Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Am I hiring the right people? For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. I have 3 or more people (and discussion boards) I can contact at any time of the day (really!) when trouble arises to get an instant answer.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

I must say, I was thrilled to see such a huge, powerful technology coming to not only support but evangelize their myriad programs offered at no cost to nonprofit organizations. To give the audience an idea of what ads can be used for, Google shared just a few tactics adwords could help any given org do including: Solicit donors.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

What does technology in action look like? In September, we asked nonprofits and libraries to show us exactly how technology activates their organization and helps fulfill their mission. Each entry was more compelling than the next, showing us that nonprofits are putting technology in action in incredibly different ways.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2014

In a recent paper, Making the Pitch to Nonprofit Leadership: How to Convey and Sell the Need to Invest in Fundraising Technology , my colleague Danielle Johnson-Vermenton and I explored how nonprofit fundraisers can advocate for investments in online fundraising technology. You can’t do it all overnight, so where do you start ?

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) " Me too! All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) " Me too! All rights reserved.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) ” Why? Hope staff at npos find it useful.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2012

How do orgs engage with audiences who are anxious about sharing information? This panel focused on how people and orgs are using social media and tech to advocate for women's health. So often in nonprofit organizations, regardless of non-partisan regulations, it is very clear what "side" people are on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

You've been in the nonprofit technology space for a long time. My introduction to the nonprofit technology space occurred during my first year of law school in Oregon (1995). My introduction to the nonprofit technology space occurred during my first year of law school in Oregon (1995). So, I tracked him down for an interview.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Actually, you’ve been coming on since last March just to kind of give us an update on what’s going on in the grants world, which I know people have been really appreciative of. A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. And you’re always so gracious with your time and fitting us in.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Now, CRMs for nonprofits are the technological hubs that connect disparate functions and strategies into a single, unified platform. Nonprofit CRMs sit at the core of the modern nonprofit technology stack —which means this is a pretty long and in-depth article. Nonprofit CRMs have come a long way in the past 20 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. For this series, there was a guest post on the blog and a request for people to ask questions via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Subscribe to all of her stuff over at FundJoy LLC, she’s helped a lot of people raise a lot of money over the years. And that is even tentative on the response, as well as how people are feeling, you know, getting back out there. People like pictures, video over words. I know how to speak to people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. offer real-time valuable information for people affected and their families. affected people.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Without a doubt big data is one of the most talked about topics in nonprofit technology and IT in general this year. MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data.”

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Converting Fresh Leads Into Donors&# and featured Heidi Hess of Children’s Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation , with Holly Ross of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) moderating. I think this goes without saying, but you should also consider how you are acquiring these new people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) This needs to change ASAP. So speak to them.

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