Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant March 19, 2007 Beth Kanter interviewed me for Blogher recently, and one of the questions included “… you work as an independent consultant …&# Well, those (..)

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AUGUST 1, 2005

I was beginning to wonder if I had attended blogher at all after stepping off the redeye at Logan at 10:00 a.m. But thanks to the blogher flickr stream and blogher participants with digital cameras, I found a few photos that documented my presence. this morning. Its about making connections.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies. Leonie Allan, Goddess Guidebook Buy art from artists. My main takeaway from their rainbow of stories is that there are *so* many ways to have fun and do good.

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JUNE 26, 2010

It was also wonderful to see Cynthia Samuels (BlogHer); Jocelyn Harman (Care2); Bill Strathan (Network(ed) for Good); Michael Hoffman (NTEN); Christina Arnold (Cambodia); Kate Bladow ; and many others. Nonprofit social media strategists who teach us everyday about how to build networks. For me, the party was more a like a family reunion.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2006

4 jobs I had: General Manager of the Pro Art Chamber Orchestra Management/Capacity Assessment Evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grants Day of Service Consultant for N-TEN Community Builder/Network Coordinator for Artswire, an online network for artists and project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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JANUARY 25, 2006

Through introducing ourselves to other mentors in the this project virtually, Britt and I discovered that we had a lot more in common than nonprofit technology and blogher interests. We've both worked in the arts. So, when Katy Pearce asked for people to pair up and for topics, we came up with an arts-related question.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Michelle Murrain, Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Blog. It is a very small liberal arts college in Vermont, where everyone knows everyone's name. Cross posted at Blogher Michelle and I are graduates of Bennington College (so is Deborah Finn ). The Bamboo project blog Jen Mei Wu's Dangerous Ideas Marnie Webb's Ext.337

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JANUARY 29, 2006

Ponzi, who I met at blogher, loves postcards. The postcards have art work on them by a talented youngster, named Tep Vuthea, who lives in the orphanage. He's 13 now and we're sending him to art school. She has a wonderful tradition - sending other bloggers postcards from her travels. Most recently, she visited Bangkok.

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JULY 3, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. September 21-October 12: I'll be offering my Juicy Blogging E-Course: The Art and Play of Blogging. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: July 9: Jumpstart your Blog!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans. I combine my passion for travel, art and teaching by taking people to off-the-beaten path places that have lively arts and handcrafts scenes.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

On her portfolio site she shares a life vow called Threads of Empathy As part of a life-vow I have made which is at the basis of much of my art, I donate 10% of my income from all art sales to help provide opportunity and education in developing countries.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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APRIL 7, 2009

As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. I'd also be up for something arts related. Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders! I'd love to add a third blogging gig to my schedule. blog blogging blogger fun

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MARCH 7, 2011

Soon after, I had the opportunity to write about a Bay Area non-profit, the Art of Yoga Project , that brings yoga, writing, and arts to girls in juvenile hall. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training.

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JULY 7, 2009

BlogHer I've been a Contributing Editor, along with Beth Kanter , for the past 3.5 years of BlogHer's Nonprofits and Social Change section. I also host the Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact (subscribe via iTunes ) and produce the Arts and Healing Podcast (subscribe via iTunes ) See ya around online!

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JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Rebecca Krause Hardie overs the arts sector and use of social media. In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 Nina Simon.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. He writes about Cambodian culture, arts, comics, and many other topics. I love her authentic style. John Weeks (aka jinja ) has lived in Cambodia for a long time and has been blogging for many years. I think he might be the first ex-pat Cambodian blogger.

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MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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MAY 16, 2012

Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I have a couple of friends, artists Richard Lange and Judith Selby Lange, who scour the beach regularly for plastic trash to include in their art projects. For example, instead of getting depressed when I stumbled upon the fact that chewing gum is made from plastic (polyvinyl acetate, to be precise), I felt like I had made a big score.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." Cross-posted from BlogHer. What causes are close to your heart?

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AUGUST 27, 2008

Why Do You Do What You Do (wdydwyd) is a community art project created by social entrepreneur, Tony Deifell, that asks people to combine an image and text to answer the question, "Why do you do what you do?" Cross-posted from BlogHer. You can see the Echoing Green Fellows' answers to wdydwyd on the Echoing Green home page.

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MARCH 1, 2011

When she’s not coaching, writing, or leading groups, she’s either painting up a storm, reading in her hammock, practicing yoga, making arts and crafts, or indulging in a midday nap (one of the fabulous perks of being self-employed).

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JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. I really enjoy reading her personal blog, A View from Home and if you work with nonprofits and technology - you'll find it very valuable.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. It has been a lengthy process of reclaiming movement and dance. And, myself. I taught my classes by mixing kickboxing with dance.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog.

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AUGUST 29, 2006

Here are some BlogHers who are giving back through volunteering, or using their blog to advertise do * good opportunities: Rocks in My Dryer puts the word out for Operation Special Edition , a program that provides volunteer doulas for pregnant women whose husbands or partners are deployed when they give birth. about the study.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. Going to NYC with the hubs to see friends, family, and to go to the BlogHer Conference. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

That's Jonny Goldstein and Steve Garfield imitating art. Millie Garfield (who I've had the pleasure of meeting at BlogHer) and I had a great talk about our "virtual blogging" friends. Elizabeth Dunn works for the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, but she is also a nonprofit technology blogger. Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag.

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APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Cross-posted from BlogHer. The key is to turn these moments of opportunity into concrete action." One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

artsnetCMS - Center for Arts Management and Technology free CMS via Ma.gnolia NpTech Group with a hat tip to Idealware The On-Demand Nonprofit by Sonny Cloward on NTEN Blog as Laura Quinn notes on Idealware Blog , "A great rundown from Sonny Cloward about the practical applications (and limitations) of Google Apps for nonprofits.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Ken Fisher, Editor-in-Chief , Ars Technica, Alexis Ohanian, Product Manager of Awesome , reddit.com, Drew Curtis, The Member , Fark.com, and Erin Kotecki Vest, BlogHer 10. Lessons learned and plans for the future will be discussed along with some best practices for those who seek to develop true communities.

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MARCH 27, 2009

As evidenced by so many viral videos, really successful ideas are often those with little foresight, like BlogHer, which Erin Kotecki Vest (Building Strong Online Communities) explained was started over lunch by 3 motivated women bloggers.

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. We've been in and out of touch over the years, but always virtually.

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