ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Do not overburden disabled individuals with requests for free labor, however, and hire accessibility consultants when possible. Plain language consultants and strategists are available and should be utilized when possible. Update and maintain websites and social media profiles. Respect self-identifying language.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 19, 2024

Online or digital fundraising is the process or means of raising money through the internet. Give Lively was founded by people with a passion for social good who saw the need for an internet-based method of raising funds that didn’t require offline contributions. This fundraising is usually done via a donations page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It still requires the hardware and operating systems, and databases that more traditional applications that are inside your network require, but, generally, you hand off that responsibility to the folks that host your application, and access the application through the internet.

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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

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

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2006

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. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. 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 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

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

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

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Client-(pc-only) server?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

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. What Apple did do correctly is allow users to submit their own podcast and homemade music on the itunes website. The iPod is a rip off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

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). But I guess it might be useful for some. 3 Jill 01.31.08 at 7:41 pm A couple of interesting things about Yugma. I’ve used that alot. Give it a try.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton. has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM! While KaBOOM!

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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.) I hear Joomla is dead easy to install, and I need dead easy right now, so let’s try it. Well, guess what?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The bottom line: We've consulted with cryptographers and studied the Martus code, and we do not believe that there is a weakness affecting Martus users. If one of the pair is used to encrypt a message, a website, or a Martus bulletin, the other key can be used to decrypt it. Acknowledgements What exactly is the problem?

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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. It’s not so much about depth and breadth, although that certainly can be a part of it.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. According to the mobile vendor mGive’s website, “New shortcodes are leased through the Common Short Code Administration. Planned Parenthood had success using the tool for a thank-you call to President Obama in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

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. mathew [link] 2 admin 01.15.09 at 12:43 pm Just wait for my follow up posts!

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that endeavor, designed for the age of the Internet. It was launched in 2009, and as of May 2015, it contains 83,000+ recordings. Note: the author of this post is not trained as a lawyer, so if you need expert advice, please consult one. How to Find the Best Music for Your Project.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. { 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

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? Certain organizations will, if they have not already, use the internet for this purpose. Allan assumes two points here. In many cases this may happen.

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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.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2009

In just 2 days, we'll be opening up the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference with the Science Fair ! Alternative Technologies : "The Doctor Is IN": Alternative Technologies will have a Senior Network Consultant at their Science Fair booth, available to answer any technical questions you want to pose. This is a $60 value.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

in fact, cutting and pasting from their website they offer: * Two-way audio * Interactive whiteboard * Direct messaging * Application sharing * File transfer * Synchronized web tour * Live webcam * Breakout rooms The only problem I encountered is that video transmission is only supported for Windows and Mac – not Linux/Unix.

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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.&#

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Some it makes it to the printed page but lots more is available on their website. For several years now they have gathered giving data from some of the largest nonprofit organizations. Recently The Chronicle published data about online giving for 2010. billion online in 2010. All Rights Reserved

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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 12:43 pm We are in the process of finding someone who can help us “migrate&# our website to a functioning CMS.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The median online gift above $1,000 was $3,500 in 2009. The only thing worse than no donation forms on your website is using just one. And don’t forget about having donation forms on 3rd party and external websites. A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. All Rights Reserved

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