Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. Almost all of our development work goes into the community version.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

In this session, Farra Trompeter, co-director of Big Duck, will explore ways you can evaluate and improve your donor engagement efforts year-round through smart communications and activities, blending both new and traditional approaches. To reduce the year-end stress, it starts with a year-round engagement plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

The foundation community was also well represented, especially the Skoll Foundation. Toronto business school, talked about the need to drive new skills into the business school community, especially improving the teaching of entrepreneurship and trying to teach empathy. Roger Martin, dean of the U. Bill Drayton rounded out the panel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above. Enter online fundraising contests.

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NTEN

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. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life. The firm she established has served more than 200 clients, ranging from big ten universities and global NGOs to start-up community organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. What has been your experience with user-centered design process for online communities and web sites?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Helping people and serving the community can feel like an uphill battle, yet it becomes so much easier when we have someone by our side, helping and motivating us as we climb the hill. Externally, this culture can help agencies work and communicate more efficiently together. He has been in the nonprofit sector since 2007.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2007

The challenge here has been the balancing act between the business school home of the Forum and the practitioner community. And that's saying something, since I got my award last year and that was pretty exciting. A couple of years ago, the focus was too academic and much of the material was not interesting to the social entrepreneurs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Powering Communities with Tech. At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

When we pulled the numbers two weeks later, a small nonprofit community center called the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California had raised over $400,000, while the American Red Cross had raised $322,540. friends on social media of community members. Communicate regularly. Potential Impressions. <

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

The 2007 NTC Conference is around the corner, well in April, but some discount pricing deadlines coming right up. Every year since 2000, the Day of Service provides an opportunity for NTC conference participants to give something back to the local nonprofit community. I'm excited because this will my seventh one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Some may exist solely online. We received a lot of great feedback and the idea took.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It offers proven, actionable approaches for any company, organization, or community to navigate through that entity’s most pressing challenges. We know through our experience working with hundreds of companies, organizations, and communities that what you’ll discover in our book is an antidote for polarization, stagnation, and divisiveness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 30, 2011

Similar to Myspace and Facebook in 2007 and 2008, there’s seemingly a geographic difference between Foursquare and Gowalla users. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking Tools and Location-Based Communities. to take possession of it. to take possession of it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

Interested in online community, but also enjoy meeting your online peeps in person? Whether you're an online community maven or just started venturing into online community, the San Francisco Online Community Report MeetUp group is for you!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

So for the next few tools, I’ll be describing CRMs (Constituent/Contact/Community/Customer Relationship Management). It has three versions: Enterprise, Professional, and Community Edition. at 4:47 pm Michelle - Is there an online community of NP SugarCRM users that you know of? That’s the one I’ve been using.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. How do you appropriately implement them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0 online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To organize all my contacts that are distributed all over the place in various social networking communities. To remember to listen to my body when my neck, arms, or hands hurt from carpal tunnel or RSI injuries and take stretch breaks and keep from overdoing it. Keep things in draft a little longer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. These nonprofits fill important niches in communities, often maintain close relationships with their beneficiaries, and serve as incubators for innovative ideas.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life. The firm she established has served more than 200 clients, ranging from big ten universities and global NGOs to start-up community organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

and social network guru for the nptech community. David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. It looks interesting.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2007, Ron Wille, the co-CEO of what was at the time called NimbleUser, and I attended Dreamforce , the Salesforce user conference. In 2017, Community Brands , the leading provider of cloud-based software to associations, nonprofits, faith-based groups, and K-12 schools, acquired Nimble AMS. Here’s why. It was well received.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They also have, at this point, no community. at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point. It isn’t a perfect Open Source community style, but it is a step in the proper direction. Not at all in alignment with the open source ethic. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

This will change quickly as you build your communities on social media sites. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. If you aren’t receiving any testimonials from your social media communities, ask them to testify! “ Hits &# are not the metric to monitor. Pitches in Tweets and Status Updates help too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

As one of America’s go-to outdoor apparel brands, the company encourages each employee to be an earthkeeper, a term that encapsulates Timberland’s three core values: creating responsible products, protecting the outdoors, and serving communities around the world. Employees don’t have to check their values at the door when they come to work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? Of course you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? Submission deadline for the title and abstract 28 February 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

The Day of Service is a way for conference participants to give something back to the community that hosts the Nonprofit Technology Conference. One of my clients is NTEN and for the past five years I've been hired to help coordinate the NTC Day of Service on April 4thi n Washington, DC.

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