Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new theme!

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

WordPress site designers, owners and administrators all have something in common with one another: they all want to see their sites perform better: look more attractive: get more hits and conversions; see more pass-alongs and click-throughs; engage more repeat visitors etc. It also plays nice with Google Analytics for tracking.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Birgit Pauli-Haack and James McDonald in Naples, Florida usher in the NFN4Good Tech Club with introductions to Google Apps and Wordpress. brought together a panel of experts at Net2 Seattle to explore how nonprofit communicators engage the press. This Tuesday we’re proud to launch two new groups. Event Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. So I posted it on my wordpress blog and discovered that perhaps he didn't use the drop down menu to set it to word press.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

Hold down an app icon to move it around, press & hold for copy/paste, moving around the Phone app…all similar enough to the iPhone that I’ve learned by trusting muscle memory. Twitter , Evernote , Mint , Dropbox , Audible , Kindle (with link to Kindle Store, thankyouverymuch), Pandora , WordPress , TripIt , Box.net , etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news? MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

How do you get noticed in a busy world with many growing and pressing concerns? A website can be affordably built and maintained for upstart charities by using a website builder such as Wix or a WordPress template. Getting noticed in the public eye happens through action and taking steps to do good work.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

And when it comes to designing and running a WordPress sie—whether it be a blog, a money-making e-tail page or even a bit of corporate PR—getting the right image that grabs attention and keeps visitors interested and engaged is incredibly important for a successful website. Some great ones to explore are Nelio A/B and AB Press Optimizer.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

15NTC Community NTC press' , Amy DeVita, Third Sector Today “Email’s Not as Awesome as It Used to Be”: Highlights from M+R Benchmark Study , Aine Creeden, Nonprofit Quarterly Social-Media Stars Ascend as Top Partners for Nonprofits , Megan O''Neil, The Chronicle of Philanthropy Storifys #15NTCGreenScreen - We should have one every year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

The report is often an important piece of research designed to show leadership on an issue and attract the attention of the press and governments to affect social change. At See3, we think this is like the launch of Drupal or WordPress – two content management systems that. how payday lenders have increased payments to lobbyists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. Microsoft thinks that it will win approval , but that is far from clear. (If

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 . … One wonders how many bad stereotypes they can fit in one column? Anyway, if you read Linux Journal, please tell them how you feel.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Several prominent nonprofits participated, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, WordPress, Mozilla Foundation, Public Knowledge, Greenpeace USA, Sierra Club, Common Cause, and MoveOn.org. The action called Battle for the Net was intended to stimulate more comments to the FCC before the September 15 comment deadline.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

wakot of everyday sustainable suggested I contact Karen Henke of Nimble Press for ideas. More Twitter suggestions since I published this post @helenrf of Reach Further teaches writing online with Moodle, but also suggests WordPress blogs and forums. She also said I should check out the work of @ leighBlackall at Otago Polytechnic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

As you might expect, the 16-hour program covered all the basics of social media: from how and why to write a social media plan, to a review of the major social media tools, including LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook and WordPress. Berkeley Prof. This blog post was originally published on the Communications Network Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. And people in orgs hear all this buzz about this thing or that thing, and feel hard pressed and stressed to get on the bandwagon. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Wordpress, which Edublogs uses, provides Heading Styles. Check out this example Larry created for how Scribe can be used for Talking Stories (press the play on the Listen toolbar on the bottom right hand side below categories and tags). Make the first sentence of each paragraph make me want to read the rest of the paragraph! #2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! It like it was also splog and closed down by wordpress. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk. Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Is it your homepage, a standard landing page, or deep-linking to a press release, article, or transaction page (e.g. Take a moment to investigate the following data: Analytics : Configure and then analyze reports from your web analytics to see which page on your site is the first stop for folks referred from social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Official press release here. Although WordPress displays in U.S. Blackbaud, Inc. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Nonprofit Times covers it here. What language is this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Blogging tools like WordPress and TypePad automatically add the code for page titles in every new blog post you publish to the Web. Showing up on page one in Google search results has led to numerous press interviews and a few new clients… all without spending one single penny on search engine optimization. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

In addition to Twitter, two volunteers created separate press releases about the campaign on PitchEngine to spread through their networks. The first TMWL campaign used a highly-customized Wordpress site. According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. Infrastructure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Because what about our Peachtree accounting, our little Filemaker press clippings database, and oh yeah – totally wedded to Exchange/Outlook. And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). 3 Seth Schneider 06.24.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A day in the PR office of an orchestra is never the same; it goes beyond cranking out press releases and pitches. But I soon realized WordPress was the better option for what I wanted to create. t have an extensive classical music background, but learned quickly and learned to love it even quicker. s what makes it fun. Why I write.???

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monday rolls around, and you find yourself posting yet another press release to your nonprofit website’s blog. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Wordpress - has plugin to help with podcasts. press release. Blogging - if you blog about your sessions it helps Google pick it up; also gives people opportunity to comment and talk back. Social networking - use it to promote. Twitter - great/easy way to let people know when new episodes are out. Cross Channel Promotion. newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

wordpress bc of ease of publishing. saw increased press for each disaster based on newsroom. Wordpress is the main platform and fuel. Well, we got thousands of mentions by press. We continue to change and grow and press. set goals: decrease number of incoming media calls. offer reliable situational awareness. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

There are also other platform-specific widget directories: wordpress ( here and here ) and blogger If you're on another platform, try the Squidoo Widget Finder Lens. Linked In Profile : I'm not quite sure how an organization might use this one, but Amy Schwartz mentions the linked in profile in her post about the social media press release.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!) WordPress, Drupal, Joomla—with so many content management systems to choose from, it’s easy to get lost! Social media integration. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

But remember don’t treat it as a one way communication tool to just blast out your latest press releases and action alerts. Remember when all you needed to do was send out a press release, follow up with your rolodex of reporters or buy an ad in the New York Times? Consider it like an interactive 24-hour news cycle.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

I had pressing questions like: How many nonprofits still update their sites by hand with HTML editors like Dreamweaver? How many are using a pure CMS like WordPress or ones with fundraising hooks like NetCommunity? LESSON 2: WordPress manages 42% of nonprofit sites. Definitely not what I wanted to find.

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