Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The The same values hold true today over at NTEN ). .&# It resonated. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. I’m excited to see what community-driven development can do! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.) Be Helpful.

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MAY 29, 2008

at 7:56 am I have no idea if there is a Kintera User Society, but we at the Blackbaud User Society would be thrilled to have Kintera clients join us to get unofficial support for their products and join our growing community of Blackbaud clients and users. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

See3 Communications , Founder & CEO. Michael Hoffman is a leading authority in online video for nonprofits and a longtime consultant to nonprofit leaders on online fundraising, advocacy, and community engagement strategies. Nancy's favorite cause-driven video: (Please visit the site to view this video).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

We’d love to get more women involved in nonprofit open source – women from the nptech world who might not be thinking a lot about open source, and women from the open source community who might not be thinking a lot about nonprofit organizations. Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. .&# Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# What do you think? Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Michele Martin is thinking a lot about how to sustain online communities , and has some really interesting tidbits to share. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Elgg is a very cool community-building and e-learning tool – it’s got the social networking combined with features like forums, etc. I wish I had an excuse to install and test it – but it really requires a purpose for bringing community together. One of which is called Elgg. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

The fourth, and very interesting development, is the relationships that have been developing between nonprofit-focused technology providers of all stripes and open source developer communities (at this point, primarily CMS projects.) And so the feedback cycle keeps going. This may be where the gift economy rubber meets the road. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. at 11:51 am Michelle – I think you’re right on the money. Which is usually what happens.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10 Appreciating you! Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They also have, at this point, no community. at 7:48 pm Also, they will allow anyone to register for the community at this point. It isn’t a perfect Open Source community style, but it is a step in the proper direction. Not at all in alignment with the open source ethic. 3 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I appreciate shops that I know are giving back to the community, and that are known quantities in the nptech realm. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. But the community blogs do provide a way for a wider audience to read the content that I have created. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Second, is bookmarking. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. Katrin Verclas, founder and editor-in-chief of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle. ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. Client-(pc-only) server? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

And I’m not entirely clear yet how many should be jumping on this bandwagon to either do fundraising or community-building. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. = Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Bottom line for me: free and open source software is about leveling the playing field, free access, community benefit, and community control allows this. would all be free (libre). Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Image five: NTEN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. On Modules it was a little better, but again there was lots of comercial stuff… I found it a very comercialized communities and didnt get to know users and developers talk exchange freely… would you clarify me on that? Joomla is growing fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution. They have mentorship programs, they are building regional networks, they have almost unparalleled bulletin board, email and IRC community support.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There’s the true value of Vendor provided SaaS and installed solutions that is very difficult for the open-source community to match, even though the open source software is ‘free’ -Jon Biedermann DonorPerfect CRM Fundraising Software 800-220-4411 4 Charles Bagnall 09.26.08 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Most recently, Michael Gilbert pointed me to a very good whitepaper by Nancy White about blogs and community. She has some interesting things to say about the emergent properties of blogging communities. I think the community aspects of blogging were somewhat unexpected. It’s worth a read. Which is just fine.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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