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. Allan, in his inimitable style, talks about how most nonprofit organizations will not be able to take advantage of OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? No question about that. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) But I think more is needed. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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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. If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with John Brennan , the driving force behind OpenAction.org , which empowers individuals and organizations by helping them tell the world about the positive impact their actions have. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And we all know how organizations end up reworking their procedures and way of doing things when a new large software implementation happens. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years. " Software uses metaphors all the time as well. It’s inevitable. And precisely (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Does it say what you really want it to about your organization?

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. This was in the solidly web 1.0 Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

22 Nationwide, Uber adopted a complex new “full fare” algorithm in 2021 that many drivers claim makes it increasingly difficult to track rider fares or understand what they will earn on a given ride. 50 Cooperative banks and credit unions are a possible source of business capital, as well.

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