Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

And, more importantly, will nonprofit messages get lost in the stream of news feed posts about Joe being a fan of Apple, and Jane renting a four star movie from Blockbuster? { Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends.

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JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.) Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 23, 2011

You don't get to say no, no matter how much you may want to." - Eli Stone Over the past couple weeks I've been watching Eli Stone, the 2008-09 TV dramedy that (sadly) was cancelled after two seasons. If you want to check it out, it's available on Netflix (DVD and streaming) and the 1st season is on Hulu. The world does.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. In early 2009, the Compete Blog posted its media trends for 2008, suggesting that publisher media continue to integrate social media. . Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 .

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

On Tuesday, everyone wanted to watch video, and that produced bulky streams of data traveling from media companies’ data centers out to people at work and in their homes. million video streams over a nine-hour span up to midafternoon. million streams provided during all of Election Day. CNN said it provided more than 21.3

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A sustainability plan is a conscious response to the fearful dilemma of what to do if you lose a major funding stream. And let me tell you, at some point, most of you will lose a major funding stream. 1] Savaya, R., Spiro, S., & and Elran-Barak, R. Sustainability of social programs: A comparative case study analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2010

This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease. TapIt water bottle refilling network was founded in 2008 to give New Yorkers free access to clean sustainable water on the go. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. billion people lack access to toilets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. When members do so, you’ll see it on the “Recent Activity” stream on the left side of your Home view: 5.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. 4 Michelle 09.27.06 at 10:39 am Marnie: Yeah, Ma.gnolia is slow sometimes, but speed isn’t much of a factor for me. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Beth: nope. I haven’t found one.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Right now they can legally restrict or slow your Internet connection. Think it can't happen? It already has. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

Needless to say, I'm one of the people who believes the 2008 IMLS research that shows that online encounters with museums increase visitation. The panel will not be recorded or streamed, but I'll happily report back in the comments here once it's over. What would you like me to ask?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

Strategize with this economic downturn in mind, not the 2008 recession. While it’s natural to look back at the recession of 2008, this is a very different economic disaster. Annual giving departments should certainly be looking at revenue streams that may not come back after distancing measures have lifted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In May 2008, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six groups (Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Foundation, Jewish Funds for Justice, W.K. In spring 2008 the Stanford Innovation Review article, "Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights," featured the Regeneration Project's Interfaith Power and Light Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. event that was larger in scale, included celebrities, and live streaming. We're now seeing the concept of a Twitter "Tweet-a-thon" evolve. It was launched by Dr. Mani who raised money for heart surgeries for poor kids in India. Last month, Joel Comm sponsored a Tweet-a-thon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will discuss (individually) their ideas about citizen service with Richard Stengel, Manager Editor, Time Magazine , and Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent and 2008 Political Editor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. His work focuses on providing "at-risk" youth with opportunties to be of service.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

All winners will be announced on March 28 at an awards ceremony and screening party in San Francisco and on streamed to the web. The nonprofit Story of Stuff Project was created in 2008 to respond to tens of thousands of viewer requests for more information and ways to get involved.

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Care2

OCTOBER 24, 2008

While the videos are streaming, viewers will be able to chat online with the Network Solutions team or participate in a live public chat, which is pretty nifty. October 23, 2008 | Marinel James-this is great. October 28, 2008 | Hatef Really like this post on video conference information. Thanks for sharing the news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way. Google’s 10 100 Project not only extended the contest timeline significantly — adding an entire year — but also changed the program mid stream after receiving over 100,000 submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The site streams volunteer opportunity content from sources like the Idealist, VolunteerMatch, and others. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. Nonprofits can no longer ignore these tools or they risk becoming irrelevant." It also has widgets. The Challenge raised $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

Originally posted five years ago, in August of 2008. And so I look back on the thousands of people who streamed by me in the Yellowstone parking lot with revulsion—as a jerk. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 blog posts from the past. It’s true. They are at the park.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" Or following the twitter streams and blogs posts of people like Pistachio and Connie Reece. Should I do best of, predictions, resolutions , or something else.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. This spring, Video Party , in association with Art Matters 2008 and Apathy Is Boring , will be presenting a selection of films about creating a world that we want to live in. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

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. If they are all skewed from one type of organization or donor, encourage your grant partner to diversify their funding streams.

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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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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 ).

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Kellogg Foundation The W.K. This is a newly created position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after a Cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) created a web-based collaboration portal for aid workers in the region that enabled more than 100 relief organizations to communicate, analyze information and manage resources.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter has had a banner 2008. • ~5 million users at the end of 2008. • Net result is 600% growth in 2008. So, I’m not the only one out there who became a new user in 2008 and who plans to keep using in 2009. In fact, I know I’m not alone. Statistics. • 70% are new users.

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