Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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APRIL 6, 2007

And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years. Find out more about the conference here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

blogger, even though I do end up talking a fair bit about it anyway. 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes. But the most surprising thing is that a larger number of people than I expected liked what I had to say about Web 2.0.

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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. Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable.

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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. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. 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

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi asked Jadudi’s favorite blogger, Jackson Biko, to publish the story on his blog , and developed a social media crowdfunding strategy to engage the public and drive traffic to the blog. We did a little coaching. She has big plans for her next campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Along the way, I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. My Cambodian friend, Mongkol , a blogger that I met five years ago when he came to the US to do his graduate studies, wrote us a note to hand to our taxi driver. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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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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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling. I don’t think so.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. at 8:11 pm I guess bloggers don’t really get to choose their readers. So you get people like me who kinda, sorta, understand.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. But, we have to train them! We have to train our communities to drive with us. Lastly, in order to train the community to drive, you have to share your tools. And then something exciting happened. 1Sky and 350 merged. Epic Change can’t do it alone, and neither can we.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It WILL get less traffic, though likely very important traffic from other bloggers and organizations who will pick up the idea (that would be called ‘organizing’). The latter is not as applied, not as immediate, and in the short-term not as usable to our members.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

In reference to a nearly insurmountable financial challenge from 2010, one respondent shared that, "We survived almost 4 months without our major income source from the [local government] by laying off 2/3 of the staff and operating on minimal expenses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Today is Blog Action Day , an annual event held every October 15th that unites the world’s bloggers to post about the same issue on the same day. As of this writing, 4,700 + bloggers will be writing about this year's topic, water. If you're a blogger, and would like to participate, it's not too late too sign up.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Here’s the first one with many more coming in the future… 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica , a social enterprise that provides superior communication consulting, training, and strategy to help mindful organizations affect social change. region for more than 17 years. That means find new food.

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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." "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

Strategy 3: Encourage the growing practice of face-to-face public deliberation; offer training, spaces, and neutral conveners for deliberative summits and require public officials to pay attention to their results. ht=Blogger/2010/m/6/pid/21438. ^ [6] ibid. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, V.8

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Think of the people who now depend on Linux, on Google everything, on MySpace and Blogger, etc. And I think that in the new Web 2.0 world, people are beginning to understand that they can and should value what is free. 6 Valorie Zimmerman 04.10.07

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