Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Kindle, at first blush, sounds pretty cool. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying a Kindle November 26, 2007 I think I might need a new blog category: why I won’t be buying … First Leopard, now, Kindle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. Is there something like this you can try?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Don't worry if no one at your organization is familiar with VoIP, which stands for the somewhat scary-sounding "voice over Internet protocol." Phone, email, training. Phone, email, online, training. Standard, Busy, Selective. Music on hold. Phone, online. Admin portal. Anonymous call rejection.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

GPT is short for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. For example, Amazon’s Alexa along with the site’s personalized recommendations for movies, books, and music are provided by various AI models. LLMs undergo a rigorous “training period.” In addition, training an AI is complex and expensive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

But what they gained, and it sounds like he’s not willing to give it up – is flexibility. Some software, like Firefox, is like that kitten that is easy – it learns to be litter trained once, and just sits on your lap (or in its little bed) in a ball and sleeps, and plays only when you want it to. brilliant.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Don't worry if no one at your organization is familiar with VoIP, which stands for the somewhat scary-sounding "voice over Internet protocol." Phone, email, training. Phone, email, online, training. Standard, Busy, Selective. Music on hold. Phone, online. Admin portal. Anonymous call rejection.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system.

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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. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on. Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. 6 admin 03.24.08

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That sounds outrageous, right? How profound would the changes be if you brought that kind of heart to your marriage, your parenting, your friendship, your business? You get paid for the practice, for the rehearsal, for the training that led you to that performance. But it’s true. I can’t imagine living any other way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

That’s easier than it sounds. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 2 Michelle Murrain 03.19.07 at 5:45 pm Thanks, Michele.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Sounds like a reasonable idea. IRC has always seemed to me to be one of the best ways to do that, but IRC is, well, passé these days, it seems. But why not add another channel to the back channel happenings, for instance, at NTC ? But why don’t I sign up for a Twitter account, and, well, Twitter?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. Set up “Review Parties” to make it a social undertaking – but be sure to train your team to use common naming conventions. Continued to consult with the #GivingTuesday.org staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

That sounds outrageous, right? How profound would the changes be if you brought that kind of heart to your marriage, your parenting, your friendship, your business? You get paid for the practice, for the rehearsal, for the training that led you to that performance. But it’s true. I can’t imagine living any other way.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

Rather than needing to work with your city to map out a safe map route for a 5K or finding enough staff and volunteers to line a race route, you just need a venue and sound system to host a dance-a-thon fundraiser with an in-person component. For a dance-a-thon, local dance studios are a great option for businesses to reach out to.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. Also, I am thinking about the need to train target markets how to use some of the social marketing tools like Twitter. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. And I have to beg the question – why is it that we even think about “business process&# for nonprofits? And why do we think about business processes?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

That sounds outrageous, right? How profound would the changes be if you brought that kind of heart to your marriage, your parenting, your friendship, your business? You get paid for the practice, for the rehearsal, for the training that led you to that performance. But it’s true. I can’t imagine living any other way.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. Those institutions were business, government, nonprofits and media. RANDY: Yeah, this sounds all so cool and you’ve had some awesome examples of how this is making some great conversions. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So let’s jump right in. Thanks for having me.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

It could be a pancake breakfast, a barbecue, or a brewery fundraiser done in partnership with a local business. It could be something like a preview of an upcoming season, a concert performance of a popular musical, etc. For most kinds of live events, you’re probably going to need some sort of sound system. Let’s get started!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Charlene and Josh relate listening to research, and since they focus on business examples, they are primarily talking about market research: the way a business learns what people think of their brand, their products, and their potential. Most museums are not as large as the Exploratorium or the businesses covered in Groundswell.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's a youth entrepreneurship and agriculture training for young people, trying to build their capacity as leaders in the community, with a specific focus on being entrepreneurs, using business as a solution both to their economic need, locally, but for their social needs as well. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime.

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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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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? ” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. So make sure that you actually train them. They go through a training.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. Thus, every single penny of their income comes from donations that nonprofit organizations raise to, theoretically, fund the missions of their work. But, hey, why not? How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This sounds quite different than the activation issue. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That’s why we’re all in this business. And you can leverage that kind of credibility if you have that kind of brand to raise more money because fundamentally, people like to do business with people they like, trust, and know. People like to do business with people they like, trust, and know. Remember that.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

And I have a really neat program that I started in the pandemic as a very inexpensive low-cost way to give people some fantastic fundraising training. So, if getting a little more fundraising training is the way that you want to rock your 2021 and your end-of-year fundraising, we’re going to be covering that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

I have a few other small businesses as well, so I don’t sleep much! We’re a small org, so even though it sounds insane, it actually works out nicely, and I think my being involved with every process, at least for the stage we are at right now, gives me a good sense of how to structure things as we grow.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there. But what works best, music, humor, entertainment, surprise, relatability. It’s focused on music and video effects. There’s differences in the duet feature on TikTok and music that’s available on TikTok.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. Britt: That sounds like some of the things that are the most joyful parts of the things you do. The youth are amazing manifesters.

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