Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. This is also an ongoing process. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 2 admin 07.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. It’s designed as a basecamp clone. It has some things missing, for sure, but it has been useful to me. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0 IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. (If you have an iPhone, you can get an app that takes it one step further , with links to nearby farmers markets.).

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! When I’m making my best efforts to try to keep up, I do it in waves, like so many other things I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

My one request is that vendors who comment on this blog take a moment to step back a bit from their myopia, and look at the ways in which they can contribute to a vibrant, active ecology of choices, rather than fight for their own little piece of the pie. { I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. Instead what would it look like if everyone on staff, especially leadership, actively participated in furthering the organization’s mission online?

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APRIL 29, 2021

Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Prior to her current role, she spent 15 years in for-profit and higher education institutions with a focus in organizational development and leadership effectiveness. National University. Anna Rathmann.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 8:37 am Actually, I do – I have a client whose activities and donor base suggest that they have a lot of other work to do before they delve into social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 I think I can write something up.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

This action alone “…could be the best way to slow or even stop the cycle [of nonprofit starvation]” (Goggins-Gregory & Howard, 2009). An educated and engaged board of directors can be the key for a nonprofit to find new funding and maximize currently available resources. Change the unrealistic expectations of contributors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. “I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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JUNE 17, 2011

Which groups of volunteers are the most active? Einolf (2009) [1] analyzed the baby boomer generation and predicted a similar increase in volunteer numbers and rates. Education, religious attendance, and good health were found to be significant determinants of senior volunteering. But how do we target our recruiting efforts?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. And famines have consequences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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in 2009 to understand how and why millennials do what they do with causes, there was one question advisors, practitioners and it seemed like everyone wanted to know –. One study finds millennials care about environment, education and health. This blog first appeared on. When we started the. Millennial Impact Project.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds. While videos are more time-consuming to create, they are an excellent way to portray the active work your organization does. Use moving elements that aren’t properly showcased in images.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. So I’m stuck where I don’t want to be (where lots of nonprofits are) with a data integration problem that I can’t solve right now, and likely won’t get solved for years.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It's no surprise that the use of virtual worlds in industries like health care delivery and education are on the rise. Brian Kaihoi (Svea Morane in Second Life), recently visited the Nonprofit Commons to report on Mayo Clinic's virtual world activities in the areas of patient care, research, education and administrative services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. From my perspective, the key is openness. Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They just marked their 150th first-person story on their blog , so in the 150 hours leading up to Labor Day, @GoodwillIntl is tweeting out one of these success story per hour under the hashtag #150job to spotlight someone who has found work, education or volunteer opportunities with support from Goodwill. ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Free Range tells great stories that inspire, educate and activate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. And, of course, you get badges for various activities. Anyway, it might be cool to be able to add on more information about the charity, more ways to engage and educate me. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

(I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) The next step was to get online.

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MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. We also work with animal shelters and animal-related causes, as well as with the arts, whether it’s museums, education, or other types of art institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Miriam Brosseau is the Associate Director of Network Initiatives at The Jewish Education Project and Darim Online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Considering that nonprofits are increasingly being held responsible for outcomes, not just activities, it makes sense that their consultants would move in this direction, too. I also think that when you bill based on time, you get away from the “results&# piece of it.

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