Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We hope we can co-create this model with all of you and come out the other side of this research much smarter as a community, and much richer as a society. on November 5, 2010. Take for example, “Buckets for the Cure” fund-raising campaign where Susan G. What are some of the worst examples? Source: Fit Sugar Blog.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In 2010, the Children''s Museum of Tacoma was getting ready to move to a new, bigger facility. They went to a "pay as you will" model. The Children''s Museum of Tacoma is two years into their "pay as you will" model, and it looks like a success. business models children''s museums inclusion' What did they do?

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Care2

DECEMBER 29, 2014

For example, you can ask their opinion on new programs you are considering launching. In 2010 nonprofits heavily invested in Facebook. With Facebook’s changes in algorithms and pay to play model, the average Facebook page reaches 2% of likers. This can leave organizations with higher than usual unsubscribe rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, we haven’t been raising money with the Internet for very long,” I said. Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2010. Disruptive Model: Apparel Crowdfunding. After all, I was ancient.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. So it’s an example of where proprietary lock-in really is crushing FOSS.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

Or another great example of some bright spots in all this: kids’ drive-by-birthday parties, which I actually hope become the new norm, because really–no planning? Yes, he vastly overestimated my interest in a G20 summit from 2010. Ah, technology. And mute buttons. No cheap pizza? – Rob Shaw, Art Director .

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. We focused on the patient. Let's Raise a Brand!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For example, one can access statistics on giving by metropolitan area, by the political persuasion of various geographic areas, by faith, by wealth indicators, etc. Our report on Giving and Volunteering for 2008, published in 2010, reports on household giving as determined through a web-based representative panel survey. over 2009.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. "Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops. It is being beta tested as part of a new model of high quality education in schools called: Sujaya : India’s 1st K-12 Hybrid CBSE Schools www.sujayaschools.com. The school’s curriculum is based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

VolunteerMatch has a great example of sharing an annual report in a pretty cool way: through video! Check out the 2010 Annual Report in video ! On top of my list is the latest report from the Monitor Institute: " Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ". Have more news to share? Register today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

While working at this nonprofit, I learned about Salesforce Foundation and their philanthropic model that allowed us to receive 10 free licenses, the ball started rolling. They felt like they worked for the system. There awer too many systems. It doid not support their mission. Fundraising'

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

As recently as 2010, a Fast Company journalist posited that it’s impossible to prove whether CSR helps or not 1. Fortunately, technology and ROI models have come a long way in the last five to ten years. Related Reading: 5 Corporate Philanthropy Examples to Inspire Your CSR Strategy. The answer isn’t immediately clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&#

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Remember the examples from before?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. nathan lachenmyer (@morphogencc) November 11, 2019 Managers need to model working smart. And set the right example by not doing it yourself, either.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. We have a model for this kind of change: TTYs (text telephones) and relay services though the telephone. Larger awards can encourage groups that have more capacity for sustained services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough? As Beth Kanter explains very well , it has everything to do with – you guessed it – Facebook’s revenue model and its long-term goal for worldwide domination of the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. The software itself has been in development since 2010, but the OpenProject Foundation that supports it was established in 2012. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In 2010, SAP invested almost US$17 million in universities and nonprofits worldwide, an increase from US$10 million in 2009. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. Tech for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. They hit on three major pain points for nonprofit donors: Most donors prefer to know that their money goes directly to helping people rather than to operating costs (hence the “100% model”).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Here are some examples: Needs Assessment. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

An example of our early “brand&# circa 2005. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. We signed a contract to have a Brandraising in March 2010, and it was complete and presented to us by the end of June 2010. We focused on the patient.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?" This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere." Although we are early in this revolution, there are some examples of data being communicated in phenomenal ways. Even the White House is getting in on the act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I guess you could say it is an example of in-bound marketing. The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g. x (Total Retweets).

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Mobile Access 2010 Pew Internet and American Life Project). For example, simple or pre-populated forms, maps and location information, simple advocacy tools such as petitions, or simple instructions such as consumer or medical information. Additionally, there are dozens of browsers and formats among the hundreds of makes and models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. For example, you can in a couple clicks go onto a site like Slideshare and see ideas on a topic from some of the best thinkers on that topic and recreate your own meaning of it. In a recent post by Scott Henderson offers up charity:water as an example.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Aqubanc in booth 58.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Aqubanc in booth 58.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Ganz’s model is popular in activism and politics, but it also has applications for peer-to-peer fundraising. To articulate this, Ganz developed a storytelling model based on challenge, choice, and outcome. I’ll give you an example of what this looks like in action. But that’s not the case. Tell that true story from the heart.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

But did you know she topped the list of most charitable Celebs in 2010 , as ranked by Do Something , by how much energy celebrities devote to cause? Another example is her successful efforts to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell where she galvanized her fan base to take part in an advocacy campaign. Author: Rachel Muir.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Trust me.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

I can guarantee your video to get tons of views if you let us do Jacksss-style stunts or not-so-subtly incorporate busty models into our concept — but is this the engaged audience you are looking for? comScore, for example, says they have “ 2 million participants under continuous measurement. &# And then they extrapolate.

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