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APRIL 12, 2011

If you’ve seen some other good nonprofit infographics, then leave a comment. 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. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Which are easiest to use? Which are easiest to use?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Tim Shih 04.22.08 ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. I learned a lot. at 8:35 pm Where’s your tatoo?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08 Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09 at 9:04 am Why Should Nonprofits Care About Cloud Computing?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine. I co-administered that box for a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Joomla is growing fast. which, I must say, rocks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 03.20.08 Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. at 5:38 pm I just found this very interesting blog entry about MPower , which I found via a comment on Alan Benamer’s blog. There will be penguins!!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. at 12:10 pm It doesn’t freak you out that: * Chase’s website runs on IIS? Even the big guys, with big budgets, mess up sometimes… It also means at least these guys are running windows. { Mitchell 12.16.06 Chase’s QA/QC can miss something like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). That can share my Linux desktop. That would be the holy grail. 3 Jill 01.31.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 From a developers prospective, Vista is much better than OS 10 – Microsoft even gives away basic development tools like asp.net and visual studio on their website. So what am I going to replace my current phone with? The iPod is a rip off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI ( Nonprofit Open Source Initiative ) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.) That’s a good thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? I hear that all of the “ cool chix &# use Drupal, though (Linuxchix is about to launch it’s new Drupal-based website.) Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But from my perspective, working with organizations that are sometimes having a hard time moving from a static website to a CMS, social networks in general, and twitter specifically, are a long way away. 2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 7 blogcoach 11.22.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. Websites shouldn’t. Actually, they don’t even have a website. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 Which is just fine.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)? I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This post originally written September 8, 2009. Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. Comment here, or visit the original post at SSIR here. Visit the original post here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. If you're writing an e-newsletter, you can point back to the original blog posts, which will also drive traffic back to your organization's website. Blogs can be fun!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. to Ma.gnolia.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. According to their website, they get state money to provide services to adults and children with developmental disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. If you're writing an e-newsletter, you can point back to the original blog posts, which will also drive traffic back to your organization's website. Blogs can be fun!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. Is there a way to integrate video conference capability into a Joomla website?

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

60) Search « SXSW Panels Offer Key Advice to Nonprofits | Main | GuideStar Study Says Nonprofits Need to be Transparent » Wednesday Mar 25 2009 Convio Releases Nonprofit Online Marketing Benchmarks Study Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:02PM | by Allyson Kapin Allyson Kapin, Editor-In-Chief ‘Tis the season for benchmark studies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 If a website is the hub or an organization’s activity (a big if) then does it necessarily follow that just because the masses go there the organization best serves my needs? Holly doesn’t think so, and I don’t either. { Allan assumes two points here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. Participants search for pieces on the Luce Center’s website - it has 41,000 cataloged pieces of art on its website - and suggest replacement pieces from the catalogue. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year? Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Social Networking , Web 2.0

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. You Don’t Need Just a Website, You Need the Web Designed by Derek Low | Network for Good powered by Groundspring Fundraising Track - Franciscan B Every nonprofit needs a website but a website can’t be your only Internet presence. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# Mitchell 04.08.07

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Some video I shot with my Flip : Intro to Facebook and their application builder: Why Convio’s Facebook app builder is better than Causes Share and Enjoy: 9 Comments comment A View from Home » Convio Summit. Your comment about an API being better than Causes leaves me shaking my head. Day 1. [.] Your points: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

of nonprofit organizations whose website is stuck behind a custom CMS – one that was written by some web development shop or another, and migration off of that custom CMS is going to be a nightmare. at 8:53 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin Reagler 02.19.08 February 18, 2008 This is a rant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

at 11:56 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe 11.06.08 Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article. Viewing the Author page one should be able to see Related Comments and Related Articles. Frameworks all look fantastic from their websites’ testimonials and feature list.

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