Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 31, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 27, 2008
I just got back from the ATIA conference, which included meetings of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) committees. ATIA is one of the biggest assistive technology conferences of the year and we had many exciting conversations about Bookshare.org for Education (B4E, our $32 million five year project to deliver accessible books to every student with a print disability in the U.S.).
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 16, 2008
Photo by Mayr. I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage.
Forum One
JANUARY 11, 2008
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 29, 2008
Every non-profit now talks about needing to improve their CRM. But thanks to a post by Jay Deragon , I've been doing some reading this week about the emerging concept of VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management -- If CRM refers to software-based tools for organizations to manage their relationships with customers, constituents, and supporters, VRM is the complimentary set of tools, helping those individuals to manage their relationships with companies, organizations, and communities.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 31, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined. Although among browsers, its market share is still way behind IE – but that’s mostly, of course, because IE is the default browser for every wi
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 13, 2008
I frequently get asked by folks I know in the for-profit tech sector (where I come from), why we don't focus on making money. The team at Benetech seems very strong, and it seems clear we could go off and find a way to make big money. I agree. But, that's not Benetech. We chose a nonprofit form to do those things we were sure the for-profit world wouldn't do.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 10, 2008
Several weeks before my birthday every year, my mom calls and asks "What do you like for your birthday?" And every year since she became a grandmother to an adopted Cambodian child, I said, "Make a donation to the Sharing Foundation." This year, she wondered whether I was going to ask my family to give me an outhouse for my birthday.
Forum One
JANUARY 30, 2008
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 25, 2008
I watched an interesting interview on The Daily Show this week with Jim Wallis, the Editor-in-Chief/CEO of Sojourners. You can watch it here. During the interview Wallis said, "The two great hungers in the world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social justice. And the connection between the two is the one the new generation is just waiting for.
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JANUARY 8, 2008
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 8, 2008 What makes a good blog? Good ideas make a good blog, but so does good writing.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 29, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 6, 2008
When I started this "Help-Desk" series I wrote: "A great step forward for your informal user support desk is to provide them with a few procedures and tools that can help them be effective and efficient in this function." But so far all I've talked about is the toolkit: putting a ticketing system in place. What about those improved procedures? Actually, for our little company developing a ticketing system proved to be the key to process improvement: the system made it easier for us to describe,
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 29, 2008
Almost 7 years ago, at age 13, Pharoth came to the gate of Roteang Orphanage crying, with her baby brother Darith in her arms. Their Mother had died and their step father had disappeared, and Pharoth was living with the baby on the earthen floor under an aunt???s house in Roteang village. She was crying because they had no food-she was making Darith???
Forum One
JANUARY 17, 2008
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 4, 2008
An activist friend of mine recently asked, "How do you get over it when life is unfair in a really big way?" I told her, "Keep a gratitude journal." I can't remember where I first saw this idea. Maybe Oprah ? It certainly isn't mine, but it definitely works. One of the things I've come to realize is that in order to create positive social change, you have to create positive personal change at the same time.
See3
JANUARY 30, 2008
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0 I had a conversation today with a major Jewish Federation about technology change.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 29, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time. It feels quite good, actually.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 3, 2008
I was claiming that getting your informal help desk operation organized with a ticketing system does more than streamline that operation - it provides information that can increase your organization's effectiveness. It can have a real impact on mission. So what information do you want to track in your help desk ticketing system? Of course you need to know who reported it, how they described it, when it came in, who worked on it, and how it was resolved.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2008
Flickr Photo from Lanier67. Some rights reserved. I wrote a thinking outloud post wondering " How do Social Networks incorporate the ladder of engagement? " ( cross posted on Facebook as a note ) Two ideas sparked this question: Priscilla Brice-Weller's thoughts on the Levels of Engagement and a slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Xin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook.
Forum One
JANUARY 15, 2008
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 18, 2008
I've never written an Op-Ed piece, have you? Seems like a good skill to have these days, especially for nonprofits trying to get the word out about their cause. Unfortunately, if you are a woman, you are less likely to share your opinion on the Op-Ed pages. According to the New York Times article, Stop the Presses, Boys! Women Claim Space on Op-Ed Pages , "Many opinion page editors at major newspapers across the country say that 65 or 75 percent of unsolicited manuscripts, or more, come from men
See3
JANUARY 23, 2008
Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 23, 2008 MoveOn.org Political Action: Direct Response Video MoveOn has been a leader in using the web, and email in particular, to get their message out.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 24, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Why? Automattic , the makers of WordPress , and WordPress.com, just got a big chunk of “series B&# funding.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 2, 2008
Every organization -- no matter how small - needs to have an IT Help Desk of some sort. Actually, every organization already has one, because everyone on staff has figured out "Who ya gonna call?" when hardware or software refuses to behave. A great step forward for your informal user support desk is to provide them with a few procedures and tools that can help them be effective and efficient in this function.
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