Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I n Second Life, we would like to create a virtual GlobalGiving community that features project descriptions and links, along with virtual representations and games to educate and inspire volunteers to market and raise funds for projects on globalgiving.com. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , npsl Details will be available soon!

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MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Alexis and Steve received venture capital from a company that funds projects by youth (these guys must have been all of 22). Technorati Tags: berkman , nptech , net2 Last night, I attended the Berkman Thursday Blogger Meeting which featured Alexis and Steve, Reddit Founders. Reddit is a community news service with ratings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2005

The home was named in honor of a Bob Owens and Martha Ives Owens and their two daughters who died in the Lockerbie disaster; their relatives,including little Samnang Johnson Ives donated the funds for rehabbing the home, and for the full first year's program. Technorati Tags: npblogexchange

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying I'll come with extra blank index cards. I'm sure there will be plenty of pens at the Science Fair.). NpTech Talk. " If you have project that you've been holding in your back pocket, consider adding it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

His definition: projects that are not well funded. And if you want everything, look in these spots: Technorati. is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria. David James is the only slate that uses "underdogs" as a criteria for narrowing down the choices to ten. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? Good or bad thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'd like to get some funds or a partner to do some research on this question. Technorati Tags: nptech, bloggerview, nonprofit, What if they say something we don't want them to say? Aren't ready for them to say? With that in mind, I speculate that giving up control is a big barrier. Time is also a barrier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Other pieces of that transformation include the work by grantmakers to reduce the role of programmatic silos of funding and the growing emphasis on collaboration, both between grantmakers and between grantees. Technorati Tags: nptech. I see blogging as both metaphor for a different kind of sector and one of the means to achieve it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Maybe the answer is for a single donor to step forward and fund the next half dozen issues. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , intellectualproperty , nptech { 1 trackback } Where Most Needed 04.11.07 But most engineers do, and did even in the government-funded R&D world I entered in the 80’s. I’m still using it.)

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

In fact, I'm sure most of the technorati today feel exactly that way. In the coming weeks, we'll be soliciting suggestions from the community on the content, speakers, participants, structure of the conference. Second, the conference is a fundraiser for TechSoup. NetSquared is only one of several major initiatives for us.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

The Omidyar Network has launched team-based collaborative funding projects. Technorati Tags: npfundraising is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. For example, here is a request from a second grade teacher in the Bronx who needs a digital camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

I believe the Community Information Centres project, funded by the Asia Foundation, plays an integral part in connecting provincial people to information at this beginning stage. Technorati Tags: nptech There are tremendous barriers - illiteracy, lack of electricity, etc -- how do they get people into the CICS to read the content?

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