Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Who Tweets? Get the Tagline Database and Report!" Which are easiest to use?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. It’s designed as a basecamp clone. It has some things missing, for sure, but it has been useful to me. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

by Michael Johnston, President and Founder, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc). Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%.

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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. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You've got a mere few hours left, DC-area nonprofits, to apply for a $10,000 service grant from Fenton Communications to help your organization develop a stronger and more effective social media strategy in 2010. The deadline is today so get on it and tell your Washington, DC-area nonprofit friends as well. Good luck and spread the word.

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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.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Ads can be targeted by profile data. at 10:46 am Michelle, Thanks for this roundup!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! When I’m making my best efforts to try to keep up, I do it in waves, like so many other things I do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. Earlier, I’d found that the only tools that would work with presenters using Linux were ReadyTalk and WebHuddle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer).

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s best to consult a graphic designer that specifically knows how nonprofits function. Once you have a few options for graphics and you need to choose between them, it’s time to consult the masses once more! Fortunately, there are graphic designers who can lead the way. About the Author. Debbie Salat.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

. &# It’s written by this guy, Alan Weiss, who has written the “ Ultimate Consulting &# series, which seems to be focused primarily on making a lot of money in consulting. One of which is something I would love to talk with other consultants (and clients, too) about. He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. “I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

My one request is that vendors who comment on this blog take a moment to step back a bit from their myopia, and look at the ways in which they can contribute to a vibrant, active ecology of choices, rather than fight for their own little piece of the pie. { I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. For consultants, networks expertise is an addition to standard skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Since building our social networking tactics was still on the “to do” list for 2010, we had to pull together a social marketing campaign on the fly. Kyla thinks everyone has a chance at a prize. “An

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Lobbying, propaganda or other legislative activity must be kept insubstantial, which is generally interpreted as 10-20 percent of an organization’s activities. It can engage in some political activity as long as that activity is not the primary purpose, however, those expenses might be subject to taxation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Card testing is a fraudulent activity. If the charge goes through, hackers get alerted that the card is active, and they then move to charge higher costs. Encryption.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

at 8:37 am Actually, I do – I have a client whose activities and donor base suggest that they have a lot of other work to do before they delve into social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 I think I can write something up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. I need to figure out a good network configuration. It’s definitely worth a listen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

From my perspective, it’s all about balance, and having an active ecosystem, with healthy open source options present. For open source, that translates into 10-15 hours of a consultant’s time- less than 2 days- where a vendor can provide unlimited support for an entire year. From my perspective, the key is openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Recently, I got into a discussion with several other nonprofit tech consultants about guidelines for nonprofits to embrace a mobile strategy and specifically what to recommend. We have a very active open data movement here and the city has made huge amounts of data now open to the public.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2012

When the American Diabetes Association made the decision to focus on promoting self donations in their 2011 Tour de Cure fundraising campaign, they increased the number of participants contributing to thier own fundraising efforts from 2% in 2010 to more than 37% in 2011. How can your organization see this kind of success?

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy. In addition, the Walk provides awareness of the importance of and the opportunity for the community to engage in physical activity and healthy lifestyles. Through 2010, these events have raised more than $3.5 million for 150 nonprofit organizations across the state.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit , published by Wiley in 2010, and her blog is one of the longest running nonprofit and social media blogs. Additionally, she has been active in MomsRising's national and state campaigns for fair pay, paid sick days, paid family leave and breastfeeding promotion.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The program offers Seattle residents with a variety of recreational and lifelong learning programs, classes, and activities. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, 64-bit version, for all stations. It took another hour to get all terminals activated. One USB hub. Five new iMicro keyboards. Five new iMicro mice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. So I’m stuck where I don’t want to be (where lots of nonprofits are) with a data integration problem that I can’t solve right now, and likely won’t get solved for years.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This milestone just seemed to be too big a deal not to stop and celebrate, because, well, reaching 15 million active members seems pretty amazing. (To It’s also great news for the many Frogloop readers who are nonprofit professionals and consultants engaged in online advocacy, fundraising and marketing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways. NFF provides financing, consulting, and advocacy services to nonprofits and funders nationwide. Like this article? Get another!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Unfortunately, these accents on counting activities and maintaining regulatory compliance left unanswered the basic question of effectiveness: Were the efforts of these charities bringing about any meaningful, sustainable, or measurable positive change to those they existed to serve? August 2010. [2] 3] Hunter, David. October 2009.

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Care2

MAY 6, 2010

Show Me The Money: Reaching Donors Across Generations Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 2 pm EST We have a limited amount of webinar lines, so please take a moment to sign up now. Today, as chief strategy officer, he oversees corporate strategy and is actively involved in research and client success strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Be active in social media channels and help your supporters spread their message. If those two criteria are met by the stated deadline, Trek Travel will donate one 2010 Paris Finishing Package to witness the finale of the Tour de France !!  Frank is a Consulting Manager at Blackbaud Internet Solutions. 5 Takeaways.

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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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