Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory. I even did a series of interviews of nonprofit social media professionals and their dogs and its all available on a fun wiki. The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. Cute Dog Theory. Marine animals and much.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. This analysis took all of five minutes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. They each have their good points and bad, strengths and reasons I use them (I use furl, for instance, to save pages I think might go away, or become paid content after a short time being free.) It’s just so … painful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. The 16 year old intern, though, is totally game, so maybe it is just about time. [2] More formatting options.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. It will play back all the data to show you where reports came from each day so you can see how the actions on the ground changed over time. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

With users' increasing confidence in participating together online, there's never been a better time to take a leap and try a new tactic to engage a group. Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. We've got a number of presentations from various events.

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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. at 6:29 am I have gone through this process many times and it all depends on several factors including where your audience is, what the technology infrastructure is, your budget and the mission-critical features you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. The Third C: Community.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

We at TechSoup have for a long time been fervent advocates for refurbished PCs. It is roughly 25 times more environmentally beneficial to extend the life of used, three-to-five year-old computers than it is to end-of-life recycle them at that age. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

It was an echo campaign to complement a radio roadblock on Friday, September 19, 2008 when the NAB encouraged all radio stations to run a Red Cross PSA at 1 pm EDT. I had already been working on the social media tools wiki so we could offer our supporters a bunch of easy ways to help online. That was useful considering our time crunch.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

Date: Thur, Aug 21, 2008 Time: 2:00 PM EDT Duration: 1 hour Cost: Free Registration: click here Natasha Nummedal is Senior Campaign Manager at Care2. Comments Off | by Share Article in Email Marketing , Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To register, please click here. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf There is a difference between seasonal agricultural work and a full time job with benefits. link] [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

I truly believe that being present in an open, giving, and transparent way in spaces where your supporters are already spending their time will lead to a stronger loyalty to your mission. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. that are easy to grab and use.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. The solution was to get impractical proposals on the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. and more expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

from Plone/SF Integration group ) There’s a good overview of the integration on the developerforce wiki. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. I’ve been caught using the “free as in kittens&# metaphor many more times than once.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

I am acutely aware, however, that most museum staff don’t have time to go looking in other sectors for good ideas that might shake up their thinking, especially stretched as thin as they are by the national financial crisis. 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan. Museums and Society 2019.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

It doesn’t take an advanced degrees or specialized skill to succeed in the Connected Age, just lots of old-fashioned confidence, some time and faith. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. I wrote the plans, outlines, and multiple drafts on a public wiki that was available for review, edits, and comments. The dead time in October was an error on my part--that data was lost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

She didn't really know what a wiki was, but she liked the idea of it. There are two things that worry me about this: Museum executives are often fascinated by the social/cultural outcomes of social media but may not understand the specific characteristics of the platforms (and are too busy to spend their time learning them).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

He was talking poetry, but over time I’ve found it to be one of the most useful, challenging ways to approach a range of situations. So now, after almost a year of Game Fridays, it’s time for a change. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. We’re going to make mistakes.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

60) Search « Dreaming of a Wiki? It seems spam blockers are becoming larger and more broad-based all the time. McAfee Spam Killer is especially difficult to deal with, even a simple thank you for "your time and interest" results in automatic deletion. Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism?

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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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