Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While on my site visit, Bogii did a presentation to a group of mining students (who are also hunters) to pre-test her poster and share her latest campaign updates. Brooke joined Rare (a non-profit specializing in social marketing for conservation) as the Director of Marketing in 2007, overseeing the creation of new materials for Rare’s U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I used to work for a non-profit and I found a few things that are typically not mentioned as key attributes for non-profits in database choice: ?1. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I used to work for a non-profit and I found a few things that are typically not mentioned as key attributes for non-profits in database choice: ?1. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Sometimes, the forward march of technology seems like this train I’m riding on – inexorably traveling down the track of capitalist profit while nonprofits are hanging on to those little hand-powered trucks that we, the people who serve them in this realm are working really hard to pump up and down, so we can try and gamely keep up.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

We want students to engage in learning because the learning itself was motivating to the student. As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. NTEN / Portland, OR / $899. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. Check out NTEN's upcoming Webinar. Here's an example. Want to learn how to use Google Analytics in 90 minutes?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. NTEN / Washington, DC / $899. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I used it last night for backchannel chat during a lecture on gaming in museums with a group of about 20 students, and I was impressed by how easy it was for everyone to use. 12-13 they are offering a Social Media and Non-profit Two Day Intensive Workshop in San Francisco, and I'll be helping teach. WebWise is a free(!)

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Data Use in Collective Impact – Strive Partnership Strive Partnership spearheaded a cooperative program to examine collective impact on student success in the Cincinnati School District. They created a data warehouse that tracked not only student progress in school, but progress from cradle to career. I check out the ideas42.org

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

NTEN and TechSoup list a few. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. And increasingly this includes High School students down the street. TechSoup began by offering sales demo copies of WordPerfect to non-profits. Non-profits need to get out of the business of managing infrastructure.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The program was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the event. Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. In this presentation, Counter-Intuitive or New Path to Profit?: This post highlights the success of NTEN’s campaign to re-engage the 24,000 subscribers who had not opened an email from them in the past year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Students Need Your Help to Help Others. Christmas is just around the corner… Public lands are not for private profits. A Community That Gives: NTEN Member News. Imagine being told you wouldn’t make it to your 18th birthday. 5 moments that inspired us in 2015. I open my heart to Syrians: Will you? Feet in the water.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Curtis Wong of Microsoft Research has a wonderful presentation of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope project where the tool for presenting the universe around us sets a stage for storytelling by allowing researchers and students alike to create a narrative through the interface. And maybe that can teach us something about ourselves.

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