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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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

She’s worked in development offices of all sizes and has recently put her years of experience and training down on paper in The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. 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.)

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data.

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Achieve

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. That way, you’ll work with artists that know how to create something that inspires your supporters. .

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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)&#. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) at 2:23 pm Hi, thanks for the mention of Gliffy in your writeup.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

Once you’ve examined the current impact of your organization, you can work with these metrics to aim for future goals and improvements. As you work closely with your constituents, be sure to keep stakeholders such as board members connected with your goals by updating them with easy-to-follow impact data.

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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.” percent of respondents said social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Think of Blist as a really interesting combination of really pretty Excel, with some very cool features thrown in from FileMakerPro, in a sweet looking interface, that works in any web browser. So this is definitely a tool to watch. Another really amazing tool is Blist. Have a look at the demo. You can share these Blists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Open Philanthropy is about working together to increase the size of the proverbial pie (not the piece)." 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." The time is now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

But the roof works fine. Pandora works dandy. Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. The install was very smooth, except the guy had to chip off a bunch of ice off of the roof. It didn’t start out bad. down, and 256K up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Things “just work&# (for the most part – apparently Leopard has been having issues.) I’d gasp if I read this a couple of years ago. The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX.

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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. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2012

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. However, many organizations are working with very limited financial resources, particularly when it comes to technology. Nonprofit organizations are under the gun to keep up with current technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events. Sure, why not.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2010

Lucky for us, our great pals Maddy and Lindy at Social Fish organized a Buzz 2010 breakfast with , who wrote , and who just released her latest book, Open Leadership. Everyone can be a leader in their organizations, and everyone can bring openness - through social media - to their work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways. We were surprised this year when only 41 percent of respondents told us they planned to work more closely with the board.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. I guess if you want privacy from casual observers, then a “walled garden&# works. at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

A very different context than I, or most people reading this work in, for sure. He feels that there is an inherent conflict of interest in working for time – it is in the consultants interest to spend more time on the project, regardless of the outcome. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I guess that’s where it gets interesting when you work with a CMS, right? It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. And we use plone for a lot of things in the organization I work for now. Four or five clicks later, tada! Um, sorta.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket , who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online. In 2007, Rik authored a report on "Best Practices for Nonprofits in Second Life," still one of the definitive resources for public sector organizations working in virtual worlds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 22, 2010

Don't consume too much, or too little, and definitely avoid reading or watching before going to sleep at night. How much money can you afford to give an organization working in Haiti? Start doing research on organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support financially, or by volunteering throughout 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The definition of Inbound Marketing is marketing focused on getting found by customers. You can read a more detailed definition here. The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. x (Total Retweets).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here’s some resources for doing quick tech planning so you’ll have some money to work with in 2014. It’s definitely tech planning made simple. SCORE has over 11,000 volunteers and their work is supported by the U.S. The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? 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. link] There is also a FireFox toolbar to go with it. 3 Beth 09.27.06

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