NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2008

I've blogged about his webinars about selecting person-to-person fundraising or working with group fundraising tools. He has identified nine goals for 2009. Hand in hand with those goals, is a peer-to-peer social fundraising campaign to raise $20,009 by February 2, 2009. or $200.09.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Simon Moloney, NPower Network & Conifer Analytics and Rebecca Willett, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joined me on the panel discussion. With all the new technology out there, nonprofit organizations have more ways than ever to reach donors online.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

They can be very complex course management systems which are designed to do things like quizzes and grading (as well as discussions and have places to store course materials.) LAMS – not as much an LMS as a curriculum development tool. Learning platforms, of course, are varied.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives.

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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 ". Convio says knowing your audience is key because the online tools you choose to use must align with the technical capabilities of your audience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Solidariti has a great discussion and graph of Web 2.0 tools, and the characteristics of them, and how best to leverage one’s effort to the best effect. It’s a wonderful way of looking at these tools. realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Tools and methods are being customized, adapted and remixed for various educational contexts. Date: December, 10th 2009. Check out some of the questions we’ll be discussing and resources about the topic here. This Thursday is the December #4Change Chat! Classrooms are no longer bound by geography. Join the Conversation!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. Throw a website at it! " I love the idea, really, I do.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009. 4 James Young 04.15.08

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2009

6:15-7:00 - Learning discussion groups & idea sharing. The first of the year is resolution time, so this will be a chance to make resolutions about your learning, and get quality feedback about how to make them happen! Agenda : 5:30-6:00 - Networking. 6:00-6:15 - Welcome and Introduction. 7:20+ - Networking.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

Now, participants have access to the tools they need to raise money online. But in reality, having the tools is only half the battle for many individuals. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. What worked for your organization in 2009? From these, I pulled together this set of lessons learned.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” million in 2009 to $687.6 The activities funded range from media platforms (55%) to journalism, news, and information (28%), to media applications and tools (6%), and more. Sherry questioned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

GROW is an acronym to help you remember when to ask certain open-ended questions or discuss certain topics in your conversation to ensure your time is productive and solution – focused. Now, discuss the reality. In addition to everything we’ve discussed, the biggest overarching theme with volunteer management is communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. But I have a first take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. What tools did you use? NodeXL and Marc Smith.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

In the past, members of the analytics consulting team at Blackbaud have written on this subject matter in the 2009 publication Building Fundraising Momentum in a Recession and the 2011 article Raising Money During Challenging Times. Prospect research and screening tools. Below are some of our best recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In order to get a clear and complete picture of what is happening with orchestras and social media around the country, I sent around a survey to 53 orchestra marketing, communications and web managers in October and November, 2009. This week, I will kick off the Orchestras and Social Media Survey 2009 series on my blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

Justin's talk will lead us into a discussion of the role of video in online communities and strategies for using video to effectively engage users. When: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Hope to see you there! Pacific time.

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Care2

MARCH 10, 2010

This panel will discuss several case studies showing successful fundraising strategies that incorporate Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. 2009 Iran Election: Women's Revolution? This panel will discuss online political activity during and prior to the election. Twitter Revolution? March 14 at 11:00 AM.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

She asked for some help in identifying interactive e-book resources that she could then use to create an annual report, referencing the 2009 annual report from VolunteerMatch as an example of what she was looking for. Calibre : Calibre is an e-book management tool that also converts documents into a number of e-book formats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Being towards the “completely atheistic&# on your continuum of readers, the discussion of relationships comes pretty close to my idea of spirituality. But I don’t see this blog spending so much time on the surface of things. You explore relationships our interactions with technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. The social media strategy game is focused on how social media tools can be used for external communications. The game has a strong communications lens.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2009

The early-bird registration period for NTEN's 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference ends January 31. Clay's recent book, Here Comes Everybody, discusses how Web2.0 Tools Social Networking Networks Running Your Organization Software Hardware Using the Web and Internet Online Fundraising. I love the NTC. " read more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. Brenda discusses the Lexington Public Library's innovative uses of technology. Tools Using the Web and Internet. Becky points out a new document that explains some of the trickier points of Microsoft eOpen.

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