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AUGUST 5, 2022

While your nonprofit is, by definition, not a profit-driven organization, you can still leverage this massive market to achieve your fundraising goals and grow your support base. that works for nonprofits of all sizes. However, your nonprofit needs to plan your branded merchandise approach beforehand. .

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce. While Salesforce can connect to BI tools like PowerBI as well, it isn’t required.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

How should nonprofits position themselves in this ever changing world of technology? 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. Engagement is the new Investment: How engaged is your nonprofit? It says that 22.7%

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MAY 20, 2013

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised over $10M in one day by Jeff Achen of GiveMN.org. “Do All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day. Facebook = 21,865.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Recently, I got into a discussion with several other nonprofit tech consultants about guidelines for nonprofits to embrace a mobile strategy and specifically what to recommend. I thought the conversation was definitely worth a blog post to share with a wider audience and Heidi Massey agreed to write a guest post.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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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. Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas. Our next episode of Nonprofits Live on August 26 at 10:00 a.m.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Services Delivered.

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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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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. It’s definitely worth a listen. That feels good. There is a part two coming, I understand.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. What’s involved in this?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago. Be Helpful.

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JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! Be Helpful.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Broadband, Day 1 March 5, 2007 Dial up just wasn’t going to cut it. As someone I talked with today said, “with dial up, the internet feels broken.&# YouTube ain’t bad.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. So those are the reasons I use a social bookmarking tool, like del.icio.us.

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. Photo by M. Schenekenberg. Measurement Challenges.

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AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. It’s definitely a thing to watch. This is very cool.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Join us HERE for Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations at 10am PT on August 26. Click HERE to join Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations. Our next episode of Nonprofits Live on August 26 at 10:00 a.m. Click HERE to join Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations. Click HERE to join Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations.

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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. social tools + people = lives saved. . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Metaphors October 10, 2006 I’m a fan of metaphors. So doesn’t the metaphor used for that software matter, then, in a nonprofit setting? For the most part, this has been simple exigency.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal, Joomla and Plone! It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla. I’m not yet sure.

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I’ll have to look for it.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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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. Make it an indispensable tool for people with disabilities, their families, educators, rehab professionals and the assistive and mainstream technology industries.

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MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80.

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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. Using this simple method, your nonprofit advertises the availability of your designated fundraising phone number to potential donors. Charge $1.99

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