Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2009

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well. Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.

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MARCH 6, 2015

First up, a round of applause for the winner of the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. Congratulations to this year''s winner: Imagine No Malaria’s 2014 World Malaria Day campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The Socialbrite team is made up of strategists with deep experience in offering social media consulting services, training workshops, conversational marketing, fundraising and outreach campaigns. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

With less than two weeks to go, TechSoup’s Storymakers campaign is roaring along. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Arlington, Virginia: NTEN September 2014 Happy Hour. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change. You can sort by category and location and it campaign as a basic description. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

realm – Cause Related Marketing has an interesting discussion about a new Instant Messenger campaign. Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 Technorati Tags: npcarnival , nptech { 1 trackback } Donor Power Blog 05.15.07 It’s a wonderful way of looking at these tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Social networking burnout?

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

And, because your org is discussed on infinite communications channels, it's more important than ever to brand your organization, programs, and campaigns. The challenge of branding in an open source world. NTEN board member Nancy E. Tags: NPTech branding marketing NTEN Newsletter web2.0

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). > > Find out more and get the report (free for NTEN Members!). > Get the report today (free for NTEN Members!).

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MARCH 4, 2011

With just two weeks until the event, MobileCause (the co-host of Innogive) has decided to extend this deal to the NTEN community and enable 50 additional nonprofits the chance to attend the conference for just $99. Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied.

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MARCH 18, 2011

The most successful campaigns are reactions to real world events or sparks that move quickly through established networks of human relationships. Your gala event is a culmination of a year or more of relationship building, multi-channel outreach and face-to-face interaction, just like a social media fundraising campaign.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). > > Find out more and get the report (free for NTEN Members!). > Get the report today (free for NTEN Members!).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual.

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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. Heather Gardner-Madras is a designer and strategist for progressive nonprofit campaigns and also writes for the Idealware blog. Tags: nptech. Holly Ross.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends. Want to share it? Idealware Article, reports, oh my!

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) You be the judge, NTC!

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Each year, NTEN recognizes some of its brightest members who have offered their time, talents, and wisdom to generally "amp up the awesome" of the nonprofit technology sector. Just before NTC each year, NTEN staff and board members make a final decision on the award winners. What Are the NTENny Awards Again? Lauren Girardin.

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MAY 28, 2009

But other models exist -- namely implementing, investing, and collaborating in open source software. All software costs money and/or time to implement, whether it be proprietary, software-as-a-service, or open source. It takes into consideration the philosophical values of open source (or open data).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Holly Ross at NTEN writes about a new ring tone, " Why don't you just shut up? DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. Slides are available in the NpTech group in Slideshare. MoveOn.org launched a "Respect My Privacy Petition Campaign" last week. It was covered by C|NET news.

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