Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Bay Area residents and music fans everywhere are familiar with the Bridge School Benefit concert, an annual, star-studded charity event organized by musician Neil Young. TechSoup was thrilled to have the Bridge School director, Dr. Vicki Casella, as a guest speaker for its SharingSoup program.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International. Our mainstage will feature celebrity speakers, musical performances, and more. s performance on our global mainstage to connect our worldwide attendees through the power of music. Jon Townsend, Chief Information Officer, National Trust.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. I also had the great opportunity to have Taylor Cote (VP of Marketing) step in once the fellowship was extended by 8 weeks to mentor me in different avenues.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. If your organization has constituent communications segregated through different departments (e.g., What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. 10 Ways to Keep Black People and Their Allies Out of Jail. Tips for Safely Bringing Home a Rescue Dog. Arts and culture. Environmental.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” Alexander Hamilton sings about who he and America are meant to be. For example: If you work in the education sector , you could offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students. And the outside world, including the board of directors, loved it. . Dream bigger. . Take your best shot. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. In other words, philanthropy means the love of mankind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

There’s nothing else like this on the Web for nonprofits, social change organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educators. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN. Lasica , a consultant and author of four books about emerging technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. One drawback is that the syntax of Dokuwiki is different than MediaWiki, and so the more I use it, the more I forget when I use MediaWiki. The one feature that makes my day: draft autosave!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. If you represent an educational or social justice charity, maybe giveaway specialty decks of cards featuring important people from history. Mentions at different times and places during any festivals you host.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. I had not planned to work in the nonprofit sector. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. MBWML also holds an annual Court Day Festival, which provides a full "living history day" of reenactments, music, storytelling, demonstrations, and more. Small Staff, Big Impact.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Nonprofit Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye. Lots of wonderful folks, should be great panels.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

As an Executive Director who tries to collaborate as often as possible, I know the stumbling blocks only too well, but we can all take some small steps to do some small sharing, and start to transform our sector's culture. It's an extra step that could mean the difference between making the donation, or not. She offered to share.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And none of these have the same syntax – they are similar, but slightly different. Different enough to drive me crazy. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

For a laugh, put different donation amounts in the eggs that kids are finding. The arts education nonprofit Art in Action does this annually for their Object:Art benefit, using Greater Giving to enable a fun online auction in the lead up to their big event. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. I’d recommend it to anyone. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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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. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? Right, right, right.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. We discussed the challenges and opportunities around codifying an online request code, what role mobile must play, the needs for increased capacity and public education. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Michael Stein talks about three different kinds of mistakes that one can make in technology consulting, including some errors of process, and the “Hot Dog&# syndrome. A great read for anyone who does development for clients. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Anyway, they were looking for a different article – one that was more about the advantages of FOSS, not about the broad category of free (as in beer) and low cost software, which includes FOSS, proprietary, and SaaS. at 4:01 pm I think there’s also some difficulty with different parts of the audience being at different places.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

I think the time has come to think differently. No matter the seeming outcome, know that you have made a difference in the life of at least one person. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Maribeth 07.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

So in comes IPv6, a different kind of addressing protocol. It allowed for 4,294,967,296 addresses. Which, on one hand, seems like a lot, but it’s not, when every cell phone, PC, router, cable set top box and toaster has one. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. They are worth a read. {

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Towards that vision, they are creating a networked community of cultural entrepreneurs, cultural investors, and cultural entrepreneurship educators. In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. I couldn’t figure out whether the project was dead or not. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 at 3:45 am I don’t like the way Basecamp is set up. Check it out [link]. It’s commercial, but it’s just $5 per month, so I don’t regret the money I send. 3 Dustin J.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference! Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 at 10:00 am Free. brilliant. 2 Clint Young 05.11.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Philadelphia, PA/ $410. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / $250. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Nonprofit Management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

And if you’ve been used to the Photoshop workflow, it will take a lot to get used to the very different GIMP workflow. If you’re a geek, you are used to getting to know new UIs, and putting up controls that are difficult to understand or get used to. But if you’re not a geek, GIMPs UI is a major hurdle.

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