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113 Articles match "2008","New York"
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. It means different things to different people, but the most literal meaning is probably this: real-time systems push information from a publisher to a subscriber (be they a human reader or a machine consuming information) as soon as it’s available, without the subscriber having to ask if there’s anything
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Today, Stephanie Strom, Philanthropy reporter for The New York Times did a nice article around data from the Convio system that shows, at least behaviorally, the year-end tax deadline makes a big difference in online giving volume and revenue.
This data excludes special events related (TeamRaiser) gifts and recurring donations and represents clients that: • were active fundraising prior to 1/1/2008 • averaged >1 donation/day in 2008 (ie. Author: Tad Druart
Back in February there was a great deal of discussion and debate on the role of tax-deductions
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Friday, November 20, 2009
What you might not know is that since I first wrote about the Challenge in April 2008 , Cami has published a New York Times bestselling book, 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life , and has appeared on the TODAY Show ! Long time readers of Have Fun Do Good probably already know about the 29 Day Giving Challenge created by my friend, Cami Walker. During the 29 Day Giving Challenge, you give away one thing each day for 29 days.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. Voter registration is headed for new highs across the nation -- with a firestorm of newly registered voters under the age of thirty. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008.
Starting with the new(ish) generation of Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
Election For the first time in U.S.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Target Analytics , a Blackbaud Company, has released the 2008 donorCentrics™ Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis . The report is featured in today's edition of The New York Times and covers some of its many findings.
Through these discussions, and aggregating their giving data, an updated picture of integrated fundraising is presented in the new report. This is a follow-up to the groundbreaking 2006 report and provides insights into the online and offline trends of donors. Over the past three years, Target Analytics has held a series of annual meetings
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new.
Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. " Fresh + new(er) is an institutional blog from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia written by staff member Seb Chan. | View | Upload your own
The The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my
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Monday, August 18, 2008
has charitable status) that will steward the new program and take care of being a nonprofit and filing the annual returns. They offer a range of services for their fee. I also know a tech project that has used the FJC Fiscal Sponsorship Program , based in New York. Setting up as a nonprofit is not easy. Starting a for-profit in California took me one or two weeks, and I think it's still that fast.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Phil Borges, with foreword by Madeleine Albright, Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World [New York: Rizzoli, 2007], 13.) " These statistics come from The Girl Effect , a web site created by the Nike Foundation and NoVo Foundation to educate people about the positive impact educating and empowering girls can have on a community. You can get involved with The Girl Effect by sharing the web site and videos , learning more about the issue , and donating to a project that support girls on The Girl Effect's Global Giving page. New York Times columnist
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Written while being stranded at O'Hare airport due to flight cancellations does not always allow neurons to connect ....) After posting it, I remembered the phrase - "Social Productivity" that I read in one of the final chapters of " Connect: A Guide To the New Way of Working on the Web " by Anne Zelenka . Then I got a track back from the email dashboard blog that rounded up all posts that responded to the New York Times article about information overload. Photo by Natala007
While stuck in O'Hare on Saturday, I wrote a post about personal
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sarah promised her blog's readers that she would go to work (at Rockefeller Center in New York City) wearing a tomato costume if they would collectively donate $40,000 dollars. When you're in charge of your office's fundraiser, you've got two goals to meet: 1. Raise the amount of money you've been assigned.
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast ." The article describes a new nonprofit organization called " Information Overload Research Group ." A new E-Mail Addict feature in Gmail can help you.
Clicking Photo by Will Lion
quot; The article describes how some technology firms, including Microsoft , Intel , Google and I.B.M. ,
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Dan Schwabel's 5 Free Tools For Reputation Management introduced me to a new listening tool, backtype . New York Times via Ed Philp ,??? (original The service notifies users when new comments are
left, left, and allows the user to 0160; It solves the problem of monitoring blog
comments comments where people specifically mention you.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Usually, however, I’m able to find five things that I’m truly thankful for!" Philippa Kennealy of The Entrepreneurial MD shares the story of how one of her clients, a doctor, used a gratitude journal to move through depression in her post, Can a Gratitude Journal Be An Effective Business Tool? She also links to a New York Times article, Let Us Give Thanks. An activist friend of mine recently asked, "How do you get over it when life is unfair in a really big way?" I told her, "Keep a gratitude journal." I can't remember where I first saw this idea.
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