Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Maybe these alternate spellings are all the same to you, and that’s fine. If you don’t talk the talk used in the nonprofit sector, I might question your experience with it. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Should be interesting, anyway. This post is about the way people write the word nonprofit. Or non-profit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

Originally posted five years ago, in August of 2008. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience. It’s an experience that requires permits, maps, physical ability, gear—a long list of barriers to entry. Yes, I am a jerk—but only when it comes to my own experience. blog posts from the past.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. Blueprint is a maddening sketch of the museum that might have been, one that alternates between shaky and bold strokes. How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

We do offer a hosting service, but it is not a direct alternative to the companies that you mention. It is a YouTube-branded experience. Facebook is a platform — meaning, you can develop your own applications on top of their functionality. YouTube is now a platform. It is not a white-label service. There are some big differences.

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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. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th.

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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. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. We love the energy in the room as people get hands-on experience with boosting community participation, instead of listening to talking heads.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

If your sites emphasis is grabbing names, use alternating shades of color and prominent placement on your homepage to make sure visitors can see it and will want to give you their name. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com You might be surprised how many nonprofits websites are fairly ambiguous as to what they are. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. We love the energy in the room as people get hands-on experience with boosting community participation, instead of listening to talking heads.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Director Lewis Sharp and I quickly convinced the Belmar developers that they didn't want paintings from the basement, but a dynamic alternative to the traditional art museum. In this way, The Lab is selling an art experience the same way Urban Outfitters sells youth culture--and in my mind, that's a positive, not a negative.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

But in the first 6 months of 2007, I was experimenting with social networking and bookmarking tools on Green Brooklyn, including and especially the Care2 News Network , and saw such a great result that I decided that I needed to redesign everything ASAP. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. Looking for a job can be a lonely, frustrating experience. If you've already got an idea for an organization you'd like to create, the deadline for Echoing Green's 2008 Fellowship applications is December 3, 2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to be able to implement CRM/Fundraising solutions (or any software solutions, for that matter) that cannot be taken away from them, or have the terms under which they use them change without their control or consent, there have to be open source alternatives.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. It's playful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our peace and solidarity program is really unique because we look at the work and the experiences of women veterans, which is a group that is rarely looked at. AD: It was a pretty incredible experience.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Think Progress, for example, said #RIPDOMA and the sentiment of Peace in RIP was not taken kindly by Think Progress'' supporters, and they started providing alternatives to #RIP, as a constructive way to share their opinions. Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Think Progress, for example, said #RIPDOMA and the sentiment of Peace in RIP was not taken kindly by Think Progress'' supporters, and they started providing alternatives to #RIP, as a constructive way to share their opinions. Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. It is important to explore both positives and negatives perceptions and alternatives. What can learn from the experience of other organizations? Experiment. How will you learn from the pilot for your next experiment? What small piece can you implement first as a pilot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." And then it requires an output mechanism that helps visitors physically connect to the people and experiences with which they have network affinity. The Simplicity of Pointing And this brings us back to Race.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. Conversely, the story combined with the artifacts succeeded in drawing in a wide audience of players who did not have any prior experience of ARGs.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. The argument was that those for whom the Depression and World War II and its aftermath were formative experiences were the backbone of direct mail fundraising, and that they were dying off, never to be matched by their juniors. April 28, 2010 | Shane Andrews Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

These organizations have emerged out of the everyday experience of platform economy workers who want to put a stop to their exploitation. Drivers talked about their dream to somehow run their own app as an alternative to Uber.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. . In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. TweetsGiving 2009. It is everyone together that makes the difference.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

PlatformX, an emerging platform cooperative seeking an alternative to the extractive capitalist model of Upwork or Amazon Mechanical Turk (platforms that help businesses outsource tasks and operations to freelancers), doesn’t take a commission and requires users to contribute to local charities or community-based organizations.

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