Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. has turned out to be the glue that holds it (the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand) all together and makes it work, surprisingly. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

With two decades of marketing experience and an MBA Degree, Debbie developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. Note: this was before Amazon purchased Zappos (July 2009, in case you’re wondering).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. The new design has been in the works for over a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Here's a few examples. Mizfit is donating a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Innovative Giving: Gaming For Rice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Open Philanthropy is about working together to increase the size of the proverbial pie (not the piece)." I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. The time is now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X I’ll send off queries to the right mailing lists and forums, and probably eventually get it all worked out. No happiness for me. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Saying that "It's time fo rthe world's idealists to work together (seriously)." I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. " Download the report!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

On the theme of this week in the US – Thanksgiving day, Elisa, of Nonprofit Congress, is thankful for her work. She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 Its the client I use at work, but I have even fewer contacts than you do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 7:04 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.14.08 BTW, do you know of or have an example from your clients where they have thoughtfully considered a facebook strategy or using these tools and it really wasn’t the right fit? however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

“If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 But there are successful counter examples. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 So we’ll see what happens. 3 Matthew Edmondson 07.10.08 Thanks for a great site!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Thanks for the comments! Or given up? So here’s the summary for Chapter 3.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 Here’s an example of some activists using it: [link] And, yes, I’m doing some work for ooVoo. 2 admin 01.31.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. This FREE software works as an add-on template in Excel, allows you import data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Email and create social network analysis maps. The workshop was organized by colleague, Tatyana Kanzavelli.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07 But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07 at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. has turned out to be the glue that holds it (the “Nonprofit Organizations” brand) all together and makes it work, surprisingly. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 at 4:57 pm Hi – just one point, I see in nptech world the bend/promotion towards Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla alot which is no bad thing I work successfully with all of them, they are all good and great, and fairly easy to use for the end user.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I am working on several projects, both collective and personal. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. of me, but what I really want is something powerful that just works locally. 2 phil jones 04.19.07

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

I’ll hear comments like, “Hey Anthony, why doesn’t Tech Impact have a Pinterest page?” “Wouldn’t it be great if Tech Impact had a Tumblr on bad nonprofit technology?” “Why aren’t we using Instagram for pictures of the nonprofits we’ve helped?”. 79% of LinkedIn’s users, for example, are 35 or older and have high paying jobs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. And, of course, there are plenty of peripherals that don’t work with Macs.) This is where Linux will shine.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam!

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 10, 2009

At its core, Ravelry is primarily a user-built relational database of yarns and patterns, linked through the users who work with them. As you enter details about the projects you’re working on, the information is automatically linked with what other people are doing with the same yarns and patterns. When I’m knitting, it’s all I.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. There’s no point rushing into things, so give yourself the time to think strategically about how you want to use social networking platforms in your organization’s work and how it best fits with what you are doing now and the goals you want to achieve. Visit the original post here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

She was an example for me throughout my childhood, bringing me along as she volunteered at soup kitchens, with the LDS cannery, and in the Scouts. I’ve given approximately 2,900 hours of work for America since 2009. She served at Carlisle Barracks and the Pentagon in the Women’s Army Corps during the Vietnam War.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. I can think of two organizations that I’ve worked with, which are, in a sense, case studies for why to have a blog, or not to have a blog. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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