Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. Also, one of the things I do is blog – so I regularly have to process and digest information to write decent blog posts. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. We’re just not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { It’s going to get interesting, for sure. 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. Then, for the creepy part.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Check out our Moodle page for more details (the outline, and information on how to participate is there.) I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) How do we know? How can we assure privacy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’m excited about this project – it’s gathering the knowledge and expertise of a great group of folks, and it will provide a free source of information and case studies so that nonprofits can best figure out how to step into the frothy waters of social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. And then there is data. I love my friends and colleagues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit.

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MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. I intend to be there, and listen in, and take notes, and post my opinions about the zen of APIs for nonprofits. But I have a first take. I think that APIs are an expression of the best of what the internet is about.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

at 6:11 am Interesting idea here – informing technology with spirituality. I think that until politics and business generally are more informed in this area, we’re pretty much in danger of becoming an extinct species in much shorter order than the dinosaurs did! You can see it at [link] Thanks for writing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

First a little background information. I had to use both email and regular mail, contacting every person in my address book. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. What worked for your organization in 2009? And what are you looking to do in 2010? Author: Emma Zolbrod. In my dreams! The 5/50 rule.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

at 12:02 am Two use cases where I think Twitter makes a lot of sense: 1) disaster and emergency situations and 2) direct action/civil disobedience organizing where distributed and decentralized communications can be very helpful in reacting quickly to new information. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Thanks for any information you can provide. I forgot to check the date! Can you tell me then, since you’re using Google, how you can arrange the settings to ignore your own visits to your blog? 4 admin 08.05.09 at 9:33 am I’ve never tried it, but here’s the answer: [link] 5 Dru 08.05.09 at 9:46 am Thank you so much!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. One purpose is to allow users to modify their own information (if the site allows logins.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. The results make me optimistic about scaling social good by leveraging information. Money is tight, but information is elastic. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. What it means to be data-informed. What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. We welcome your comments and feedback. Increased understanding of their legal and governance responsibilities. Sources: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

3) keep stakeholders informed? So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog? Should staff of a nonprofit blog? Would this help: 1) gain donors? 2) communicate the message? 4) provide collaborative opportunities within, and between organizations?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. Looking at them in isolation without all the other data and the trends and information they entail makes no sense.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. Thus, you can use Palbee for small group video meetings but also, you can use it for presentation, teaching, or any other information delivery. One last thing. You can share the recorded webinars as you do with YouTube. Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Staff have to receive emotionally engaging information they would feel inspired to share with their community. In 2009 Lori founded the Ignited Online Fundraising Community to provide donor-centered fundraising professionals with training and coaching support. Staff have to see a payback or reason to get engaged themselves.

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