NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. >> Charity:water has done a very nice job ensuring their donation form is simple to complete. Online giving up 13% year-over-year *. 54% of the organizations experienced results at or above this growth rate. The basics are in place.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Ever since 2007, we’ve witnessed the bursting of the real estate bubble, the stock market crash of 2008-2009, the Great Recession, high unemployment and a few years of painfully slow economic growth. Job growth is up, the stock market has recovered and people are feeling more. This story continues at The Next Web.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 1, 2014

of of Americans over the age of 16 volunteered in some capacity between 2009, and 2013. Try coming up with what this persona looks like, their occupation, salary, education, their job title, even what their fears are. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, approximately 25.4% You need to get specific.

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VisionLink

MARCH 13, 2014

"Between 1970 and 2009, undergraduate enrollment in the United States more than doubled, while the completion rate has been virtually unchanged. We’ve made progress in giving students from all backgrounds access to college – but we haven’t finished the all-important job of helping them achieve a degree.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

The startups created by these highly skilled immigrants will generate most of the jobs and wealth in these countries in the future. Chief Reputation Officer: Whose Job Is It, Anyway? More Startups. This is a race we cannot afford to ignore." Today that is changing because of the increasing importance of reputation management."

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Dick Costolo, who is managing partner at lead investor 01A, says that one of the reasons he liked what BrightHire was doing was because he recognized that they were solving a fundamental hiring problem he had when he was running Twitter from 2009-2015 during a period of extreme growth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music. But for all of Steve Jobs smarts, sometimes he can be pretty dumb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

No, it’s not slick, but Filezilla does the job nicely. Sometimes, I wish I had something like Transmit for Linux – which is a Mac OS X client, and the slickest, most feature rich FTP client on the planet (but, sadly, not free in any sense of the word.) It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For a third client, I helped them translate their ideas about what they wanted their website to do, to things that could actually be implemented in a CMS. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Below is my 5th annual list of favorite do-good books that I read in 2009, but this year I'm calling it my Have Fun Do Good Book list. I'd love to hear what have fun do good books you enjoyed reading in 2009. I gotta say it. Don't listen Glenn Beck. Listen to Van Jones. Read the book. Yum, yum, yum. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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NetWits

JUNE 17, 2009

Their goal is to raise funds and awareness for 12 different charities during 2009. So far they are doing an incredible job, so I thought it would be beneficial to have them share a bit about their social media strategy with us. 12for12k is a unique campaign that is driven primarily by social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs. trillion in annual revenue attributable to fair use represents a 31% increase since 2002, according to the report, which claims that fair use industries are responsible for 18% of U.S. So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

I guess that would be OK if they had done a great job with those things, but all of them are nearly impossible to use, especially when SF is having a “slow day&# (which is most days). They just introduced a project wiki, but again, they’ve rolled their own and it’s useless.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The 13 winners were selected from 60 finalists drawn from 1,702 nonprofit taglines submitted to the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards competition. 2009 TAGLINE AWARD WINNERS. Jobs & Workforce Development: Nothing Stops A Bullet Like A Job — Homeboy Industries. Arts & Culture: Big Sky. Big History.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

NTEN did a great job of beginning to approach this topic, and it was great data. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05% 05% of the nonprofits in the United States (the foundation center says that there are about 1.4 million of them.) How could that be representative? To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. It will be interesting to watch things develop. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

This month’s round-up of the most popular links at AssociationJam.org brings you a broad mix of theory and practical tips for people in associations and nonprofit organizations - oh, and a “must-laugh” Dilbert cartoon for anyone who’s ever faced a challenge on the job! read more ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Michelle, I think you do a great job in presenting a evenhanded picture of the benefits and possible drawbacks of FOSS (and other low-cost software, in the article) – and I think it would be a mistake to assume more, especially for a TechSoup audience.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

In April, Microsoft outlined in a blog post how many retail store associates had shifted to remote work after their everyday jobs were sidelined. The Microsoft Store debuted in 2009 and closely adhered to Apple’s successful retail playbook. The company has continued to provide regular pay for team members through the pandemic.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 15, 2009

." Does social media help you find a job? In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings." The winners will be announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 25 in San Francisco.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Apple — Tim Cook was temporarily left in charge of Apple in 2009 while Steve Jobs underwent medical treatment. Jobs returned to the company, but then put Cook in charge for another leave of absence in 2011, before permanently making him CEO later that year. There are, of course, exceptions to the trend.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On Jenkins’ watch, AARP evolved from an organization traditionally focused on advocating for retirees to one with a more expansive mission that includes serving as an advocate and job training resource for the nearly 1 in 5 Americans past the age of 65 still in the workforce. Annual revenue under her leadership grew from just less than $1.4

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. We’re so lucky with FOSS CMS and various frameworks that there are such vibrant communities and a good diversity to choose from to meet a wide range of needs. 4 admin 02.05.08 BTW, really enjoying your 100 foss posts… keep it up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

When I started working in then embryonic field of nonprofit technology (back in 1992), my job as online network coordinator for Arts Wire (an online network patterned after the Well, but for artists) was to provide training and technical assistance to those brave artists and arts organizations who wanted to get online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And later, even though it wasn’t a large part of my job description, it still was something that I had a hard time with – like getting yanked out of my flow to answer RFPs. In the early days, as a business owner, I needed to think a lot about sustaining business (I had employees, and I wanted them to eat.)

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Teenager #2 has her dad’s hand-me-down iPhone 4 and my hand-me-down 2009 MacBook. Kind of hard to ask a 14 year-old what her least favorite job was (we tried “cleaning my room” but that didn’t work). Husband has an iPad 3 and iPhone 5. I see many families like ours. Trouble is, she never set security questions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Gaurav came to the United States on scholarship in 2009 and Himanshu followed later. Both eventually got jobs at tech companies in the U.S. The brothers grew up in New Delhi in an area that was originally for refugees from when the British split India and Pakistan in the late 1940s.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Steve Jobs is probably the most famous category creator of the last 15 years. If Steve Jobs is the most famous category creator, Elon Musk is the most ambitious. Started in 2009 by Rachael Chong, Catchafire helps match professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits that need their help. Tesla & SpaceX.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Whether they implement a system, or build it, they will inevitably have the job of supporting that technology. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support. Providers have many different ways of handling that challenge.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&# Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Just imagine what your messages, chats, photos, likes, jobs, interests, apps, games, and devices tell Facebook. And you don’t need the details from a trip Mardi Gras or excerpts from diplomatic correspondence to gain insight from the information. The illusion of privacy is just that — an illusion.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

million jobs. Speaking of freelancers’ specializations demanded by clients nowadays, it seems that there are no “traditional” freelance jobs anymore. “If If you go back to 2008 to 2009, the overwhelming majority of dollars spent on oDesk were technical in nature,” he said. “I

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S.

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