Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 29, 2010

There’s no need to think your initial R&D phase would take a year – not when you have 48 hours of tweets, blog posts, and comments from people working in the development field from around the world weighing in on your idea, in real time and for free. The call is expected to be lively but respectful. Please join!

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Network Case Study Africa Phase 126

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

"The first phase of this database of nonprofit collaboration models (currently consisting of the 176 nominations deemed eligible for The Collaboration Prize in 2008) contains the information submitted by each nominator in response to specific questions about the nominated collaboration. Check it out!

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Web ROI Bookmarking Phase 108

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2009

I spent a big chunk of my day dealing with a project that is, in no uncertain terms, a trainwreck. The client has sunk a ton of money into a product which is in, its current (first phase supposedly finished) state, unusable (client and vendor shall remain unnamed.) Tags: Nonprofit Tech Software agile Development nptech web.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2009

I spent a big chunk of my day dealing with a project that is, in no uncertain terms, a trainwreck. The client has sunk a ton of money into a product which is in, its current (first phase supposedly finished) state, unusable (client and vendor shall remain unnamed.) Tags: Nonprofit Tech Software agile Development nptech web.

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Phase Develop Project Process 100

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trello — Top Fundraising App for Project Management Nonprofits are frequently planning projects. Whether it’s a fundraising campaign or a project funded by fundraising dollars, you need to stay organized. Trello is a project management system that helps provide a visual representation of each stage of the project’s process.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We will cover each phase in the grant writing and submission process: 1. Develop the Grant Project 4. Tags: Finances Fundraising Grant-Management Databases Grants for Technology Reporting Running Your Organization. Focus on Organization Priorities 3. Research Funders and Find Appropriate Grants 5. Write the Grant Proposal 6.

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Grant Phase Proposal Database 43

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. Tags: accessibility X-Prize NPII awards Obama TRACE clearinghouse Vanderheiden FCC.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

I don't think so, and I think that such projects express a misunderstanding of collective intelligence. Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design.

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Training Train San Jose Wiki 78

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Discuss the project with your board.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

When you've thought through the benefits, obstacles, audiences, and timing for an online collaboration community project, you will need to determine how to deploy it. This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Evaluate and select an enterprise solution.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Forum One

JULY 26, 2010

For any grant project, not all weeks (or months) are created equal. Securing funding, kicking off a project, running the project, evaluating progress, and following up: at each step in the program lifecycle, grantees have different needs. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Is a grantee ready to participate?

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Collaboration Time Synchronous Influence 47

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2007

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the question of whether or not it is useful to create project-specific blogs for big museum initiatives during the development phase. For two years, I’ve been working on the same project at the Spy Museum. Why not create a blog with weekly (or so) informal posts about the growth of the project?

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Project Develop Museum Reflection 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

At this phase in the evolution of hip-hop, artists were still explaining to listeners WHY they were picking up a microphone - meaning, they were trying to tell us about themselves.about their organization, and what they were trying to accomplish. Tags: guest blogging nten social media socialmarketing storytelling.

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Chad Storytelling Lesson Artist 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Tags: ROI. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Building Movement Project. The 5 Phases of a Movement by Brian Reich of Thinking About Media. You should also check out the Building a Movement Project. Tags: movement building. Creating Movements by by Geoff Livingston of The Buzz Bin. Social Movements 2.0 by Vanessa. They help Nonprofits!!

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Resource Build Brain Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Technology for Communities project. The Technology for Communities project was started off by Nancy, John, and Etienne. Projects – interrelated tasks with specific outcomes or products (i.e. Tags: online communities. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. monthly topic calls). access to subject matter experts).

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Digital Community Technology Wiki 50

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The best approach when creating content for an online fundraising appeal is to envision the whole project as a campaign. For some campaigns, the theme can be as short as a tag line, like “serving hope.” Start talking about these early in the planning phase so you know exactly how you will weave them into your campaign.

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Fundraising Gift Audience Story 44

NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In March of 2010, the Mecklenburg County manager advised library leaders that we should plan for a 50% reduction in our operating budget due to a drastic reduction in taxable revenues throughout the county; projecting an $85million shortfall. After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building.

