Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2019

Whether you’ve been running peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns for years or you’re just getting started, it’s worth taking time to rethink your overall process. Take time to analyze. Take some time to gather, analyze, and use data from your past campaigns or events. Last year you ran X:XX in our 5K and took Xth place.

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JUNE 1, 2023

About Pride Month Pride Month’s origins come from the Stonewall riots which started on June 28, 1969, and took place over several days. A year after the riots, the first pride parades took place in several U.S. QC Pride was founded in 2008, revived in 2017, and serves the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. QC Pride, Inc.

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JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. They share their time to raise funds on behalf of your organization. That’s why you put time, effort, and dollars into recruiting participants in the first place.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Their search for a vendor came at a very difficult time, as the pandemic and its effects were just beginning. After months of unresponsiveness and no progress, they realized they’d placed their trust in the wrong people. CROS Ministries has helped serve the hungry in Palm Beach and Martin Counties since 1978. The Solution. The Outcome.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Just think: You put technology in place to help you run your nonprofit , but for it to be effective, your staff must know how to use it correctly. They offer a place for your staff to ask questions, learn from other users, and share knowledge with others. One effective approach is to emphasize software training.

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JUNE 3, 2022

Three key themes emerged from the Summit: The power of building strong relationships to achieve your mission; the importance of flexibility, integration, and innovation to support your mission in times of change and growth; and the value of having secure data to gain deeper insights. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

DIOSA Communications has been offering social media webinars for nonprofits since February 2008, but the content of the webinars and the time schedule mostly accommodate nonprofits in the United States. The webinars cost $40US each, or $70US if you register for both at the same time. Approximately 20 charities in the U.K.,

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JUNE 24, 2014

2) Social Media Takes Time to Do Right. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. Too few boards are honest about the investment of time and resources that their nonprofit has to make in social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." It’s so nicely done, I wish it could indeed become that unified place. Except… Everyone wants their site to be the unified place.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. I met Ruth in Oakland - she is a long-time Oaklander. Of course, I''ve always been (or at least, for a long time) all of those things. I mean, in what other place would I feel pretty normal getting the mohawk haircut I sported recently?

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox.

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MARCH 17, 2008

I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. I think it will be a great time. I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye. Lots of wonderful folks, should be great panels.

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MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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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. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it.

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JULY 17, 2013

While the $100 t-shirt has a place in peer-to-peer fundraising programs – specifically walks – it shouldn’t be the main fundraising ask. But, I believe it’s time to rethink how we’re looking at data. But, remember it’s time to challenge conventional thinking, reasoning and logic. How much time are you spending?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. The last time I coded in a CMS was when I was working on the (now dead) perl CMS I wrote many moons ago. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS.

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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. They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. Plus I hope to be that expert, or close to it, when the time does come!) ;) 4 Beth Kanter 08.10.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile.

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JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. So far, it’s simply vaporware. More on that in a later post. {

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one. comes out.

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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. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Glad you like it.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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APRIL 6, 2021

We had a list of maybe 100 volunteers and it was my job to email them all to ask about days and times for volunteering. Some people emailed me their availability while others signed up on a google sheet (Google Forms wasn’t even a thing then, it came out in 2008). I’m in there learning new things about the platform all the time .

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FEBRUARY 7, 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 #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. So here goes. The date was sometime in 1995.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

As a full-time user of both Firefox and Thunderbird, I’m really enjoying the benefits of these open platforms, and the immense creativity of people who create add-ons. And it’s all free! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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