Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. Wish I were!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

in the fall of 2009. Then when searching for “nonprofit&# Apps in iTunes last month, I was surprised to see that the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 App had been downloaded almost 1,000 times and came up rather high in iTunes “nonprofit&# search results. of all smartphone App downloads in 2009 were iPhone Apps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For many organizations, the terms "transparency" and "accountability," when uttered in the same sentence as "indirect/administrative costs," mean only one thing: it's time for another round of belt-tightening. We've answered the question: "How do other organizations control administrative costs?"

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

54% of the organizations experienced results at or above this growth rate. 87% of organizations had at least one online gift of $1,000+. Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. >> Online giving up 13% year-over-year *. 2) Put Your Best Foot Forward. 2011 Online Giving Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). I created the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace in 2006. Supporters searching for your organization in Google will often find your MySpace profile and see that it has been abandoned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Location : Global, country, region, state and city.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve helped organizations with case statement, board development, strategic planning, and fundraising campaigns. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Like Achieve, Qgiv exists to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This is the time of year that your organization should be raising up to 40% of its donations online. from 2009 when giving was $280.3 Don’t Make Me Think or Search. Like with any good fundraising appeal or campaign, there are elements that shine and some simple ways organizations can make them even better.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2011

Ever wonder how your organization’s website traffic compares to other organizations? In 2009, users spent 5.49 The good news is that bounce rates were slightly down from 2009 averaging 47% in 2010. CPC (Cost Per Click search) generated the most web pages viewed with an average of 5.6 3% increase from 2009.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In June 2009, Nielsen reported nearly 21 million unique visitors to Twitter.com. How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. Try your TPS.( read more ).

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2009

lucrative search terms, building up a quality AdWords presence for them, then, presumably, selling the rights. Go search for "polar bear" on Google. Your Grant To Meet Your Organization's Goals ", to learn best practices from. Goals and Setting Yourself Up for Success (6/5/2009). the Google Grants team. >

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 17, 2009

The initiative is an extension of Resolve to be Ready in 2009, a nationwide effort designed to encourage individuals, families, businesses and communities to take action and prepare for emergencies in 2009. Well, as always, Common Craft have created a video to help explain it "in Plain English."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Search 60,000 open volunteer opportunities to find the perfect one for you. Updated: May 6, 2009. International Committee of the Red Cross: an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence. Released: November 16, 2009. Released: March 9, 2010.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2011

Ever wonder how your organization’s website traffic compares to other organizations? In 2009, users spent 5.49 The good news is that bounce rates were slightly down from 2009 averaging 47% in 2010. CPC (Cost Per Click search) generated the most web pages viewed with an average of 5.6 3% increase from 2009.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

The ESI Award recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy, and that challenge the status quo to create sustainable social value with a potential for large-scale impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

I launched this blog in September 2009. My search engine results have transformed. work and that donating on through these tools is safe and endorsed by your organization. There are more re$ource$ there, thus many new tools launched by innovative start-ups that your organization could adopt and utilize early. I was wrong.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. If you are looking for inspiration, search for opportunities on Idealist , the partner site for Mozilla Serive Week. Update a non-profit organization’s website.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

TechSoup's guide to the Nonprofit Job Search is a good place to start. Once you've got a handle on the search process, peruse the listings on Idealist.org , OpportunityKnocks , or NTEN's aggregated job board , which focuses on NPTech. It's also helpful to know how other organizations are handling their IT staffing needs.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) This is down from 19% in 2007 and 21% in 2006.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0

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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. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. Arts & Culture: Big Sky.

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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. at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another. Also, in the middle of last year I participated in a ‘Running Small Group Sessions’ workshop.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All rights reserved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

These are my links for January 6th through January 8th: The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media | Changemakers - "Join We Media and Ashoka’s Changemakers in the search to find the best new ideas for inspiring a better world through media and technology. Check out some great designs that could get you thinking!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? at 12:14 am I’m curious about how organizations can use Twitter. Sure, why not.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

I recommend that you find an agency that compliments the style of your organization and that can deliver on time and on budget. The game was released in the fall of 2009 and has had more than 20 million plays. If an organization was thinking about creating their first online game, what tips would you give them?

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See3

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As the world’s second largest search engine (right after Google), YouTube is a great way to be found. By keeping your audience and their search interests in mind when uploading your video, you can increase the chances people will find it and watch. Your constituents are using YouTube as a search engine – so you should be too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. As a nonprofit organization ourselves, we have our share of fundraising asks out there.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How do you determine which technology, or set of technologies, will be best suited to your organization? Here are just two examples from organizations that I found to be most successful and effective. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member. How do you appropriately implement them?

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

With an account, if somebody searches for info on, say, "polar bears" -- we're told polar bears are ratings gold -- and your organization is trying to ensure there's an ice cap left for them to do polar bear-y things on, you can try to try to steer them to your web site. Learning How to Use Your Google Grant (5/21/2009).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Should all nonprofits have a blog?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

I recommend that you find an agency that compliments the style of your organization and that can deliver on time and on budget. The game was released in the fall of 2009 and has had more than 20 million plays. If an organization was thinking about creating their first online game, what tips would you give them?

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2012

The only vertical experiencing a decline from 2010 to 2011 was International Affairs organizations. Despite the large drop for International Affairs organizations, since 2009 nonprofits in all verticals have seen double-digit growth with International Affairs organizations leading the way, realizing 75 percent growth.

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