Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Back office technologies and management. Communications Makeoever: Take an organization, review their communications strategy and make it over in light of new technologies. Fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don’t know. There is no substitute for perspective of power of technology. It’s been met with fear and excitement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2011

Lately, more and more of my conversations with nonprofit fundraisers have turned to mobile technologies and how non-profits should be leveraging mobile to further their missions. As we all know, text-to-give has proven successful(ish), especially around disaster relief like last year’s Haiti earthquake. Take that, Marty McFly!

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. Technology strategy and solution implementation. We specialize in: Nonprofit technology strategy development.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rapid shelter stabilizes and supports disaster victims. The work of Nostos has also been acknowledged as a finalist for The Org Impact Awards. When rapidly rehoused after disasters, people can rebuild lives rather than remain displaced. Families like Ethel’s now have secure, quality housing.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Disaster Girl Meme ” (sold for $500k). Most concerning of all, they’re an environmental disaster. Engaging on Twitch opens your nonprofit up to a huge new audience , especially younger audiences (there is no age requirement to view Twitch, although you have to be 12+ to stream)—and many orgs have already beat you to it!

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don't know. There is no substitute for perspective of power of technology. Kari: We would be remiss to not talk about the technology a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Because the international community and media have failed to respond to this environmental disaster, they are bringing the campaign to the Social Web. Unfortunately, the journalists on the field are still using pen and paper technology which explains why there are not a lot of videos about Guimaras.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Without a doubt big data is one of the most talked about topics in nonprofit technology and IT in general this year. MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. general disaster-interested public. . Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. set audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

Our world – politically, economically, socially, technologically – is changing before our eyes. Vast, ongoing changes to economies, patterns of work and lifestyles, brought about by technology. It also marked one of the first instances of episodic giving shifting from disaster fundraising to supporting a social change movement.

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