Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. This was the book I skimmed, because, honestly, I was bored after the first chapter.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List The Bloomerang app is designed to support donor management from wherever you are. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go. The first is designed for event attendees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. So, be sure to regularly retweet partners, chapters, staff, activists, donors, and sponsors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Do our processes include after-action or mid-action project reviews? Briceño : The book is designed for both groups of people and for organizations to provide as a resource to all of their stakeholders. If we want to foster a culture of feedback, do we want to focus on giving or on soliciting feedback? When and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Monitor Your Charity Ratings and Reviews. If it is not, you can request to be reviewed on the service’s website. If it is not, you can request to be reviewed on the service’s website.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Each team member has inherent strengths, so this model is designed to help your nonprofit make the most of those strengths. Then, you designate other team members to notify impacted donors as quickly as possible about the breach. This model never looks the same for two organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

The book includes an important chapter on evaluating your talent development strategy as well as linking it to performance assessments. And, of concern, of the younger professionals working the nonprofit sector survey, only 34% said they were committed to staying in the sector for the long haul. Is it worth it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

So Mondays have become book review days as part of the discipline to keep up with reading. My Zoetica colleague, Geoff Livingston , shared a preview copy of his forthcoming book Welcome to the Fifth Estate and it is a great read! I went straight to the strategy and measurement chapters. These include: Conversation Starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

It is less about the tools and more about the new mindsets you need to be successful. There are two excellent books that talk about this in the context of running an organization and addressing social issues – and I plan to review these in more depth next week. The model balances content, learning design, and participants.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. There were few full solutions designed for large nonprofits to begin with. Supports multiple locations or chapters, multiple currencies, multiple languages, and multiple character sets.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

These action steps are designed to correspond with the developmental stage of your fundraising program. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged. See my book, Fundraising 401 , Chapter 10, “Finance & Fundraising Are Not in Opposition.”) The post starts off with general guidance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. Since 2005, Google.org has invested in innovative organizations that are using technology to build a better world, and we’re excited about AI’s potential as part of the next chapter in this work.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Formal professional groups – These exist for many specialties such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association, which have local chapters and a national office. . Because not disclosing these things increases the odds of a poor and/or poor project design and outcomes.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

A review of this book said that fiction can be the best way to learn facts. Design with Love, by Katie Swenson . This architecture program focused on community-based design programs where designers work WITH the community to develop the best solutions. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The Bay Area chapter underwent dramatic organizational changes in recent years that required better collaboration tools. Michael Hersher, direct services manager of the Bay Area Chapter explains , "Around two years ago, our chapter had expanded from 6 counties to covering 10 counties — the entire greater Bay Area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

” So, I immediately jumped to Chapter 6, “Enhancing Your Facebook Page with Applications.” ” Here’s what I learned: There are hundreds and thousands of Facebook apps designed to add a specific functionality to your brand page to help customize it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

They're simple --you can comment on any given chapter, or you can write a review of the whole book. Only one person has added a comment to a chapter (thank you, Juline Chevalier!), and a few have written reviews , mostly after they sent me a lovely email and I asked them to consider translating their enthusiasm into a review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Staff performance reviews incorporate how well the organization is doing on KPIs.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Stanford Social Innovation Review / Stanford, CA / $950. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Shut off the computer and review how your day went. This book is a gem. Step 3: Evening Minutes (5 minutes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I received a review copy of the book and was invited to write a post about it. Each chapter is takes us through a look at the future by examining the past. If successful uses of cognitive surplus required designers to get it right the first time, you’d be able to count the successes on the fingers of one hand.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Design an Exceptional Digital Experience. We've scheduled 46 events for June, and the month is just beginning.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? She also contributed a chapter to Internet Management for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I have too many ideas be sequential.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I have too many ideas be sequential.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Stanford Social Innovation Review / Stanford, CA / $800. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. I am looking for assistance with editing, content review, artwork, and formatting.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the digital divide by giving every NGO the tools and skills to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively. Portland, Oregon: Design Like Mad Portland. Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Monday, November 9, 2015. Kitchener, Ontario: Out of Band Management.

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Our work with the ALS Association details how it transitioned from the viral success of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” to a streamlined, comprehensive digital strategy that united local chapters and national audiences. The ALS Association had a national website and individual sites for each regional chapter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

" Ed Schipul , the session designer, came up with the title. The term "extra organizational activist" comes from Alison Fine's book Momentum and I first heard it back in September 2006 when I read the book and reviewed it over at Blogher. I'm speaking at SXSW.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We focused more on design. Coming off that experience, we wanted to prove that we could have great design AND great participation in this show. The result was not as visually cohesive or attractive as it could have been.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

But I did choose Noncommercial because I don't want a publisher to snap up the book or a chapter, credit me as author, and sell the content. I also paid a fabulous illustrator, Jennifer Rae Atkins , to design the covers and a few of the interior images. The CC license is for the book text, not the images.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 21, 2023

How Association CRMs Improve Member Management When you first start looking into software options for your association, you’re likely going to be reviewing member management or association management (AMS) software. An AMS is designed more for running the day-to-day operations of an organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

I am knee deep in developing a peer learning program for Millennial leadership development in nonprofit organizations that is designed based on the research out there. They’ve based their writing on an ongoing survey of Millennials in the workplace as well as an extensive research literature review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog. Dave Pollard's Principles of Knowledge Management (for organizations with no KM resources) includes 16 principles to think about when designing a system.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

This guide will review the basics of membership software for nonprofits and the top solutions to consider. Design an unlimited number of customizable forms to enable new members to sign up or renew their membership. Here’s our roadmap: What is membership software for nonprofits? Email marketing. Online forms. Smart reporting.

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