Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. I can only assume you concede these points. “itâ??s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I’m someone who has, since day one, tried my damnedest (and succeeded 96% of the time) to only say by email, or put up, what I would say in a room full of people. But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { tool to jump in. What a concept.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

It’s the time of year when people start placing their bets on where we’re going next. Mashups in this sense aren’t going anywhere, especially as platforms are built to help create them with less technical knowledge and in less time. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. Community Movement.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

More precisely, you have to give 5 times more good than bad. We, as nonprofit leaders, have problems to solve. Big problems. They (whoever "they" are), were spot-on when they named this the Information Age. Data becomes useful only when it's applied to problem solving. Clearly a problem, right?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

We thought it'd be a good time check in with the new CEO of the project, Brian Vahaly, to see how it's going. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Quite the contrary: it was very well made, with important, disturbing, and timely information. The 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards , which we're co-sponsoring with See3 Communications and the Nonprofit Times , are now open. If you made a video in 2008, we want to see it!

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Tech officers can use this to inform decisions about systems toward long-term impact. Everything that a tech person deals with on a daily basis revolves around problem solving. Their goal is to save money and time for staff. A technology officer should be brought in at the senior leadership level. Solution Based Thinking.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Grants that are Hyper Issue-Focused with Holistic Approaches to Problem Solving. Foundations have consistently remained conservative in their grant and operational spending since the financial market crash of 2008 and have been looking to do more with their limited resources.

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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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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

When it comes to nonprofit board development, “I don’t have time,” “We don’t have the resources,” “How can I possibly think about strengthening the board when I’m worried about how we are going to deliver programs and meet payroll?” I work long days and don’t always have time to exercise.” I don’t have time.” “We

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Web Huddle – The only other one I can find that at this time offers the possibility of sharing a Linux desktop. Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. I hope that information helps you in your analysis. We chose Persony because it had one of the simplest interfaces and had a one-time fee. Wish I were!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

Those under 45 have faced the changing global dynamics of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the COVID-19 pandemic–the results of these major events have been felt extremely acutely as these younger Americans entered the workforce, built families, and attempted to build wealth against these headwinds. more on average.

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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. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Trust me.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

A few months ago, I was chatting with Tony Karrer about this problem and he suggested that semantic tagging might work. My problem has been retrieval. Information. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Here's what it looks like: Concepts. Communication. More >> Tools. More >> Places. Organization.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

It's not a problem that suddenly snuck up on us. The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Data silos also create problems. Going forward, it will be more important to connect your user’s social addresses with this information, too. But not all of these solutions scale, and many don’t lead to better user relationships over time. . It’s time to throw the nonprofit tech dept some love. During his 4.5

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. The project includes an editable database of information on power plants, fuel sources and CO2 footprints ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. The project includes an editable database of information on power plants, fuel sources and CO2 footprints ?

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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. What's the tone, formal or informal? Page Views: The number of times a page (unit of content) was viewed. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

to information exchange. NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Adequate time to deliberate + clarity of purpose are provided.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

David Carr in the New York Times suggests that The Wire is placing too much of the blame for the failures in the newsroom on the management staff that has to make them. He suggests that the show should spend more time looking at the structural issues that are the root cause of the problem. Everyblock grabs police reports (eek!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

The AIDS.gov website is a gateway to all Federal domestic HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and research information. The website is the primary channel through which we communicate HIV information to our community, Federal partners, and people living with, or at-risk for, HIV. Be timely and relevant to your supporters.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team. " "For geeks only."

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

Collect What You Need—and Use What You Collect When requesting information about the organizations and individuals who request funding, don’t just keep track of the basics. Collect as much information as you think you will need to make educated funding decisions. No problem! Where have they formerly worked?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. As you can imagine, a metric like average time on site is less helpful for a donation site than it is for a content-based one. Is it signing up to receive information? Is it to gather donations or content?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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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. July 31, 2008 | Jordan Viator Hatef, Your article is very informative, especially for new social media users like my self.

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