Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Rather than trying to write it out it thought I’d point you to the graphic blog post or Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal … I found it on Beth’s Blog where she recapped her time at Blog World Expo 2010. The point here is to focus on your goals and then think about how the online application can help you achieve what mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. And I struggled mightily with my own capacity to build really good applications mostly without other developers to help out.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. That application, which tracks and publishes the items bought by Facebook members on outside Web sites, was introduced in November without a transparent, one-step opt-out feature. Here’s what Yahoo! homepage looked like exactly 10 years ago today.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. They were able to update it at any time with all the information necessary to reach out to, orient, and support bloggers spreading the message about the campaign. Information for bloggers. Infrastructure.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues. If we want to build movements, we need our infrastructure and applications to change the way they function as a tool and the way they operate as organizations.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. conference in 2010. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding.

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