Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

It might be interesting. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. It might be interesting. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NetWits

JULY 28, 2010

On May 18th, 2007 at 5:18pm I tweeted for the first time, saying "@Ruby. I was at the 2007 Personal Democracy Forum , and if memory serves correctly, I was replying to a general question another attendee, Ruby Sinreich, was asking of other attendees. I vote teleporting."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 30, 2011

Similar to Myspace and Facebook in 2007 and 2008, there’s seemingly a geographic difference between Foursquare and Gowalla users. Gowalla may not get the online buzz that Foursquare does, but where I live it’s more popular than Foursquare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. 4) Maturation of Mobile Fundraising Apps. Some were ahead of their time and others lacked the design and functionality necessary to hook smartphone users. 5) Increased Employment Opportunities in New Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. There is a good reason Time Magazine named the iPhone the Invention of the Year in 2007 and that 87% of smartphone consumers in the United States chose the iPhone. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. I am going to have to stop using Chrome. 2 film fan 09.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

I know some folks are holding out for an Android phone, which, from what I can tell, are going to be pretty similar. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

These are the best numbers we’ve seen since the beginning of the Great Recession in late December 2007. The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales this year will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion and that online shopping will jump a whopping 12 percent to $96 billion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Notice the larger jump in giving in 2007? Facebook Fan Pages were launched late in 2006 and grew by the millions in the nonprofit sector throughout 2007 to the present. But if they were strategic, they also used it to build their e-newsletter lists and drive traffic to their Donate Now pages. Guess what happened that year?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). 25 median donation amount. 35,000 causes have received at least one donation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Mobile lists are hard to build and most new subscribers come from pitches in e-Newsletters. Pitches in Tweets and Status Updates help too. Online Donations. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

Yet there are organizations like LIVESTRONG, the Humane Society of the United States, Care2, Wiser Earth, the American Red Cross, charity: water and others that have been successful with social year for successive years dating back to 2007 if not earlier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

Since since September 2007 when I started to use analytics, there have been 151,000 ish unique page views, and 106,000ish unique visitors. I hope I was at least a little helpful. Those are enough for me. For the curious (well, OK, it was mostly me who was curious): There are 409 posts and 922 comments. The home page.

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NetWits

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, you might have heard the cry (I sure did!) In 2007 we answered the call and added the Connect API to the Sphere platform. from many nonprofit tech folks about the “ integration proclamation ” asking vendors to “open up” their systems to allow for free exchange of data stored in the system.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 25, 2009

Compared to 2007, results for online fundraising were up 14 percent, email file growth was up 28 percent, and Web site traffic was up 20 percent. in 2007 and 2008. The study reports: Positive year-over-year growth in all of the key areas of online success.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

This was a two percent drop in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation) compared to 2007’s $314.07 percent compared with 2007 estimates (-6.3 Taking inflation into account, U.S. giving was down 5.7 percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956. percent adjusted for inflation).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In September 2007, the U.S. We have the technological innovations to help these children and their families and educators, who are looking for strategies to aid their success. Yet, we are still far from where we need to be in order to give them equal opportunity to succeed in school and beyond.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. I just didn’t see how a Facebook Group could ever compare to a MySpace profile in terms of power and ROI (Return on Investment). It was then that I had to make an important decision. Stay loyal to MySpace or expand and embrace something new.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The National Philanthropic Trust began tracking donor-advised fund data in 2007. The data file includes records from 1,293 DAF sponsors which operated during at least some of the period since 2007. The report is based on data collected during 2024 about DAFs and their charitable sponsors in fiscal year 2023.

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Let’s turn back time and gain learnings from the Great Recession of 2007 as a reference for […]. Serving your mission during a recession can be tricky without proper preparation. Looking back helps us all plan ahead.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And experts aren’t bullish, since the United States has seen a steep drop in birth rates since 2007 leading to fewer high school graduates. International enrollments are also down in the wake of COVID, dropping more than 11 percent since 2019 according to US News and World Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

5 Myths about Online Giving 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Recent Posts 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report Blackbaud Index for March 2011 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 (..)

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

She had already found my post on the Ingredients of a High Performing Advancement Services Shop , my discussion summary, Top Issues Affecting Advancement Services (which led to an article in the October 2007 issue of CASE Currents called "Going Fourth: What every fundraiser should know about advancement services" by Jennifer Salopek), and the (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 3, 2009

million in 2007). The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 million compared to $33.19 read more.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. By a very wide margin. images/location). This is key: preview for the leading email clients.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? The least?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 29, 2009

A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 9, 2009

Things haven't improved much since Care2 published their 2007 analysis, The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes. A recent survey published by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort had a similar conclusion: Only 39 percent of respondents said they've raised money on Facebook. percent said they had raised over $10,000.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2011

Only 11% of online donors acquired in 2007 were still giving in 2010. This is offset by larger long-term value trends for online donors, but retention rates are a serious issue that nonprofits need to focus on improving. Online donors continue to switch channels and become offline donors.

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