NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Eric Lanke: Stop Calling It Strategic Planning – "So I'm working my way through Humanize, and like most everyone else, I'm really enjoying it.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. And I can't resist a shout out to NTEN member and self-proclaimed luddite Martin Dooley who announced on Twitter this week "Help!

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

To get the most from your event this year, it’s important to realize that your participants are a diverse group and you need to speak to each group differently. Your participants have different motivators, perspectives and needs. Superstar fundraisers respond differently than those who raise the minimum. Check out the results ….

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC. So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. {

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

And each of us explained it a little differently. Something about the way Farra presented, answered questions and described the campaigns she worked on stuck with me. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. We focused on the patient. She got it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

These are the people that have developed social media “cred” They are different from your regular user; they are more invested, spending countless hours engaging with others. million + Twitter followers. There are influencers and evangelists among all social media networks. By using a bit.ly

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. Gotta work on that.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Streamlined sidebar : Now that content is highlighted in multiple ways—via the top navigation, footer columns, and so on—the sidebar is freed up to serve as an entry way to other spaces for continued conversation like facebook and twitter, and even an option to jump to the latest comments on the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Unfortunately, if you work in digital strategy and social media, monitoring social is a daily task and as a result a bad mood has become an occupational hazard. Back in 2010, you may remember one of the first highly visible social media mistakes of posting to the brand’s account instead of your personal social media. What to do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It was the hottest “buzz word&# of the last decade — And if you ask ten people to describe it, you could get ten very different answers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They did skip last year’s holiday party and used the money for charity , launched the tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program , and offered free advertising to a couple of nonprofits working to end cyberbulling to get out of launching an “Alert Button&#. Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In true “Ignite” style, each presenter had five minutes to present 20 slides about their nonprofit programs, initiatives and the ways they’ve seen nonprofits from around the world use social media to make a difference. Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Looking to get more out of Twitter?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far. And if you’ve been used to the Photoshop workflow, it will take a lot to get used to the very different GIMP workflow. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. I was underwhelmed, and forgot about it.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You may not see a significant difference in the features you’ll use when comparing free and paid options. You may not want to change how you currently manage donors, which means you’d like to invest as little as possible in a different solution or approach to donor management. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Mark, of Sea Change Strategies , talks about five mistakes he’s made in working with clients, includes things such as ignoring internal organizational dynamics, and getting too involved, or not involved enough. He has some really good thoughts worth considering as we work with clients over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. 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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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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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. There is a constant need to reach out to more supporters who exist on different (evolving) social platforms, and cultivate a personal relationship with them. It says that 22.7%

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

embracing yoga pants as acceptable work attire, thinking about what really matters in life, and maybe my favorite one of all—stealing little hidden moments to sit down with a book and just read. The author outlines in incredible detail, the joys and pains of starting a family, becoming a famous writer and having to juggle family and work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. at 2:31 pm There was an effort by some folks from Debian (not officially Debian) to work on a distro for Bhutan which uses a language similar to Tibetan. The event itself has been fab.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

"If we build it they will come" only works in the movies. I think the time has come to think differently. The point of a nonprofit – the point of working to help others in any fashion really – is that if you have helped one or two people, the plight was worthwhile. at 11:51 am Sadly, you’re right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { I’d recommend it to anyone. The feed should stay the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. It’s thousands of individuals committed to putting GiveMN’s tools to work for Minnesota and transform the way Minnesotans experience giving. We try to work differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. When considering a launch party for Zoetica at SxSW interactive, we wanted it to be different from the party atmosphere that pervades the culture of the conference.

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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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