Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Partnered with Network for Good, if your nonprofit is already in the NFG database, then you have a profile on HelpAttack! An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. Donors can pledge as little as $.01

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Cabral, MA, CFRE will lead you through the why and how of creating your own database standards manual and processes to ensure that you are not leading your organization down the path of “Garbage In=Garbage Out.” We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise. Why do we need it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2020

Cloud computing is the delivery of server data, software, databases, and intelligence over the Internet or “the cloud”. Cloud computing helps accomplish this goal because employees can work from any location as they connect via mobile to the information and projects they need to access. Cloud Computing. Applications.

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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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In every walk of life — from finding new music, to picking a restaurant, to booking a vacation — consumers now have unsurpassed control over the experience. The old database-centric standard of crossing your fingers as you blast hundreds of impersonal emails or direct mail asking for contributions is outdated. It’s keeping us stuck.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

MyFitnessPal is calorie counter app with a large food database. is a free way to listen to music, sports and news from all over the earth. The work related apps that I use frequently on my tablet are: Yammer - our work social media app where our staff shares information. Kid Mode - fun, educational games for kids. TuneInRadio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That was one of the big reasons I had been looking for good web conferencing a while back (I’m still looking…) I’m starting my foray into this territory by giving a free course in the database management system, PostgreSQL. The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Google says: “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our overall mission of organizing patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { It’s going to get interesting, for sure. 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

According to Salsa’s guide to fundraising CRMs , your CRM should be a central hub for all the information you have on your donors, empowering you to anticipate and meet their needs during this challenging time. That means collect only the data you absolutely need – don’t ask for information you don’t need right now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I make sure that music on Pandora is on the agenda for at least half the day. It’s made me a much more hopeful, optimistic, happy, and ironically better-informed individual which ultimately results in more patience and kindness in my social media work. Silence is also good. Google+ is growing rapidly and traffic is increasing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

It will change the way that I move forward on a large web redesign and database integration project that I will be working on this year. NTCwinning 7: Musical Entertainment Photo by Trav Williams After the 2011 NTC, we decided that we needed to incorporate some music and local culture into the NTC. Missed Dan Roam's keynote?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It’s being billed as the “easiest database&# and I pretty much have to agree. Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. Have a look at the demo. Watch the demo.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

More and more, people expect to get access to resources and information on their mobile devices. What all these apps have in common is that they use Worldcat , the enormous global catalog of library collections, to provide detailed information about books, CDs, and movies. Or a mobile tour created by a nonprofit that highlights and.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

VIP’s are the people in your database with a Klout score of 70 or more. They will reach the most and post with their own information, too.). It tells you how interested the people in your database are with your work. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. You have VIP’s, media and everyday influencers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

New stories surface, like arrowheads long buried, providing constant shifting of information that gives vitality to history." MBWML also holds an annual Court Day Festival, which provides a full "living history day" of reenactments, music, storytelling, demonstrations, and more. Small Staff, Big Impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) How do we know? How can we assure privacy?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2009

And TJ Muehleman added a few points about integration that are music to any nonprofit’s ears: the level of integration we are seeing now between community platforms and organizationss databases is better than ever before! Make it about your constituents and provide the tools and information most important to them 5.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With a strong computer and technology interest, I wrote and developed the station’s donor database using dbase II and an HP150 touchscreen computer. A: While I had not been a frequent podcast listener, I am an avid user of Flipboard on my iPad and as such, I read much material related to technology, photography and music on a daily basis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. As Jack said, it is helpful and important for someone to be informed, but we don’t have a real need for an expert (yet). We’re just not there yet.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. If records are confirmed duplicates, have reviewers specify which record has the most complete information – this will be the “go-forward” record.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

That said, the exceptions often stand out the most: the major or principal donor who makes her first gift to your organization at $100,000, or the planned gift that is received from a donor not in your database. There will always be a gap between current performance and future potential. Hopefully it will be the former!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

BR for POGO: If I'm not fighting government corruption, I'm probably making music or roving around the country with my band Bombadil. A recent example of that might be the SEC Revolving Door Database , which I think is pretty neat both in terms of providing valuable information to the public and using Convio in an interesting way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. And then there is data. I love my friends and colleagues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) I stumbled a fair bit along the way.

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