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AUGUST 18, 2022

This poses a real challenge for nonprofit organizations that have a small operating budget with which to put on engaging and profitable fundraisers. Arts and crafts. Annually file your Form 990 with the IRS. Goods for Sale One of fundraising’s most infamous paradoxes is that you have to spend money to make money. Kitchen goods.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. In fact, that is far from the case.) I’ll keep you posted. {

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FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

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MAY 6, 2024

In the tech world state-of-the-art doesn’t exist. Ransomware that encrypts and kidnaps files and botnets that co-opt IoT devices to build a destructive army are just a few of the threats. Competition from for-profit companies, particularly in the professional development arena, is growing steadily. Now, the aliens have landed.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. It looks to be a joint venture by a group of nonprofit-focused for-profits, none of which I’ve heard of (which doesn’t mean a thing, really.)

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

He is going to do that, with the hope that one day, a TV producer will see how cool and interesting our field is and make a show about nonprofit work, featuring attractive actors attending strategic planning meetings and filing 990 tax forms. Kristen Hadeed. kristenhadeed.com. As founder and CEO of Kishshana & Co., ignitedfundraising.com.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

The key to successful financial reporting is to motivate managers to read and understand your communications instead of giving them a quick glance and filing them away (or worse, deleting them). Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging. Close the books and issue financial reports each month.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Computerless February 20, 2007 My laptop is in the shop. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. Mitchell 02.20.07

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JULY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new blog! All importing requires now is just going to the Wordpress import tool and specifying the file. July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved!

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MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Debian comes to the rescue.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Michael Steins NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY BLOG. Non-Profit Tech Blog. Rebecca Muller.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. This is great news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

He works for this non-profit that supports independent, non-corporate audio and video file sharing (among other things). He has been the lead developer for Videobomb , a website that lets anyone who wants to add their digital video, primarily little independent art pieces, spoofs, etc.--

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. But, that was 4 years ago.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. Does this story illustrate the art of network weaving ? When I was very young, I started programming BAT files and then moved on to ???programming Tell me about you and your job.

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MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you? hard to use ?"

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APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Paul Lamb might.

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MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB. I will continue to follow your expertise on this subject to help me with my non-profit. The Handbook details important concepts like which formats are best for uploading, camera techniques, lighting/sound advice, and information on how to use a webcam.

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JULY 14, 2008

We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB. I will continue to follow your expertise on this subject to help me with my non-profit. The Handbook details important concepts like which formats are best for uploading, camera techniques, lighting/sound advice, and information on how to use a webcam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

million registered tax-exempt organizations file a version of the “Form 990” with the IRS and state tax authorities. These organizations, which together pay $670 billion in wages and benefits annually, create America’s education, culture, art, religion, science, and provide many of the social services upon which our communities depend.

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MAY 15, 2009

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. These and other things have the opposite effect.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a recent story, NPQ , quoting Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , asked, “How evil is too evil when it comes to donors?” September 6, 2019, New Yorker and WGBH. According to Farrow, Ito referred to Epstein as “Voldemort,” the villain of the Harry Potter series who “must not be named.”

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