Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." This post has me thinking about many different perspectives on community organizing and community engagement and I'd love to hear what it triggers for you! Change the internet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. I have other kinds of projects as well – those that use my talents somewhat differently.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Understandably, it has come to be somewhat different than I designed it back then, but it still feels good that something that I worked hard on is still serving people. I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

For example, Facebook shares different types of statistics on their own site that I think are more useful when thinking about the role of social media. As you continue to plan and evaluate social media’s role in your organization, arm yourself with the right knowledge and memorize these five social media myths.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

These top five lessons serve as a good starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of your organization’s website. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Evaluating Your Website’s Effectiveness. How are you making a difference? Read more tips in the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide and share some of your own here.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This can be conducted through formal and informal evaluations. We also found that institutional and organizational forces help explain tendencies of executives to prioritize different roles, and consequently, it is important to consider the priorities for each organization when determining how the board can be most beneficial.

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See3

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

It’s a series of pictures of a family in a different country posing with all the food they eat in a week. The regional differences and taste differences are amazing. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! It also shows the cost of that food.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 2010, we started preparing months in advance for end-of-year fundraising. Then we planned a series of tests to evaluate everything from our messaging to nuts-and- bolts fundraising tactics. And though the two had no significant difference in response rate, the negative version produced significantly more unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

After witnessing micro-lending programs on three different continents, I came to the conclusion that in most cases the poor don’t need loans, they need jobs. You can plug into conversations on lots of different platforms and channels; on Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and, of course, by email. And social media makes this easier.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1. Unquantifiable goals—When the goal is something like “making a positive difference in the life of a youth,” the judgment often comes down to the supervisor’s anecdotal, incomplete information.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

And that is for a different post. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! But in terms of digital advertising, some of their folks get it. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Go to THIS PAGE right now and donate and make a big difference. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Their posts on Facebook also highlighted how fans could easily make a difference. The Hunger Project India registered for and received a BigTech donation of Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade, Office Professional Plus 2010, and QuickHeal antivirus software.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? We encourage users to report such content and we have a large team of professional reviewers who evaluate these reports and take action per our policies.”. Well, I beg to differ. It is confusing.

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

I don’t have a complete articulation of what that is yet, but two things got my attention recently that feel different. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! phenomena of portable content and user generated content is just the transition to something deeper.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Little effort was traditionally expended, however, to ascertain whether, in fact, those services (and the resources expended) had made any appreciable difference whatsoever upon the underlying issues whose symptoms they were meant to address.1 August 2010. [2] July 4, 2010 [link] ; and Golding, Bruce. 3] Hunter, David.

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See3

JANUARY 23, 2008

Today I saw something different from MoveOn. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! They are no strangers to using video either. They have had video contests, and have made lots of 30-second spots. They have used the web to fundraise for these spots.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. And it is completely okay, required even, that all those goals are different to some degree. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. What do you point to when funders, donors, board members and the community ask if you are making a difference?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

When I understood the program, I recommended that the foundation evaluate each new software purchase by first going to TechSoup before the normal retail channels. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010. I now think differently about how we get our software.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

By putting the right tools in their hands, we can help them make a positive difference for the charities they support.&# Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! For more information on how to set up your own Firstgiving fundraising page visit www.firstgiving.com.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

Vardenafil is presented in different dosage tablets. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! In medical trials, the most frequently reported side effects were headache, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

Problem is, every program that parses my server logs does this a little differently. is changing behavior, thought they needed a different way to measure. For example, my Google home page has RSS feeds from many different news and blog sources. So the best use of the numbers is to show trends and growth.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

The Obama campaign is raising money differently. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Lets say I am that law partner and by making a lot of calls I can get 50 people to max out for my candidate. That’s $117,300, including my own contribution.

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See3

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Please visit the site and sign up, tell your friends and lets make a difference this year. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment Global Development Matters — Clocks and Watches Blog [.]

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It’s a great example of approaching an aspect of government work – finding solutions to problems facing the country and government – not just a little faster or a little more efficiently, but with a completely different approach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. Yes, Freeconferencecall and open source screensharing options are good for some orgs– but sometimes “duct taping&# together different solutions ends up costing more time/money than a true integrated audio/web solution.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

He points us to two websites working on different aspects of this issue. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! So the pothole and the PTA meeting are covered by the people it most impacts. One is called Outside.In and the other is called Everyblock.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. at 7:32 am My take on the discussion so far is that there is a real difference in opinion on the importance of a web site to an organization. 3 David Zeidman 09.18.07 David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego. Lessons Learned 1: Build it, and they will come We thought GISKIN was cool and different, but was it cool and different enough to actually attract people to the Park? Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

There are some big differences. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! When people embed those we reserve rights to serve ads in the future. It is not a white-label service. It is a YouTube-branded experience. It is free. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Customizable tabbed pages show general employee information, emergency contacts, wages, performance evaluations, notes, and associated documents — all of which can be customized by administrators. Storing and retrieving your HR information is made simple with Staff Manager (admin fee: $30) from Atlas Business Solutions.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! It’s fantastic. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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