Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. and social network guru for the nptech community. David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision. Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. Momentum is building.

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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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MARCH 21, 2007

The ongoing discussion about tagging is well represented here at NTEN's blogNpTech Tagging Community | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "NpTech Tagging CommunitySubmitted by Bonnie on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 9:56am.Newsletter | NPTech | online community | taggingMarnie Webb, TechSoupBeth Kanter, Beth’s BlogTagging facilitates the sharing of information (..)

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? nonprofit technology.

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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. And how do you check results?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. On Modules it was a little better, but again there was lots of comercial stuff… I found it a very comercialized communities and didnt get to know users and developers talk exchange freely… would you clarify me on that? Joomla is growing fast.

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APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits.

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APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. But the community blogs do provide a way for a wider audience to read the content that I have created. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# Wanna know what I’m doing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. I’m made comfortable by folks who speak what I think of as a good mix of development-speak and normal language. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed.

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MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Details are here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 David Maister asks " What do consultants know?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

NetSquared has groups in 20 countries, and it held over 600 events last year, helping more than 17,000 nonprofit employees, board members, volunteers, and community leaders with technology. Meet Our Fantastic NetSquared Community Manager, Eli. Eli van der Giessen is TechSoup's Netsquared community manager. IT BLEW MY MIND!

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. I promise (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Tagging communities or unbounded networks that might come to life around a tag are not new.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. So doesn’t the metaphor used for that software matter, then, in a nonprofit setting?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. online community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 From our perspective, having a close tight integration, gives the community a lot more options and allows folks to build modules that stitch the two together. at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

David, the Chief Technologist for the Pierce Family Charitable Foundation , has been an integral part of the NTEN community since he first joined in 2007. Welcome to the community Deborah's Place & The Cara Program, we're so glad you're here. He was the one walking around with an NTEN baseball cap and a huge smile on.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Johanna Bates has been working at Community Partners for a long time now. At the 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Johanna and I were both missing our kids, and bonded over the fact that seeing "Goodnight Moon" in the hotel gift shop made us kind of weepy. . Tags: NPTech johanna_bates IT Staff 09NTC.

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APRIL 10, 2009

After Idealware 's latest report reviewing Open Source CMS tools , there were, as might be expected, a few dust-ups in the open source developers and users communities, which includes NTEN members like David Geilhufe. There was a long discussion in the NTEN Discuss group , one of the affinity groups in our online community.

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AUGUST 19, 2007

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. On that day, you write a post recommending 5 blogs to read.

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JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. functionality. or more like web 1.0?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, April 6, 2007 at noon, U.S. net2 nptech innovation technology nonprofit Hi Have Fun * Do Gooders!

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In our integrated communications plan, we believed that taking advantage of social media tools would assist us because of its social nature; allowing us “always be on” and present in the community conversation. Effective Crisis Communication: Moving from Crisis to Opportunity, Ulmer, Sellnow & Seeger, 2007, Sage Publications .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2007

Next week, June 13th and 14th, I'll be representing NetSquared , where I am the Community Builder, at the 2007 Making Media Connections Conference being put on by Community Media Workshop at Columbia College. Chicago nonprofit media net2 nptech You can register on the Conference web site. If you come, say hi!

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