Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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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. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. Be Helpful. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. These volunteers will be the everyday heroes who help us coordinate food distribution for families left economically vulnerable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities? Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 billion to $4.8

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Executives who engage in these activities as part of their personal practice know how critical these development activities are to an individual's career — and they themselves get immense satisfaction in seeing people grow and excel in their jobs. Apply by June 18th for the Center's Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. Our efforts in these income-generating areas should start to prove themselves by February or March of 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Chris Hughes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. You need to continually build trust and loyalty with donors. Zero unsubscribes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

By planting cute little (virtual) fruit plants with your Facebook friends you can help make the world a greener place! According to Developer Analytics it has 5,217,180 installations with 521,718 or 10% active users. The most recent donation was made May 1, 2008 to the Adopt An Acre. Lil) Green Patch is a social gardening game.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Cryptocurrencies are clearly at the peak of the general-purpose (non-eLearning) hype curve – a couple of thousand percent increase in value will do that. The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Care2 was honored to play a part in this effort, in partnership with CGI, by mobilizing thousands of Care2s civically active members to send emails to their senators in support of the treaty. July 6, 2009 | Anwalt Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This is a huge step forward for ocean conservation and international law. Nice blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy. In fact, the bar for activism is higher. Action takes time.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. with more than $3.7

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JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. Concurrently the Obama campaign leveraged every social media tool in the book to engage US citizens, empower them with ways they could help, and ultimately contributed to winning the next presidency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. But the approaches for building network effectiveness that this experiment supported were typically combined with more traditional organizational development activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Twitterstorm, anyone?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts. Faith-based – Focus on fundamentals.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

Care2 Senior Campaigner Natasha Nummedal and Maureen McGregor, Oceana’s Manager of E-Activism and Marketing share some of their keys to success in maximizing email response rates and converting email subscribers into donors. Maureen McGregor is the E-activism Director at Oceana. But it’s not always easy. To register, please click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Now hear from the "real housewives of social media" who are driving successful online campaigns, as well as others who are helping lead the social media revolution. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. Carie Lewis.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. In Stacey's opinion, the most helpful tweets are the ones written authentically from the first person.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

I also love his willingness to revisit past topics with more information, as he did after an internship at the Hewlett Foundation in 2008. Recently, the majority of Createquity posts focus on the topics of active arts engagement and creative placemaking. And they generate some really interesting discussion in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. Boomers are just as likely as Generation Y to make travel reservations online.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. They were active and dedicated to making it work and raised 90,000+ friends. More than 3.5

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

These experienced creators already have a relationship with Scratch, and ScratchR was originally created to help these people connect with each other and build more sophisticated projects together. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). When you sign up, ScratchR asks for your age.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. million on their last return in 2006 , is the Helping Hands Agency in Page. The active ones have their act together and filed their required forms long ago.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. link] or [link] if you want to tweet it. (Ha!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. link] or [link] if you want to tweet it. (Ha!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. This helps to address the problem that 100 million Americans do not have a broadband connection. Or the connected fitness and activity trackers, such as Fitbit , which have. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Carie Lewis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Most of the attendees were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. ???We Most of the attendees were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. ???We local governments for their activism. 2008: How do I do it right?

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. Using an event such as the 2008 financial crisis as a backdrop, he hopes to be able to back-test his hypothesis against the volumes of data generated around the same time.

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Care2

AUGUST 26, 2008

Maureen McGregor is theE-activism Director at Oceana. Most recently, at the Marine FishConservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governingfishing in U.S. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com ocean waters. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Facebook application developers who want to help change the world and work with nonprofits and activists need to better understand how Facebook culture and behavior meshes with activism and fundraising behaviors and workflow. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. s the secret sauce?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups. I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. link] or [link] if you want to tweet it. (Ha!

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