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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APRIL 30, 2009

When: May 12, 2009. FreePress , Democracy In Action , Rad Campaign , Convio , Care2 , NTEN , Massey Media and Network Solutions. The 2nd Annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit is just one week away. Again, this year we have a great line up so don’t wait to sign up. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT. A big thank you goes out to them.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. Well, that depends of course, on the organization.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0 Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (If you have an iPhone, you can get an app that takes it one step further , with links to nearby farmers markets.). Geek poetry. Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW.

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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. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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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. I think I can write something up.

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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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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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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? of women in FLOSS?

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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

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. Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – "That's right, I said it. " Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: Best of 2009 | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Check out the diverse submissions to the December Net2 Think Tank that simply asked for the best blog posts of 2009! ' Open Source Is Dead!

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The Three Dimensions of Social Media ROI | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - Holly Ross has an excellent post and commentary about measuring ROI: "return on investment is really hard to determine. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter. " - it's true! ." " - it's true!

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JUNE 1, 2007

I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams.

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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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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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JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

After some good conversations with NTEN Members and consultants who have their heads in these systems, we began thinking about the links -- or the missing ones -- between the different systems nonprofits use to track any number of tasks on a daily basis. . Tags: CMS CRM data ecosystem dms NPTech NTEN. But that's probably just him.).

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MAY 6, 2009

We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions." " This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th.

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN will moderate a panel with Heidi Hess of Children's Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation. When: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 2 p.m. Tags: Online Activism Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Recruitment. What: While They're Hot! Converting Fresh Leads into Donors.

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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. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For the 3rd year running, the November edition of NTEN Connect will be filled with content written entirely by our Members -- but with a twist. Last month, we put out a call for articles, and received 21 submissions from NTEN Members. A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits.

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MAY 14, 2009

For most organizations, almost one-third of all online actions are taken by the most active subscribers who comprise about 7% of the list. May 14, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski "the total dollars raised online increased by only 26%" Id say an increase of total dollars raised of 26% year over year is huge. com , Inc.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Public Interest Registry and NTEN want to celebrate that change, so we're launching the.ORG Ambassador awards. This year's Ambassador will be chosen by a judging panel made up of the.ORG and NTEN teams. There are a few criteria: You must be a member of NTEN. There are a few criteria: You must be a member of NTEN.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My favorite is the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC which I've been doing for the past ten years! Mozilla Service Week starts on Monday, September 14! This includes Aspiration, The Extraordinaries, NTEN, PopTech, and many others. The Internet Health Check offers a couple of easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web.

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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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MAY 6, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN. When : May 12, 2009. Video Activism. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Charelene Li, co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas. Deanna Zandt. Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach. and so much more. Panels run from 11AM EDT to 6PM EDT.

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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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MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. For most organizations, almost one-third of all online actions are taken by the most active subscribers who comprise about 7% of the list. Here are the highlights.

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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With 300 million active users, Facebook is a natural starting place. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. and Canada.

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