Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs. trillion in annual revenue attributable to fair use represents a 31% increase since 2002, according to the report, which claims that fair use industries are responsible for 18% of U.S. So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. It will be interesting to watch things develop. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

NTEN did a great job of beginning to approach this topic, and it was great data. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05% 05% of the nonprofits in the United States (the foundation center says that there are about 1.4 million of them.) How could that be representative? To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

And you can’t stop building your donor database. If we have anything more than the most rudimentary of databases, we know how long our donors have been giving to us, how much they’ve given, and how frequently. Copyright © 2009 by Mal Warwick. In fact, it’s a time for caution and cost-cutting. . You can’t not raise funds.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

This is also a commonly held view of programmers, web developers, IT professionals, database administrators, and other tech staff in an organization. They identify the right tools for the job are and balance the cost with potential benefits. Efficiency. Tech people are trained to automate processes. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

After all, volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofits, and with 64 Million volunteers taking the time to give back in 2009, National Volunteer Week is as much about thanking volunteers as encouraging them to come back. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. For the Smithsonian ? Start here.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. on our own servers or desktops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. How could I have done a better job of measuring its success? The solution? I turned to my colleagues and solicited guest blog posts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2011

In many of my past jobs and internships, I worked with volunteers. I went from binders, to excel, to access, to creating custom fields in database programs. In fact, a 2009 study indicated that on average, volunteers donate 10 times more money to charity than people who don’t volunteer. Author: Amber Wobschall.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

2009 is the year of transparency. Their latest report says nonprofits need to do a better job of disclosing their annual reports and audited financial statements. Their latest report says nonprofits need to do a better job of disclosing their annual reports and audited financial statements.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

May 7, 2009 | Kimberley Le Sueur I run the OpenTravel Allliance (www.opentravel.org),and as a not-for-profit trade association serving the travel industry, it doesnt make sense for us to be on Facebook. May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks for this post. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

MARCH 23, 2009

Jobs section includes comment feature. > To be honest, I don't have much of an opinion on this because I haven't ventured into the jobs area of any group. > My take: ok - sounds good. . Our NTEN group hasn't used it at all. We have almost 700 folks in our LinkedIn group now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In today’s big data world, more and more social programs are using database technologies to track, monitor and manage cases. This database proliferation is resulting in the rapid growth of participant, program delivery and outcome data. The autonomy viewpoint paints a bleak future of robots taking over human jobs.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Think about your employees and those whose jobs will be impacted by this new software. Many of today’s databases are being hosted in the cloud, which means you are not responsible for maintaining the hardware your database runs on. And cloud databases are less prone to failure because the systems they run on are redundant.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs. Chatter has been around since late 2009, but it was only early this year that Salesforce made it available to anyone for free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

There is an interesting tension over how much of this new work one can bring inside the iron walls of the executive branch without exposing the strategy and workings of the questions, if not the final analyses themselves. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Achieve

JANUARY 1, 2018

citizenship and having their names listed incorrectly in voter registration databases (English speakers entering information from forms into databases are often uncertain which is the first name and which the last). Since 2009, Achieve focuses its research on millennials’ attitudes and behaviors relevant to social causes.

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