Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? So rather than using a search engine to find data or content and assembling it, you can have generative AI do some of that assembly work for you. Will I be replaced by ChatGPT? Is it accurate?

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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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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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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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Continuing a series of posts on tips and tricks for Microsoft Office, this month we're tackling Outlook 2010. It's a good tool for managing email, calendars, and tasks in the office setting. If you've just upgraded to Office 2010, check out this post for a roundup of new features to the suite as a whole.

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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 Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) IRC is an incredibly useful tool. I use IRC every day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. It’s a pretty amazing tool. There are channels for everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Breigha Adeyemo’s recent article, I’m a Black woman and the metaverse scares me – here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet inclusive , explains: Ensuring that the metaverse is inclusive and works for everyone will require that people from marginalized communities take the lead in shaping it. Augmented Reality (AR).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2010

A strong tagline does double-duty—working to extend your organization’s name and mission, while delivering a focused, memorable and repeatable message to your base. All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late 2010. So enter here now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. And it’s open source – so someone who really cares can port it to work with MySQL, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The DIAGRAM Center was launched in May 2010 by Benetech with support from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). George Kerscher, a co-Principle Investigator of the DIAGRAM Center through our partner the USFDAISY, and Steve Jacobs, a member of our Tactile Graphics working group, have both been honored.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Just also to say – I don’t think of WordPress and Joomla as “competitors&# – they are both really good tools, and great at what they do.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Every campaign, every organization, and really, even every individual engaging with others online has a set of tools and techniques they've learned from and rely on every day. The ToMamaWithLove campaign saw them try some new tools as well as some trusted favorites, even with a budget of $0 and a lot of volunteer time.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

about your office, and how much paper that works out to. Here at TechSoup, that would work out to almost 1.8 steps you should take, and considerations you should make, over at How Stuff Works. at TechSoup offers a donated, cloud-based collaboration tool (admin. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data.

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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. Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community. Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s walk through four lessons we learned from fundraising during the pandemic and learn how your school can implement these tips moving forward: Leverage online fundraising tools. Virtual fundraising tools have been incredibly valuable during the pandemic, allowing traditionally face-to-face fundraising methods to be moved online.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. This year one thing I am doing for myself is exploring fountain pens and working on calligraphy. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. Further, when report complexity eclipses what the native reporting tool in Blackbaud is capable of (which is frequent), even the DB Administrators will need to go to a more advanced tool: Crystal Reports.

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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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NTEN

MAY 5, 2011

Our analysis [ from the 2010 Online Giving Study ] showed the following: Fundraising is still about relationships. Work hard to win them over. We'd love to hear YOUR tips, strategies, or #FAIL stories about raising donations via online tools and channels.).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2014

Now that it's time to upgrade from Windows XP (it’s retires in early April 2014), you may well be wondering how much of your current software and hardware will work on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Fortunately there are some great free tools to help you figure that out. At least I hope you’re planning to upgrade.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Due the rapid speed of technological advancement, from this point forward nonprofits will have to embrace multiple communications and fundraising tools if they want to reach donors and supporters of all ages. In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010. This generation, however, is silent no longer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 23, 2021

While being on the cutting edge of technology is amazing, working with inspirational colleagues affecting change and impacting lives across higher education is beyond my wildest dreams. The entire Cloud for Good team has been fantastic to work with. Recruiting + Admissions Accelerator. “The

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 9, 2012

My overall predictions are that most things will be pretty much the same as last year (and 2010 and 2009, etc.): And don't neglect what's already working for you. NTEN published my somewhat snarky predictions for nonprofits' use of fundraising technologies in 2012. many nonprofits will struggle with out-of-date systems.

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Working with a virtual team. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? That virtual work could save the planet!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith. We do not work together. Find and talk to others using the same tools. Coming together to talk about tools with others who use them can also mean a louder, more unified voice in requesting changes to those tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. 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.

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