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JULY 14, 2021

Mary Sumners, Vice President of Annual Giving, Kennari Consulting – Mary’s areas of expertise include annual giving strategies, capital campaign management, and board and volunteer committee support. Enter any number of musical themes (does anyone hear the Jaws theme?) About Kennari Consulting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What was it, the question mark? NTEN did a great job of beginning to approach this topic, and it was great data. Here is the link, [link] Let me know if you have any questions. million of them.)

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 28, 2015

Can the risk to your next fundraising effort be forecast in advance through some basic data algorithms? Which naturally begs the questions, why the decline and what, if anything, to do about it? Which is why, when the music stops (i.e. A little mining and analysis will reveal if your data is complete on your most loyal donors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

is the wrong question to ask, says Kari Bodell, vice president of development programs at Susan G. Bringing experience from her consulting work, Cavar suggests that impact organizations double down on the programs that drive the most revenue, and use some of those proceeds to test innovation.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# So, come join me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. I think that people are getting wary of social networks where they have no control over their own data. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Office 365 for IT Staff and Consultants Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 a.m. IT staff and consultants will have the opportunity to learn tips and tricks about implementing Office 365 at nonprofit organizations. IT staff and consultants will have the opportunity to learn tips and tricks about implementing Office 365 at nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 The only thing that will be left is games.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. bbcon Takeaway #1: Small investments in data quality will yield big returns. Continued to consult with the #GivingTuesday.org staff. Guide future decision making.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. The first part of the package is Facebook Fan Pages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? Read an interview of an Android developer. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

I think part of the answer has to be to provide the resources for people to become better providers – whether it be to help budding accidental techies get off the ground to become great IT staff or independent consultants, or helping individual and small consulting firms learn what makes really good nonprofit support.

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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?&# Everyone (including them) gets better data. What do you think? Time will tell. {

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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.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. No question about that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants. The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. I got hit with a question that I could not answer on the spot - a very good question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. This can include a building, or access to experts or cool technology or data, or historical archives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. A large chunk (the majority?)

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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.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), at 1:24 am What was it, the question mark? Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

One question I asked all of them was about whether they had a process of reflection and evaluation of their work, as it was going on, and when the project was coming to a close. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question. at 2:30 pm What great questions to ask, Michelle!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies. I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { Two years ago, there wasn’t a platform that was really ready for that. Now, there is. Actually, there are several.

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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. at 7:16 am The question of how bleeding edge we need to be intrigues me. at 9:36 pm Great question. How bleeding edge do we need to be? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes. [poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 at 7:21 pm What did you get out of this survey? 2 admin 11.10.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

It was quite a shame to have to give that up , but it was either that, or make due with either not using a Palm, or modifying dramatically how I dealt with my PIM data. And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I hope that in the process of doing projects for clients, I am able to ask those deep questions, and help them ask “why&# much more often. Lots of “whats&# and “hows,&# but not enough “why’s&# You were probably one of those “annoying&# little girls who asked a lot of questions, weren’t you?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation. Check out the forums of email list archives of that project. How busy is it? Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ). When was the last release?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

First, I want to focus on a concept I frequently share in my conference presentations as well as my consulting engagements with clients. This concept is rooted in one of our core fundamental purposes for using analytics: finding the common threads in data so that we are best able to predict future behavior.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

I didn’t ask this question too often (it would just depress me.) But as I re-enter this field I love, I can’t help but think about this question again. As someone who was a real rarity in my early years (how many African American women neuroscientists have you heard of?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

But how to stop that kind of thinking on an organizational level is the question. If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.) That’s good news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). So, Nancy White , does this answer your question? What is a Widget?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

There is no question that the social networking space is evolving. That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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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. But my question is more than just exigency. It’s asking the questions of what happens when nonprofits incorporate what might be considered the wrong metaphors? And precisely (!)

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