Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

It’s core is a very powerful and flexible ticket tracker, but it includes all of the important project management features you want and need, milestones, time tracking, wikis, file repository, even discussion boards, and it connects with version control repositories. It works for multiple projects. I love the collaboration features.

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JUNE 10, 2015

How much of your staff’s valuable time to you devote to managing all your accounts, from Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn and all the rest? You can also upload bulk files of posts at once and make your content available to other Post Planners and Facebook experts. What’s the return on investment for that time?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Organization Social Media (Facebook page, Instagram page, Twitter page, etc.).

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Aside from fundraising and digital tools, EveryAction also is a leading provider of nonprofit advocacy technology. The company is a leader in the nonprofit technology space. Have easy access to the voter file. Your nonprofit technology shouldn't look like it was built in 1983. Visualize your data like never before.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2013

Tomorrow, on June 20 from noon-2pm ET, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable will feature speakers from three companies using data collected from cookies appended to voter files and other data sources to create highly targeted ad campaigns: Jim Walsh , Founding Partner of DSPolitical. IAR Nonprofit Events Technology Trends'

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Some examples include technology upgrades and person hours or large items donated for our live auction which make us thousands of dollars in the auction for each item. Like the technology upgrades and professional services you mention. Twitter | LinkedIn | The post [ASK AN EXPERT] How to be Appropriately Kind to In-Kind Donors?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The social media/technology landscape in Romania is very interesting – with a diverse set of issues, struggles and opportunities. If over the course of four whole weeks, you are still writing posts (even if they are just text files or emails to each other) then you know you have the stamina to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. Joining TechSoup should be the first technology task for your new nonprofit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 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 #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. In fact, that is far from the case.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

If the avatar needs to be customized to mention a city, state, or country, provide a Photoshop file of the avatar for those chapters that have the capacity to customize the avatar themselves. While customizing numerous avatars may seem cumbersome, in reality it takes less than two minutes to add a city, state, or country to a Photoshop file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 12, 2009

Case Study: World Vision’s ‘Week For Children’ | Bright One - Check out this case study of World Vision's "Week for Children" - World Vision is a UK charity, and this case study discusses the use of various social media tools (include Facebook, Flickr, Yoube, Twitter, and Blogs) for the Week for Children campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/BigCatRescue. We are also investing in a complete overhaul of our 17,000 file website at BigCatRescue.org that has taken 9 months and thousands of dollars, but will result in integrating social aspects that should improve our reach and influence. Name: Carol Baskin. Title: CEO. Website: BigCatRescue.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

As mentioned earlier, both Network for Good and JustGive.org use GuideStar to empower their giving portals as well as the online donation processing technology of their partners, such as Facebook Causes, Crowdrise, and Jumo. Add a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Other Pitch to Your “Thank You” Landing Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2010

I queried my friends on Facebook and Twitter and to my surprise, I learned that many of my nonprofit techie friends are Android fans!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? This blog is rated 8.2 very good, they say) on Blogged.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I find myself doing this on Twitter more and more. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Know Your Audience’s Social Technology Adoption. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As part of my current career, I've managed a website redesign or creating and filed a nonprofit's annual tax return. There are entire communities of marvelous people ready to help us get hands on and mindful about nonprofit technology. Finally, a Model for Delivering Technology in Nonprofits That Works! About the Author.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The Ning issue touches on a topic that’s very important to me and I’ve written about a number of times, including: Letting Technology Lead , Why we need a new way of building , How our tools define ‘community’ and Ning saying No to free networks. What was the work load like to switch? And the catch 22!

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Photographs are likely the most common form of media added to your site—and likely the ones whose accessibility guidelines you are familiar with the most—but this category also includes videos, audio files, and downloadable documents. You can follow him on twitter @dcmouyard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Technology Changes, People Don’t. There was a revolt that included buttons that said “I’m sticking with DOS.&# It is not uncommon that when a new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 11, 2011

In a previous job, I had the opportunity to help run crowdsourcing contests for new and innovative technologies that help nonprofits and the world. They also support a range of files so your contest could be a logo redesign or a social media policy, a video clip or a conference session proposal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new blog! All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. That’s all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Each year around the winter holidays, we take stock of the world of nonprofit technology over the last 12 months. As usual, there were lots of fun nonprofit technology surprises, and some that just keep rolling along year after year. Find out more about nonprofit technology and the SDGs. Communications. Image 1: Wes Holing.

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Everyaction

MAY 14, 2018

mobile technology to input and track data on the students who register to vote allows your office to accurately report your impact, while also having the freedom and mobility to meet students wherever they are. EveryAction's. Using other database tools such as. social share tracking and.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Homer’s first recommendation to encourage collaboration is to eliminate distractions by being mindful of how technology can get in the way, and to try to be present. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. What file-sharing tools do you use? Additional Resources. Travel Reduction: Online Collaboration.

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