Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

For instance, I’m reading the book, Made to Stick , and this week’s post by Jeff at Donor Power talks about taglines that organizations use – how they make internal sense, but don’t make sense to people outside. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Donor Power blog asks whether brand kills fundraising ? Somewhat tangentially related: Although they didn’t say this was related to the economy, Strategynut gives seven tips for building trust with your consulting clients. A Small Change blog talks about annual board solicitations. Answer: no.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

Organizations use this tool to track donors, send out newsletters, track the success of campaigns, track who is engaged with the organization in what ways, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. at 10:04 pm Donor Power Blog 11.21.07 She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. I wholeheartedly agree. Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

and a lot of different ways to track what your donors and constituents did, both online and off, and have those show up in really interesting ways. The integration between the web front end and the RE back end is bi-directional and sweet. It is, in many ways, the kind of CRM/CMS integration that lots of organizations want and need.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 8:37 am Actually, I do – I have a client whose activities and donor base suggest that they have a lot of other work to do before they delve into social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Properly used, web sites are more than just a payment solution for credit card bearing donors. Donors? (“Gee, I don’t think I’ll donate to that org unless they’ve got at least 5 million web hits a year.&# ) Never happen. Why bother having a web site at all?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I also tend to think that while the paradigms differ, a donor, a member, a constituent in the end is not that different in terms of business processes from a client or customer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Would this help: 1) gain donors? And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? 2) communicate the message? 3) keep stakeholders informed?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

If you have an email list captured by one application, a donor list captured by another, a social network in another, and you give them all equal “weight,&# then you’re asking for trouble. The key, I think, is to make sure that one repository of data rules them all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

" There is no question that technology in general has created sea changes in the ways in which organizations get and use information, reach donors and constituents, create campaigns, etc. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

And the concept is one that is increasingly prevalent: donors get to choose exactly where there money goes, and there is some competition between worthy projects. What happened to our school system that an organization is formed to provide a place for thousands (yes, thousands ) of projects for school kids? So they can learn.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Maybe the answer is for a single donor to step forward and fund the next half dozen issues. Maybe the answer is some kind of quarterly bounty which, as soon as financial pledges reach a certain amount, the publication goes to open license (or maybe that’s when the next issue is commenced).

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