perspectives from the people they serve to address downward accountability (Buteau et al., Hearing from those we seek to help: Nonprofit practices and perspectives in beneficiary feedback (Rep.). Gopal, R., &

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) (We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) Check it out !

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Other evaluation forms include: process evaluation, which requires that specific program activities and procedures be reviewed in order to help explain why a program worked or did not work; and program monitoring, which uses in-process measures to track whether a program is being executed as designed. Sources: 1. Carman, J.G.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

We also did an interview with her and posted it on our website. We had 22 video submissions, 2,000 new list members via the winners page leading to [a campaign] to help end dogfighting, and 52,000 YouTube video views of the original video. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! How many videos were submitted?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

He jokingly said something like (and I'm paraphrasing) that asking a nerd like him to talk about how these tools can help do more good is like a crime against humanity. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I was particularly moved by an interview with one Stanley Hotel resident, a heroin addict, who said, "I wish people had a better understanding of the kind of people we are, 'cause we're not animals, and we're not contagious. For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6%

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity of Omaha has built 993 homes for families since 1984, and has doubled in size twice since Bob Lynn joined the team in 2008. " The Power of VoIP.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I was excited to see that Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , who I interviewed in early 2008 , was included in the Political Activism chapter. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite. Each essay is a quick read.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

We also did an interview with her and posted it on our website. We had 22 video submissions, 2,000 new list members via the winners page leading to [a campaign] to help end dogfighting, and 52,000 YouTube video views of the original video. March 4, 2008 | Carie This girl is on the ball! How many videos were submitted?

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. That said, there are some basic things that might be helpful to think about. I think the better question is, why not be on YouTube?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. They interviewed key stakeholders. And each of us explained it a little differently.

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