Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

There is also a Twitter-based chat starting up for consultants who work with social benefit organizations. Brainstorm lots of questions but pick a few. But, it is actually just this reason that it’s more important to pre-select your questions. 4Change or #NPCons (nonprofit consultants) seem like pretty obvious topics.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Okay, so let me answer the question by posed by The Tactical Philanthropy blog. Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Click on the RSS button in the results page. If so, let me know.

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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. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days!

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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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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Let’s help share information about what’s happening across the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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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 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

JANUARY 8, 2008

But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? { Read/Write Web and TechCruch have good coverage of this. Update: LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart and Twitter have now joined Dataportability.org. This is, of course, great news.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Sources: ^ [1] "Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector" from La Piana Consulting was commissioned by the James Irvine Foundation. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t. It was completed and published in November 2009. Click here to download a PDF copy.

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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? at 2:39 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.19.07 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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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

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 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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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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

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? It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# Time will tell. {

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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

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 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

More and more people are reading content, your content, via RSS through tools like Google Reader so make it easy to find on every page of your site. Tip : Use Google FeedBurner which will allow people to subscribe via RSS or email. Another Tip : Not sure how to get RSS from the Blackbaud Sphere CMS. Not sure what RSS is?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

No question about that. at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 at 8:33 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - November 26th, 2007 « Giving in a digital world 02.05.08 What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. Such is life. Should staff of a nonprofit blog?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

The Collaboration Prize itself is a joint effort by several pioneering organizations: The Lodestar Foundation has partnered with the AIM Alliance , the Foundation Center , La Piana Consulting , and other foundation and nonprofit leaders to support the 2011 Prize. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

at 1:24 am What was it, the question mark? But it’s a very good sign that people seem satisfied with the open source tools available for one of the core functions of nonprofit organizations. { 3 trackbacks } Product Blogs » Blog Archive » CiviCRM comes out on top in NTEN Survey 12.14.07

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead. Only one of these four raises questions in mind about whether charitable assets might have gotten distributed in questionable ways. Great post mark!!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# I’m sure I’ll be upgrading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. We question both the definition of "networked worker" in the survey and Sterling's perspective on it, though.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions. 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.) A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08 The first module is a “don’t drink the koolaid&# module – another words – how to identify when social media isn’t right for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2008

I met several women who told me they were considering entering the nonprofit sector and had questions about how to get started. While I was reflecting on the question, searching my distant memory of how I began working for nonprofits almost 30 years ago, The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers popped up in my RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I read an interesting post called " Jumping Off the Social Media Cliff " which raises a great question, "Are you a lemming or a base jumper?" What I mean by that is a question as to whether your organization is following others blindly into the chasm of social web participation or are planning and preperations being made first?

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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. I still own a Mac mini, which I expect will be my last Macintosh, and I won’t be upgrading that Mac mini to Leopard. Those of you who are loyal Mac users are gasping.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

First, consult the research and data available on nonprofit CEO compensation. These are important questions. And yet, approximately nine percent of nonprofit CEOs leave their organizations each year—many of them for better paying jobs, often in philanthropy or consulting. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t.

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