Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern as well as a simultaneous webcast of the event for those not in the DC-area.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

On Monday, April 27th, we're going to bring some NTEN rock stars -- quite literally! -- to San Francisco's Mezzanine. Salesforce Foundation's Meghan Nesbit and Kevin Johnson of VolunteerMatch will be performing with their bands, and we'll feature the beats of NTEN Member DJ Darian Heyman, as well. We hope to see you in San Francisco!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. The event itself has been fab. What are the tools like?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I review both fundraising and friendraising techniques and how to take them, to varying levels, online – from email solicitations and events to social media and websites. Fundraising Events. Hosted parties called Red House@Your House. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. A large chunk (the majority?) But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? Linux on the desktop has come quite far, in just a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important.

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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. Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Explore common pitfalls and ask questions of our experts including: Amy Sample Ward, NTEN Membership Director. Amy's dedication to educating and supporting nonprofit and community organizations in using technology to make lasting change brought her to NTEN as the Membership Director. RSVP to join us live on November 17 at 10 a.m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

One of the case studies I shared was about NTEN’s recent social fundraiser to raise scholarship money for NTC conference attendance. They set up a c ommunity champions campaign on Razoo and asked their champions to commit to raising $500 each and that the money would be matched by the NTEN board. Thank you not the last touch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW!

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2009

Coming up from April 26-28, NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (or NTC) 2009, is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals. to networking opportunities galore, get yee online to register to attend and join us in San Francisco for the three-day event. From panels, plenaries, and presentations (oh my!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). 3 Jill 01.31.08 Give it a try.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. 1200/month for an old and therefore crappy custom CMS and not much support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

October 27, 2006 Next week, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is hosted here! And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice. Check this out [link] Leave a Comment Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants coming here! I have a sort of good excuse.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I set up a mysql database in my standard generic virtual hosting setup, copied the downloaded and unzipped Joomla folder into my webspace by FTP, and fired up my browser. I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy. Um, sorta.

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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. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One sets up a page (often donation or event page) on the CRM vendors web platform and link your page to their pages. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2009

There are more than 800 of you already registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. At this rate, we're poised to host the biggest NTC ever - more than 1200 people - in a time when many conferences are seeing double-digit declines in registration. I understand that it's our privilege to host this community.

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