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JANUARY 27, 2009

I get a lot of calls from organizations looking for consultants to help them with their fundraising databases. I also get a lot of calls from consultants looking for advice on how best to thrive in the nonprofit space. Tags: NPTech consulting robert_weiner consultants 09NTC. The Blue Plate.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Charles works for the Working Families Party and consults with Democracyinaction.org and Change.org. Tags: NPTech Advocacy NTEN 09NTC. Charles Lenchner is one of those people! . We agree, Charles! In addition to being a great exhibit hall, it's the opening party of the conference!

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APRIL 12, 2011

2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study A visual version of the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN. Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0 Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S. All Rights Reserved

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APRIL 15, 2009

ONE/Blog – ONE/Northwest never ceases to amaze me The Open Road – Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world Tagged as: nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jon Stahl 04.17.09 RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Dahna Goldstein Bev Magda I used to do technology consulting with nonprofits, and I found that the work was about 10% technology, 90% psychology. NTEN is very lucky that Dahna Goldstein, founder of PhilanTech , wrote the chapter "Managing Technology Change" in our about-to-be-published book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Eve Simon, Creative Director at Beaconfire Consulting , is serving up a tasty session at the 2009 NTC based on the theme: " This is Iron Chef.Battle Nonprofit " One San Francisco nonprofit will serve as the secret ingredient for four creative teams, who will each come up with a web site design, email template, and social media plan.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In his session at the 2009 NTC , "Cloud Computing: More than just IT Plumbing in the Sky ", Steve and his amazing panel of guests will talk about the implications of cloud computing as a means for learning more about our work, collaborating better, and creating more change. Did you get your ticket when you registered for the NTC ?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

It's this dillema that Nancy Schwartz , consultant and blogger at Getting Attention , will take on at her 2009 NTC session, The Open Source Brand in the Age of Being Everywhere. I talked to Nancy about that session -- and buffalo -- earlier this week: Tags: NPTech branding Communications NTEN web2.0

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MARCH 7, 2007

March 7, 2007 Next Monday, I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is “Nonprofit Data Management: from slips of paper to CRM&# As you all know, I’ve been thinking about data management issues for years, and it would be great for people to share their ideas and knowledge.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

1 trackback } Recent Links Tagged With "portability" - JabberTags 01.03.09 Like all social networks, they are only as usable as people in your social graph use it, and it’s pretty sparse for me right now. But hopefully that will change. { at 5:50 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 08.15.08

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NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It looked quite like it might be a fun event to be at, but the hefty $3000 price tag for admission wasn’t something that I could possibly stomach, so I sat in front of my laptop, watching people describe new tools. Corporations sponsor the widget, so there is a brand showing. Seesmic is a video conversation site.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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MAY 1, 2007

And that some of what’s deeply, truly, long-term transformative isn’t shiny at all. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Once you've got a handle on the search process, peruse the listings on Idealist.org , OpportunityKnocks , or NTEN's aggregated job board , which focuses on NPTech. It can be instructive to consult the past, as well. Tags: IT staffing NPTech jobs NTEN how to. Bottom line: typos in your cover letter = no job for you.

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APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07 Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space.

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JUNE 18, 2007

And, if you’re already on facebook, add me as a friend. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

After some good conversations with NTEN Members and consultants who have their heads in these systems, we began thinking about the links -- or the missing ones -- between the different systems nonprofits use to track any number of tasks on a daily basis. . Tags: CMS CRM data ecosystem dms NPTech NTEN.

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APRIL 12, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , penguindayDC , women , feminism { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 04.12.07 Let’s get together! at 2:50 pm Thanks for shout out. Do you think the numbers in Angela’s presentation for FLOSS in general are on target?

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Seth Gottlieb (a fellow Western Mass person) has a great post on his blog about how to go about looking at the communities around open source projects. It’s definitely worth a read. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Ubuntu took the best that Debian had to offer, and left the weaknesses behind, I think. Anyway, I think it’s worth checking out. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Coming up from April 26-28, NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (or NTC) 2009, is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals. Tags: Tech Planning Consultants Training Running Your Organization Services. From panels, plenaries, and presentations (oh my!)

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. But then, I had something of an epiphany.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Coach, consultant, and writer Kivi Leroux Miller. and article about content curation in NTEN Change Journal.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

The tag line for this blog is “Conscious, mimalist, neo-luddite perspectives on nonprofit technology.&# There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now. A few days ago, Michele posted her blog’s mission statement.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

But unless you're a consultant working with several nonprofit clients, you're probably working in a vacuum: you know your own site's bounce rate, but you don't know how good it is compared to other sites. Tags: Data how-to Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. Let's dive in.

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APRIL 23, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 04.24.07 Some software, like Firefox, is like that kitten that is easy – it learns to be litter trained once, and just sits on your lap (or in its little bed) in a ball and sleeps, and plays only when you want it to. at 10:00 am Free.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Technorati Tags: linuxchix , nosi , nptech , nten , opensource , web2.0 { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 11.30.06 I think tagging posts w/ technorati can help w/ this to because it can be a way to submit a post to a certain planet… 5 katrin 12.14.06

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: crm , fundraising { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 01.20.07 And this, I think, is one really important thing to think hard about. Are the means that progressive organizations use to reach their ends truly in line with their mission?

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MARCH 29, 2007

Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech , linux { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 03.30.07 Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. We’ll see… Anyway, if you’ll be at NTC, come by and see where I got to. The geekout will be on Thursday at 3:30.

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DECEMBER 22, 2006

Technorati Tags: fundraising , nptech , web2.0 { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 12.23.06 went into other software and data needs of organizations, I daresay they might not be in as much of a pickle as they are in terms of making choices about vertical apps. at 9:15 pm You’ve hit the nail on the head!

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MARCH 5, 2007

Technorati Tags: broadband , hughesnet , satellite { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Catherine Carey 03.06.07 About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times. Now, it’s at: That sucks. At least I’ll be able to upload this blog entry. More on this saga soon.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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MARCH 19, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 Even though this very-big-nonprofit was rolling in money, they thought the pie was finite, and that if the money didn’t go through them, they’d get less. So the scarcity mentality isn’t just for small, struggling nonprofits.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 Technorati Tags: nptech , ntc2007 , twitter { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 03.13.07 But sorry, I’m not Twittering.

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MAY 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: intellectualproperty , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. It makes me think a lot about how much we are governed by fear – even in the realm of things that seem only technological. But, of course, underneath, and around all of those bits and bytes are just human beings, after all.

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