Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is private? What is public? June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.),

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It looks impressive on your wall when called into action, and otherwise blends into the background as a digital photo frame displaying art or family photos. It has a new homescreen layout that divides its time between the standard rotating Echo Show content (which you can customize) and a new feature: widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Understanding the Switch Toolkit: Mastering the Art of Change. Facing AIDS via Twitter, Widgets, & More: Government Strategies for Online Engagement. Write A Powerful Story In 60 Minutes: The Hollywood Method. Method Tweeting for Nonprofits: Much Ado About Something. How Technology is Recontextualizing Service in the 21st Century.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Amy Sample Ward put the Global Giving Widget on her Facebook profile. All that to day I'm behind two or three days with saying thank you to a couple of friends for helping out with the America's Giving Challenge. I got to meet Amy when I was in Portland earlier this month and enjoyed the opportunity to talk about social media and nonprofits.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The first tool is the donor retention bar chart widget you can add to your dashboard. This widget will show you the number of new, retained, reactivated, and lapsed donors during the calendar year. This data also appears in your Fundraising KPIs widget. Did an abandoned kitten get a new home?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2007

Ever wondered what your computer would look like if an art major made it explode? And third, the blog widget of my dreams has been invented. I can't test it because it registers each IP address only once, so it froze me after creating the widget. UPDATE: I now understand that each post needs its own individual widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. One of the projects I developed and implemented for NYFA in the late 1990s was called " KIT: Knowledge in Technology " where nonprofit arts organizations developed a strategic technology plan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Competing for nonprofit dollars December 22, 2006 Many of you know that I have a real desire to ease nonprofit pain in two particular areas: vertical apps, and data integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The campaign would be delivered using the DonorEdge website, widgets, and responsive web design. The categories of “Nonprofit Jeopardy” were based on issue areas such as: “Dancing with Data” (Arts). Team 4: “Data Duel: Nonprofit Jeopardy.” Luis Sosa, presenter. This campaign was based on the game, Jeopardy. From A to F” (Education).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

What that meant was that the Library pointed to my dance links on the Arts Wire server. Maybe we'll see some tools to automate list maintenance, widgets , and clients. I discovered the WWW Virtual Library in 1993 when there were only 200 servers on the Internet. I volunteered to be the Dance Librarian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. Reminds of the exquisite corpse like games we used to play on Arts Wire ten years ago with images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." " Before we jumped into the technology tools, I always covered technostress.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2012

Apps can be used online (a web app), on mobile devices (a mobile app), or as an add-on to other tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on)." Public Art Omaha. As defined by the project, "An 'app' (short for 'application') is a small piece of software with limited functionality. NYPL Biblion.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Branding is.the art of creating a consistent, recognizable, and clear unified voice or personality that conveys your org's focus, credibility and unique contributions. Provide graphics, widgets, whatever is going to make their viral marketing more effective. The interests and needs of your network. BS meters are very sensitive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2007

After our panel will be a complementary session: Getting it On(line) for a Cause : Part 2 - Raising Consciousness moderated by Rochelle Robinson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

The Art of Storytelling. The Art of Person-to-Person Networking, Community Building, and Connectedness. The art and practice of blogging for nonprofits (planning, policy, writing, commenting). How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. How will you measure your success? Andy Goodman).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. Podcast Pickle & Podcast Alley & Odeo - good directory, has a good community forum, as well as embedable widget players for your website. Export to mp3, things to consider: Bit rate - indicator of the quality of the file. Pdocast Directories.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

By Carrie Spates, Design Manager, Siteworx Nonprofit clients I work with generally have mastered the art of engaging members and supporters once they are in the door. Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Start a Conversation. On the Web, the best way to engage people is to ask a question.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Listen up : Sarah reports on a pair of new Spotify features: iPhone users can now get to the app faster through a new Lock Screen widget, and there is new tech for turning radio broadcasts into podcasts. Kyle reports on a startup that wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images. Did you get permission first?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

You can even add a good deed widget for your site. Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. It's called Why Congo Matters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

LOLnptech: Comic Relief for the Nonprofit Technology Community said I could pick my favorite one of their posts for the Carnival so I picked the image above from They Want Me to Build Them a Facebook Widget. Next week's carnival will be hosted by Michelle Murrain of Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

On the other hand, a connoisseur , is a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts, or an expert judge in matters of taste. So, I decided to use his scale and create a widget poll. The term is from the french term conna??tre tre meaning "to be acquainted with something."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

In past posts, I've talked about: The Secret Life of a Wiki Gardener : Using a gardening metaphor, I drill down into the fine art of wiki facilitation. A Visual Way to Track Participation : Using a timeline application/widget, you can visually track who has added what to your wiki over time. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

There's also some info on the differences that appear in PostRank scores for posts depending if they show up on the website or the widget (relates to feed-based vs. thematic PostRank), but I'm working on a blog post for that, so will send you the link when it's up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

The Art of Commenting on Blogs. One widget, one conversation with multiple access points. (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. If you are reading many blogs and entering in many conversations, how to track where you've left comments? That's what this group of tools will help you do. What did they miss?

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Double the Donation

MARCH 17, 2021

Donors have it easy too with the autocomplete search tool and confirmation page widget now at their disposal on DMC Fundraising forms. The DMC Fundraising by RKD Digital and 360MatchPro by Double the Donation integration offers nonprofits with the state-of-the-art tools to start or ramp up their matching gift program.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

transaction fee, and in return receive social media widgets and donor receipts. Check out the San Francisco Ballet Tumblr site, or the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see how nonprofit organizations are using the site. When the campaign “tilts” (reaches the goal) then everybody’s cards are charged and you’ll get the funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

For example, here's the arts programming account. She a wide range of experience on different social networking sites, video sharing, widgets, and social applications. She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0

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MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Event 360 helps nonprofits use the art and science of event fundraising to build and deliver powerful experiences that drive giving, loyalty and awareness. We'll pick the winner after the Science Fair, and be in touch on Friday, 4/9.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. Some nonprofits have begun to utilize widgets and other light-weight Internet applications to leverage social networks. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Event 360 helps nonprofits use the art and science of event fundraising to build and deliver powerful experiences that drive giving, loyalty and awareness. We'll pick the winner after the Science Fair, and be in touch on Friday, 4/9.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? If it does, how much money has been raised and which widget are they using? The most popular widget was Change.orgs , with Sixdegrees.org also being used.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Zen and the Art of Non-profit Technology. Non-Profit Web Design Blog. Principled Innovation LLC. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. The Association Renewal Blog. The Bamboo Project Blog. The Integrator. The Non-profit Consultant. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Reader Polls. Social networking. spreadsheets. text to speech. Volunteers.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The campaign employed widgets and leveraged Care2, and CI’s page on MySpace, as well as blogs, to spread the word about their campaign. Conservation International won the “Email List Growth” prize for their campaign to save sea turtles. The campaign enabled CI to boost their email list by 50,000, in only two weeks.

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