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. &# into your email. 5) Incorporate your Facebook Page into your mobile campaigns.

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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. Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” moment in January, 2010, when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. But what you may not have anticipated was that $41m of these dollars flowed through mobile phones via “premium text messages.” Did you miss mobile?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. WWF Mobile. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless. WWF Desktop.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

mobile consumers now have smartphones , says The Nielsen Company. Combine that with this nugget: by 2014 more people will view web pages using a mobile device than a computer. What about mobile websites versus apps? Should you invest your time and money in building a mobile version of your site, or developing an app?

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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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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. Built to integrate, natively mobile, and endlessly adaptable, Salesforce is a platform designed to transform the way you work.

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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.) So, I moved to Asia, learned Indonesian, and volunteered at Yayasan Emmanuel , which had just started to run mobile health clinics in Jakarta’s poorest slums. That you just had to let things go.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2013

You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed. It’s definitely tech planning made simple.

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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

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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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

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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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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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I thought I'd do my part with a few of 2010's best resources (so far). If you haven't yet downloaded the free eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , released in April in partnership with M+R Strategic Services , you should definitely do that now. If you're not quite that much of an overachiever, you can still access the recording here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. I use GNU/Linux almost exclusively, and I am building a Linux distribution. But, it isn’t as if I intend to be a pauper and live in a box or something. I intend to make a good living on open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. Do I like it better than Drupal? I’m not yet sure. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 8:42 am I think the biggest pain point that Twitter has is getting people to start using it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I could see being paid some base for doing the work and then a bonus or something on top of that for achieving specific outcomes. I actually have a book around here somewhere that describes how to negotiate this kind of process. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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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. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. .

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

But now there's also Fundraising staff learning to raise money via mobile phones and Communications staff figuring out best practices for using Twitter to engage supporters. Please take just a few minutes -- definitely under 10, likely under 7 -- to tell us about: How NTEN's current programs and services are meeting your professional needs .

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06 As you well know, one of the things that has been one of the most important to me is the availability of good software for nonprofits that’s built for them in mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I think it’s certainly a possible choice, especially if you’ve got a philosophical approach that’s resonant with Debian (a lot of activist technology organizations use Debian) and have (or can find) the expertise needed. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

But did you know she topped the list of most charitable Celebs in 2010 , as ranked by Do Something , by how much energy celebrities devote to cause? Author: Rachel Muir. Lady Gaga & Celebrity Philanthropy. No doubt about it, Lady Gaga is a conversation starter. Notice the operative word here: energy.

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