NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

For large nonprofits here is some even scarier news: the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in October of 2010 that donations to the nation’s largest charities dropped 11% last year. The median expected change for nonprofits in 2010 was supposed to be an increase of 1.4%. conference of 2010 [1] the top thirty “ thon ” (i.e.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

A few months ago, Robert blogged about Idealware's 2010 Field Guide to Nonprofit Software , a guide covering a broad range of software that nonprofits should know about. FLOSS books are available free online , but they're definitely printworthy. Idealware's own articles page and blog offer a wealth of knowledge for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Their TerraChoice Greenwashing Report 2010 finds that 95 percent of green product claims are misleading. TerraChoice uses the oft-quoted Greenpeace definition of the term, "the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2011

In the Giving USA 2010 Report , donations to animal and environmental organizations is one of only two sectors that grew and I believe its due to their excellence in utilizing the Social Web. I now give a lot more than I used to, and primarily to animal organizations. And apparently, that’s not unique to me.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fundraisers need all the tools and support they can get to succeed in a slightly uncertain — but definitely exciting — future. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. . Because I believe in the power of conversation, connection, and creativity. The CDO Council is proof that we are always stronger together.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Social media can definitely be a time suck if you don't manage it properly. Fortunately, the article that calculates all the time we spend looking at cat and dog videos links to all those videos, as well. Is social media strategy just human nature ? Beth Kanter's got some good advice on that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Compared to other pages by universities of their size, they are definitely doing much better in terms of number of fans. Definitely a best practice, though the Tab could be improved by adding some images and possibly a video. Ironcially, in 2010 your going to see MySpace on that list. See www.nonprofitorgs.mobi as an example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

That said, I am a firm believer that a mobile website is the building block upon which to center your other mobile campaigns, but since January 2010 when I first featured 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites , there hasn’t been much progress made.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2022

We keep going because the very definition of philanthropy, perhaps even of the nonprofit sector, is love of humankind — people helping people. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. . The bad days brought frustration, burnout, politics, lack of resources, and a feeling of hopelessness. But we kept going.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Definitely the e-newsletter; our first e-newsletter in 2008 resulted in hundreds of responses and donations, though we have seen some donation activity on Facebook through special source codes tied to campaigns.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the critical pieces of the definition that changes how the 990 was used in the past, is that the data is digital, machine-readable, and inter-operable so it can be consumed by anyone. In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. That is, a definition of the objects on which you want to report. Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

And all you need to know is that Tarzan menage a trois made its way onto TCP/IP 2010 SF 100 Things you Need to Eat & Drink Before you Die. Even though this sandwich may help you get to that day much faster, you''ll definitely be smiling. And that''s all I have to say about that.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Here is a Year-Over-Year comparison of our survey responses to technology staffing questions for the last three years: The key things we notice here are: The significant diffence between tech staffing levels reported in 2010 as compared to 2011 and 2012. These numbers went back down in our most recent survey, however.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

I am definitely not spamming my fans with useless content, and use the site to promote and help nonprofits and social causes. As soon as Facebook launched Community Pages , I knew this day coming. It has taken 2.5 years and lots of promotion (of Facebook to nonprofits) to reach those 10,004 fans. All I can do now is wait.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 3, 2010

Campaigning can mean many different things and we want to keep the definition of the topic fairly open for this chat, in order to keep insights, resources and conversation in the Q/A format as open to valuable input as possible. Date : January, 14th 2010. About the Topic. political action. local community building. Stay on topic!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

While I'm definitely looking ahead to longer days, azaleas, and tulips, from a fundraising perspective, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what happened last fall. Luckily, Blackbaud issued the 2010 Online Giving Report last week. Also, enlarge your definition of the term - disaster. You can download your FREE copy here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. A functional definition of disability that I think is pretty close to the TVI (it is even clearer). • Excludes video. •

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

No one in my family has ever worked at a nonprofit, and we definitely don’t have a tradition of giving to causes in our family.) In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started. Why do these fundraising books have to be so BORING?”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. But the real story is much more complicated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It’s definitely worth a read. Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2010

Whatever your resolutions are this year, updating your skills and the skills of your staff and volunteers — computer-based and otherwise — should definitely be at the top of your 2010 to-do list. Luckily, TechSoup can help you brush up on old skills and learn new ones, and you won't even have to leave your desk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. That’s simple, but wise advice from the definitive nonprofit social media strategy manual, “ The Networked Nonprofit.” Do what you do best and network the rest.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share). By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

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." " GetMiro.com is an open-source, non-profit video player and podcast client, check out the tool here: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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