ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Regardless of a project’s scope or number of potential partners, a nonprofit’s next steps should follow a “two-layer process” of assessment and implementation, according to the AIM Alliance of 2009. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Recommendations. The key ingredient throughout is undoubtedly trust.

Collaboration 98

Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Do not overburden disabled individuals with requests for free labor, however, and hire accessibility consultants when possible. Plain language consultants and strategists are available and should be utilized when possible. Respect self-identifying language. Update and maintain websites and social media profiles.

Strategy 52

Strategy Fort Worth Language Music 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In 2011, Bernholz sold her consulting firm, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. But over and beyond my own projects, the experience of being a Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation gave me the opportunity to design and deliver a myriad of capacity building projects for literally hundreds of Packard Grantees over the past four years.

Foundation 100

Foundation Philanthropy Literacy Law 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

Until just a few years ago, there was very little sophistication about the user experience in web applications – what mattered most was functionality. The clients should not have expected to get slick 2009 functionality for a mid 5-figure budget. Make sure it has the ease of user experience that you are expecting.

Project 146

Project Database Open Source Application 146

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 and México.

Lesson 52

Lesson Marketing Impact Giving 52

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An expert in her field, Lori has several decades of experience working with some of the largest commercial and nonprofits in the world, but prefers to use analytics for the greater good by helping social good organizations make a bigger impact in the work that they do. Charitable giving in a recession is no different. Follow the Leaders.

Strategy 52

Strategy Marketing Giving Ukraine 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 1 trackback } Web 2.0

Twitter 100

Twitter Open Source RSS Tech 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

Open Source 100

Open Source Consultant Database RSS 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often.

Change 100

Change Open Source Journal Digg 100

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

Women Who Tech TeleSummit: April 2009. The second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit (which will take place in April 2009) is looking for panel suggestions. Ada Lovelace Day: March 24, 2009. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009.

Technology 100

Technology Pledge Tech Info 100

NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

That''s why we''re doing our best to recruit a remarkable group of facilitators to help shape your experience. In 2009, Tanya received a Rising Star award from Campaigns and Elections'' Politics Magazine, recognizing people under 35 years old who have made a significant mark in political consulting or advocacy.

Facilitation 58

Facilitation Texas Track Leadership 58

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) " I love the idea, really, I do.

Problem 100

Problem Websites Open Source Place 100

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

The strategy may be to remove the staff member and replace them with someone with different experience - or maybe a better attitude. Consider hiring a consulting firm that specializes in developing strategies and training nonprofit executives. Maybe someone was hired for a specific campaign and the campaign is underperforming.

Goal 61

Goal Phoenix Arizona Nonprofit 61

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Millennials have a great level of experience and expertise with social media tools, yes, but they are also an integral part of your organization just like all the other staff.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco Web Bookmarking Map 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

Open Source 100

Open Source Software Open Free 100

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in technology, sustainability, and collaboration, then Jean's for you: "Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski's August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty. ."

North America 111

North America Web Interview Bookmarking 111

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Linton Weeks wrote an article on NPR back in 2009 on microvolunteering , and he said it right: we live in a micro world. Should you hire consultants or part-time staff? Consultants are expensive. posted by Colleen Dunbar , Project Specialist. ASU Lodestar Center. Why your organization should try it. Microvolunteering can help.

Project 100

Project Impact Volunteer Classroom 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I’ve had a fair bit of experience with Drupal – nosi.net is run on Drupal, and I’d done a Drupal install once, and helped with some now and again. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued. 2 Suzi 04.17.07

Drupal 100

Drupal Open Source NTC Open 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us

Linkedin 100

Linkedin Facebook Social Network Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Software Laptop 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And, the amount that Silicon Valley companies has given away has more than doubled since 2009, from $56 million to nearly $117 million. Heather is the co-founder of Open Impact and a social entrepreneur, author, and consultant with 25 years of experience in social change. But many local residents are struggling.

Create 99

Create Philanthropy Alexa Local 99

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. That was my point. { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07

Question 100

Question Open Source Sample Survey 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 I imagine they won’t love the fact that I am this close to opting out of the whole social network experiment altogether until it’s truly open 3 claudia 10.04.07 When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. {

Social Network 100

Social Network Network Digital Social 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It is a huge community, so it is hard to get to know users, since there are so many, but it’s not commercialized, from my experience. But at least the first technical hurdle to jump over is a small one. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

Open Source 100

Open Source Open Tools Free 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I co-administered that box for a few years. Eventually, they got a T1, and moved the server in-house. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

Software 100

Software Open Source Articulate Comment 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. More configuration, more options, but still not good. 3) Evolution. It would mean switching my email. It might be worth it. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option.

Open Source 100

Open Source Ubuntu Chad Open 100

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Well, pro bono consulting can happen entirely on digital platforms. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. LG: There was a time during the pandemic when hands-on volunteer opportunities all but disappeared. How do you do that in an all-virtual world?

Interview 59

Interview Build Companies Skills 59

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Calendar Integration 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first.

Community 109

Community Giving Fundraising Contest 109

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear. One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really.

Open Source 100

Open Source Open Software Music 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I have had the honor of working with Stephanie since 2009 when I arrived at the foundation as Visiting Scholar. What I like best about Stephanie is that she wasn’t afraid to experiment with the tools , learn quickly, and instantly share what she learned.

Wiki 101

Wiki California Philanthropy Boston 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In case you don’t already know Aliza, she is an award-winning Internet business and nonprofit marketing consultant with over 25 years experience starting and running Internet companies. Aliza and I ran into each other again in 2009 at the first Wisdom 2.0 Aliza is also a prolific writer and author, having published ten books.

Alaska 50

Alaska Nonprofit Internet Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

As a technology trainer, capacity builder, and consultant working with nonprofits, I always ask the fishing question, especially since I work in the area of emerging technologies that often falls prey to Shiny Object Syndrome — ( Google + anyone? Do you disagree with any of our interpretations? Paul Connolly.

Teach 108

Teach Help Los Angeles Wiki 108

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. Her posts are thoughtful and accessible for non-techies. I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

Open Source 100

Open Source RSS Massachusetts Comment 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. I had to go command line in order to get online. So I had to dig out of my memory (and do some online looking) about iwconfig.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Laptop Open 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! I appreciate your patience as I know my ignorance was showing. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

Analytics 100

Analytics Google Site Folksonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Coach, consultant, and writer Kivi Leroux Miller. The other day I witnessed the result of feeding and tuning a network. Beth Kanter.

Content 112

Content Network Strategy Slideshare 112