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MARCH 8, 2022

I was the sole designer for many of the websites I worked on with the marketing agency and so I felt this ownership over the projects. I became much more interested in who was using the website, why they were using it, and how. That ownership changed my definition of what “design” even meant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “). September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Do not overburden disabled individuals with requests for free labor, however, and hire accessibility consultants when possible. Plain language consultants and strategists are available and should be utilized when possible. Update and maintain websites and social media profiles. Respect self-identifying language.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery – Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As ″ consultants." ″ consultants." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery - Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As ″ consultants." ″ consultants." These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Which provide the strongest features for website community features, workflow, or ease of maintenance? Which are easiest to use? Which are easiest to use?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Eve Simon, Creative Director at Beaconfire Consulting , is serving up a tasty session at the 2009 NTC based on the theme: " This is Iron Chef.Battle Nonprofit " One San Francisco nonprofit will serve as the secret ingredient for four creative teams, who will each come up with a web site design, email template, and social media plan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Last week, from my home office in Montreal, Canada, I wrote up 9 ambitious goals for 2009. My team is actively pursuing foundation grants, event sponsorships, individual monthly donations and consulting services. Our efforts in these income-generating areas should start to prove themselves by February or March of 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Linton Weeks wrote an article on NPR back in 2009 on microvolunteering , and he said it right: we live in a micro world. Should you hire consultants or part-time staff? Here are some of the current challenges on the Sparked website: Help us find an environmental pitch that engages our small tropical community!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { 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 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 12, 2009

I’m thrilled that their 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference will be held at the San Francisco Hilton this year, April 26-28. Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say: The 2009 NTC will be THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. When: April 26-28, 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

Women Who Tech TeleSummit: April 2009. The second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit (which will take place in April 2009) is looking for panel suggestions. Sign up on the website , or join the Facebook group to be sure you get details about the event in April. Ada Lovelace Day: March 24, 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. which, I must say, rocks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, or a do-good business that would like to sponsor the show, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com *Show notes* I mentioned in the intro that I was first introduced to Will's work in FRESH the Movie , which came out in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

at 12:10 pm It doesn’t freak you out that: * Chase’s website runs on IIS? Even the big guys, with big budgets, mess up sometimes… It also means at least these guys are running windows. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 12.16.06 Chase’s QA/QC can miss something like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). But I guess it might be useful for some. 3 Jill 01.31.08 at 7:41 pm A couple of interesting things about Yugma. I’ve used that alot. Give it a try.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 27, 2021

After that, similar events called Brand Camp were held on and off annually through 2009. Clover Frederick is a consultant specializing in nonprofit fundraising, marketing, board development and strategic planning. Check out Clover’s website for more info. About the Author.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

From a developers prospective, Vista is much better than OS 10 – Microsoft even gives away basic development tools like asp.net and visual studio on their website. What Apple did do correctly is allow users to submit their own podcast and homemade music on the itunes website. The iPod is a rip off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Client-(pc-only) server?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI ( Nonprofit Open Source Initiative ) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.) That’s a good thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? I hear that all of the “ cool chix &# use Drupal, though (Linuxchix is about to launch it’s new Drupal-based website.) I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

This includes website, social media, traditional media, and communication with donors, volunteers, and vendors. Consider hiring a consulting firm that specializes in developing strategies and training nonprofit executives. Review all communications to be sure there is similar style of messaging across platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in technology, sustainability, and collaboration, then Jean's for you: "Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski's August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But from my perspective, working with organizations that are sometimes having a hard time moving from a static website to a CMS, social networks in general, and twitter specifically, are a long way away. 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

After a few hours (as opposed to the few minutes it would take now) we configured that server to hold a website and serve email. We set up a little box in the corner of my office, and loaded several piles of floppies containing the Slackware distribution onto this box. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. He is a learning disability consultant, technology trainer, nation's foremost expert on WordQ and SpeakQ.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. Websites shouldn’t. Actually, they don’t even have a website. It’s not so much about depth and breadth, although that certainly can be a part of it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)? I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. mathew [link] 2 admin 01.15.09 at 12:43 pm Just wait for my follow up posts!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I review both fundraising and friendraising techniques and how to take them, to varying levels, online – from email solicitations and events to social media and websites. Proposed solution: CC developed Red House 2009, which had three event components: Traditional cocktail party for its major donors, Nonevent called Stay@Home, and.

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