Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc.

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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 was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

. &# It’s written by this guy, Alan Weiss, who has written the “ Ultimate Consulting &# series, which seems to be focused primarily on making a lot of money in consulting. One of which is something I would love to talk with other consultants (and clients, too) about. He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I actually thought this could be quite useful for organizations to figure out how to allocate sparse resources in the Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good. Next steps are get some feedback, and move forward with it, somehow.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I just had a great conversation with a IT manager at a medium-sized nonprofit that had implemented Asterisk for their call center. Anyway, there is a (soon to be classic) line: “…all of these technologies are ‘free’ as in ‘free kittens,’ not free as in ‘free beer.’&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Seesmic is a video conversation site. As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. Seesmic is also getting a lot of buzz, certainly in the “twitterverse,&# but also elsewhere. It’s an interesting concept. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. My feeling from watching the conversations within the NTEN community is that people DO understand the acquisition costs of FOSS software. Comments? { 2 Amy Sample Ward 01.17.08 3 Beth Kanter 01.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

at 5:39 pm @Thomas, I had a detailed conversation with the MPower folks – I’ll be blogging about it later. Wish I would have had more time to visit in person at the conference, but I look forward to reading your NTC follow up posts. 4 Shawn Towey 03.24.08 Sounds like MPower plans to get a lot more open as time goes on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? One of the potential uses of Twitter is as a “back channel&# for events and the like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). Robin Good recently interviewed Marshall Kirkpatrick about Mash-ups and he asked Marshall to define widgets in the context of the conversation. Use of Calendar or event information - Sites that link or who links to me as seen on the Nonprofit Consultant Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

The first is Saturday, August 18th at UC Berkeley , and the second is on Saturday, September 15th at the Brookyn Academy of Music. You can hear Darian, and other Boot Camp speakers on Social Innovation Conversations. Their fees are totally reasonable. $50 50 for the day. The Foundation also puts on smaller educational events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

This was really important – hearing colleagues talk about their posts being read by EPA officials or members of international negotiating teams made the point in a way no consultant could. The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. at 12:33 am Michelle — thanks for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Aspiration's Executive Director, Allen Gunn , read a series of opinion statements and asked if we disagreed or agreed or were neutral. These stories need to be written down and it sparked a memory of a conversation I had with Zittrain at iLaw in 2005 who pointed me to a researcher at HBS who was looking at Open Source Software Communities.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway? Is it still just in the pursuit of “efficiency&# ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers. at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

at 12:32 pm Hi Michelle, Our Social Media Director came across your blog this morning, and passed the link along to me. Can we please have a conversation? I’m stepping back and thinking a bit more about this. { 6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07 at 7:32 pm Change » Blog Archive » Web conferencing redux 12.08.07

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! The KPI goals (Key Performance Indicators) that gauge your success will vary for these campaigns and would include: Click-through-rate Conversion rate Impressions Website traffic Attribution & direct donation revenue.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

I’m your host, Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub, an educational resource for nonprofits. For this edition of the Hubcast, we’re talking with Tony Martignetti, a New York-based nonprofit consultant. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. My name is Britt Bravo, and in today's show I will be talking with the co-founder and executive director of People's Grocery, Brahm Ahmadi. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Initially, after conversations with a lot of domestic workers, we realized that the women really wanted to have negotiation training. Thanks for listening.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. When I was working as a design consultant and he as an artist, we'd often note the fundamental differences in our approaches via this issue.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Let’s keep the conversation going. Who gets to be involved in consultation? And to be able to have those conversations separate and apart from making the decision, you want folks to be heard. If you’re like me, you might also have half the conversation in your mind before you have it out loud. I’m jelly.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

Sam Chenkin is Philadelphia-based Tech Impact ’s Director of Solution Development. We walk organizations through their IT issues to sort everything out and recommend a solution either from us or from other good consultants if it’s a better fit. ” Here’s my conversation with Sam.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Third, I want to invite people to participate in a conversation about how this could be done differently. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it. Thanks for starting the conversation, Michelle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Sometimes, even with larger providers, they manage to get around this by having detailed logs of conversations with you. Usually, of course, with the huge technology providers, that sort of thing isn’t possible. But with smaller providers it certainly is.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

I like to joke that I have had every job that is a Rubik’s cube in the nonprofit world, staff member, board member, founder, executive director. I’m going to share some website tweaks to help you boost your conversion rate for online gifts. It needs to be conversational. So type your questions in any time today.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So I own a company called the Development Consulting Solutions. And so I’m working on developing a telemarketing program for monthly donor conversions for a group in Australia. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. I’m a certified fundraising executive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

Both an installation artist and photographer, Naomi was the founder and director of The Cradle Project , a large scale installation calling attention and raising funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Tweet Share.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). I agree regarding music. Playing the piano takes me off to my world.

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