Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. My tip: Allow non-registered users to comment – I imagine you’d get more comments that way.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 09.21.06 Otherwise – I think it depends a lot on the mission of the organization, for sure.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 11:01 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 david 11.19.07

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APRIL 23, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free as in “Free Kittens&# April 23, 2007 Deborah Finn pointed out this good post in a blog I have never read: ALA Tech Source. She’s ahead of me since she actually reads librarian blogs. brilliant.

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. {

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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MAY 10, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. There is plenty more data available at The Chronicle of Philanthropy and I encourage you to see how your organization compares to others.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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MARCH 19, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. {

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JUNE 10, 2008

It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 at 10:43 am I think there’s a typo/error in the Clickz quote (which comes from the original).

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Anonymous 10.25.06 I like it. Anyone for "Nonprofit Reader"? Yahoo and Microsoft have Google Envy. Is this news? { This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it. But, hey, why not?

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Let me know on Twitter @SMacLaughlin what you think and use the #nptrends hash tag.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. You can get a copy of the 2010 Online Giving Report on Blackbaud.com.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07 at 6:04 pm » Blog Archive » Convio Jumps on the Open API Bandwagon 10.17.07 at 7:33 am Idealware 03.16.10

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 at 3:43 pm Hey gang I’m the product manager for Ma.gnolia, so I appreciate the comments here. Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. to Ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia seems better.

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APRIL 8, 2007

April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. But no one seems to be asking “why are we on this track in the first place?&# “Is being on this track going to really help me save the whales/feed people/organize/save the planet?&# Mitchell 04.08.07 5 Anonymous 04.14.07

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Look at what kinds of things you can do to your website, for instance, to create RSS feeds for new content, instead of thinking of starting a blog. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 I think it might be better not to start at all. Or whatever.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

For more trends and insights into how nonprofits are using the Internet, check out the new book Internet Management for Nonprofits: Strategies, Tools & Trade Secrets Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Sure, why not. Or even a social network strategy?

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JULY 14, 2008

at 12:12 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robert Fischer 07.14.08 And from now on, instead of writing some long-winded response, I’m just going to put in a link to this post. { 1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08 Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

decrease from 2007 ($83,034), after adjusting for inflation. Average total giving to religious causes dropped in 2009 to $9,985 from $17,635 in 2007, a decrease of 43.4%. Average total giving to secular causes was also down in 2009 to $46,852 from $71,200 in 2007, a decrease of 34.2%. This is a 34.9%

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

The feed is being fed like a holiday goose. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Facebook’s value is mostly derived from what it knows about its users.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Excludes donors giving $1,000 or more in 2009. Excludes donors whose state is unknown.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Excludes donors giving $1,000 or more in 2009. Excludes donors whose state is unknown.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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MAY 28, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Some articles have been downright racist, elitist, and offensive… and the comments from the masses even worse. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07

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MARCH 7, 2011

Six self-selected nonprofit organizations agreed to contribute their fundraising performance data from 2007 through 2009, including: Alzheimer’s Association, Arthritis Foundation, Autism Speaks, LIVESTRONG, March of Dimes, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Donors of all ages continue to grow their use of online channels and there’s data to prove it.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Users will be able to follow nonprofits to receive updates in their news feed and will be able to support those organizations in a variety of ways. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Seems like a big missed opportunity to me.

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