Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference is fast approaching. Many of you are probably starting to book your hotel and travel. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Nonprofit Seminar at the 2012 NTC. How do search engines make decisions about what results show up and how they are ranked? >> Looking for a ride?

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MAY 6, 2021

Technology Goes Mainstream. Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D. At the time, search engines, which were not widely used, provided results based on how many times a search term appeared on a page. . students at Stanford University.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book. The rise of social media and mobile technology has changed the way people process information.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Today nearly 75 million sites are constructed and managed on the WordPress platform—which first debuted in 2011—and there are some very good reasons why. An Open Book. And, as that Holy Grail of the Internet—Google—has said in recent months, WordPress sites are nearly 100 percent search engine optimization (SEO) friendly.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Digital marketing is essential for reaching new customers, raising brand awareness, and maintaining sustainable growth in the modern age of technology. The higher your business ranks in the search results, the more likely people are to visit your website and invest in your services. Follow SEO best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

I have been reading Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at NYU. The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. According to Rosen, we check our phones to reduce anxiety.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 30, 2017

Is it the visual appeal of the site itself? Here are some tips that should be taken to heart when crafting a winning WordPress blog site. Remember that you want visitors to focus on the words, and a junked-up and cluttered site is a big turn off, especially in respect to sidebars. But what makes one blog better than the next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a hypertext brain.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With each passing year, new generations of students are utilizing mobile-first features when interacting with technology. Taking advantage of the flexible support staff availability features from previous releases, these options can now provide maximum impact by providing more booking options to students. Admissions Connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

No matter the technology, the process of capturing and sharing a good story quickly is the same. Here’s some thoughts: From Nancy Duarte's new book, resonate. What I have found extremely useful is Nancy Duarte’s new book, resonate: present visual stories that transform audiences.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Below is my 4th annual list of Favorite Do-Good Books (in alphabetical order). You can also check out my lists from past years: Favorite Do-Good Books of 2007 Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006 Favorite Do-Good Books of 2005 1. PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The need to have a Google account will come up many times in your social media and mobile technology campaigns. Fill out a query to search “everything” for your nonprofit’s name and acronym.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Julia is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits and has a new book coming out this fall on nonprofit social media strategies. It is his mission to help clients transform their data into strategy and provide an integrated approach that blends creativity with technological sophistication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.04.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), What is public?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

use apps and mobile technology. And these technologies can help patrons engage with library (and other) collections in new ways. African-American history mobile tour uses GPS technology to pinpoint historically relevant campus sites nearby. Arts organizations are using mobile technology to help people find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into your practice? I've been doing a small research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Aliza Sherman, has written a book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing and you drop everything and buy it now. We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Click to Purchase Your Copy Now! Measuring Input.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. I doubt you’ll look back. {

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

You may direct them to your ticketing site, but even that will need to be housed somewhere. . You can link landing pages to blog content and optimize it for search engines as another form of drawing in registered attendees. Sometimes, technology causes problems, and event technology is no exception. Customer Support.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2021

You may direct them to your ticketing site, but even that will need to be housed somewhere. . You can link landing pages to blog content and optimize it for search engines as another form of drawing in registered attendees. Sometimes, technology causes problems, and event technology is no exception. Customer Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Our technology partners at Razoo.com powered all of this. Other (search engines/news sites/etc.) = 31,128. 17 percent said they preferred to give through a third party site like GiveMN.org, however 97.1 We can credit much of this success to the principles outlined in Beth and Allison’s book. Facebook = 21,865.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! In other words, people are now relying on their friends to recommend them content more often than searching for it themselves.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The SIM card stores phone numbers from your address book and text messages and other data. Your cell phone will contain a SIM card if you use a wireless carrier that uses (GSM) technology, such as T-Mobile or AT&T. Resetcellphone.com is another one-stop site for cellphone reset instructions.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

More and more, nonprofits rely on technology to fulfill our missions. We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. The issue is starting to get some much-needed attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth. Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0:

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Much has changed with regard to fundraising and “friendraising” during the 12 years I have been a professional fundraiser, the most obvious being the use of technology. How do you determine which technology, or set of technologies, will be best suited to your organization? 1,310. Via Google Search, content, and banners.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. Microsoft has a mountain of great and easy-to-use resources available at their Safer Online site. Adopt an Acceptable Use Policy and Train Staff on It! Learn More.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Searching for prospects? The tool works with any web page as well as with most social media sites. npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros is a free e-book written by a group of nonprofit experts. Learn how to make your fundraising efforts go mobile in Engaging Constituents Using Mobile Technology article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. The Museum Computer Network (MCN) is hosting the site, but all the work was done by volunteers. But fear no longer!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 by years: customer support forums. In the museum world, the questions are less clear.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

A food-related event usually entails a few individuals sitting around and eating a meal served on-site at the location. Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people.

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