Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Working on our 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we noticed something interesting when looking at year-over-year data by sector: The share of online revenue from monthly giving for International groups seemed to decline from 2009 to 2010. For this Benchmarks Extra , we separated the data for one-time giving and monthly giving.

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JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2008

I’m giving a talk on the panel on Open Sourced Advocacy , where I’ll be speaking with my colleagues Ryan Ozimek (of PICnet ) and Jo Lee (of CitizenSpeak ), as well as Michael Haggerty, of Trellon , and Alan Rosenblatt , of the Center for American Progress. But I’m quite looking forward to it.

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DECEMBER 28, 2007

."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Many of Latoya's readers shared their activist resolutions in the post's comments. Check out this interesting Giving Calculator ). What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions? Africa is not a country.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Online Courses November 6, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about giving online courses in the use of open source software.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

There is a great review at Wired that gives a good overview of what you’ll find. Once I get settled in a couple of weeks, I’ll be giving it a spin, for sure. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 10.19.07 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 10.19.07

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. It gives me enough pause to trust them with my email. {

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 12:13 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 robert guinto 04.19.08

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AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. They made the change after my blog comments and I assume some others commented also.

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MAY 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. What do you think? Time will tell. {

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago.

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JUNE 17, 2008

It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 06.19.08 And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. But the whole CRM field just got more interesting. { 4 admin 07.06.08

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

The Donor Power Blog shows that to give, is to receive. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07 Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. This contemporary public-privatepartnership gives NOAA access to 8 million targeted activists who canwork with the government for common objectives. 1 Comment | by Share Article in Care2 News , Misc.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. .&#

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APRIL 6, 2007

And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 But the next step is Penguin Day !

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AUGUST 7, 2007

I feel incredibly honored to be on the board, and to be able to give to the nptech community in this leadership role. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin 08.08.07 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin 08.08.07 at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match. at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. It was quite a shame to have to give that up , but it was either that, or make due with either not using a Palm, or modifying dramatically how I dealt with my PIM data. August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2008

When I posted my list of 10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back last year, there weren't many lists like it, but now there are tons! Instead of creating my own 2008 list, I thought I'd do a roundup of some of the lists I've found. Please include links in the comments to any lists I've missed, as well as your own gifts that give back ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Luckily, most web project have online demos, which will give you a feeling for the software without having to spend too much time configuring a server or webhost to use the software. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 02.08.08 know danah boyd. at 1:24 pm Hear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07 It gives me much more. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. Luckily, there is ProjectPier , which is a fork of activeCollab, and will remain open source. at 2:40 pm That’s sad. Check it out [link]. 3 Dustin J.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 2, 2011

The report was based on 2008 tax data for both institutions and individuals. While the markets have rebounded somewhat since 2008 and thus individual and foundation assets have grown, it's unlikely that Arizona's relative position compared with other states has changed. If they had increased their contributions to the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

A few years down the road, when successive updates of the iPhone get hacked, they will give up, and open it up. at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 He should understand that the same thing is true for iPhones. The good news is that eventually, hackers always win.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Definitely the e-newsletter; our first e-newsletter in 2008 resulted in hundreds of responses and donations, though we have seen some donation activity on Facebook through special source codes tied to campaigns.

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