Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

The growing popularity of this method allows anyone with the right recording setup and a stack of video games to start collecting money for a charitable cause. The first event, held in 2010, raised $10,000 for the humanitarian organization CARE. They’ve set a new donation record for every match since.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In 2010 I completed my book, the book that I wish I had had when i first started. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

When you compare that to only one trillion text messages sent in 2008, it’s clear that text messaging is growing faster than any other Web-based communication method out there today, and yet it is a tool almost entirely untapped by the nonprofit sector. They launched the first-ever mobilized petition (that I know of) in August 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

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?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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.) The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

In 2010, online fundraising in the United States surpassed $22 billion. The 2010 Online Giving Report revealed that the size of the nonprofit makes very little difference in what percentage of total fundraising comes from online giving. The good news is that we can now answer most of these questions. How do you know all this stuff?

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

We’re talking the big names at every social media conference, and they have very little new to say over the past few years (with the exception of my colleague Beth Kanter who is always exploring new methods and approaches). Creativity and innovation demands unique twists and turns and methods. All Rights Reserved

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 30, 2025

Data PruningResults The plot above shows the models accuracy compared to the training dataset size when using the most effective pruning method Itested. Instead of picking the most typical digit from each group, this method picks the unusual onesthe digits that are still recognizable but written in uniqueways. Cluster using k-means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

And, will complete my work on E-mediat project , a capacity building project in the Middle East. Maybe my next book will be about something about Networked NGOs and capacity building methods … What are your plans for 2012?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. percent of respondents said their preferred method of giving was online through nonprofit’s website. (17

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

Twitter, for example, has shown remarkable accuracy at forecasting box office success, even more accuracy than the currently used (and comparably complex) Hollywood Stock Exchange method. That was the meat, now here's the pudding: the NTEN community's remake of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Muppets style!"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In October 2010, two former police officers were sentenced to 40 years in prison for this disappearance and the expert testimony of HRDAG statistician Daniel Guzmán was a key factor in the judges’ decision. The impact that this one report could make is momentous.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Abrams and O’Connor Hodgson founded Now in 2010 to provide small businesses a quicker method for getting invoices paid. Finally, unfortunately, we had to let our business die. We grew to death. We got too big to meet the needs and didn’t have a solution.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010. Friday, April 9, 2010. During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Saturday, April 10, 2010. NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022? When attempting to hack growth, you should start by thinking about increasing test throughput while being as methodical as possible. More posts by this contributor. Stack ranking.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

moment in January, 2010, when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. As it turns out, The Red Cross used but one of several common methods to generate revenue from mobile phone owners. This lesser known method avoids the ten dollar maximum donation limit imposed by text message donations (described above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. We gained 203 new Twitter followers in the month of November. 79 percent of respondents were female. 91 percent of respondents were 31 or over.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Oracle began in 2010, it involved seven patents as well as a copyright claim; by 2012, the case had been whittled down to a mere 37 Java APIs, made up of about 11,500 lines of code. Oracle acquired Sun in early 2010; by August, it had filed suit against Google. In the 1996 software copyright case Lotus v. When Google v.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

7: Transparency and Replicability are Paramount to Sound Measurement: Measurement methods need to be shared as well as how specific metrics are calculated. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

The reduction was in addition to other methods Netflix has used since 2011 to keep streaming steady in areas with low bandwidth capabilities. Netflix began the pilot of its “open connect” program when the company started streaming video between 2010 and 2011.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million first fund in 2010 to its $100 million fourth fund in 2017. SAFEs are a quick and cheap method for raising capital. Seed firm Eniac Ventures raises $125M for its fifth fund — The size of Eniac’s funds has grown dramatically over the past decade, from its $1.6 Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch.

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VisionLink

MARCH 30, 2010

It will detail the methods, values and benefits of those relationships both long and short term. Many, many other courses and workshops are being offered at AIRS 2010 as well. We should take advantage of this mighty foundation, millions of dollars of research, real world experience and the insights of commercial call centers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

VC deals that were for rounds of $5 million or less was the lowest since at least 2010.” SAFEs, or Simple Agreements for Future Equity , are a method of raising capital that is quick and cheap. So, what about Q3? One source noted, as we wrote at the time , that the “percentage of U.S. Per Cohen, could SAFEs be to blame ?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I like to use a combined method. The above shows the methods. It made we wonder about how one can create a small scale, manageable method for a small organization to collect stories and use them as a feedback loop – AND part of your communications/content strategy. Perhaps we're confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Don’t only look at social media analytics. Read your social media stories. Then share them with your organization’s leadership. Government.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Virtual fundraising tools have been incredibly valuable during the pandemic, allowing traditionally face-to-face fundraising methods to be moved online. Ready to learn how to use these lessons from the pandemic to raise more for your school? Use these tips to get started!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Founded in 2010 by John Collison (president) and his brother Patrick Collison (the CEO), Stripe saw the value of building a simple way for developers to integrate payments into any app or site by way of a few lines of code, at a time when digital and specifically online payments were starting to take off.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

The claim accuses Google of “anti-competitive conduct breaches the Australian Consumer Law” and also accuses the search giant of violating the country’s Competition and Consumer Act of 2010. The barriers Google places on Android OS are real,” Sweeney adds.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2024

— Overwhelmed, dazed and confused Dear Overwhelmed, dazed and confused, I had a boss in 2010 who told me “social media is a fad.” Take some time to curate some AI educational resources that match your favorite learning method. Can I wait for the bigger organizations to figure this out, and then jump on the bandwagon later?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

He joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 and grew out the department’s strategy from a London office to back companies that could make good returns on the continent. Such methods allow for making multiple investments without raising multiple funds. Juven founder Jules Frebault led the Africa team, the Special Situations Group.

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CauseVox

JULY 12, 2022

In this 60-minute live webinar, you’ll learn: Step-by-step planning to ensure success How to find your lead donor(s) and make the ask How to incorporate “non-traditional” methods to entice individual donors How to communicate with your donors before, during, and after the campaign. About the Speaker.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2009 and 2010, I participated the UCSD/FICO data mining contests. Modeling part My main method is called Ensemble Selection, originally proposed by Rich Caruana and co-authors of Cornell University ([link] The following pseudocode demonstrates the basic idea of Ensemble Selection: 0.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A map shows average aridity for 1981-2010. Countries can work together to restore degraded lands by protecting and restoring ecosystems, improving soil health and encouraging sustainable farming methods. Computer simulations estimate that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities caused a 1.2%

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