Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Why is this good news for nonprofits? But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. And just like OpenSocial was a great answer to Facebook, this is a great answer to the iPhone. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Push notifications were first introduced by Apple in 2009, yet most nonprofits are still not utilizing push notifications as part of their online marketing and fundraising strategy. Push notifications can range from fundraising asks to breaking news and are an extremely powerful addition to your online marketing and fundraising strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 29, 2009

was successfully published on December 14th — see release history page for detailed information [link] This version included many new features, including a substantial revision of the member directory. released on December 14th Version 3.3

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Wild Apricot version 3.2 was released on October 1st, as planned. We have since patched a couple of minor problems, but all in all it has been the smoothest version release at least in the last 12 months. My personal thanks to our developers and testers!

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot web software helps small associations and non-profits to automate the day-to-day work of managing contact records, handling membership applications and renewals, collecting online donations, updating website pages, tracking event registrations and sending out receipts and reminders.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

This is bad news! Be sure that if you are just trying to get supporters, or grow your list of interested people who could sign a petition or do other actions later on in your campaign or work, that you create an action that isn’t seen as empty or short term (literally just “we want your email&# ).

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 31, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot web software helps small associations and non-profits to automate the day-to-day work: managing contact records handling membership applications and renewals collecting online donations Updating website pages tracking event registrations and sending out receipts and reminders Wild Apricot starts at just $25 (..)

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Wild Apricot

JULY 29, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot web software helps small associations and non-profits to automate the 'boring stuff': managing contact records automating membership applications and renewals handling website updates tracking event registrations and sending out receipts and reminders Wild Apricot starts at just $25 a month with free upgrades (..)

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 30, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot is web software for small associations and non-profits. It automates the 'boring stuff' such as managing contact records, membership renewals, processing payments, website updates, tracking event registrations, and sending out receipts and reminders.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 27, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot is all-in-one web software for associations and non-profits. It helps you with the 'boring stuff' such as managing contact records, membership renewals, payments, website updates, event registrations, mass emails and other communications.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 29, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software Wild Apricot is member management software for associations and non-profits. It helps you with the 'boring stuff' such as managing contact records, payments, website updates, event registrations, mass emails and other communications.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2010

Even in this dismal economy, online donations grew 14% and 69% of nonprofits raised more in 2009 than 2008. 92% of organizations that grew their fundraising in 2009 had an increase in the number of gifts they receive and 43% of organizations that raised more in 2009 had an increase in their average online gift amount.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 25, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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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. According to Facebook Help: When you create a list, you’ll see the best posts from that list in your main News Feed.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 27, 2009

About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. Many blog subscribers are also Wild Apricot software clients — so we publish monthly updates about our software.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2010

69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. Its findings included: The 151 nonprofits that provided data for both 2008 and 2009 reported that overall donations fell by a median of 9% while online gifts grew by 5%. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map uses a " multi-tentacled hydra." I marked in red the trends that caught my eye, more about that later.

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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. Share and Comment on Breaking News. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Pitch a story to your local news media (this is a slow news week). Right now, you need to get busy making the most of the last few days of 2009! Email your list and let them know they still have time to make a last-minute gift via your website. You might also spend a little time planning for 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Today, there’s a defining silence – not because people don’t care, but because the constant barrage of bad news is perpetuating the feeling that our problems are insurmountable and that people can not make a positive impact. Troll stories?

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Staggering, but not news. Download the report now! . Key takeaway. Download the full report today… 2011 Online Giving Report.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . And I'd like to end this round-up, which will be my last round-up for the 2009 year, with: The Nicest Thing Ever : Thanks, Michelle Hines , for this list. Members are in bold.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Nearly 1200 people working in nonprofits and technology will come together from around the world for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, April 26-28, 2009. More than ever, technology is helping nonprofits tap into and build communities to create social change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

The Capitol News Connection has one that lets you " Ask Your Lawmaker ". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". That's gotta feel good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

3 homefreeorg 11.06.09 at 1:09 pm Thanks so much for the shout out…take a look at the latest article [link] Thanks so much for the support! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

App Name: NPR News. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the NPR News App allows you to follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. Updated: May 6, 2009. Released: November 16, 2009. Updated: March 4, 2010.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

In that model advertisers pay publishers enough to support the news-gathering operation because advertising in a newspaper with decent reporting was the best way to get their copy in front of readers. As essay by new-media guru Clay Shirky points out, this is no longer the case, because ".the What we need is journalism."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The new design has been in the works for over a year. In December 2009, Facebook announced that Boxes would be removed, Tabs would shrink in size to 520 pixels, and Status Updates showing up in the News Feed(s) would no longer be guaranteed (the more Comments and Thumbs Up your Status Updates receive, the more News Feed exposure you get).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: If You Build a Branded Online Community, Will Customers Come? So for this post, I'd like to share 5 fundraising trends that we saw emerging in 2009 related to fundraising and social media and that will most definitely continue to have impact in 2010."

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The economy continues its tennis volley between troubling and good news. Communicating need is paramount to responsive generosity, with the most efficient channels being the news and press. Through the news, or by seeing the need in the community firsthand, the need is clear and support flows from those able to give.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. I would have been incredibly annoyed if at 10,000 fans the Page would have lost News Feed exposure. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. This is, of course, great news. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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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.” At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S.

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