Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). I track the ROI a few ways. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. And, I also need to make my information tracking a bit more systematic.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. it takes them to this Quora page where they can comment or ask a question about the campaign. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. How do you keep up?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. If it continues as it has, then I fear that many people will begin to check-out and become numb to our calls to action.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Well, they launched a new search tool today that could help you "discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? " Google Cheat Sheet (Version 1.06) - "This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. Check it out!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks. What has happened is basically a sea change in the landscape.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. Privacy matters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership. If not, well, users may comment using the hashtag #brandfail – and be confused.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.) There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 Watch the demo.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They reach out to people across the country and around the world. Larger teams mean more people raising more money. As donor acquisition declined from 2005-2009, peer-to-peer fundraising was one way to find new donors. Include information on who you are and the people you serve. How can you engage team captains?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. Spirituality is in creation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Then there is the overhead of signing up for an account, and then inviting people, and linking, and blah blah, just so I can tell people what I am doing at the moment. We all talk about information overload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels. To vote: 1.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". Resolution One: "I resolve to empower our supporters to tell our story, reach new people and raise funds." Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? All rights reserved.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. In November 2009, Oregon was identified as one of the 10 states in most fiscal peril by the Pew Center on the States. All content of the forum will be public, with comments and feedback on ideas welcomed, Forbes said. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Read the post below or visit SSIR to read and comment with that community. Both campaigns created opportunity for people to participate and then share it with their networks and make personal recommendations. Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find. It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. { But I have a first take.

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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. Share and Comment on Breaking News. People are much more responsive and likely to share your blog post if its subject matter is related to a breaking news story. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 2009 Year-End Fundraising Guide – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – “Is your nonprofit sending out 8-10 online fundraising appeals this holiday season?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Its like looking at a list of voters with a bunch of deceased people on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. 6. People love information.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Moreover, the company reports that people who are 35 years and older make up the fastest growing user demographic, which corresponds to the demographic mostly likely to make a donation online. 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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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 1, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Thanks to the 100 people who took our nonprofit sector quiz !

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. It was completed and published in November 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

They launched it to align Goodwill with Labor Day, and to shine a light on the challenges faced by people who are unemployed, as well as the transformation a job has made on their lives. Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. Share your comments and questions with Beth and I. For more information, visit www.GiveMN.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. Blogs can help you reach more people. In an overly branded world, people are looking for ways to figure out who to trust.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You ignore it until you need something from it, then throw it a cheap spreadsheet, change the font, add a border, and make it sit in a report for people to stare at. They (whoever "they" are), were spot-on when they named this the Information Age. Are you having trouble getting people to read your emails? Big problems.

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