NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

For large nonprofits here is some even scarier news: the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in October of 2010 that donations to the nation’s largest charities dropped 11% last year. The median expected change for nonprofits in 2010 was supposed to be an increase of 1.4%. conference of 2010 [1] the top thirty “ thon ” (i.e.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

nonprofits, coupled with the 10 major activity areas of charitable organizations to diagram the relative flow of money from each source to each activity area. Nonprofit Economy NPQ’s Illustrated Nonprofit Economy explores the financing of the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

" ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project – "This paper represents an initial study of ChatRoulette.com, conducted between February 6th and 7th, 2010 by researchers in attendance at Web Ecology Camp III in Brooklyn, NY. See an overview of the findings below." " Twitter tactics – Louder.org.uk

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NetWits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Lately, however, I’ve been thinking about how organizations can retain their best and most active volunteers and supporters. At the beginning of 2010 they no longer needed volunteers for that task because of staff efficiencies – which was great news!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " Hey, Let’s Fix The Internet – What do you think – can we change? Change the internet?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

There are more than 280 Million websites on the internet and over 200 Thousand of those are U.S. Do you put on local activities? At Blackbaud we saw our non-profit customers send over 1 Billion emails in 2010. Make sure you’re actively looking for ways to incorporate social media into your online strategy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2010

Folks from TechSoup Global will be presenting at several breakout sessions and activities during # 10NTC. Friday, April 9, 2010. In the lounge you'll be able to do both with snacks and WiFi in addition to smart activities that'll promote engagement with other do-gooders. Activities include: read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. Well, that depends of course, on the organization.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Use the video player above to view a live stream of journalist Andrew Sullivan's opening plenary at NTC 2010, beginning at 5:30 a.m. Tags: Online Activism Online Fundraising Online Seminar Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Pacific (8:30 a.m. See below for a full schedule of live-streamed events.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

In 2010, we enter in to a new era of social media marketing, one based on information, rationalization, and resolve." Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing world accessible through the Internet and by harnessing the power of individual donations. … But that was then and this is now.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. He said that the first order of business is to address what he calls, "the relevancy of the Internet problem."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught up with Andrew Sullivan after his talk at NTC 2010 and took this quick video. Tags: Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Apologies (or you're welcome, depending on your tastes) for the aggressive '80s music in the background. read more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2010

This page covers the various activities going on at the 10NTC and ways you can get together with us. There are various ways you can follow the NTC online from wherever you are, as select sessions and keynote speakers will be live-streamed, various people will be live-blogging, and the Twitter stream for sessions will be active.

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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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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

A new study by ComScore says that US Internet users spend 1 out of every 6 minutes online engaging with social networks. This is a significant increase from 2007 when ComScore reported that Internet users spent 1 out of every 12 minutes online using social networks. Internet population each month.". Facebook has 150M U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2010

The fine folks at Fenton Communications have made it feasible for me to foray into the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum as a "Fenton Fellow" (go ahead, just count the number of "fs" in that sentence). Tags: Digital Divide Event Online Activism Online Fundraising Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2010

Folks from TechSoup Global will be presenting at several breakout sessions and activities during # 10NTC. Thursday, April 8, 2010. Tags: Social Networking Staff Training Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Below is the best way to keep up with them on day one of the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. Now I primarily only watch the PBS News Hour and listen to NPR and the BBC on the Internet more often, but not all day.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So, I was intrigued with a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites. This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. And the findings are, indeed, interesting. MySpace – 29%.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Howdy from NTC 2010 in Atlanta. Tags: Online Activism Online Recruitment Running Your Organization Social Networking Staff Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0 The session was run by TechSoup's own Rachel Weidinger, and some really interesting ideas bubbled up during the discussion.

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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

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

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice?

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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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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. Donors and people interested in a particular cause are not limited to the country’s borders where they live because of the internet and social media. Encryption.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

’ In other words, if a large number of people in an area haven’t the access or the skills to use the internet – what are local public services doing to get this fixed?" ' There are two responses I usually give here. I might also ask at this point, however, ‘what are you doing to fix this?’

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennial Distinctions about 85 Million 1st generation raised on mobiles 95% own mobile devices 83% sleep with mobile at bedside 62% connect to internet wirelessly more likely than any other generation to post a video of themselves online Are you Millennial ready? millions PCs in Q4 2010. Apps are a great way to educate and active.

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