Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Your website is often the first introduction people get to the amazing work you do to change the world. If your site is on WordPress you might consider using the WP-Touch plugin. Feedburner will also make sure your site feed is recognized by major browsers and feed readers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. She suggests not to panic, and not to change course – keep steady, and keep communicating. Next week, the Carnival is being hosted at A Small Change – Fundraising Blog. {

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JULY 20, 2013

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. We focused on action and making change for the patient. Change is terrifying. Spending money on change is horrifying. The way I saw it, if we were going to make this kind of leap, now was the time to do it when we were still small.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Yes, they changed it, but it made me realize that it is a Bad Idea to put all of my eggs in one basket. However, there was an initial brou-haha about the EULA , which initially suggested that everything you type into the browser belongs to Google (talk about All Your Base Belong to Us!) I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. A company (or organization, or individual) can set up a public page (so it does not require a Facebook account to see it).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

My main blog is moving to WordPress, this blog is moving over to the Metacentric.org Joomla CMS. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I decided to move both of my blogs off of typepad, and to other platforms.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

This means you can target Facebook ads to appear on the feeds of people who have donated to your nonprofit. In terms of lead generation platforms, for WordPress sites, Thrive Leads is the go-to plugin. If you’re not using WordPress, then I’d recommend you check out any of these platforms: Bouncex. MaxTraffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

The report is often an important piece of research designed to show leadership on an issue and attract the attention of the press and governments to affect social change. Feeding America has a national hunger study. At See3, we think this is like the launch of Drupal or WordPress – two content management systems that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. Some of Web 2.0,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. { Maybe it’s time for me to go out and find some blue and yellow clothes. 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Nonprofit Carnival of T-Day Treats 11.19.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Even if you're using a content management system like WordPress or Drupal, by incorporating APIs, you can further enhance built in app-like functionality to create a highly customized experience. You can connect many existing tools, or you can build into it and feed it data to display. By Chris Dumas, Product Manager, FirstGiving.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

My tip (more of a request): I’d love to hear more about your perspectives on how technology can help (or hinder) organizational management, dynamics, and change. Also, a minor technological thing – the RSS feed is a bit wonky sometimes (strange formatting, and it’s not always clear when there are new items.)

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Colalife: make it real This neat little video is part of Colalife’s submission to Google’s Project 10 to the 100th - a call for ideas to change the world. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

Published on Wordpress and Typepad and others Insights from nonprofit sisters and brothers Keeping my online strategy from going to the dogs These are a few of my favorite blogs. That's change - and folding money - I can believe in. Sea Change Strategies. I keep up with all of them using my favorite feed reader, Google Reader.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Other projects take more care and feeding, and you might have to take it to the vet. 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. at 10:00 am Free. brilliant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

My favorite quote: “A mutual understanding between the nonprofit organization and the database implementer that converting a database involves organizational change, and this can be stressful and threatening for employees. It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. We focused on action and making change for the patient. Change is terrifying. Spending money on change is horrifying. One recommendation that came out early was the name change to Fight Colorectal Cancer. Change is hard.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Facebook is considering moving all organic page content to a new, segregated feed. By leveraging social advertising, you can ensure that your posts reach your intended audience and aren’t left out of critical news feeds. Get specific with social advertising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { 3 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/22 « i On Nonprofits 09.25.08 at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Butterfly by Beth Kanter Social Butterfly writes about nonprofits and social change and social media. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? Or, to teach your child how to change a tire. Lorelle on Wordpress by Lorelle VanFossen Tell me a little about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

It like it was also splog and closed down by wordpress. Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ????

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As far as my personal LinkedIn Profile , it’s mostly up to date and serves well as an online resume, but I have never had the time to use it as a networking tool (years of emails go unanswered… sorry ) and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Pinterest did not make the cut. Tumblr also did not make the cut.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

run a Twitter feed. There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. But you don't have to change your title to get started. There are also a few Web 2.0 activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. Start a blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. 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. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

One thing I note, however, is that proprietary software seems to require roughly the same amount of geek to install and maintain — and it’s very possible you’ll hit problems that you simply can’t solve without feeding up the proprietary food chain. Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork. Problem solved.

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