Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. But I think time will tell.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. Some CRMs still don’t have openAPIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I’m someone who has, since day one, tried my damnedest (and succeeded 96% of the time) to only say by email, or put up, what I would say in a room full of people. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { I happen to be someone who has had a relatively high online presence since before the web (remember Usenet?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

First of all, while there are many choices for collaboration tools, a few simple filters will get one 90% of the way there (if you want to control the content but get some feedback, use a blog tool; if you need to develop a written product, use a wiki or Google Docs; if you want group discussions and networking, use a social network tool; etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

We also showed how organizations can tackle the process of finding the tech that helps the most when you don't necessarily have the time to research. Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. In part 2, we look at people's favorite tools.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 9, 2009

Most of the time, that’s good enough. Don’t you use AdSense, AdWords, Feedburner, Analytics, gCalendar, and Docs? Also the chance of every service failing at the same time is slim enough that it doesn’t concern me. Was it a computer issue? Was it a known problem? No way to find out. But an OS is different.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

This is true for operations teams, which often include part-time staff who don't intersect, as well as for development teams, which often involve outside contractors or remote staff. Many people use Google Docs for this, though I find the interface a bit confusing. applications (Google Docs and Google sites). Google Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. Worldometers :: worldometers.info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." It was covered by C|NET news.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks?

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