Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. No setup fees or anything else. But, of course, as with anything, look (a lot) before you leap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08 I learned a lot. at 8:35 pm Where’s your tatoo?

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MARCH 31, 2010

This one is a great model. Post the things that inspire you in comments, below, for a special section next month. Danah Boyd says the answer isn't binary : "Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both." " Need to make a map to show your impact? We like to believe it can.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2010

I’m getting my bags packed to fly to Atlanta for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference and discovered that I have 4 copies of Social by Social left – and I’m going to give them away! This work is still pretty new and there isn’t a simple model to follow. To win a book, simply leave a comment with: Who you are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07

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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 ! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07 Worth a read!

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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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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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Thank you to those who have already voted or commented! Please support me by voting and commenting here. I hope that I can extend my personal community-driven model of development to aid both the colleagues on the trip as well as those we meet.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. As social networks try and become profitable they are experimenting with new ad models and trying to drive more traffic to increase ad revenue.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. I'd ask questions on Twitter before.

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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

at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. &# With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. {

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve." Additional models of collaboration from The Collaboration Prize will be added soon.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. It creates communities when users can comment and exchange their stories about a particular topic.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Check out the 2010 Annual Report in video ! On top of my list is the latest report from the Monitor Institute: " Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ". Share your links in the comments! Have more news to share? Register today.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. I'm also going to copy portions into the comments section of their specific posts. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility.

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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. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07 But it needs addressing. {

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. 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. Share your comments and questions with Beth and I. What is GiveMN.org?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said. All content of the forum will be public, with comments and feedback on ideas welcomed, Forbes said. “We Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010. Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. From the Big Duck website : Brandraising is a proprietary model developed by Big Duck to help nonprofits communicate more effectively in order to advance fundraising, programs and advocacy goals. Let's Raise a Brand!

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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. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And I also struggled with the consulting business model. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 at 7:01 am John, Thanks for your kind words, commenting, and reading. &# I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. The Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Share it in the comments. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post. Do you have one? About the Author.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. I’d love to hear your take on each of these in the comments. Meet Geoff. Will the grassroots decentralized (i.e.

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See3

JUNE 15, 2007

Share and Enjoy: 2 Comments comment fran You forgot to mention DESSERT! Actuallly, dessert was Clinton and Curry… two good role models for all of us. 23 Feb 2010 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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