Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. This is also an ongoing process. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 2 admin 07.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? When was the last release?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2010, the United States Census recorded over 50 million Hispanics in America, making the Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the States [1]. For example, an additional year of education increases Hispanics' chances of volunteering by at least 13%, and Hispanic citizens are at least 1.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

. “Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization.&# In fact, if you are a nonprofit, you’ve spent time wading through that crap (and believe me, I’ve created my own healthy share of vendorspeak.) you the picture. That makes me happy.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Mobile Learning enables you to present smaller sized, interactive online learning to your employees without restricting them to a particular time or a place. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Organizations must continually evaluate which programs get priority, and at times, make tough decisions as to which ones get cut. One never-ending concern for nonprofits is funding. Like this article? Get another!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It was, perhaps an odd perspective, but in any event, I figured it was time to revisit this, and review what I’ve found. There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2010

The fine folks at Fenton Communications have made it feasible for me to foray into the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum as a "Fenton Fellow" (go ahead, just count the number of "fs" in that sentence). Tags: Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Fundraising Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. It was her first time to attend such a large conference. We organize educational talks, workshops, exhibitions and public performances. 3T stands for Time, Talents and Treasure. million dollars.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I need to figure out a good network configuration. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. And, of course, you get badges for various activities. The design seems to encourage me to translate my Karma to donations every time I earn them. Anyway, it might be cool to be able to add on more information about the charity, more ways to engage and educate me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

When I think back on my time with ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program, many different memories and candid moments pop into my mind. Can we break that down one more time? Click here to purchase the 2010 Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Report. Angela Soliz , ASU Lodestar Center. Public Allies AZ Alumna /.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

They found that individuals actively involved in activities with social organizations were more likely to volunteer. These challenging questions were addressed by the 2010 Arizona Health Survey sponsored by the St. Luke’s Health Initiative. Over 8,000 adults were surveyed about their physical, mental and social well-being.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

In 2010, Mr. Masson came up with a brilliant idea: to establish an innovative project that catered to the needs of dyslexic children. The Ordyslexie program has now been active since 2010 and has affected the lives of more than 1,500 students. " Improving the Education Experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. In 2010, over half of all adult SNS users are over 35 years of age, and 56% of them are female. People may be reorganizing their time to participate in more voluntary activities.". Oh, did I find Bob?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. From my perspective, the key is openness. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

He thinks that time-based billing is bad. On one hand, he feels that consultants should base their fees on the value they bring to the consulting relationship, not the time spent. But some of his ideas are interesting, especially the notion of setting the fees on the value you bring, rather than the time you spend.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

Donor stewardship is often defined as the activities and strategies utilized by a nonprofit organization to cultivate, engage and retain donors. Many organizations pour time and resources is into profusely thanking donors. One more time: How do you motivate donors. 2010, May 15). Sources: ^ [1] Burk, P. New Directions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! Education as a tool to extend one’s understanding, build on shared and individual experiences, and think critically about the world. Take time to have conversations and listen, really listen. Meet Anne.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Blackbaud has been actively engaged in researching and analyzing trends in the nonprofit sector for quite a while. The healthcare sector had the smallest average gift amount of $94.37, while other sectors like foundations ($209.53), higher education ($204.05), and religious organizations ($196.44) had much larger gift sizes.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Unfortunately, these accents on counting activities and maintaining regulatory compliance left unanswered the basic question of effectiveness: Were the efforts of these charities bringing about any meaningful, sustainable, or measurable positive change to those they existed to serve? August 2010. [2] 3] Hunter, David. October 2009.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! That said, our home currently has 5 Macs in active use and 2 iPhones. . I loved that idea.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! That said, our home currently has 5 Macs in active use and 2 iPhones. I loved that idea.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

By giving individuals an activity they can perform on their own, you enable them to define their own level of participation and engagement. To coordinate a successful event, you can expect to dedicate a full-time employee for at least several months. race numbers, t-shirts, timing chips, course measurement and design, and medals).

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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 built his career in sales, of everything from lotteries to roof membranes to adult education to disability insurance to a zoo. He began working with nonprofits full-time about 15 years ago. It was hardcore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. approach where users, experts and vendors can update the data every day, keeping it relevant and timely. Actively optimize for search engines so that the people who need to find the information will. •

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