Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable. All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07

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MARCH 7, 2011

In December 2010, Target Analytics brought together six national nonprofit organizations to discuss event fundraising and compare fundraising performance of team captains, team members, individuals (non-team participants), and donors. The report revealed on average 41% of participants who raised funds are retained from one year to the next.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

Steve MacLaughlin , Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions, will discuss key technology trends impacting nonprofits, the role of social media in online fundraising, the emerging channel of mobile giving, and the importance of building a multi-channel strategy. All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like? How do we replace proprietary tools? How does this all get paid for?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

I feel incredibly honored to be on the board, and to be able to give to the nptech community in this leadership role. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin 08.08.07 at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

Steve MacLaughlin , Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions, will discuss key technology trends impacting nonprofits, the role of social media in online fundraising, the emerging channel of mobile giving, and the importance of building a multi-channel strategy. All Rights Reserved

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I feel that the question of how ‘up’ on technology we need to be depends on your role in nonprofit. 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)! We’re just not there yet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { My advising practice is much more about educating and helping people with concrete technology tools, and concrete projects. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 08.30.07

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2010, eager to address these changes, the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) launched a program called Pioneers in Justice , offering intense support to a cohort of Bay Area Gen X leaders who had recently become executive directors of legacy social justice organizations. with her family.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

We expect the federal, state, and local governments to play a role in educating our children, helping communities rebuild after natural disasters, and improving our collective quality of life. foundations, fundraising consultants, and many others. In the United States, we rely on government to provide key economic supports.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Other modules include synchronizing CiviCRM member (CiviMembers) to Drupal Roles (so you can permission content on your web site if needed) and synchronizing with organic groups (used by Democrats abroad very effectively in the last election cycle) 3.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Some of the biggest reasons to replace computers is not as much the hardware failure issues, but software bloat and cruft, and planned obsolescence. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). Joomla is growing fast.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It’s also great news for the many Frogloop readers who are nonprofit professionals and consultants engaged in online advocacy, fundraising and marketing. Care2’s recent turbo-charged growth is proof of the yearning of millions of people to get involved in supporting causes and making this a better world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. Google and Facebook have been clear that the ultimate role of content moderators is to automate their own jobs away.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

While Drupal’s ACL and roles are quite good (quite better than WP and Joomla) Zope’s additional capacity, and it’s much more granular workflow capacity provides a bit more protection against possible vulnerabilities. And I did not say Plone “feels&# more secure – that’s insulting. You want details?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Kivi Leroux Miller Kivi Leroux Miller ( @kivilm ) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Through this research, as well as in his role at Achieve, Derrick has worked with companies and organizations such as AT&T, Facebook, BMW, PBS and the Case Foundation to understand how the next generation of donors, activists and employees are redefining cause work. She is also a certified executive coach.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. In almost every case, customers were drawn to the fact that the Salesforce nonprofit CRM was free.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They do a lot of really great consulting and placement if that is something that is of a need from you. I’m with Bright Street Solutions, a full-service consulting and placement firm in Birmingham, Alabama. You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program. African ideas and solutions were very much a part of our role in the international development sector. It began with a bench, and how I came to be standing before that particular bench. In fact, the NGO was led by them. Sources: [1] Matthews, S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

The role of CIO or CTO usually does not exist in most nonprofits, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is commonly not budgeted or planned ahead routinely. We intend to launch the program during the last quarter of 2010. . a social media strategic consulting firm to nonprofit organizations.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. Artists and administrators grapple with the shifting roles of institutions as hosts and incubators for creative work. That's not always true when you work with artists (or consultants).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

There's barely a peep about the balance between exhibitions and programs, the role and use of public spaces, or the relationship between the institution and its communities. There's nothing wrong with this kind of museum, but we've all seen several like it. It's hardly a model for an entirely new approach to museum design.

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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. April 1, 2011 8:49 AM Travis Butterfield said.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

I wasn’t really conscious of the role it plays in my days, but tuning out into my own little world is most definitely part of mental health for me. (As Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:04 am | Permalink Mark Jennings wrote: Excellent post, as @joannejacobs said it could be an answer to my post today on [link] and the one previous!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? How do you appropriately implement them? And how do you check results?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

a blogger and consultant on blogger relations, added that your first contact with a blogger should not be an ask. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Shana Glickfield of Issue Dynamics Inc. , On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

Our brains our packed with ideas and inspiration for how to do our jobs better, our social networks are a little richer because of the new relationships we have forged, and our hearts are full with the comradeship of being with so many people that share our passion and perspective for the role of technology in work promoting the social good.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I promised to commit to stay through the opening if she'd let me take on this role, and I suggested that she could keep me at my (low) salary instead of hiring an expensive project coordinator. But as it has turned out, almost none of my consulting clients care about my experience at the Spy Museum or other institutions.

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