Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

What I didn't know prior to reading this book, however, was how to spot innovation and help staff members stay focused and motivated on growing our programs. The book reminds us of the value of transparency in our everyday work processes and the benefits of letting your staff have the freedom to re-think your existing model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

As a result, I'm publishing a briefer than usual edition of the NpTech Tag Summary because I can only get to fast loading blogs and web sites. NpTech Conversations Wild Apricot Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic "How are non-profits using Web 2.0 in the NpTech Tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NpTech Summary. So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. If you're on Facebook, join the NpTech group so we can find each other! Two tagging related posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m tired of reading and hearing about about social media and nonprofits, and I’m annoyed that social media is taking up so much of the air space in the #nptech world. I’ve been using social media to actively promote my new science fiction books. I have social media ennui. And I use hashtags in blog entries!

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 31, 2013

From online guides and daily webinars to printed books from Amazon, any question you have is easily answered quickly and easily. Industry News Social Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech SharePoint' Vast community.

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TechImpact

APRIL 29, 2014

Doing work in a local coffee shop, waffle house, or book store is a great way to remove yourself and think a little differently. General Leadership content marketing nonprofit npTech volunteers' Delegate if necessary, and follow up. Break a big task into smaller enjoyable ones. Find out what exactly is burning you out.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2014

Learn more in this excerpt from the new book, "Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits." Learn more about opportunities for nonprofits in this excerpt from the new book, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Tech for Good. It not just the convenience of swiping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

Now that it's been released, we're pretty sure you'd like to: > Buy the Book! . So: > Register for the Virtual Book Release Party. We've also made a wiki to support and extend the book. Tags: managing technology Leadership NPTech NTEN book. In support of the launch, we're having a virtual release party.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2009

We were incredibly lucky to have James Weinberg author a chapter in our book Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission with his colleague Cassie Scarano (who wrote an article in that newsletter). James and Cassie are bringing their long-time experience in the nptech hiring world to the NTC for two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea.

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NetWits

APRIL 5, 2013

It’s a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. Make sure to check out npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I followed to lead trip into the NpTech Tag Community. Some initial quick reflections: Listening is a key skill of a community technology steward (Nancy White, Etienne Wenger, and John Smith has working on a book about this topic). or social technologies into community of practice work ask amazing questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Hardly thorough as a research method, the TwtPolls do however present some basic information about what trends were popular in 2012 and clues as to which #NPTech trends should be prioritized in 2013. April 2012 [1,004 Views] :: Have you downloaded an e-book? Every month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 twtpoll.com/qzr8g1. twtpoll.com/isrp80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. How will these trends impact nptech? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. Global NpTech. Marnie Webb also points to this post. What's Hiafux ?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They’re doing a virtual book tour exploring concepts from Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. Tags: Guest Posts Marketing and Communication #nptech Non-Profit ntc Open Community Social Media Strategy. What’s next? Is it working?

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Maybe you've already picked up a copy of The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine – but perhaps you’re still wondering if the book can help a small nonprofit like yours? The answer is, Yes! Networking is not just for the "big guys" out there.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 15, 2010

She devoted a whole chapter to storytelling in her new book, and provides ten tips for better interviews in this guest post.( Tags: nptech Marketing Best practices Blogging Non-profit Communications. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. is an attitude , not a download.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2009

The NTEN community co-authored a book and is planning an online conference for this Fall drawing on the contributors to move from writing to speaking. Tags: community events conference nptech ntc nten ontc. The next event is April 8-10, 2010, in Atlanta, GA.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

To make a reservation at the NTC Conference rate, you must call the hotel and mention NTEN or the Nonprofit Technology Conference when booking, or register online through the exclusive online registration form set up especially for NTC attendees. Also, please be aware that no one will contact you about booking a hotel room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

That is one visualization of the nptech data from Chris Blow. Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

nptech Click To Tweet Use SNORKL to create clear RFPs and connect to great nonprofit vendors that won’t rip you off. Try our RFP Generator Get the Ultimate RFP Book Whole Whale loves this topic so much that we wrote the book — literally. Finally: A simple guide to the nonprofit RFP process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. When I asked Jason why he is interested in so many different NPTech things, he said it’s probably because he spent his formative years in Kitchener Waterloo in West Ontario where he went to Wilfrid Laurier University. Silicon Valley North.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Dragonfly Effect: 4 Principles of Engagement | Social Media For Nonprofits | Advancing the Mission of Nonprofits via Social Media – "I recently read the book The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker (@aaker) and Andy Smith (@kabbenbock).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I'm sure the book is excellent. Technorati Tags: nptech At the NTC Conference in Oakland in 2003, Compasspoint presented a workshop with the same title and it was packed and got rave reviews. Here's the description from the Web Site.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. a11y accessibility Benetech Labs Bookshare born accessible human rights impact Martus Mobile Martus nptech President''s Update socent social enterprise' While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say about it: In addition to the scores of breakout sessions, the networking, camaraderie, and general nptech-related good times, noted author Clay Shirky will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 NTC, coming up in San Francisco, April 26-28. is revolutionizing the social order. " read more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. Communications: Here’s a tweet from David Sacks, CEO and founder of Yammer: “both WhatsApp and Secret represent the ascendancy of the phone book over the friend graph. mobile apps nptech mobiletechnology' Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2005

Chris Locke's post of various booklists people have assembled at Amazon made me realize that the good old book is a problematic resource these days for those of us who inhabit the blogosphere - you can't just link to it, or receive it in your rss feed. Visit my booklist wiki page and post some book recommendations. So let's do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2006

I received an email from Tomas Krag telling me about his new book on wireless networking for the developing world : Together with a group of my friends and colleagues, I have been. working on a book specifically about wireless networking for the developing world. 250-page free book, jam-packed with information about building wirelss.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For the last two and a half years, Amy has worked as Community Development Manager for Community-Driven Innovation at TechSoup Global , but we knew her back when she was just setting out on the road to nptech super-stardom with the Meyer Memorial Trust right here in Portland, where she led our local 501 Tech Club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2006

The description: The book's primary objective is to help people understand how to successfully design, implement, and evaluate ICT projects in a complicated landscape, by explaining the underlying principles that influence outcomes. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. When I asked Jason why he is interested in so many different NPTech things, he said it’s probably because he spent his formative years in Kitchener-Waterloo in Southwest Ontario where he went to Wilfrid Laurier University.

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