Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist. Check out the wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. The mashups that will come out in 2009 are going to be ones that create hybrid spaces in between the different tools we are already using. What was your favorite innovation from 2008?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

It was also a nod to the &# Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism &# which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O’Reilly’s E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel of Wired Blog). These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. Back in 2007, I noticed a pattern in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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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.) He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.) Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0 Finally, if data management stresses you out, here are some tips ! Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. BackType: Another Listening Tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Dividing Cells: in excel, you can select a column and say “split this in to many columns using the comma as a delimiter&# — I think it is under tools somewhere (I don’t have Excel so I don’t remember offhand.) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

at a much faster pace than the business world, with 75 percent using some form of social media like blogs, social networking sites, podcasts, wikis or other formats. Makes a lot of sense, given that these tools are mostly free or low-cost, and yet so effective. tools to pay attention to. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques. The tools used will include (but not limited to) a combination of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca.

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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. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use. You are not only able to re-play them but also embed the meeting on your blogs, wikis or other social media sites. I thought it would be a good endeavor to start with. It’s $.24

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

I put together a wiki for this presentation which includes a set of conversations questions. It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. What the heck is the Cute Dog Theory?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Our blog highlights examples from people in the HIV community using new media tools in response to HIV. 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. 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

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Join them for this webinar and online discussion brought to you by Care2. To register, please click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. 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.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

A 2008 update on these initial reports, User Survey Analysis: Secondary PC Market Offers Growing Opportunity , continues to support both the supply and demand growth projections. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. As for social media, we've tried to supply our online supporters with all the tools they might need to make it as easy as possible for them to help us get the word out that people affected by disasters need their help.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Spore was released in September of 2008 to huge sales expectations. Expo about Spore , and claimed that the power of Spore is not as a game but as a "self-expression tool." The automatic tools for uploads to other venues (like YouTube) enhance the sense that Spore creatures and activities exist outside the walled universe.

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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 Some are calling it impact investing.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Media for NonProfit Rockstars submitted by Ed Schipul Nonprofits wanting to enter into the Social Media arena are faced with endless new networks and tools to try, but a few have kicked some major butt. This panel will explore and discuss the impact of tools like Twitter, Qik, Utterz, Ustream, and more on current and future elections.

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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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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It’s not our ignorance of tools, but our fear of the unknown that hold most of us back.

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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. I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Be Helpful.

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