Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Companies such as Amazon are creating massive grid storage and computing services for applications in the cloud. As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. We’ve recently seen a slew of music award shows and individual musicians performing in hybrid concerts: the artist performs on a stage like normal, but to an empty venue, while that performance is streamed live to spectators at home.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

Nobody could afford you, or nobody's big enough to hire a promotion director. We'll do some labyrinth walking to music. There was an employment agent here who said, "Well, you know, Elizabeth, there are no jobs for you whatsoever. But meanwhile, all these people keep sending me their manuscripts." Social change? The environment?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. interview volunteers, staff, directors. Case Studies.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Michael Enos, TechSoup's senior director for community and platform, sees a trend developing where nonprofits are leveraging existing technology platforms to "source to excess." Prominent examples are Airbnb , in which we rent rooms in our houses; the ridesharing service Uber ; and the meal-sharing service Feastly.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. Do not go to Amazon, because Amazon has old versions. This is one of the things I love to do at one of my organizations is we have this folder, and I know it takes a little time but we have a folder.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I like to joke that I have had every job that is a Rubik’s cube in the nonprofit world, staff member, board member, founder, executive director. There’s the Amazon list or the deal-of-the-day. My kids go to an arts high school, and they were promoting a SpongeBob SquarePants musical. There’s a lot of noise.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I am a former development and marketing director. So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. But what works best, music, humor, entertainment, surprise, relatability. They’re completely free to create.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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