Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I hope that you all — on the nonprofit and smaller provider side are continuing to chime in now, with blog posts and reponses (send 150 words to us at bonnie [at] nten dot org for inclusion in the newsletter and the Open API Roundup on the blogs. at 9:16 am OK, cool, that makes sense.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

Average gift size is way down compared to the 2007 data, but the blow has been cushioned by the sheer number of gifts nonprofits solicited online. As more smaller orgs use these tools, we see they have the most room to grow -- and their lists ARE growing fast -- but they're taking the biggest hits in the fundraising department.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Since 2007, Desert Bus for Hope has raised nearly $500,000 for Child's Play , a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 60 hospitals worldwide. I'd love to see some comments from other orgs who have tricked out their forms!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

When I moved to Vancouver in 2007, my employer sent me to the Web of Change Conference (they noticed that their volunteer manager kept asking why the database was broken), where I first encountered the progressive nonprofit tech community. org and #GreenMemes) left town. And I learned, while sitting quietly in the back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. Anyway, you already asked yourself what roles were needed when you did your strategic evaluation, right? Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! Further reading: http :// www.

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See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And bravo to the UN Foundation and orgs like it who create terrific pieces that keep web site users engaged and inform supporters of your activities. More: [link] 21 Dec 2007 Andrew Cohen Hear hear1 Video is indeed not a strategy. That’s why See3 offers hands-on training on video documentation. Foundation’s Sharron Raybold.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? May 29, 2007 | Luke Vander Linden Like most organizations, the Human Rights Campaign continues to try and find the perfect answer to this question (but is there one)?

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations and their constituents are invited to submit videos used in support of a 2007 campaign. Last year’s winner, Avaaz “Stop the Clash of Civilizations” received a standing ovation when played at the conference. This video has been viewed over 1.5 million times on YouTube. net www.dogooder.tv

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

» Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:47AM | by Eric Rardin According to this post “Ring-Cha-Ching, Hear Them Ring” on the blog Email Insider , the retail email holiday season has already begun. Hope staff at npos find it useful. Great article!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

» Thursday Sep 20 2007 Did You Miss The Online Holiday Fundraising Season? Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:47AM | by Eric Rardin According to this post “Ring-Cha-Ching, Hear Them Ring” on the blog Email Insider , the retail email holiday season has already begun. Hope staff at npos find it useful. Great article!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20 Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation , 2007 Penguin Day Planning , and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit. 20 practices. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. You need to practice talking to people online about your cause; these aren’t skills that more traditional orgs have in their DNA. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Frogloop Blog. James O’Malley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? May 29, 2007 | Luke Vander Linden Like most organizations, the Human Rights Campaign continues to try and find the perfect answer to this question (but is there one)?

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Yet there are organizations like LIVESTRONG, the Humane Society of the United States, Care2, Wiser Earth, the American Red Cross, charity: water and others that have been successful with social year for successive years dating back to 2007 if not earlier. It was a revealing exercise talking to the five orgs.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 8, 2013

IF you are using Word 2003 or 2007. ” Now you can run a Conga Composer process as if it were off a single record, but instead it’s operating off org-wide reports. When you say “mail merge” and “Salesforce” in the same sentence, the next sentence is simply: Conga Composer. And it’s decent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. What should orgs ask themselves before diving into soc media? How important is it to have policies and guidelines within your org for soc media?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If you want to quickly improve how your nonprofit leverages the Internet, then org charts and owners aren’t the way to go. Who should own the Internet at our nonprofit? These are two of the most common questions that I’ve been asked over the years. Focus on the seating chart. People who sit together work better together.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Btartus123 there is a Internet TV Channel being developed called www.planetchannel.com which gives Non-Profits worldwide the ability to add a video and create more online exposure for their Org. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. Regardless, very few orgs (though some) have raised real cash via the Causes app. 23rd, 2007 · No Comments Great post on the C*nvio Summit here from See3.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

We know that lots of orgs have heard some variation of this from their bosses—“We need to get on the Twitter!” Ive seen many orgs that seem to want numbers for the sake of numbers: when they dont want to think things through clearly, rather than understand the goals and missions and then take a quantitative view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

ROI for Development Orgs Froggy Loop Social media ROI Calculator. What isn't clear or could be simplified? Am I missing anything? Recent Posts from Different Perspectives on the Topic: Need To Explore. ROI of Blogging/Social Media. Jay Cross, ROI of Informal Learning Dennis Howlett, ROI is so Business 1.0 Nonprofit Examples/Thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it. Utterli bc often our volunteers only have a phone and no computer or internet access. Yes we did.

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