Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Dan Meager, director of marketing at Diablo Ballet in Walnut Creek, CA. Dan Meager ( @DiabloBallet ) used Twitter to crowdsource the first ballet. Take her specific case: marketing classical music to a generally younger audience on social media channels. Art and Social Media: Case Studies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 10, 2007

It’s an interesting strategy. It all sounds like LinkedIn wants to pull all of those people who have been migrating to Facebook back into their fold, with the idea that LinkedIn is serious about business. So, how is this relevant to nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

We thought it might be fun to share with you some TechSoup staff recommendations for apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. is a free way to listen to music, sports and news from all over the earth. Dr. Karen Coppock, VP of Strategy & Impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A year ago, I was bear-ish on Facebook, and said I wouldn’t Twitter. Now, I tell my clients that they really have to think about a Facebook strategy, and that nonprofit staff can gain a lot from networks like Twitter. A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Use the list to augment or inform your own strategy. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. You just need to show proof of membership.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’d love to chat sometime.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Jen Burton, Community Director of Causes Fundraising Focus: Facebook. Miles Orkin, National Director for Mobile and Web forAmerican Cancer Society Fundraising Focus: Mobile. RSVP today and share the word on Facebook and Twitter to invite other nonprofits to join us for this new series! The Guest Speakers for NPLive: Fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line. That’s a good thing. 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! The second part of Facebook’s advertising platform is likely not going to be used by nonprofits, for the most part, but is important to consider if Facebook is a part of your constitiuent-building or fundraising strategy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. { Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

In this new world of Twitter and Facebook, of citizen journalism and astonishing grassroots campaigns like Twestival , it’s easy to feel befuddled by the dizzying pace of change. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. Hope you'll pay us a visit and follow us on Twitter !

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Joining the chat were experts behind some memorable nonprofit videos Christina Samala , Director of Online Strategy & Media for The Story of Stuff Project ; Kirthi Nath , Media Producer and Filmmaker at Cinemagical Media ; and Mike Bonifer , co-founder and CEO of GameChangers, LLC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. IDI’s Blogger Relations has some good ideas and resources on data management – they suggest, and I agree that it is critical to managing fundraising strategy. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Mark, of Sea Change Strategies , talks about five mistakes he’s made in working with clients, includes things such as ignoring internal organizational dynamics, and getting too involved, or not involved enough. 2 trackbacks } Nonprofit Communications » Blog Archive » Learning from Your Mistakes @ the Carnival 10.09.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. After each table developed a strategy, the large teams picked one strategy each to develop a pitch around. And then the fun really started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

The judges represent the best of the best in the social media strategy, measurement, and nonprofit technology fields and include KD Paine , Geoff Livingston , and Holly Ross. . Each panelist will share a story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy and how they considered the ROI.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

What I like: I like reading Ed’s perspectives on organizations, how they work, and the kinds of strategies and approaches that are around to work within organizations. I have one note: I feel a little strange giving tips – a lot of the blogs I really like are way better than mine. But anyway … 1) Ed Batista’s blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Now what organizations need is some plain English explanation about where the intersection of strategy and these APIs are and how to make it work for their needs. They have the gold standard in API and I think it will be a long time before anyone else gets to that level.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) So what’s the right strategy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

at 10:19 am As to vlogging.cnce the strategy/outcome stuff has been addressed vis a vis vlogging and it’s a go – it’s important to look at the user agreements at the various video sharing services – particularly if owning your own content is important. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And there still are lots of newer software and services that aren’t coming out in Linux versions (for instance there does not exist a decent usable twitter client for Linux – gwitter is not very usable at all, and the others just don’t work.) 9 Brad White 08.08.08 at 10:52 am At the upfront cost, Windows Vista is $600 USD.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Oct 19 - 20. 11/11/2016.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. Create a strategy and production plan, a schedule for the topics, etc. What are your goals? Case Studies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Instead, come up with clear strategies to address the issues and tell everyone you can about your plan to emerge stronger than before. barrage of color and music, sights and sounds. She gained much of her experience while serving as the executive director of a multi-million dollar nonprofit in Denver. The toughest. Get another!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

You can also do that on Twitter. So it determines strategy as well. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. They do that with their finance because guess what, the board of directors, you know those people, they don’t care what the development numbers say.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

This is also a strategy of America’s favorite past-time–denying class consciousness, avoiding awarenss of class stratification, living a head-down passive-aggressive consumer’s existence that sublimates resentment and confusion into blogging, even thinking that this will somehow change the world. What does that tell you?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Rapidfire acquisition of smaller players so that you can wrap it up into a system of systems seems to be their strategy for now. Allan Benamer says : Obviously, Blackbaud is taking a page out of Oracle’s playbook and applying it to themselves. Blackbaud is publicly traded.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I want you to also consider, is there someone actually focused on strategy? There’s got to be somebody who is driving that strategy. Oftentimes my first time block is checking in on where I’m at because I can use music to change my mood, I can go for a quick walk before my first meeting if I know I’m not quite right.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

If you are ready to ride an epic wave of generosity with an airtight end-of-year fundraising strategy join our special guest Rachel Muir. 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. Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 This was written by. As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). I agree regarding music. Posted on at. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I’ll keep half an eye on Twitter, I suppose. Follow her on Twitter. I am a former development and marketing director. But what works best, music, humor, entertainment, surprise, relatability. It’s focused on music and video effects. We’ll keep an eye on both, I promise. We want to hear from you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

He goes into a very interesting discussion of the matrix of strategies of information production: Rights-based, Nonexclusive-market, and nonexclusive-nonmarket types of production. 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

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

services like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, text messaging, all of these made this possible. There is an interesting tension over how much of this new work one can bring inside the iron walls of the executive branch without exposing the strategy and workings of the questions, if not the final analyses themselves.

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