Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. So, overall, I like it, and I’m sticking with it, with the exception of my addressbook and calendar. Getting some hardware configured can be painful.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2018

You can also access your newsfeeds and establish RSS feeds for keywords. Nonprofit Hub uses Trello for mapping out strategic efforts like email marketing and drip campaigns, organizing our content calendar and keeping track of daily tasks. And, the kicker: Trello is free to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some have fewer features, but all have some basic qualities: Ability to handle multiple courses (or activities) and enroll individual students Courses can be done either with specific deadlines, or at any pace Course calendars Messaging (between teacher and students and between students) Group discussions Document repositories Assignments and grading (..)

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2016

You can ask your supporters to update their News Feed page preference by following 2 steps: Visit your nonprofit’s Facebook page. If they’ve already “Liked” your page, hover over the RSS button and check off the “See First” option. They have to “Like” your page before they can check “See First.”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

It is a balancing act in your calendar and to do list. His definition of the problem is that it gets in the way of sustained mindfulness in order to get something meaningful done. What is the solution? Is it human (habits and skills) or machine (technology/software) or a combination of both? Technology Approaches.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

land are either using iCal, or integrating with Google Calendar (my present calendaring software). Wikis are another great collective to do list/project management tool, but they don’t integrate, either. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 So that’s good. And it’s one way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

And there were several problems I never solved – including syncing calendars and addressbooks, finding a good time tracker. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. There are several issues here, of course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. Publishing other folks content via RSS feeds on your blog. Publishing tag clouds, links from socialbookmarking, etc on your blog. Live chat on your blog. mail on your blog. Share what you're feeds your reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2010

I put a sticky note on my computer that reminds to “pay myself first.&# I try (when not traveling) to do my professional learning at the same time each day. I spend 15-30 minutes reading RSS feeds or Tweets and 15 minutes thinking about something I learned. Sometimes that happens by writing a blog post which take me 30 minutes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. According to their website, they get state money to provide services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. A webpage doesnt always mean much, though. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

The google calendar doesn't sync with my treo, although I can read my calendar online if I have an Internet connection. Is there a way to get an offline copy of your contacts and calendar - and be able to add and sync? Email subscriptions to my newsletter have leveled off (though RSS continues to climb).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. The two most common tweets are event reminders and automatic RSS feed updates, but museums are also tweeting with podcast and video links, updates on exhibits or animals, fly on the wall observations from inside the galleries among others.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 25, 2007

Nonprofit Technology Events: "Nonprofit Technology EventsFind and share technology events for nonprofits in your areaWelcome to the NPTech Events Calendar, where you can keep up-to-date on nonprofit technology conferences, meetings, and workshops around the globe.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Checklists, to-do lists, and calendar appointments keep me focus. I am a podcast junky, and my RSS feed doesn’t exactly qualify as small. I've compiled a little list of what's helped me in the past, in hopes that maybe it will help others out there (and spark a conversation of what you in reader-land do to wake yourself back up).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

I try to do this for blogging, RSS reading, twittering, flickr, email, etc. I also have a production calendar in outlook that maps out the week's social networking blogs. I'll take an hour a day to execute what's in the calendar, and the rest of my day is tackling more strategic projects. I do the tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS makes it possible for you to ??????subscribe??????

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. Another nice educational piece: RSS Explained , by D.C. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet. area community technology activist Phil Shapiro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

A Widget is a piece of code that enables a non-technical website publisher to pull in data and a display for that data from another website, so they can have, say, news ticker headlines or a personal horoscope, or local weather or an RSS feed. RSS widgets as seen on AFP Blog. What problem does a widget solve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Bruce’s daily routine includes using an RSS reader/dashboard filled with the best blogs and keyword searches. Bruce Lesley lead a session on the Children’s Issues editorial calendar.

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Care2

JUNE 4, 2009

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!" 60) Search « Why Nonprofits Need to Grow their Online Lists | Main | Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Care2

MARCH 30, 2007

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!" 60) Search « New Trend Emerging in Deceptive List Growth?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

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!" Google Calendars is an easy way to get your nonprofits events directly to the people.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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!" With a simple and compelling concept, they asked their supporters what calendar would like.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

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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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

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!" 60) Search « How Sticky is Facebook? If you dont ask, they wont give. Although I would add one other.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

They have a MySpace page , complete with music from the Talking Heads, and a blog (though it's not RSS-friendly). There's no mention in this week's calendar of events at the museum. They have some strange quirks (no wayfinding signage, for example), but lots of energy around letting their visitors define who they are.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

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!" Plus, in our society, it’s tough to collaborate. We reward winners, not team players.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 13, 2022

We recommend using a digital marketing calendar to plan your content in advance, including your promotional plan. Zapier hooks for RSS can be very helpful to republish article links to other social media platforms. By planning your content in advance, you can batch-create pieces and have them ready to go when you need them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I don’t intend, for instance, to start putting my calendar on Facebook, but it’s interesting to see how much is happening, and how fast. In the last few weeks of using Facebook, I’d already realized how it’s fitting into my workflow in ways that no other social networking site does.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

No more opening your calendar or keeping a todo list in a hard to remember folder. There are people (I'm one of them) who aren't ready to play RSS flute concertos on Yahoo Pipes or traipse through Google map hacks. Heck, I'm not even advanced enough for an RSS reader to aggregate blogs to which I subscribe.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

And since people can subscribe to blogs via RSS, staff can select the departments they want to follow "on-demand" without getting bogged down by lots of all-staff emails. Google Apps provides more standard enterprise needs, like email, calendar, and instant messaging, and fewer Web 2.0 Google Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. MoFuse :: mofuse.com. Fees start at $8 per month. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Annual Calendar of Social Good and Cause Campaigns :: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/annualcalendar. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org.

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