Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). 3 Beth 12.01.06

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47 For example, instead of something like “WestwoodHumaneSocietyGivingTuesdayCampaign2021,” try “WHS21.”. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Keep it simple. Encourage social sharing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. They ask, “How can we present to our Board of Directors, our funders, and our volunteers how much value volunteering brings to our ability to carry out our mission?”. The authors present statements from Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area to illustrate. Do volunteers count?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

Materials (draft) for a workshop on January 15 2007 at the UK circuit rider conference to be presented by David Wilcox and Beth Kanter. We will lead a discussion about and present on nonprofits using social media and also beta the social media nonprofit adoption game during the workshop. The social media game can be found here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first post in a year-long blog and webinar series called 101 Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.". an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. Evaluation. impacts on decision making).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. It’s called leading by example, try it, you might like it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This breakfast was particularly interesting because a few of the presenters were graduates of the Hackbright Academy , an engineering fellowship for women in the Bay Area. The first presentation was from Prashant Singh, the CTO and co-founder of LocalData. Tell us about it in the comments. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Bill Strathmann Opened with his personal story about he got started with Networked For Good. His presentation focused on the dollar side of the equation of online fundraising. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The Basics I experienced day two of the SoCap09 conference where one of the first presenters joked about “glimpses of demystification”. An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

In the comments, blog readers share their experiences. Susie's Blog asks readers for examples of showing the need for ICT support in the VCS, "perhaps in the mould of terrible - things - we - have - witnessed - by - orgs - who - were - wildly - going - off - on - their - own - without - money - or - guidance."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. If you're interested in seeing more examples, Teresa Crawford , has been adding them into del.icio.us

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. percent have more than 1,000 A couple of examples: Recently, Rep. The White House opened up their Twitter account during the peak of the Swine Flu hysteria.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. CONVIO OPEN While attending the Convio Summit, I had the opportunity to sit down for some Q&A with Sam Heywood, Senior Product Manager for Convio. SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free. com , Inc.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. While arts professionals moan about the erosion of support and the disinterest of younger potential donors, Kickstarter is a fertile ground for research into the kinds of projects, presentation styles, and pledge gifts that appeal to this much-desired demographic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Crowdsourcing 101. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

For example, in September Facebook implemented a new policy that stated all user profiles had to have their real identity. This presented many issues for the transgender community, mental health providers who don’t want to publish this information, victims of stalking and abuse, etc. Commenting On A Post. Learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. For example, I???ve

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The web site should present the Department's vetted information and make sure this information is clearly identifiable. For example, a 25-year-old could see what average benefits would have been for their demographic had they been born in 1925 rather than 1984 and retired in 1970 rather than 2034. income, age, etc.). and Foreigners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. For example, see the followers of @ NonprofitOrgs by country at tweepsmap.com/!nonprofitorgs. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” For example, see this recent Present.me What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com. nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. For example, see the Local Impact Map for TechSoup.org. For example, see this recent Present.me

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Of course we’ll use mobiles more and more, but for heads-down work on longer documents, spreadsheets, presentations, serious data base projects, graphic design, and anything else that involves looking at a screen for hours at a time and using a proper keyboard – I’ll be keeping my laptop and will be glad to have it.

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