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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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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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

But everything we do online leaves a digital trail behind about our activities and our members. Technology has changed dramatically since then, allowing us to easily move our activities and information online -- but since electronic privacy law hasn't kept up, the privacy protections for that information may not transition as smoothly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. 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. Read more posts on our blog. Geek poetry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? When was the last release?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

. “Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization.&# In fact, if you are a nonprofit, you’ve spent time wading through that crap (and believe me, I’ve created my own healthy share of vendorspeak.) you the picture. That makes me happy.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. 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. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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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

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

In Education. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. 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!

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. 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. Complex questions, no doubt.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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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. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I need to figure out a good network configuration. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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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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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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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. Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. From my perspective, the key is openness. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

He thinks that time-based billing is bad. On one hand, he feels that consultants should base their fees on the value they bring to the consulting relationship, not the time spent. But some of his ideas are interesting, especially the notion of setting the fees on the value you bring, rather than the time you spend.

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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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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

At the time, the millennial generation was getting a bad rap; everyone envisioned them as kids absorbed only in their screens that didn’t care what happened around them. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving.

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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. The design seems to encourage me to translate my Karma to donations every time I earn them. Anyway, it might be cool to be able to add on more information about the charity, more ways to engage and educate me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

By giving individuals an activity they can perform on their own, you enable them to define their own level of participation and engagement. In 2009, Project Bread used a bowl-a-thon to raise more than $14,000! To coordinate a successful event, you can expect to dedicate a full-time employee for at least several months.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Adolescence is a critical time when youth develop their own personal identities (their own concepts of who they are and what makes them unique) and social identities (based on what groups they belong to and their interactions with others). 5] When a person feels good about one’s self and one’s ethnic group (i.e., How can we make a difference?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The time and effort it would take to maintain a blog isn’t going to result in any better accomplishment of mission. Organization 2 is a small pro-choice membership organization that depends upon outside funding, has many stakeholders in many different communities, and provides advocacy and activism nationally. Which is just fine.)

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. This is great news.

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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. It was funny at the time). I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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