Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running. at 1:50 pm Modx is wonderful for adaptability (especially as a web dev) and sNews – just keep watching, no instant install as yet, still young, but wow – amazing since only one really lightweight simple php file!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

If you haven't upgraded to the new Office, be sure to read TechSoup's Microsoft Office: What Your Org Should Know and visit TechSoup's Microsoft donation program. You can use the Mavenlink workspace to communicate and share documents and other files right from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project. Apps for Office.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Email our friendly blog team at: blog AT techsoupglobal DOT org. Any organization or individual can publish just about any copyrighted content under a Creative Commons license, whether that content is a book, an audio file, a video clip, software, or any other creative work. Not sure it's OK to reuse our content?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Want to learn more about what Bloomerang’s user-friendly, robust, and affordable nonprofit donor database has to offer? This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. Looking for more information about nonprofit software?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

TaxCaster by TurboTax/Intuit (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) calculates an estimate for your tax returns before you even file. Intuit GoPayment (Android, iOS) is another mobile payment option that syncs with QuickBooks so you can keep your org's finances up-to-date. This free app uses the same tax calculator as TurboTax.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Learn more about this and how to create the fundraising goal that’s right for you in our guide. Want to learn right from Melissa Benjamin and Matt Gayer about how Fiver and Catalogue For Philanthropy successfully planned and executed their respective #GivingTuesday campaigns? Aligning Year-End Giving With #GivingTuesday.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Data analytics services, including donor file audits. Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems. Executive search and leadership learning programs. Janet Cobb Consulting: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Strategic Planning for Small Orgs. Not Marc Pitman.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

You can learn what we’re all about over at nonprofit hub dot org. In this episode, you’ll learn about what a social media influencer is and how they can help your campaign. So what you want to look for is people in your email file. Today, we’re talking about influencer-driven campaigns. JEANETTE: That is a great question.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 12, 2022

You can also configure reports in three file formats to simplify your setup. Chapter Members have a central way to connect with leadership and other members and learn about upcoming events. . If you haven’t already requested the Health Dashboard be added to your org, now’s the time. Learn more. Chapter transfer .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. P ut together an all-org donor listening team—Ask for help then show the WIIFM of donor feedback via tangible examples. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Yes: The best donor retention strategies are still the ones everyone knows about.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’m a big believer in having conversations across the industry ( check out my podcast, if you haven’t already) to share honest advice about what’s working and what’s not—I feel that it’s one of the best ways for us learn and lift the fundraising profession together. Brock . Danielle .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

That's because when I started at the HSUS, I was obsessed with MySpace on a personal level, and I was challenge with the task of figuring out how the org could use it for their benefit of advocacy and fundraising. I've learned so much about MySpace and Facebook, and the people that use them. I had no idea what I was getting into.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Slack is a combination messaging/file-sharing tool intended to replace internal email and intranets. One of the hardest things for me as the director of a growing organization is learning how to lead a larger team. There's an org chart. Here are my top five: SLACK. We've used Slack to completely eliminate internal email.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. P ut together an all-org donor listening team—Ask for help then show the WIIFM of donor feedback via tangible examples. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Can you do like they do? Yes: The best donor retention strategies are still the ones everyone knows about.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 22, 2021

Considering the massive investments of both time and resources put into building effective websites and marketing campaigns, it might be concerning to learn that the average conversion rate on website visitors is 2.6% You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Staffing Recommendations.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 18, 2013

For this post, I’m talking to the organization whose Manage Users looks something like this (yes, this is from a real org I won’t mention by name): Read on and I’ll explain exactly why it’s a very bad idea, and I’ll give you some suggestions on what to do to protect your organization’s data and your sanity.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

And finally, we’ll learn from a few case studies and go over some production best practices. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily. allows you to backup the files by recording to multiple devices. Check out their postcasts: Corey: 501c3cast.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It's a pernicious culture of seeing rank-and-file staff as costs, not assets, nevermind as people. Giving staff the authority, time, and trust to experiment, fail, learn, and teach the organization is far more difficult. Staff could work anywhere in the org for a few hours a week. Collecting staff opinions is easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

If any of your readers are interested to learn more, or to sign up to the program (competely free of charge!), Yes, Freeconferencecall and open source screensharing options are good for some orgs– but sometimes “duct taping&# together different solutions ends up costing more time/money than a true integrated audio/web solution.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

Employees at your organization are using IM, Skype, social networks, and collaborative file and note sharing tools to communicate and exchange information and do their jobs. Comments, files, and links can be shared. Orgs that are split across teams or geographically could find that Chatter is the virtual water cooler they need.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Here are some of the lessons we learned: 1. In essence, what and how much data any org was willing to contribute was directly tied to how secure the process would be and how much control they had over what got shared. This is where we learned the hard way that you cannot get too specific. Did we succeed?

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2014

Adding in new elements throughout the year ensures the functionality or campaign is executed properly, gives you and your staff time to learn the new system and generally eases the burden any new toolkit places on your fundraising staff. Raising more money and increasing your file size, for example, can’t both be your #1 priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.". We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I don't have the resources to hire anyone or purchase a tool to automate a sync between Salesforce/Common Ground and Quickbooks, so it's a manual download file/upload into QuickBooks process for now. It didn't learn (if you told it that a match wasn't a dupe, it still pulled up the same match on the next global search). It was slow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Session Learning Goals. You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites. KM/Informal Learning/Business Perspective. Life was good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Here's a summary: Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and learning. experimentation and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Technorati Search Widget : If anything else, I use the search widget on my blog to retrieve posts I wrote about a while ago, but can't quite remember when or what category I filed them in. I went through the typepad collection and installed (unstalled) a lot of them because, to be honest, some did not hold promise for a nonprofit org blog.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. In fact, for you, environmental folks listening, special focus on environmental orgs. So using everything I’ve learned to spark action across Latin America and to create communities and inspire people to take action on social and environmental issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

I'm going reel off the names of some tools that I've observed you using and would love your best piece of advice or tell me a story about how you've used it in your org. All this traffic came to our brand-spanking new Everyday Environmentalist feature, which helps people learn simple ways that they can be more green. Stop: Hammer-Time!

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