Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Here’s some of the advice that came through Facebook: It takes a while to motivate the musicians, because they are busy people and often on the road away from internet. Makala also noted that her job is about consulting and training people in the organization to use social media effectively. Outline it. Decks and Links here.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Reaching out to local businesses and artisans to see if they’d be willing to become in-kind sponsors for your event is another way you can collect items for your raffle. Interior designer consultation. Give your lucky donors the opportunity to win a nice home refresh with an interior design consultation. Flatscreen TV.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Plugged it in, and it just worked. Directories were shared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It can be found at [link] They’re an online video telecom service that’s can have up to six people talking at once. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. Seesmic is also getting a lot of buzz, certainly in the “twitterverse,&# but also elsewhere. It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) They also launched their blog. There will be penguins!!

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You are super busy for a couple of reasons why that I’m going to mention here in a second, but it’s awesome to have you back. I saw that in an article I paraphrased, a part of an article I read about resilience in leadership in the Harvard Business Review probably six or seven months ago. How’s it going?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X I thought I’d be a pig in sh*t – I have been living with an ancient, ancient 15″ LCD with dying pixels for a while. But Nooooooooo. No happiness for me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Here’s some other coverage: Podcast from the Nonprofit Tech Blog Post from Josiah Richie Video Interview of Randy McCabe { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matthew Edmondson 04.15.08 I’ll be following MPower closely over the next months and years. I have high hopes for it. at 1:00 pm This is indeed excellent news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web. at 8:16 am Privacy of data especially for a business social network is very important to most of linkedin and facebooks users. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? What have I learned in all of this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Vlogging are video blogs – and they are as simple as a talking head in front of the camera, and as complex as including animation and other things. But without a doubt, YouTube made vlogging, and mass video creation mainstream. It could be argued that iTunes made podcasting mainstream. Good analysis.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Jeff came to the attention of the new leadership of Games for Change through his personal blog, Game Culturalist, a socially aware blog about video games. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So I’m going to shut off my video, and then I’ll bring it back on later, okay? So I own a company called the Development Consulting Solutions. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. I know you’re probably busy. Robin: Hey, all right.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

You can go on our website, learn all about us, watch videos, pretty easy to find. Nancy says, “We do a gratitude month in November with video shares from our community that listen to a grateful give Tuesday.” He’s probably too busy doing end-of-year stuff. Julie Edwards Consulting. It’s not an ask.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

at 2:57 pm Hi Michelle, I have not used video conferencing much, except through commercial products. We recently launched a Flash based free video conferencing service called “PalBee.com” ( [link] ) It provides unlimited number of free ONE hour conferencing session for up to 4 attendees. 5 Wayne 08.19.07 it’s easy to set up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Plone’s version is here: [link] Please note that I’m not trying to stir up this issue, Plone has chosen to focus on security, which of course comes with its own tradeoffs — the “why can’t untrusted visitors embed a YouTube video in my site” being the most common complaint. 5 Steve McMahon 04.05.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I was curious to observe the gender balance at Penguin Day and while I'm not as meticulous as Christine in counting and calculating the number of women and men in the room, I took a quick video to get a reading. The video captures those on the philsophical side. Click to Play - OS Next Generation Music - Voyage Black.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. I haven’t investigated much software beyond email, web, and word processing, but I have noticed some strange video issues with my monitor. And, guess what? I’m giving up. 4 Brian 06.25.08

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The end-of-year season is a busy one, and early planning can help your team avoid stress and rushing, especially if your campaign involves hosting an event. By the end of December, we will complete our feasibility study and determine next steps with our fundraising consultant.” Show the impact your donors are having. Use visuals.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Patton, Senior Consultant at Donorly. For example, images, infographics, and short videos work best on social media while long text-based stories work best for blog posts. Next, build your posts using these blocks: You wouldn’t just show up on someone’s doorstep to ask them for money to invest in a business, right? Typography.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2021

Your supporters are busy, and sometimes asking them to donate their time is a harder sell than asking them for monetary donations. It’s also recommended not to overload your website with images, photos, or embedded videos. Allen was born and raised in NYC, loves a wide range of music and—on his better days—running. Clean design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

My business hadn't made any money in months. I'm a marketing consultant, so a lot of times what I've done is give away small amounts of free consulting time to people who couldn't afford to pay me what I charge. I went out to a really busy street corner. It started with me. I was broke. I was too sick to work.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

For instance, their Beacon of Light program allows participating businesses and schools to sell paper lighthouses for donations of $1, $5, or more, and hang the sold lighthouses to create a visual display of the money they have raised. To fund their innovative treatment programs, their website features several creative fundraising campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Although the Foundation is going to make transcripts of all of the sessions available and I believe video from the conference will be broadcast on www.ibaglobal.com as well, some people on a list serv that I am on, Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) , wanted to share notes virtually so I decided to post some of my notes here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It may not happen quickly at first, but make no mistake- Blackbaud has a proven history of acquiring products and forcing people to upgrade to more expensive support and services- here’s a funny video explaining their strategy. Instead, they will have to rely on consultants, or unfortunately volunteers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

When I was working as a design consultant and he as an artist, we'd often note the fundamental differences in our approaches via this issue. Is it appropriate to ask artists to be problem solvers in the same role as designers or consultants? That's not always true when you work with artists (or consultants).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

You can’t play mpeg-4 videos except under extremely limited conditions, and if you upgrade your computer more than once, you’ll have to pay. Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) " What else is it that us geeks do?

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