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Charlotte Library Social Media Communication 89

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Practice Nonprofit Avatar Social Media 363

Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

There are three parts: the institution or initiative's content and audience goals, the institution's assets, and the project concept that will match goals to resources in an achievable way. These questions should help you define a reasonable scope for the project and hone in on some tactics that may be more appropriate than others.

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Social Media Develop Media Museum 43

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. We're still in the additive phase of making museums equitable. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I used the tag #packnet and asked for the "Poor Man Dummies Guide to Social Network Analysis and Mapping Tools." Vladis Krebs and other Twitter users pointed to some great resources which are listed below along with others that I discovered. Tags: network effectiveness. builds network as it needs it.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2007

Exhibits, like casual games, strive for a neglible learning phase to precede user action. Plus, the fact that you wait in line to play creates a natural voyeuristic preparation phase in which you watch others play and plan your own strategy. Projects game. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 Buying a ticket.

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Game Museum Phase Skills 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. People take the ideas and start to do things with the idea – this phase is crucial in a new paradigm. Deepak Sahasrabudhe, Project lead . .

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Story Action Model Adopt 79

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

To get the most out of a modern site, however, you need to have a different kind of project management approach. Other things have changed with the technology, such as maintaining flexibility throughout the project. Getting these things matched up correctly can make all the difference in managing a successful web project. .

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Project Management Websites Technology 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). Not everyone is.) Anyway, you can use explorer to look through your hard drive or download a tool called Picasa.

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PDF Blogger Typepad Images 50

Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

To ensure fair and just treatment of farmers and workers across the world, Dr. Bronner’s continues to offer education initiatives and create fair trade projects to support their mission. Each product is 100% biodegradable, and 33% of all profits go to social and ecological projects. Levi Strauss works alongside Cotton Inc.’s

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Companies Social Product Children 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The reviewer, madhatter, wrote: This project ran its course two books ago. Frank Warren had a charming and intriguing concept when starting his PostSecret project. … In some way, PostSecret has morphed into something of a parody of itself.less an intimate human project and more a corporate product.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 24, 2009

This is Phase 1 and only affects the home page--most links take you to pages on the old site, with a the old design and the old navigation. While these upgrades should improve your experience on the site, the phased approach also has its challenges. Here's to Phase 2. Tags: Nonprofit Technology TechSoup. registered users.

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Site Design Phase FAQ 148

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial.

Museum 24

Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

When it comes to authoring original eLearning courses for your association’s members, there are generally two paths forward: Purchase course authoring software and tackle the project internally. For more robust courses, it’s likely that the scale of the project outpaces the expertise of your team. Format conversion tools.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

We know this well, as thousands of nonprofits and social good projects have used CauseVox’s digital fundraising platform to raise millions online, especially through virtual fundraising events in the last year. Fundraise for a specific project. Fundraise for a specific project. Host a social media challenge.

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Ideas Raise Design Fundraising 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Here is how I would approach it: The Five Phases Online movements are successful because they marry the right set of opportunities for engagement with a level of awareness and passion among the target audience. The concept of moving in phases is not new. Tags: facebook guest blogging. Let’s review: Its not about the technology.

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Facebook Causes Challenge Communication 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

According to the web site , the event will unfold in three phases: Phase one: Launch the homepage with a list of cities which have already registered. Phase two: All of the cities should be linked up to the homepage. Phase two: All of the cities should be linked up to the homepage. What do you think?

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Twitter Raise Money Phase 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

The trick in any great social project – from the global fight against AIDS to working to eradicate poverty in a single Canadian city – is to stop looking at the discrete elements and start trying to understand the complex relationships between them. The framework assumes that networks can move up or down through these phases.

Social Media 90

Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

We have gone through a few key phases in the first year, from working hard for nine months to build our first 10,000 connections and then being placed on the Twitter Suggested Users list and racing to the more than 300,000 we now have. Tags: twitter.

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Twitter South America North America Conversation 95