Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. That said, you should be careful not to become a breaking news spammer by overusing this strategy, but you will discover that some of your most trafficked blog posts will be related to breaking news.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Debbie and I have known each other since 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie on the West Coast, and me in the Midwest – and Debbie has appeared here on my blog many times over the years, sharing insights about marketing and leadership. At the time, it felt genuinely impossible. Why or why not?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

—— John has spent time working for Microsoft, doing R&D for the defense industry and was part of a few past startups that didn’t quite reach “critical mass.&# In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Time: 3pm - 4PM EST. Links: #feastongood & @alldaybuffet. Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009. Time: 9 AM - 5 PM. Location: The Times Center, New York City. View the previous Twitter Chat on Design with William Drenttel of Winterhouse & Twitter Chat on Social Entrepreneurship with Echoing Green.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. This wasn’t the first time I had direct communication with a designer due to Ravelry. As it was late in the book prep process, time was tight. Knitting became an obsession in my life again and I haven’t stopped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

BusinessWeek innovation blog reached out to its readers on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog asking for suggestions for social media innovators for 2009. 1) Toolmasters: Imaginative techies whose schemes and applications open new doors and lead to insights. I was selected as "eyes to the world." The profile is here.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Can you edit the videos your supporters created for your video contest into something entirely new? How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site? The world of technology is changing so quickly, the laws that govern intellectual property can barely keep up.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession. As wine enthusiasts, we hate to use this phrase, but here's hoping the colors turn from burgundy to pink pretty soon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. That said, you should be careful not to become a breaking news spammer by overusing this strategy, but you will discover that some of your most trafficked blog posts will be related to breaking news.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

When NFF began this survey in 2009, many of our clients were in “triage” mode: they were dealing with mission and finance-related emergencies, relying on short-term coping strategies—like reserve depletion and staff furloughs—to make ends meet until the financial crisis was over. Many are recognizing that this dynamic may be here to stay.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

An investment banker recently incensed the nonprofit community by asking the New York Times, "If you just take your base home, the question becomes, why not just work at a nonprofit from 8 to 4 instead of a bank where you’re expected to work weekends and every night till 10 or 11?" Find an NPTech Job.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger! Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. 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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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a panel about this timely topic of multi-channel fundraising and communication for NTEN’s 501 Tech Club New York City at the TADA! With all the new technology out there, nonprofit organizations have more ways than ever to reach donors online. Youth Theater.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. Einolf (2009) [1] analyzed the baby boomer generation and predicted a similar increase in volunteer numbers and rates. percent and the average volunteer time by 22.8 Complex questions, no doubt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The New York Times says that a spot on Twitter’s “suggested users&# list guarantees 500,000 additional followers. CNET calls this the “New Socialism: a redistribution of attention, not of material wealth.&# But things changed for the nonprofit world on Friday. What inspired the Twitter love?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

In her free time she volunteers for several local nonprofit organizations while developing her plan to create a future organization that will target Central American countries. New York: Random House, 2009. McKinney's "Time to Give a Little ". The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Get another!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

” How much time should you spend on social media if you have limited resources?” For example, in 1995 the New York Times had over 1.1 Other newspapers like the LA Times have seen even steeper decreases in circulation. What kind of content should they be sharing over Twitter and Facebook?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

By Patrick Ball On 14 February 2012, the New York Times reported that a Swiss team had found a weakness in a key algorithm used to make secure connections online. A key with an n with 232 digits (768 bits) was factored in 2009 using many years of computing time and dozens of computers spread around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

Entering into a rigorous, time-intensive pay for success contract is likely a better plan if a program is not brand new. The Rikers Island pay for success program was rooted in evidence-based research, but had never been operated by the service provider in as complex a setting as the New York City prison (MDRC, 2015).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

At the same time, the scandals that resulted in the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (including more than a few within the ranks of nonprofits) had a ripple effect on the sector. Organizations of all kinds came under new scrutiny regarding their management, spending decisions, and ethical behavior. October 2009. [4] New York Post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Stanfield, ArtBizCoach.com on the Arts and Healing Podcast LINK LOVE The October 1st episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show will feature New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, and his wife his wife Sheryl WuDunn talking about their book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2009

"It's been said that our true calling in life is where our heart's greatest gladness meets the world's deepest need." --First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The story of progress in this nation has always been the story of people who chose - in times of trial and struggle - to serve it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

According to Mark Granovetter, "the strength of a tie is a combination of the amount of time, emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding) and the reciprocal services which characterize the tie" (Granovetter, p. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group. A tie is defined as strong or weak based on these factors. Sources: 1.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

OK I know, you probably weren’t actually waiting for this moment – and that’s okay – but now is the time to get excited. He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago. She teaches webinars and workshops several times a month and writes a top-ranked blog on nonprofit communications at NonprofitMarketingGuide.com.

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See3

APRIL 6, 2009

Leading provider of new media services to nonprofit community adds experienced online fundraiser and strategist to manage expanded service offering. Her direct mail portfolio includes work for Highlights Magazine, The New York Times and AOL. About See 3 Communications.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

Walter Isaacson , former managing editor of Time and former CEO of CNN, assumes that the print edition a is dead but the institution need not perish with it. Even an old print junkie like me has quit subscribing to the New York Times , because if it doesn't see fit to charge for its content, I'd feel like a fool paying for it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We have had a lot of crazy ideas that worked over time, so you get a little latitude in talking with folks. Svea Morane: While individual Mayo Clinic staff have been personally involved in Second Life and other grids for several years, our official involvement, where we started to spend money, was in May 2009.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft to continue spending a lot of time and effort in this area, liberating us from our hardware prisons. . Sales and Customer Support had to address the issue of productivity and results a long time ago. Howe has presented at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) since 2009.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). On October 24, 2009, 350.org We also use Twitter for social media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

This week, I met New York choreographer Dean Moss and learned about his fascinating contemporary dance piece Kisaeng Becomes You (2009). As New York Times critic Claudio La Rocco put it , "[they] decided to roll the dice every night and gamble the entire show on several dazzling, sophisticated bursts of audience participation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wearables have been around a long time; an example would be hearing aids or the Sony Walkman. Probably the original augmented reality device to enhance the senses are eyeglasses, which actually date from Roman times, but assumed their current form in 13 th. century Italy. It’s basically typing with the mind.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” Several times she said we need to ‘tear down the walls’ and allow the lines to blur between what happens internally and externally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Note from Beth: This post was written before the New York Times article describing a misstep with the Pepsi Charity Contest. The nonprofit Generations of Hope is competing in the top category, for the $250,000 prize, approximately 1/3 its operating budget in 2009. Photo: Jim Harrison. Here's my analysis.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Since 2009, online donations made on mobile devices have grown from 9% of all transactions to 24% in 2018. Mobile is the new normal. Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising are now new. For a long time, we’ve talked about how organizations must become more transparent and accountable to their donors. Time is up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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