Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I left Web Worker Daily in 2009 in no small part because I was bored out of my mind with the content I was producing/editing. I maintain that not only is it for the better, but that nonprofits that communicate well already had it figured out. Established social sharing model (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.):

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. Allison says that arts organizations need a new organizational model: The problem of trying to figure out a new business model for arts organizations is much more difficult.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Last year at Cause Camp, I laughed when speaker and fellow nonprofiteer Rachel Muir called herself a “recovering nonprofit executive director.” So, I gave the nonprofit sector a shot and served as a nonprofit executive for two different organizations from 2009 to 2013. . a career that would make a difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences. More than 4,800 nonprofit professionals cast votes in the final selection round. Big History.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Except for a short test in 2009 , your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans have never seen all your posts and as most of us have by now have realized, the percentage that do has gotten significantly smaller over time. Personally, I am not surprised or annoyed much by the changes. Interest Lists are not widely used.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. Yet recently, I sense some frustration with Facebook from nonprofits. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. Nonprofits throughout the world have sent millions upon millions of e-mails, Tweets, bulletins, updates, etc.

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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.” There are ample opportunities for nonprofits to help inform, shape, and create stories for the media. New venture journalism has been incubated thanks to nonprofit and foundation support.” and James L.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. By creating opportunities for engagement, the nonprofit sector is responsible for building cohesion and social capital. According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

So, I’m thrilled that community manager, Meghan Ventura, who is responsible for cultivating the community presence of Games for Change agreed to write this guest post about nonprofits who are using games for social change. And, don’t miss this special offer: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14. You can register here.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

For the nonprofit sector, the GFC wreaked havoc on donations and budgets. percent in 2009. Many nonprofits were caught off guard by the GFC’s impact on charitable giving. I am aware of several environmental nonprofits that experienced drops exceeding 20 percent. This decline is not anecdotal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. In July 2015, two of the earliest SIBs in the US reported markedly different results from which a nonprofit manager can learn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. It’s designed as a basecamp clone. Mitchell 10.25.07 Xen comes to mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Second is that Linux servers seem to have made very serious inroads into nonprofit organizations, such that they are becoming almost commonplace. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. Be Helpful.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners (NPSF) is a 6 year-old Google Group now with over 1700 members, averaging around 300 messages a month. I’ve been co-moderator of the group since 2009. Only requirement for membership is that you have a connection in some way to nonprofits using Salesforce. It’s not an excuse.

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APRIL 13, 2013

Each year, we honor an individual who has been instrumental in shaping the field of nonprofit technology, and paved the way for the rest of us. 2009: Daniel Ben Horin , TechSoup. 13ntc Community nonprofit technology conference nten awards' The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. 2011: Judy Hallman , RTPNet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. posted by Tyler Adams Manager, Affiliate Relations-Events Make-A-Wish International.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These approaches have the potential to change how nonprofits and funders view of evaluation in a significant way. ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Systems are non-linear, complex, and dynamic. But on the other hand, traditional evaluation models are: Focused on model testing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit. nonprofit practice. Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! and nonprofits I’d love your input! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

CASE launched the ESI Award in 2009, and Benetech is proud to join the company of past award recipients. This landscape, named by scholars as the “new social economy,” is being dramatically reshaped by recent trends in the social sector that have led to a blurring of the distinctions between business, nonprofit, and government organizations.

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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? How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? What you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Finance Fund. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. NFF estimates that government funding has been reduced at least 10% from 2009 levels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? This breaks the whole thing open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online. When was that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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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. On the flip side, models also indicate those likely to be unresponsive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2009

We’ll have representatives from LASA’s Knowledgebank, KnowHow NonProfit, School of Everything, and more on hand to help you brainstorm and discover ways to connect online regardless of what your learning resolutions include for 2009 - from new media tools to new business models and everywhere in between.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Instead of scaling community giving and philanthropy and empowering their local nonprofits to use crowd funding, Give Local America Day amplified frustration, panic, hopelessness, and anger. We can’t let community foundations and nonprofits abandon giving days, online digital strategies, or trying to scale local giving.

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