Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? The event itself has been fab. How does this all get paid for? My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes).

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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. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Pretty presentation with no content is useless. It feels quite good, actually.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

APRIL 12, 2007

She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Do you think the numbers in Angela’s presentation for FLOSS in general are on target? April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. of women in FLOSS?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I have used it everyday, to do everything (all of my spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, presentations, I used it to write a novel, I used it in seminary for papers, etc., Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great. for at least 4 years. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.) He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Network-Centric Advocacy blogs points to a new feature at Alex's Lemonade Stand called "From the Mail Bag. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. Ethan’s presentation takes a look at creative uses of well-known Web 2.0 tools from outside the United States that help digital activists evade Internet censorship and promote human rights issues to a wider audience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? How do we decide if our organization should have a blog? Answer these questions: 1.

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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. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? She recently wrote a post about how much time it takes to do social media based on some thinking from a post I wrote in 2008. Her blog posts certainly get me to think!

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MARCH 18, 2008

The first session is at 10:30 and is called: A New Tool for Online Campaigns: How to Show, Tell, and Activate with a Video-centric Microsite The second session is at 3:30 and it’s all about online video, it is called: The Age of YouTube: Using Video Online to Reach the Masses We pleased to have a special guest at this session.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

There was an AIM chat program, a sales-force automation tool, and so on, all good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. I mean, we have Windows and OSX everywhere… 18 Mar 2008 daniel hartman does this mean you’re finally gonna get one? 18 Mar 2008 Recent URLs tagged Davidpogue – Urlrecorder [.]

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Gyrus

AUGUST 19, 2016

Sure there are special broadcasts that detail typical training regimens for certain prolific athletes, and I for one am quite interested in attempting to eat the 2008 diet of Michael Phelps, who famously proclaimed he was consuming 12,000 calories a day. Present the Right Tools. The same principal applies in the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008. Board source View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Board source. What did you learn?

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See3

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

They understand that video is a critical communications tool in creating that narrative, especially online, and they strategically incorporate video onto their web pages. More about this campaign’s strategy — as well as this video — is discussed in in a presentation by the U.N. Foundation’s Sharron Raybold.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. Slideshare is the YouTube of the PowerPoint presentation for those who don't know it yet.) We've got a number of presentations from various events. Blog about the event before, during, and after.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

They had short five minute presentations, which I think worked well. Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. That's too bad - given the role GSA has played, e.g. in negotiating blanket agreements for use of third party tools. Someone from CDC presented their ?2x10 to agreements.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Here are my top 10 picks in chronological order. Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. While campaigns employ a variety of communications tactics to win an election (from door knocking to lawn signs to TV commercials), it may be hard to determine exactly what role social media tools have played in this historic year. Tools you can Use. For the first time in U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. It presents fragmented pieces of people’s lives that we are often forced to react to rather than engage in. Photos matter.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Join me, Allyson Kapin, Co-founder of Rad Campaign and Blogger-in-Chief of Care2''s Frogloop blog and Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director of NTEN for this free webinar. She started the Radical Tech blog for Fast Company focusing on trends in technology and Web 2.0 He also launched frogloop.com, a leading nonprofit marketing blog.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She also writes for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and she also has one of the most read personal blogs in NPTech. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Find his blog here. " Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. With no further ado, enjoy this post. Me: "Sort of." Winners leverage scale." Every Web 2.0

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