Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. Debian comes to the rescue. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

My 12-person nonprofit, National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis, began work on a Office 365 implementation in mid-April last year, and by late-May our email migration was complete. I found out at the NTC Conference that nonprofits can mix and match Office 365 E1 and E3 licensing. How We Got Started.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

From the TechSoup vault: Eight Tools to Keep Your Team Connected and A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. Susan examines strategies for using Facebook as a part of your nonprofit's communications strategy. Kevin points out that presentations from NTC are now available online. TechSoup Blog. read more.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

You have until Friday, June 8, to file comments online at the FCC website. If you're looking for more info on how this issue affects the nonprofit sector, check out the what emerged from the Affinity Group on The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The Obama Stimulus Package) and Nonprofits at the 2009 NTC hosted by Sheldon Mains.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The crux of his post: nonprofit organizations haven’t bothered to “to show up in a big way” in new marketing and communications efforts – namely social media from fear of change. Beth followed up on this with “ Seth Godin’s post on nonprofits: Deer in the Headlights ?” via @ ehrenfoss.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

The first full day of NTC 09 kicked off with a special dance (mad props to @ntenhross ), a great keynote and a session full of Google representatives spreading the (free!) The session covered four different programs Google offers at no cost to the nonprofit community. YouTube Nonprofit Program. Google AdWords.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it’s a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). And each of us explained it a little differently.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

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. Want one that recrods to mp3 or wav files (will be sending mp3 out for production eventually). File size - length depends on the format of your show.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At this perhaps unexpected career turn, how do you become a bona-fide Nonprofit Techie? Teaching Your Co-Workers : Are you the only one who uploads files to your server? As a nonprofit techie, you need to know what tools are available, what strategies work best, and what's coming next. What training is required? Daily Reading.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Would it be advisable to incorporate as a nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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