Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

(I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) The next step was to get online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One practice they have mastered well is the ability to use experiments (with measurement) to mature its practice. One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. Since 2009, we’ve posted a weekly first-person success story and podcast on our My Story blog. ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "So I'm especially thrilled to see Groupon announce the launch of G-team, an experiment in complementing Groupon's deals with The Point-type campaigns. Check it out! "So

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

When policymakers are not paying attention, Human Rights Watch shines a light on the situation through the media, both mainstream and social channels. In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Please share your experience in the comments below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything.

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JANUARY 10, 2009

Folks can leave comments on my projects. Ravelry appeals to people with a very specific interest in a way that they’re already talking anyway, and makes the experience better. Happy New Year My 2009 resolution: get my blogging voice back. Studiometry Cheryl commented on my dock entry: Would be very interested.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. NIH Clinical Center. Maxine Teller.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

According to a new study that TCC Group is conducting of the Packard Foundation’s support for nonprofit capacity-building activities, the answer is no. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) What has been your experience with the efficacy of building nonprofit fundraising capability?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Those articles are now up on our blog, and the most popular -- as determined by page views, time on page, and number of comments and retweets -- will be featured in our November newsletter later this month. How To Use Information You Already Have To Personalize Constituent Experiences Online. Email Campaigns That Work for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

In my small-scale “free agent” crowdfunding experiment for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, I ended up with $235 from 1,000 followers by the deadline. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. by age, interest, activism level).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. Tell me in the comments section or tweet me at @dholly8. NYC Service: NYC Corporate Service Coalition.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2013

"), have risen as leaders in grassroots organizing and civic activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). In 2009 Dosta! Share your experiences in the comments below. The civic movement he started, Dosta! “Enough!” ” in Serbian), and its parent organization, Zašto ne? "Why not?"),

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I didn''t want to write about something I was an expert on; I wanted to write to explore new ideas, share my questions and ideas, and learn from the experience. Sometimes, this has led to an unreasonable amount of stress for an entirely extra-curricular activity. folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As nonprofit social media pioneer Heather Mansfield recently pointed out, your posts have never really gone to all of your fans , save for a brief moment in 2009. Another neat tip is to try posting on weekends, which enjoy not only increased user activity but less competition from other brands. Guess what? Users didn't like it.).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. I charted them across the year and pledged to try one each month, inviting others to do them with me and blog about the experience. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns. In the comments , there was quite a lively discussion from nonprofit professionals raising some cautions and concerns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The Facebook of February 2010 is quite different from the Facebook of 2009 especially when it comes to Facebook Fan Pages. I knew this change was coming and I had read that Status Updates that receive a lot of comments and thumbs up would at the very least show up in the News Feed > Most Recent, but that’s just not happening.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

60) Search « Nuts and Bolts of Online Advertising | Main | Webinar: How Online Marketing Can Be Your Nonprofits Fundraising Stimulus Plan » Friday Feb 20 2009 Tapping Small and Local Donors on Twitter: A Girls Inc. Case Study Friday, February 20, 2009 at 11:32AM | by Adrienne Royer After hearing about Twestival , I was intrigued.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. A panel of experts will debate the pros & cons of couch potato activism. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Great post.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. Just be sure that whatever consultant or advisor you hire has experience in dealing with both the business-aspects of privacy as well as the technology-aspects of privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes. Wait a minute!

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. The Museum 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Reader Comments (24) Hey, Justin, dig the slick interface. :-) From talking about this last week, the biggest question this has stuck with me is how relevant ROI is for judging the value of a tactic that might serve goals other than fundraising. Colman Thanks for your comments, Kira & Jonathon. July 31, 2007 | Jonathon D.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The DCM was a temporary, pop-up museum which ran from October 2008 - April 2009 in an unused storefront in downtown Denver.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers. Projects participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise. Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this!

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