Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. It’s enjoyable writing them, and also writing them for a non-US audience (although I’m sure plenty of US folks take advantage of their amazing resource.) It’s not just consulting work, but other varied happenings in my life as well.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Outside of NetSquared, I am a trainer, blogger and facilitator as well as the co-author of Social by Social: a practical guide to using technology for social impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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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. First, create a page on Causes and activist resource center. Meet Geoff. Check out the video. Where should I start?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. Both the database implementer and the nonprofit organization will need to establish in the project plan the metrics and deliverables that comprise success.&#

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Jessica of NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council). Blog Blazers : 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets To Creating a High Profile, High Traffic, and High Profit Blog. Full disclosure: I was a Contributing Editor for BlogHer from January 2006-May 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- 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. The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! It’s a dumb question because I know you can. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. A terrific resource on ROI and Social Media shared by Kami Huyse – Oliver Blanchard’s Social Media and ROI for Associations. Happy New Year!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. That said, way back in September 2010 I wrote a blog post on how to launch a TV station for your nonprofit using UStream (alternatively LiveStream has gained considerable market share).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Many other nonprofit and do good bloggers helped promote the contest. In Round Two , the top 100 organizations will have the option to submit a Million Dollar Grant proposal to Facebook users, detailing the difference they would make in their local community with the significant extra resources. I'm sure I've missed something.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A common story is one where a blogger posts something and then regrets it. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! A fun thing to do is to go to the Internet Archive’s “ Way Back Machine &# which has 85 billion web pages archived from 1996. Here’s what Yahoo!

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! One thing he mentioned was how the web was beginning to become a check on the lame political coverage of the mainstream media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Just because organization 1 gets 45,000 unique visits per month, and organization 2 gets 3,000 means nothing in relationship to the impact that organization has in the world, or in relationship to how it uses its resources. And the mission of the organization matters too. to help us be a sustainable and healthy organization.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers around the world to focus on an important global issue and to create a dialogue that transcends international borders. Author: Jill Ward. There are more hungry people in the world than the combined populations of the US, Canada, and the European Union. In 2011, the results keep getting better!

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

To meet this growing demand—which comes on top of each previous years increases—nonprofit managers continue to be resourceful in their efforts to balance mission, capacity, and capital. Or will we start having tough conversations about the limits of an incredibly resilient and resourceful sector?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

They just didn’t have the resources. Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Disruptor: Facebook.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. Disclaimer Friday, June 10, 2011 Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has been Revoked?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday ! I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010. We will alert you when this study is available.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 22, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits – Day 3 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 22nd, 2010 This is the last day of Blackbaud’s 2010 Conference for Nonprofits here in Washington, DC. All Rights Reserved

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The world doesn’t need another blogger, right? While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. Through blogging, nonprofits can share their stories, break news, and share resources quickly, easily, and successfully to their communities on social networking sites.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

She''s a continual source of information and resources for nonprofits as a blogger and lead editor of the Social Fishing blog and author of Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web and Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World. 13ntc Community nten awards'

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

I don’t read, follow or listen to a vast majority the top tier of marketing communications bloggers anymore. How do you avoid the “echo chamber&# problem of seeing the same people talking about the same things? You are what you eat goes the old adage. That means find new food. It just has little value to me. All Rights Reserved

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." What resources do you need to get the job done? Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector. These resources and tools thus improve equality of opportunity. Those are generally the larger nonprofits – the ones that have some resources to spend. But then I looked deeper.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The panel guests were Christie Garton, USA TODAY Kindness Blogger and Moderator; Dr. John McLoughlin, managing director (Europe), Global Philanthropic ; Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy ; and Andrew Watt, chief programs officer, Association of Fundraising Professionals. All Rights Reserved

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. Get staff and executive buy-in. Be proactive.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

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. Carie and Tim say customize and personalize each message to bloggers, warm them up, and sell your story. Shana Glickfield of Issue Dynamics Inc. ,

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University recently distributed the results of a 2010 study, and all of the above were proven false. There is also a free executive summary of the entire Giving USA 2010 report at this site. ^ [1] Giving USA Spotlight, Issue 3, 2010, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University/GivingUSA Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Where do you get your news?

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