NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How are YOU doing , as someone who works with technology and/or the nonprofit sector, in terms of your job role, tech-adoption, and organizational challenges? Earlier this spring, we collected responses from 1000 folks and have analyzed and reported back that data for you in this report. > > Download the report (free).

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Can you adopt similar techniques that can bolster your company’s best features? Download the report now! .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. How about your nonprofit?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

As of July 2009, 56.9 I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. It will surely stretch into 2011 and beyond, but 2010 is definitely the year to reap the benefits of early adoption. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010. The web is going mobile. That’s 1 out of every 5.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

In talking with organizations that are using it – adoption issues for staff seem to be fairly minimal (my partner, a non-techie writer, uses it everyday, with no complaints.) IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. Outside of the US, OpenOffice.org adoption is growing fast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . Very expensive.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

– "Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? " What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. On the one hand, it’s important to kep looking ahead to know what’s coming, and build systems and processes for our nonprofits that will still be relevant next year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. (If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

One of the biggest issues for nonprofits in terms of adoption of Linux has been the lack of availability of ready-for-primetime applications like accounting. Well, OK, they aren’t really jumping, but putting their toe in the water in the Linux server realm. Check out PostBooks at [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Thanks for a great site!! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. That means developers need only write an app once, and it can get used on any of the networks involved, like Orkut and LinkedIn. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

The more curmudgeonly social networking users get, the less likely they are to adopt new social networks. I hate to tell you this but commercial social networking entrepreneurs LOVE your attitude. It means lock-in that they don’t have to build. 2 admin 10.02.07 at 12:50 pm Well, I can imagine they might love my attitude right now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009. It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices. Wish we could afford to hire you!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read. My way is a simpler lifestyle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. I’m an early adopter, I know – it’s easy to feel like everyone’s doing it, and maybe I should look into it. Or whatever. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al., Banks were not lending.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. Sixty-two percent of respondents felt that the board was ‘well informed” or “very well informed” of its responsibilities” as compared to 58% in 2010. Increased accountability and self-assessment. Sources: 1. 3 October 2012.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. If you don’t see the analogy to blogging or any adoption of social media, then you’re blind.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow. Certainly there’s been a correlating growth in the adoption rate of social media by the general public as well as nonprofits and schools themselves. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250. Check out the webinars here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2012

Every sector surveyed in our 2011 Online Fundraising Report experienced double-digit growth since 2009 , including roughly 13 percent* in the past year. The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. give significant amounts. were between $1,000 and $5,000.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Since then, there have been more than 6.5 spanhidden.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Open Source Software Open Question 36

NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. years at DoSomething.org, he oversaw the complete overhaul of the site (cms, architecture, skin, etc) in 2008, landing a People's Choice Webby Award in the Youth in 2009 and nomination in 2010. They demand an in-house tech team. During his 4.5

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2012

Overall, Convio clients raised 17 percent more online in the last three months of 2011 than in 2010. But, the real impact was made in December when our client’s year-end fundraising efforts came on like gangbusters—raising more than $30 million more online than in December 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. What will the social sector look like in 2010?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis. Costs & Benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And the user-adoption numbers are ridiculously high. Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

Maybe we should adopt these as preferred terms? Our 2010 Compensation & Benefits Report will give you the clear picture you need to understand the AZ sector. Hildy Gottlieb advocates for adopting the term community benefit organizations. In 2009, U.S. You hear these terms regularly in regulatory and legal contexts.

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