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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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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. That, of course, can spread virally. Well, it depends.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Google already knows enough about me (it reads my mail, my feeds, my search history, and a few shared documents, to boot,) I’m certainly not going to add virtually everything else I do (the percent of things I do using a protocol other than http(s) is dwindling by the second.) I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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JULY 15, 2007

July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! The feed should stay the same. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { copied over.

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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. All Rights Reserved

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. I’m starting to make a concerted effort to keep up, though.

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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. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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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. Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful. How many nonprofits really need to have a blog? Anyway, I’ll have more to say about Web 2.0

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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. at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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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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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. Sorry about the wonky RSS feed; I haven’t figured out how to fix it yet.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 For open source, that translates into 10-15 hours of a consultant’s time- less than 2 days- where a vendor can provide unlimited support for an entire year. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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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.) It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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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. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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APRIL 12, 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. Let’s help share information about what’s happening across the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) I like it. Is this news? {

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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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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%. consulted accountants, 40.8%

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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? 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 Should the communications person use twitter to connect with other nonprofit communications professionals? Sure, why not.

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JULY 13, 2011

As a technology trainer, capacity builder, and consultant working with nonprofits, I always ask the fishing question, especially since I work in the area of emerging technologies that often falls prey to Shiny Object Syndrome — ( Google + anyone? How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

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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. I think it might be better not to start at all. But it does require a lot of thought. Look at what organizations like yours are doing.

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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. All Rights Reserved

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article!

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JULY 14, 2008

One thing I note, however, is that proprietary software seems to require roughly the same amount of geek to install and maintain — and it’s very possible you’ll hit problems that you simply can’t solve without feeding up the proprietary food chain. Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork. Problem solved.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

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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. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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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. All Rights Reserved

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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. All Rights Reserved

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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. The article also noted that 68% of marketers said they had no plans to target men because of their perceived indifference and the greater importance of causes to women.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

While it may be ideal to have a fully integrated setup, a good stepping stone is one that feeds data directly to the CRM but appears to use the same CMS as the rest of the site. I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. .&# 8 Judi Sohn 01.22.09

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JUNE 2, 2011

Here’s the first one with many more coming in the future… 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica , a social enterprise that provides superior communication consulting, training, and strategy to help mindful organizations affect social change. region for more than 17 years. All Rights Reserved

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MARCH 18, 2011

Look for more updates the next few days from NTC… 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. All Rights Reserved

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MAY 31, 2011

Only 11% of online donors acquired in 2007 were still giving in 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. Online donors continue to switch channels and become offline donors. All Rights Reserved

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