Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Now in it’s third year (View the 2009 Edition and 2010 Edition ), the 11 holiday gift programs listed below benefit nonprofits and thus help make the world a better place: 1. That said, there’s also some great gifts for the primate activists in your life. [ Shop the Jane Goodall Institute Online Store ].

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Just this week, Points of Light released its Civic Life Today: A look at American Civic Engagement Amid a Global Pandemic report, which states that: Prior to the pandemic, voting and donations to nonprofits were the primary ways people participated in civic life. Today, people believe civic action is more important than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map uses a " multi-tentacled hydra." Family. It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated these rumblings not only because these stressors increased but because people experienced a different kind of work life, with more flexibility to work from home and less hovering by management. For example, smart tech can encourage work-life boundaries, and encourage employees to move, take screen breaks, and stretch.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Cell Internet Access | Pew Internet & American Life Project : Nearly two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners now use their phone to go online, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The proportion of cell owners who use their phone to go online has doubled since 2009.'

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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. Then, try to think in even broader terms. I have a confession.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Below is my 5th annual list of favorite do-good books that I read in 2009, but this year I'm calling it my Have Fun Do Good Book list. I'd love to hear what have fun do good books you enjoyed reading in 2009. How can they incorporate making the world a better place into their day to day lives?" Yum, yum, yum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2009

This post was originally published on The Huffington Post on June 8, 2009. Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. The reason was because many participants in the room were participating from both Second Life and the room in San Jose, and they are doing so, in avatar form.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

Remember that guy who walked around the streets of San Francisco with a webcam attached to his head, filming his life as he went through his day? When: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Justin Kan pioneered the concept of "lifestreaming" and the Justin.tv platform has since opened up to any users wanting to lifestream.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2009

April 28, 2009, 10:30 a.m - 12:00 p.m. Help us help you with new programs, new products, and new ideas on how to make your [work] life easier. If you're attending this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) here in San Francisco, you don't want to miss the opportunity to join this session with TechSoup Global's own Marnie Webb.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2008

I'm offering Have Fun * Do Good readers a special discount if they would like to give themselves, or a friend the gift of career coaching in 2009. For a long time I taught workshops based on Carol Lloyd's book, Creating a Life Worth Living. career coach consult 2009 Most people who work with me fall into 1 of 3 categories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Would it be possible to sift through a year’s worth of engagements as an independent marketing consultant and boil down the lessons I learned in 2009 into a series of “Top 5” lists?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

With all the buzz about Twitter and Facebook Causes over the last year, I feel like the focus on Second Life for nonprofit organizations and causes has diminished a bit. We're sending you Second Life for Dummies , by Sarah Robbins and Mark Bell, courtesy of Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishers.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 27, 2009

Wild Apricot software simplifies life and saves money for thousands of small non-profits: professional and business associations, clubs, charities, churches, activist groups and local communities. About Wild Apricot Software The Wild Apricot blog provides technology advice for small non-profits. read more ).

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Who they are: The Veterans Heritage Project’s mission is to connect students with veterans in order to honor their legacies and help develop future leaders, while bridging the gap between military and civilian life. What they did: Embed a Donation Form with Recurring Giving Options.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

In addition, Qgiv promotes a flexible work environment to support a healthy work/life balance. Qgiv provided an environment where I felt comfortable sharing my challenges with the leadership team, and I always felt like I had the support I needed to navigate this new phase in my life. Meet Cristina Ordaz, Senior UI/UX Designer .

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

He would have loved living in 2009. Tags: Life. DVRs, broadband, iPhones, GPS, 3G, HDTV. All barely ideas when he died 10 years ago today. He’d love them all. And he would have had a great blog. If you knew my Dad, and you’re thinking about him today as much as I am, please help me fight colorectal cancer in his name.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2009

Life Is Hot in Cracktown : Be cool. Life is cool. In the running for worst of the year so far (and this works better if you think in gravelly movie trailer announcer voice): Terminator Salvation : The End Begins. The Crypt : Some Things Are Better Left Buried. You're so cool in Cracktown. Yes, that last one is a real movie.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Regardless of a project’s scope or number of potential partners, a nonprofit’s next steps should follow a “two-layer process” of assessment and implementation, according to the AIM Alliance of 2009. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Defining and measuring social impacts, determining whether the intervention is effective and why, and being able to prove efficacy with solid evidence are important prerequisites to a decision to scale (Harris, 2010; Riddell & Moore, 2015; Roob & Bradach, 2009; Stone Foundation, 2009). Stone Foundation (2009).

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Knitting became an obsession in my life again and I haven’t stopped. It helps that I have a yarn store less than 10 minutes away and have a whole bunch of real-life friends who are as serious about knitting as I am. In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The Internet as a Diversion | Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Three-quarters of online economic users--those Americans who use the internet to keep up with news about the economic recession or their own personal finances--go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession, according to an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans. I was hired in July 2009 to come into the organization and breathe life into social networking, explore new opportunities and empower the volunteers. Averaging 3,100 Facebook page views per week.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the spirit of a season of thankfulness, feel free to Tweet, blog, Facebook, or otherwise share the things that you're grateful to have encountered in your life. So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, according to Eisner (2009), nonprofit leaders are not taking the time to develop or support volunteer talent adequately, resulting in a weak or bland experience that leads to an unmotivated volunteer who has little reason to return. 2009) The new volunteer workforce, Stanford, Social, Innovation Review Retrieved from [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

We’ve heard people say after reading a book, &# It changed my life!&# But can books save lives? In 2009 , Aston Kutcher challenged CNN (@cnnbrk) to a Twitter race to see which could reach 1M followers first. The race was part of the World Malaria Day in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

I was brought on board to help with the 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference when I returned to Portland after dropping out of a graduate program that wasn't a good fit and came at the wrong time. Sometimes accidents change your life for the better; working at NTEN, with this amazing community, has changed my life for the best.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2009

Even though I spent most of my life in the Bay Area, I've never been! " I got to talk to him about it (and his love of all things food-related in San Francisco): If you have some spare time in San Francisco, Michael thinks you should visit Alcatraz. I may join you. Oh, and check out Muni. You can get anywhere in San Francisco by bus.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2009

Yes, 7 hours of life sounds nice. I am entitled for an upgrade discount on July 13, 2009. Eric isn’t eligible until December 13, 2009. Same lame 2 USB ports. Same keyboard and trackpad. Same connectivity. Same software. The big difference is the new built-in battery, and I’m torn on that. My MacBook gets 3.5-4

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Smooth Transition, Inc., Breaking Harmful Cycles.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

No matter the seeming outcome, know that you have made a difference in the life of at least one person. Thanks for your great insights. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 16, 2009

subscription was scheduled to renew on 4/11/2009 but you haven’t synced your device recently. I feel like the app is on life support and could go any day. I’m still able to download info for new cities, and the sync with vindigo.com appears to be functioning. It’s a zombie. But it’s tolerable for now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well. I haven’t been posting near as much as I’d like, mostly because I’ve been rather busy. I don’t know what the next couple of months will bring, but I’ll try to generate some pithy blog posts for y’all.

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