Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. You can share these Blists.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Microsoft's new version of Office 2010 is interesting in several ways, especially in its approach to green IT and cloud computing. The free online version of Microsoft Office 2010, called Office Web Apps for Home and School is free to anyone regardless of whether or not they use a desktop version of Microsoft Office.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2010

It’s one of your most basic, and effective, marketing tools, but a recent GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late 2010.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2010

The brand spanking new Microsoft Office 2010 slate of products has just hit the shelves and is now available for donation through TechSoup. There are also three new versions of Visio, the popular graphics and diagramming software: Microsoft Visio Standard 2010 , Microsoft Visio Professional 2010 , Microsoft Visio Premium 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design. You can also follow other people's plans.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

CrowdFlower has announced CrowdConf 2010 , a crowdsourcing conference that will take place in San Francisco in October. Tags: Event Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Presentation submissions are being accepted through next Wednesday, September 1. ( We've talked a lot on this blog about crowdsourcing.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). It's a helpful compilation about online tools for.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Date : November 15th, 2010. Description : Social media tools provide a lot of opportunities to make local, offline connections and build community. Tags: 2010 presentation presetnation small business social media webinar. Location : Online. Topic : Social Media Basics.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Date : November 16th, 2010. Topic : Tools and Options for Selecting Social Media for Your Organization. Description : The hardest part of getting started with social media is figuring out what tools your organization should use. I’ll contribute to this webinar as a guest speaker weighing on tools and options.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2010

NPC is happy to share that TechSoup Global won the open-vote portion of the Justmeans/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards. Tags: Online Activism Social Networking TechSoup Help Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session submission process yielded so many great session ideas, we couldn't include them all on the agenda. No Wrong Door: Tools for Non-Profits to Collect & Share Resource and Client Information with One Another (02/17). Tags: 10NTC NPTech NTEN. Public option or public voice?

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). low-cost online collaboration tools. The Getting Attention 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards is still accepting. Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech nten members.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

" 3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010 – Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of Change.org, has a great piece on Mashable showcasing the three trends he sees coming in 2010 for the social change sector. There are so many other tools and platforms that are exciting, innovative, incredibly engaging, and beautiful.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Tag your own news with " nten membe r" or " nptech " to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Some of us here at NTEN are pretty interested in geo-tagging. and geo-locating tools and their potential for nonprofit application, so we. s 2010 Top Small Workplaces.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 29, 2010

Have you successfully moved from paper-based direct mail fundraising to digital tools (email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and/or mobile)? The Paperless Choice Challenge is rewarding successful, creative, replicable campaigns that use electronic fundraising tools by giving away eight prizes totalling over $20,000.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Having a clear online fundraising strategy, and the tools to bring it to life, is more important than ever, especially as younger generations gain more giving power. Bloomerang’s fundraising tools include customizable giving pages, peer-to-peer fundraising and crowdfunding capabilities, text-to-donate functionality, and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I have the fun opportunity to be a presenter at the 2010 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits! Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base – notes from the recent Women Who Tech telesummit session. Tags: presentation socialmedia webtools. My session today focuses on the topic of “Unlocking the True Value of Social Media.&#.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? gid=104492. It has close to 400 followers.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

What ever set of tools you use remember the point – doing this helps each of us remember what we’re grateful for. As I’m writing this there’s over 2000 items on the list – can we get it to 5,000 by the time Thanksgiving 2010 is over? Tweetsgiving 2010 – #EpicThanks. Write it out by hand with pencil and paper. Use an iPad.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 30, 2010

Wild Apricot is delighted to host the Nonprofit Blog Carnival for June 2010. Here for your reading (and thinking) pleasure are five great blog posts that really meshed with this month’s theme – Managing Your Membership – Tips, Tools & Tactics.( Big thanks to all who sent in their blog posts for consideration! read more ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you are going to use one of these early do-it-yourself smartphone App tools, then you most definitely need mobile versions of your about, donate, e-newsletter subscribe and text alert subscribe pages. I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Tags: Accessible Technology News Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 The five of us social media "chefs" set up our TechSoup social media kitchen at the conference lounge, where folks could drop-in during the conference and get one-on-one help with their social media questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. Part social networking site, part smartphone App, and part social experiment, FourSquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. The default is that all Tags appear in lowercase.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

August 2010 – Community Builder Chat Wrap Up. September 2010 – Community Builder Chat Details. tools and tactics that build a loop between offline and online activities. Tags: community events 4change chats community building community management. This time we’ll explore 1.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. Tags: campaigns presentation facebook lpw philanthropy romania workshop. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2009

However, we thought that since they have opened up applications for their 2010 Technology Leadership Award (given jointly by Lumity, the City of Chicago, and Accenture ), we'd make sure our tech-savvy members know about it as well. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

There are at least " Five Reasons Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Social Media Policy " But just in case, here's a new online tool that can help you create one. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. But Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages ? Slackers, rejoice: hard work may be overrated. We like to believe it can.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010; 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM. Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Quick tips and tools will be provided on how to get started as well as support for more advanced users. Room: 1471.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Here’s the dashboard from The Extraordinaries of our 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference session today: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns – [International Ballroom C] (#co2oc). The groups will use both community organizing principles and social media tools to create an online social media campaign.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

Here are some links: If you're concerned how many people might find that one picture through Google -- you know the one we're talking about -- you need this handy tool from ReclaimPrivacy.org to help you lock down your settings. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. It's working.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. —– Tools for listening: Goodbyebuddy – find out when people aren’t listening to you any more. Check out listening tools at: [link]. Learn what people want to hear.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

Of course, there are so many visualization tools out there now, you almost need a guide. Idealware to the rescue: " A Consumer's Guide to Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools ". Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Google's new Fusion Tables lets you import, mash-up, share, and visualize your own and others' data.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

NTEN's 2010 dues are now prorated, so you get a discount! > Tags: NPTech NTEN. Each issue focuses on a theme of critical importance and provides you with the cutting edge, relevant, and useful information you need to manage and advance your mission more effectively. It's a $49 value!). Even better?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Beginning in February 2010, DIOSA Communications will also offer social media webinars for charities in Europe on Thursdays at 2pm GMT. 80% of the content is the same as other DIOSA webinars, but these webinars will be tailored to also cover social media fundraising tools that are available to charities outside the United States.

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