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APRIL 20, 2022

Use the Internet to spread your message. Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data. For any advocacy campaign, you’ll want to first look at your current team members and contacts stored in your database. Use the Internet to spread your message.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Internet gets the boot October 31, 2007 Finally, I have real broadband. We moved last weekend to a town that has actual real cable high speed internet.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

This connectivity has allowed patrons to access the internet when they needed it most over the past year. A 2010 study by the American Library Association found that libraries were crucial during the economic recession, offering valuable job-seeking technology, training, and resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

So first, what is data portability? Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. In addition, they are portable – you can move your data from place to place. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

posted by Victoria Michelson Communications Specialist Wild Apricot Nonprofits are organized around data. Not all data is created equal, however. This is the explanation behind many organizations’ resistance to data collection and management, which is seen as an investment of time and resources that yields little or no return.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . 21 st Century Data Breaches. The 21 st Century seems to be full of data breaches on everything from banking information to sensitive passwords and social media accounts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ These initiatives may be focused on company operations (such as hiring practices, implicit bias trainings, supply chain diversification) or they may be more externally-focused philanthropic commitments, most commonly in the form of donations to nonprofit organizations.[ billion dollars.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Tim O’Reilly has a bang-on post about the fact that OpenSocial does not mean that users can have data portability. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" Almost every nonprofit does some kind of data collection, whether it's through accepting donations, gathering survey data, or simply registering people for a newsletter. Therefore, your constituents should have a clear understanding of how you plan to use their personal data. Educate Your Constituents.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

" Almost every nonprofit does some kind of data collection, whether it's through accepting donations, gathering survey data, or simply registering people for a newsletter. Therefore, your constituents should have a clear understanding of how you plan to use their personal data.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 12, 2021

How will your organization promote, recruit, register, train, communicate with, and engage virtual volunteers ? Volunteer management software can be used to recruit, manage, and engage virtual volunteers and data can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. Finally, training is key when recruiting virtual volunteers.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the internet saturated with different content and experiences, how can you ensure that your own volunteer opportunities reach the right people and inspire them to participate? This way, all of your important data is centralized in one place, allowing any of your tools to add to or pull from it. Take your training online.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Attacks aimed at taking over networked systems, gathering data or both are a constant reality. If your organization has a website, a computer, a phone or tablet connected to the internet, you are vulnerable. Any data is valuable, any access is able to be exploited for some type of gain. For almost two weeks.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

She has worked in healthcare, politics and government, and technology for more than 20 years and appreciates working with nonprofit fundraisers and philanthropy consultants who use NOZA philanthropy data every day. And a great place to start is NOZAsearch.com , the world’s largest searchable database of charitable donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

Depending on what kind of data you handle—student data, medical data, and so on—security is likely a key part of your work. Since you can’t secure your BYOD workplace when you don’t know what your priorities are, the first step is figuring out what data you absolutely must protect.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2017

In the simplest terms, AI is the part of computing that not only collects information from us and from the Internet, but also learns from what it stores. More and more, AI likes to figure out our preferences for using data and to serve it up to us in a convenient way. AI in Our Everyday Lives.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Editor's note: the Internet Society's tips are useful for all of us as individual consumers. If your organization offers tech or other basic skills training, these are also great tips to share with the communities you serve. Here are 10 tips that can help from the Internet Society ! Find and Use Online Privacy Tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet. Make sure access is secure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

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

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

As a volunteer center, it is important that your volunteer data is organized, up-to-date, and easily accessible. Using VolunteerHub, reports and records can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. This hour tracking functionality can save your volunteer center time and increase data reliability. Engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Is this a bad thing? Myspace is going with OpenID ! More on that in a later post. { 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

JUNE 17, 2008

It has the kind of functionality you’d expect from a donor database. Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. It seems in a business sense, to be a brilliant move.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go. 1 trackback } Boy in the Bands » Blog Archive » Because the power of the Internet increases as people get connected. Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.&# For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible. Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Using Citrix Online products, you can conduct online meetings, trainings, and video conferences. Need to conduct online meetings, trainings, or webinars? Online Training for Smaller Groups. GoToTraining allows up to 25 users and a host to conduct training sessions online and over the phone. Citrix Online Web Conferencing.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. Grant proposals benefit from showing an organization's IT sophistication, particularly in collecting data on outcomes of a grant in some depth. Please log in and tell us.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

I think this is data we need to know, so that we can understand better what gaps are preset, and what we can do to fill those gaps. Please take it no matter what the level of use of open source software is in your organization – data on as wide a range of organizations will be helpful to us.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2007

The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge. March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2008

We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data.” Basically, it seems the motivation is that open systems allow them to upgrade their capabilities rapidly, and they need to be able to share data freely. “The days of proprietary technology must come to an end,” he said. “We This could be a watershed moment.

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