Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 23, 2022

This laser focus can be helpful in grabbing attention and driving results. If you’re sold on a microsite separate from your main website, here are some platforms that can help spin up a website: WordPress : Free open-source software that can be used for a wide range of websites, hosted solutions cost money.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. You always get a bit of bad with the good, however, especially with the news and public attention of a disaster relief effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications. Don’t Build That App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Future Tech (10:15am, Wheeler Hall). The Future Tech panelists are experts in the development and implementation of new technologies that work for the social good. On YouTube the attention span is very short 15 hrs of footage uploaded every minute. grab attention quickly. Moderator: John Scott. psa don't work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. When major tech players and platforms like Google, Salesforce, Facebook, PayPal, Kickstarter, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 1, 2007

May 1, 2007 Jon Stahl quotes a comment by Ethan Zuckerman about “shiny&# – the over attention to cool and groovy web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Too much “shiny&# ? functionality. Not always, but often.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. And that’s because in the enterprise world, for the most part, open source software is a given part of the mix. I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. {

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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. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Don’t Tell the Donor talks about a dustup between Greenpeace and the Salvation Army.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

This year, for the first time, IDPD is commemorated with supporting sub-themes (see the full list here ), to draw attention to key issues that come into play in the intersection of disability and development processes. This innovative approach is now opening up completely new horizons. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. High level of attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to balance/manage multiple simultaneous tasks on your own.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!) Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. for writing one-page fact sheets.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

As soon as people go online, whether it’s on their phones or computers, they are instantly bombarded with organizations and companies vying for their attention. Be sure you use it to its maximum potential and provide all of the information your supporters should pay attention to.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. In this view, the attention economy does not operate separately from the cash economy; it’s simply a means of creating cheap inputs for the cash economy. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 1, 2010

But as open source code bases like Drupal become more popular, not-for-profits will realize that we no longer need to outsource to technology firms because building a platform is cheap and easy and keeping up with upgrades is important. We'll still be cheapskates. Read Nancy's full bio.

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

This tweetschat group has recently been talking about the net neutrality issues being debated in the US, and how Europe should be paying attention. . Upcoming 501 Tech Club Events: Long Island: May 5th, Syosset: Two Speakers: Open Source Software, and HIPPA Requirements. Scariest part? It's a true story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&#

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

In addition to online resources, there are also on-the-ground events and conferences organized around the topic of accessibility and assistive tech. Entitled The First Seven Steps to Accessible Websites , the book answers the question: Where do I start? There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

clearly has had the lion’s share of attention for a while, but who knows how long this will remain. You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. " It is intended to be a dynamic public database of tech innovators for good around the world.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

It couldn’t be done without professional (and expensive) camera equipment —and a tech-savvy cameraperson and editor to boot—so we had to pick our video topics wisely. If your donor wouldn’t be put off by all the extra attention, you can even post these videos on social media for some public acknowledgement!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. What mobile trends are capturing your attention? The standout feature of the G Pro 2 is the fact that its camera can capture 4K resolution video. Are you following Mobile World Congress? Image 1: miuet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. Nancy Schwartz , author of the popular Getting Attention Blog, is known for her sure fire marketing tips. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

As a result, there are some gaps that we don’t have the time to give the attention that they deserve, or we have tried to find replacements and have been unable to come up with anything with which we are happy. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

They opted to have their giving day coincide with the National Day of Giving (Giving Tuesday) so that they could leverage the day’s media attention around philanthropy, allowing for them to be a part of the global movement while also branding their messages to the specific needs of the university.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? Non-Profit Tech Blog. open source.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The stalwart of open-source platforms, WordPress has dominated the CMS world and will absolutely continue to do so in the next year. percent market share and some two-and-a-half million sites operating on the CMS, Joomla continues to grab significant attention in the world of web design and management. E-Commerce Up and Comers.

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