Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line. X-Ray Glasses.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. By doing so, you'll then be able to push the envelope with mobile-friendly and other new-fangled webby goodness. Oh, memories.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2012

Back in 2010, I wrote about all the direct mail pieces that I had collected over a year. How you segment the message and the actual content and calls-to-action are also very important. This is because a tremendous amount of email during this time of year is read on mobile devices and the subject line may be the online thing people see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content. After watching almost all the Jetson's episodes on YouTube, I thought I better start to dig into the content. Lucy Bernholz who writes the Philanthropy 2173 blog is a master of that - and is currently crowdsourcing trends and predictions for 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. What content does the best? You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Here are five reasons why: 1) Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of fresh, timely new content to Tweet, post on Facebook, etc. Social media is content driven. Blogging allows nonprofits to quickly and easily create and post content that’s timely and relevant to the here and now. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. Will you get donors through a mobile app?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale. The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Recently, we adopted a new vision for wish.org and our online channels, including social networks. We are working to develop a system that syndicates fresh content to chapter websites, delivers search engine optimization benefits, and facilitates the marketing of first-person wish stories in social channels. Content Curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

We also want to better empower our participants and supporters to spread the word about Entoure by developing content for our social media channels that is unique, exclusive and kick-ass!”. Mobilizing 1 million people! In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I was looking for the discriminating approach to adopt technology appropriately. at 4:30 pm Michelle: I wonder what you think of David G’s framing of the content model issue. link] This resonated for me: “Content is no longer a value generator… it is a consumer capturer. Is it all just TCO arguments?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

You’ll be able to review the content, maybe even share it with a friend or a colleague if you want to. So thinking about these early technology adopters, gen-X, so those people born between 1965 and 1980, those are the people that are really described as entrepreneurial, they adapted to the computers pretty early on.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Whether for a campaign, an appeal, or an organization's main web presence, I think 2014 will see organizations focus their online content on specific actions or messages, pulling back from the clutter or information overload." " Beth Kanter. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Since becoming widely adopted just a couple years ago, social media has supercharged social action, cause marketing, and social entrepreneurship. Mobile technologies will extend the global online network to anyone with a mobile device while enabling countless local networks to form in the real world.

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