Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

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. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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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. Wealth, affluence and capacity indicators.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Afterall, nonprofit is your tax status, it shouldn’t be your business model. in 2009 to equip organizations with the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. The best leaders understand two things must happen to sustain a nonprofit: SAVING money and RAISING money. Fact: there are currently over 2.7

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

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. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Launched [.]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. But what about everybody else?

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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 ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. A model for any organization promoting philanthropy. The kind of tagline nonprofits should model. Arts & Culture: Big Sky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM! Instead of taking a traditional non-profit approach to scale, KaBOOM!

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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.

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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.” The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As million in 2009 to $687.6 Sherry questioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. If it makes you feel any better – I feel your pain too. We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. And it’s hard. That’s also REALLY hard. I guess having values is just kind of tough.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. Facebook wants the tool set to be limited. Enough with the mystery Facebook!

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture. 2009, May 1).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally.

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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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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. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. Smooth Transition will continue to work throughout the Inland Empire to provide flexible training and resources for those who don't fit the traditional education model. Smooth Transition, Inc.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) apps out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. .&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Thanks for the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance by David Sibbet. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Apparel Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2009. Disruptive Model: Workplace Giving. Disruptor: DonorsChoose.org.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. American Cancer Society has been fighting cancer since 1913.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting. Thanks much for getting this going.

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