Remove 2010 Remove Consultant Remove Method
article thumbnail

Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

When I returned to America I began my career as a nonprofit consultant. So flash forward to seven years later, I’ve worked full time at nonprofits and consulted part time with nonprofits, and I’ve raised a lot of money. In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started.

Guide 233
article thumbnail

My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. I think, actually, all technology consultants, whether they do what I do, or hack code, should do this exercise. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

Practice 100
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

More patent office silliness

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

article thumbnail

What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?)

AJAX 134
article thumbnail

Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

article thumbnail

Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me.

Open 100
article thumbnail

Goodbye Consulting, Hello Museum of Art & History!

Museum 2.0

I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Throughout 2010, I was deep in planning an experimental cafe/exhibit space to address all three of these desires for a change. By November of 2010, I had a business plan for the cafe and intended to start raising money in 2011.

Museum 55