Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. There’s a poll on mashable.com , where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? 2 admin 01.04.08 at 8:10 pm Agreed, totally!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Joining the chat were experts behind some memorable nonprofit videos Christina Samala , Director of Online Strategy & Media for The Story of Stuff Project ; Kirthi Nath , Media Producer and Filmmaker at Cinemagical Media ; and Mike Bonifer , co-founder and CEO of GameChangers, LLC. Share Your Concept with Stakeholders.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 Have you experienced the same?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

This method is great for its ease of use and immediacy but will not allow you to add any sound effects, music, or cut in other voices and input. Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. For sound effects, check out the Freesound Project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

The video streaming market is projected to hit $184.3 Use a script to communicate with your audience . This is great news for nonprofits with tight budgets or small teams seeing as though polished brand advertisements can involve professional lighting, sets, script writers, and more. . Experiment with long-form video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. Everyone is a Curator.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

By now you probably know data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) shows the average nonprofit in the U.S. You can even add music. These folks may actually prefer a text thank you over an emailed one (which may take them a week to open). Begin by making donor retention a priority. It’s not a sales piece.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. I don't see Second Life as the meat of this project.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Unfortunately, the most recent trend, which I have experienced all too much (and I’m sure you all have too), is to simply follow a script with the person who needs support. It opens additional doors. Providers have many different ways of handling that challenge. 2 cheryl 04.26.07 Be Helpful.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So you’re going to need to send several in order to get through, and you’re going to need a really good job writing really compelling subject lines to get them to open it. They only read the ones that speak to them with compelling subject lines that they want to open. This is the reality of end-of-year. And who knows.

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