Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. This breaks the whole thing open.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. I’m trying out some new themes soon. { at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

But then you're asked, "Hey, are you on Facebook?" " The blur between our personal and professional identities on social networking sites may seem all too obvious, but the issue is becoming more prevalent as we use sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as professional networking tools. Know the Risks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Remember the action-focused facebook page?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

At the same time, I had gotten onto Facebook , first to connect with old friends from elementary school, high school, and college, but then to connect a bit with some "autism friends" -- those who I knew from the Yahoo group I frequented. You might not know in which house they lived on the planet, but you had access to them on Facebook.

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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.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.) You can see the evidence in the mostly small donation totals in the Causes application.

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See3

OCTOBER 25, 2007

The viewers/donors might look similar to what we see on Facebook causes but we will wait until we have some real data before speculating further. Like with comments, the system could tell a non-registered user that they needed to register.) You can see the evidence in the mostly small donation totals in the Causes application.

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Forum One

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2009, "social media" became the conventional buzzword to replace "Web 2.0" Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and an evolving cast of supporting players have formed a subgroup of social media I think of as "social identity" applications. " as the most eye-roll-inducing term of the year.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Should nonprofits focus on giving through iPhone applications? Should Apple allow donations to nonprofits in their iPhone applications? Even the most downloaded iPhone applications reach a small percentage of users. You’re not Angry Birds or Facebook. Getting these things right don’t just apply to Apple.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

Main | Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It » Wednesday May 27 2009 The ROI of Social Media Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:39AM | by Heather Holdridge Social media is a hot topic these days. Conversify was successful at increasing applications, particularly from rural residents and minorities, a key goal.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So send in your questions and comments. As Steve said, my name is Margit Brazda Poirier, and I’m owner and founder of Grants4Good, a grant consulting company that I started in 2009. And again, Grants4Good, I started it back in 2009, so that’s been 12 years. I’ll keep an eye on those. There’s a chat box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We have a hashtag and many of us tweet to one another, leave comments on blogs or Facebook profiles regularly. NTEN had also set up a google application that lets people vote on questions which how they decided to handle the Q/A in a room of 1400 people. And, of course, the opportunity to meet new people face-to-face.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Facebook will still dominate. It probably won’t be until 2015 or later that tablets reach the point where they can replace a laptop or desktop completely – office application use is still too stunted by the small screens and keyboard issues – but more and more people will have them. Tablets will rule. John Merritt.

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