Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. You can follow 10 sites instead of one. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

From that humble beginning, the program evolved into an after-school club and eventually became a nonprofit organization in 2009. In addition to their embedded donation form, Veterans Heritage Project also featured an area on their site to inform donors about upcoming events that will contribute to their year-round fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 [.]. 4. Widgets work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." Download the December 2009 version of this list here. NonProfit 2.0

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

12/20: I wrote a follow up post expanding on design lessons learned in light of other, larger, crowdsource charity contests coming up which was also retweeted 140 times. 2009 The Year of Perpetual Online Contests : Case Foundation Blog. Marc Pitman wonders what can be learned? We don't know where this will go next.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! You can register to learn how to create successful marketing campaigns using Adobe tools in time for the contest in April! It's that time of year again!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Learn more about the Challenge & participate! Learn more about Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. .” Says Barb, “We need to learn from each other and collaborate more.”

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If we learn more from success than failure , what does that say about failing informatively ? The online contest they ran recently , hiding pieces of their new album cover on different sites around the Internet, ought to give you some ideas. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. They just released version 1.5,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I've been thinking a lot of those, mostly internal - personal improvement and professional goals for my work, blog, and professional learning. It's also that time of year when you think about setting personal goals or making resolutions for change. how might you make a change in your community, neighborhood, or the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

A 2009 study study by HubSpot found that not having uploaded an avatar decreases your followers by up to 80% and my guess is that the data from that study still speaks true today. If a potential follower is on the fence about following you, they’ll visit your website to learn more about your nonprofit.

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MARCH 4, 2009

If there's one thing I've learned in my 6+ years at NTEN, it's that people love to hate their web sites. I spoke with her about her session at the 2009 NTC , " Comparing Open Source CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone ", and why CMS seems to be the area where open source has really taken off in the sector: .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that. I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal.

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NTEN

MAY 8, 2009

With an account, if somebody searches for info on, say, "polar bears" -- we're told polar bears are ratings gold -- and your organization is trying to ensure there's an ice cap left for them to do polar bear-y things on, you can try to try to steer them to your web site. Learning How to Use Your Google Grant (5/21/2009).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Submit your Project. Visit the Project Gallery. Submit your Project. Submit your Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. This network of community foundations are actively experimenting and learning how to get better results on their Giving Days and adding to the knowledge in the Giving Day Playbook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way. Users ages 18 to 54 have reportedly turned away from email, as well — many are instead communicating through social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Online/Offline Integration : If you're my Facebook friend, you know I participated in Climate Ride 2009 , a 300-mile bike ride from NY to DC. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

Learn basic HTML. I launched this blog in September 2009. These nonprofits now have huge communities on numerous social media sites and full-time staff to run their various social media campaigns. Make it clear that you do receive the donations made on these sites and that they are put good use. For the last 4.5

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NTEN

APRIL 20, 2010

That's right: the survey found that 86% of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook, and 60% are on Twitter, increased percentages over 2009 for both commercial social networks. > You'll learn: Besides Facebook and Twitter, which commercial social network sites are nonprofits using most? > Get the Full Report (for free).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". Resolution Four: "I resolve to make our web site easier to use and more informative." What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Every year we survey the nonprofit technology community (via our members, program participants, and other like-communities) to learn two main things: How are WE doing , as an organization, to make your work easier, and your mission a little closer? > Download the report here (free). is this year's winner!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved! This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. If you are looking for inspiration, search for opportunities on Idealist , the partner site for Mozilla Serive Week.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The winner, Critical Exposure, learned a lot about engaging people via social media tools, so it might be worth it to check out their story. " GlobalGiving recently ran a contest to encourage nonprofits to use social media tools to engage and raise donations for their causes. Is there something in the nptech water?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Updated: May 6, 2009. Released: November 16, 2009. I will elaborate at a later date, but briefly three very important best practices that I learned while researching for this blog post: 1) The App Description is important. 3) Don’t link to your desktop site in an iPhone App – especially the "Donate" page!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

You can learn more about John and OpenAction in the interview below. In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Since we’re starting with the developer documentation, one of the coolest things about this project is that it’s making me learn Java and Eclipse , plus get my hands dirty with Tomcat. I love learning new stuff. Gotta work on that.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Vote for your local organization: Some cities have already chosen the organization and others need local people to vote, so use the map on the Twestival site to find your city’s Twestival page to learn more! Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

" Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more! " This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

What have I learned in all of this? What else have I learned? at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password.

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