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. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Many of the organizations offer housing assistance as their core service, for example, and are serving thousands of families with limited resources, knowledge, or skills related to technology. Successful digital inclusion programs vary based on the core services provided by the organization running them. Additional Resources.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

You’ll save countless hours of misunderstanding and frustration by ensuring that they’re on board with organizational needs and board member expectations, and that they have the information and knowledge they need to help them succeed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study. The leaders must have the knowledge to be able to “integrate social and environmental factors into economic and finance theory” (Monitor Institute, 2009, p. Big Donors Losing Faith In Charity To Solve Problems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Problem is, I’m not a nonprofit organization. I think instructor’s video with whiteboard format is a good format for knowledge sharing. The other potential problem for some users is that the free version limits the number of web-conference participants to 3. Have a great day, Tracey 2 admin 08.17.07 Wish I were!

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. 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. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Is there one idea that can begin to solve all the problems in the world? link] October 10, 2008 | FChristie I think that this is a great contest. v=cb71fk-79Uc Also, full details of my idea can be found at: www.quidproquohealthmanagement.com October 11, 2008 | Jonathan Barry my name is anandbabu and iam from vishakapatnam in india.i

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). Assess and strengthen your own knowledge and the technical resources of your organization. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Scharmer (2008) accuses these failures to the blind “deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change” (Scharmer, 2008). Executive Forum, Winter 2008, 52-59. It is essential.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

It drives me simply nuts that every single time I call my satellite provider about a problem with the service, and I’m saying “I’m seeing 80% packet loss, and doing a traceroute suggests that it’s about 2 hops after your modem&# and they respond with “OK, first, we’re going to clear out your browser cache.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Scientists state a problem, make a hypothesis, develop a test regimen to test the hypothesis, gather data, analyze the results, and make conclusions, which may include stating new problems or hypotheses. But in other cases, people may use institutional resources without the institution's knowledge.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Experience a Sea of Support - come ride the wave of knowledge! General / #fcny / @FastCompany. 2016 MNN Annual Conference.

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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. . Out comes the clan, the medicine people who have knowledge. It isn't a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

I also agree with you that social media were the buzz word of 2008, whilst now they are increasingly proving their worth in the real world. Meaning the lack of knowledge of traditional digital media gets in the way of something that the social media - and service providers related to it - kind of make up for. To some extend anyway.

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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. Another part was that many nonprofits didnt have systems in place to track and allocate expenses accurately.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There is something really exciting about looking at every juncture for how we can work together, and pool our knowledge and our ability to open doors. What is Women's Earth Alliance, and what problem you're trying to solve? The problem that we are addressing is a great one. billion people are without clean water.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. The growing class of technology-oriented people are very inclined to share the knowledge wealth. A good example of the problem of propagation is the IKO-Toilet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

But what can you do about a problem that seems so overwhelming? On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. That knowledge keeps me going. Over and over we were told, someone should have said something. JG: Absolutely.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

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? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

An important design component is the strategy for spreading knowledge and skills for participants by using small experiments with some measurement that help them improve and learn. possible solutions to the problem of intergenerational poverty. It’s also hard to change the. It turns out there is a. better way. coverage.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Attendees learned how to work with specific data sets (FEC), track congressional activites using GovTrack.org , and keep tabs on state legislatures through projects like Knowledge As Power , which enables citizens of Washington State to track that activities of their state legislature. Sounds fun right? helps you keep tabs on the U.S.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. In this regard, the problem for platform cooperatives is not so much technical or financial as it is political. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. The problem arises when expertise creates a feeling of entitlement to control the entire visitor experience.

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