Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users. If you want to optimize your modern fundraising strategy, you have to meet your supporters where they already are— on the internet. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know.

Virtual 69

Virtual Ideas Guide Fundraising 69

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

Bhutan 100

Bhutan Learning Open Source Open 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

Consultant 111

Consultant Open Source Database Tech 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

We were talking about whether or not this certain nonprofit, who had mondo resources, should help facilitate web development for their client organizations. They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit.

Open Source 100

Open Source Captivate Collaboration Technorati 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

Consultant 100

Consultant Life Technology Open Source 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet.

Romania 50

Romania Foundation Web Sponsor 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software. I attended a session about OS Online Communities facilitated by the Joomla!

Generation 50

Generation Open Source Reflection Facilitation 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. Adding a new printer is facilitated by a few different things hplip, cups, ghostscript, and gutenprint/gimpprint. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Software Laptop 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# This was in the solidly web 1.0 This was in the solidly web 1.0 In what ways have they not?

Summary 100

Summary Consultant NTC Technology 100

Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. The new venue is just the internet! As mentioned earlier, there are two mobile bidding types—web-based and app-based.

Virtual 52

Virtual Software Fundraising Registration 52

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But how will you facilitate those gifts? Give your registrants a great experience by taking time to think through how it will work! Fundraising Support Your fundraising gala will (hopefully) result in gifts from the people who attend. The people who attend your event will want to support you in a few different ways.

Question 52

Question Fundraising Registration Sponsor 52

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Rose, your face is permanently frozen that way because people will shock you on the internet. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. Oh, my gosh.

Management 92

Management Work Video Slides 92

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support.

Teach 100

Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Where traditional social networking is about connecting individuals, Crabgrass is social networking to facilitate network organizing. In particular, we aim to help groups to communicate securely, network with other groups, and make decisions in a way that is easy to understand, transparent, and directly democratic.

Social Network 100

Social Network System Network Management 100