Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. So the reality is still pretty far behind the hype. I sure hope the reality catches up. Way to go, NPR!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

The conference was rich with great speakers and content, and it’s great to see how far things have come. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference. It was incredibly well organized and smooth running, the food and snacks were great, and the parties rocked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us I’ve always been an advocate of open data and open standards, and Facebook is a great example of a one-way street. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

I’m still not convinced by any of these social network sites not directly linked to content (unlike del.icio.us Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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It’s best to consult a graphic designer that specifically knows how nonprofits function. Once you have a few options for graphics and you need to choose between them, it’s time to consult the masses once more! This data will inform your supply decisions through the campaign. A logical place to start is where people spend.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. What’s involved in this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

But I think the larger question about folksonomies is important: is efficiency all there is, and in what ways are folksonomies a way for the “folks&# (rather than “experts&# ) to have access to the process of categorizing their own content, and content they care about? What do those guidelines look like?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Basically, they partner with localized web media outlets, and provide widgets that contain information about local nonprofits that are connected to content. So this is definitely a tool to watch. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

It is not because you aren’t interested (although many of you might not be), but because Sage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

by Michael Johnston, President and Founder, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc). Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

apps out there, and beginning to try and use them to create content and organize my life, I have come to the following conclusion: the apps are great, but integration still sucks. And, I also don’t want to do too much cross-posting of content. First, there’s the blogging issue. It’s just so … painful.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Joomla is great for a website CMS – it’s great for categorized content, multiple levels of menus, granular control of layout of content, etc. But at least the first technical hurdle to jump over is a small one. Joomla is growing fast.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Plus: we also offer numerous free learning resources to help you better manage your staff, volunteers, and business consultants. Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

What are all those content types, and where do they appear, and how do you get things to look exactly like you want them? And NOWHERE have I been able to find a good, basic, user-oriented “what are these content types and what do I do with them?&# sites and can’t upgrade because they have a lot of flexinode content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

And ultimately, in Michelle’s perfect world, all software, all content, all hardware, etc. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. would all be free (libre).

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Civic Actions on website content strategy and SEO. Data security and compliance. Data visulization. Categorize/tagging sessions or content for organization size or type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data. Through training, coaching and consulting, Kivi helps nonprofit communications professionals both learn their jobs and love their jobs. Tyler Riewer is the Brand Content Lead at charity: water in New York City. Beth Kanter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

of them have open APIs (that is, they allow other software to interact with them, and grab data, or add data,) they aren’t really interoperable (see Marshall Kirkpatricks excellent post on issues regarding Yahoo and del.icio.us First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

at 9:54 pm I strongly recommend that all nonprofits track site stats to help evaluate the effectiveness of their online communications, but unless there is a specific, clear benefit to releasing a particular site stat, I don’t see the reason why a nonprofit should be compelled to share all the data. What content does the best?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2023

With Marketing Cloud Customer Data Platform , Save the Children (STC) saw an opportunity to completely revolutionize their data management strategy in service of their mission. What is Marketing Cloud Customer Data Platform? But Customer Data Platform is redefining what it means to be donor-centric.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I was lucky enough to get a preview of the Money for Good 2015 report and it’s full of surprising (and not so surprising) data, insights and recommendations for organizations, funders and vendors. Unlike other benchmark reports, this one actually gives concrete recommendations that everyone can apply to move the giving needle.

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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 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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MAY 10, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on May 10th, 2011 The Chronicle of Philanthropy is not only a great publication, but they also publish some excellent research about online fundraising trends.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. Causes uses information created within their program and data from Guidestar. There is no infrastructure issue here.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cabral, MA, CFRE is a fundraising coach, nonprofit strategist, and consultant. For more great resources, staffing to help you thank your donors, or even a coach to inspire more ideas, visit www.hireafundraiser.com or book a free 30-minute consultation. Erik Rubadeau, Yeeboo Digital.

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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? The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Wordpress (which was not originally in the survey, they parsed this data out from the “other&# category) was at 2%. Anyway, the survey report, and survey data are worth looking at if you are shopping for a CMS. { Most people (57%) also want ongoing support. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ro 05.30.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2010

It also warns against collecting lists and lists of meaningless data that is not benchmarked against business objectives. . The ebook includes a case study of the UNICEF-USA Facebook page based analyzing a year's worth of data. Post Content. Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Post Timing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Unfortunately, relationships with vendors go bad, and being stuck with data in a custom CMS makes migration away from a bad relationship that much harder. Best and easiest out of box *content management* system out there. 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09 at 8:05 pm Thanks for this post. Definitely agree on all fronts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? at 5:32 am How do we make great new content if it always needs to be free? But then I looked deeper.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

There’s definitely room for an open source effort, but it needs to match the realities of the nonprofit world: most nonprofits don’t have the benefit of in-house techies, most don’t like their data out on the web, and most can’t afford thousands of dollars or hours. What kind of vendor would you like us to be?

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