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Monday, February 28
Why one web site for 100 shelters is better than 100 web sites for 100 shelters
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 28 Feb 2005 08:09 PM EST
When I talk to folks who staff shelters for the homeless, they tell me that they spend a lot of time of the phone trying to reach other shelters. Surely this is a situation that cries out for a web-based solution. more »
Sunday, February 27
Think globally, meet locally
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sun 27 Feb 2005 03:19 PM EST
  I'm delighted to see that Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network has announced the formation of local DDN Meetups. In other words, you can now click on a central web address provided by Meetup.Com and sign up to start or join a group in your neighborhood of other individuals who are interested in addressing the digital divide. more » Friday, February 25
LinuxWorld and the Nonprofit World (Redux)
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Fri 25 Feb 2005 02:50 PM EST
 I recently wrote here about my experiences at LinuxWorld, and also posted about it to some email distribution lists, under the subject heading, "Same planet, different worlds." Many thanks are due to all the folks responded with thoughtful and very useful commentary about the challenge of building bridges between these two worlds. I am posting a selection of their comments here, having obtained permission to do so from each of the authors quoted here. Additional comments are very welcome! more » Wednesday, February 23
Freecycle.Org
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Wed 23 Feb 2005 05:16 PM EST
 Now that somebody has invented Freecycling, it seems like an obvious way that the internet can be used to bring resources and needs together in a community. more » Monday, February 21
John McNutt's Electronic Advocacy Web Site
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 21 Feb 2005 04:33 PM EST
Is electronic advocacy as effective as traditional advocacy? And shouldn't we be asking whether any form of advocacy has ever been effective? Friday, February 18
Mystery Blogs
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Fri 18 Feb 2005 10:54 AM EST
Is it an oversight or a security precaution? more » Thursday, February 17
Gifts Unkind
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 17 Feb 2005 08:54 AM EST
It's a powerful archetypal image - the baby left under cover of darkness on the doorstep of an orphanage.
Nowadays, we sometimes see a much less heartbreaking but thoroughly up to date version of this story: obsolete computers are left under cover of darkness on the doorstep of a nonprofit agency. more » Tuesday, February 15
Same planet, different worlds
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Tue 15 Feb 2005 10:26 PM EST
Monday, February 14
"Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Mon 14 Feb 2005 06:41 AM EST
How Abraham Lincoln destroyed my faith in the efficacy of PowerPoint. more »
Sunday, February 13
Scambaiting: A Strange Combination of Online Volunteerism and Online Roleplaying Games
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sun 13 Feb 2005 07:47 AM EST
Saturday, February 12
The Nonprofit Tech Jobs email distribution list
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 12 Feb 2005 09:36 AM EST
One of the things that I like best about running Nonprofit Tech Jobs is the opportunity to help people that I've never met in person. It's a great pleasure to have strangers come up to me at professional events and say "I found my job (or "our agency found our technology guru") through the Nonprofit Tech Jobs list!" more »
Friday, February 11
The Telephone Analogy
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Fri 11 Feb 2005 10:52 AM EST
 Are you a nonprofit/philanthropic professional who is having trouble making the case that your organization needs to bring its technology infrastructure into the 21st century - or at least into the 1990s? Please allow me to acquaint you with the telephone analogy. more » Thursday, February 10
Online Tools for Constituent Engagement
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Thu 10 Feb 2005 05:43 PM EST
Today I had the great pleasure of giving a workshop in Roxbury, Massachusetts at the behest of Organizers Collaborative, which has created an Organizational Divide Initative with funding from the Boston Foundation.
I'm pleased to make available here for downloading in two parts a version of the handout that I created for today's workshop. Part 1 features a new chart of recommendations for specific types of email and web-based tools, which should be useful for nonprofits and other mission-based organizations that are going online to do outreach, organizing, activism, or advocacy. Part 2 offers some strategic guidelines for using online tools; readers of this blog will already be familiar with many of the ideas explained in this section. The handout has been designed for organizers and nonprofit workers who are highly skilled in advocacy and organizing but are not experienced in using information and communication technology.  2 AttachmentsSaturday, February 5
A simple (and free!) solution: FavIcon from Pics
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Sat 05 Feb 2005 11:38 AM EST
 You can turn your nonprofit/philanthropic organization's logo into an icon that is displayed next to your web site's address when it is viewed or bookmarked. more » Friday, February 4
Instant messaging? Live online chat? Thanks - but I'd rather avoid it.
by
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 10:26 AM EST
A number of my colleagues and friends swear by instant messaging as the real-time collaboration tool of the the 21st century. I feel like such a curmudgeon, but I disagree. more »
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