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Telecommuting is a 21st Century Possibility – Part 2
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Does Telecommuting make sense for you?
What you should consider before proposing to telecommute?
Telecommuting isn’t the same as freelancing. Unlike freelancers, telecommuters work for an organization and not for themselves. Therefore, there are different expectations regarding where, when, and how you work.
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Contributed by:
Jenifer McEnery
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Telecommuting is a 21st Century Possibility - Part 1
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Living abroad had long been a goal of mine and my husband. So when he came to me with a proposal to teach English in Budapest for six months, I jumped. (I mean I literally jumped!) I loved my work and, after seven years with my organization, was in a good position with exciting projects. Taking a six-month leave of absence would mean at best losing the benefits associated with my tenure and at worst mean risking the loss of my position.
It seemed as if I would have to choose between my career and fulfilling a personal commitment to my husband and myself.
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Contributed by:
Jenifer McEnery
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Keeping Track of Key Donors
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
A good donor tracking system keeps you on top of your game by helping you focus on actions that help build long-lasting relationships for your organization.
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Michele Hickey
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Cyber Crime Pays a Call
Monday, July 12, 2004
... So the first thought running through my head when we learned of the problem was consternation: "There is a war going on, and my phone is being used to make long illegal calls to countries that are both directly and indirectly involved in that war." It's one thing to feel violated after a crime, but this went beyond that feeling, bringing home to me the fact that regardless of how each of us individually feels about it, the world is in a state of war, and the tools of war and espionage have absolutely changed.
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Contributed by:
Hildy Gottlieb
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Listen to the Experts Discuss the Future of E-Philanthropy and Technology (Part 2)
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
This is the second of a two-part feature where we've brought together some of our favorite E-Philanthropy and Technology Review pioneers and pundits in a conference call utilizing CharityChannel's voice over IP system to discuss this question: What is the biggest single challenge facing nonprofits in the next decade, and what is the proper role of e-philanthropy and technology in meeting that challenge?
Participants in the eRoundtable discussion, which was moderated by Stephen Nill, CharityChannel, were:
Cynthia Adams, GrantStation
Vinay Baghat, Convio
Colleen Boland, CPA, My Non Profit CPA
David Crooke, Convio
Hillel Korin, Korin Development Associates
Jay Love, eTapestry
Scott Merrill
Celisa Steele, Isoph
George Williams, Planned Legacy
In this week's Part 2, the discussion was led off by Celisa Steele of Isoph. From her perspective, the biggest challenge is how to provide education within the nonprofit sector more efficiently by harnessing the Internet.
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Contributed by:
Stephen Nill
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Listen to the Experts Discuss the Future of E-Philanthropy and Technology (Part 1)
Monday, June 21, 2004
For this week's issue, we've brought together some of our favorite E-Philanthropy and Technology Review pioneers and pundits in a conference call utilizing CharityChannel's voice over IP system to discuss this question: What is the biggest single challenge facing nonprofits in the next decade, and what is the proper role of e-philanthropy and technology in meeting that challenge?
Participants in the eRoundtable discussion, which was moderated by Stephen Nill, CharityChannel, were:
Cynthia Adams, GrantStation
Vinay Baghat, Convio
Colleen Boland, CPA
David Crooke, Convio
Hillel Korin, Korin Development Associates
Jay Love, eTapestry
Scott Merrill
Celisa Steele, Isoph
George Williams, Planned Legacy
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Contributed by:
Stephen Nill
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Free Software for Fun and Non-Profit
Monday, May 24, 2004
Information technology can be a very expensive endeavor. Nonprofit organizations often seek donations or grants in order to obtain the technology products and services that are increasingly becoming mandatory components of their operation. As with most things, though, the devil is in the details.
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Scott Merrill
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New Online Tools Transform How Nonprofits Reach, Motivate and Retain Advocates
Monday, April 05, 2004
The primary goal of advocacy is to drive positive change in support of an organization's mission. This change may involve impacting legislation, securing funding or affecting a corporate policy. Grassroots advocacy involves influencing large groups of people to agree with an opinion or objective and getting them to help influence policy makers through media coverage, personal contact, phone calls and letters.
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Contributed by:
Vinay Bhagat
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Distributed Campaigns: A View of the Digital Campaign of the Future
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
A key takeaway for e-philanthropists from the Dean experiment is the following: Dean brought in more than $4 million in contributions via the Internet from donors averaging only $75 per contribution, in just a few months. This didn't happen by chance. Instead, this came from thoughtful preparation and construction of a distributed network of individuals who rose from the grassroots, and who believed they could help create change from the bottom-up, not the top-down. This idea that technology can provide a framework that provides information flow to be decentralized is called 'distributed campaigning'
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Contributed by:
Ryan Ozimek
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What the Howard Dean Campaign Gave Us, Some Lessons From the Campaign Trail
Monday, March 01, 2004
As I was watching the results of the recent Democratic political primaries, I realized that as a fund raiser/consultant operating in the not for profit non-political arena that I needed to learn a completely new vocabulary in order to be successful. As I often do when confronted with a new challenge, I sought out my friends and colleagues and my very politically astute and politically active 20 year old daughter to help me ascertain where I should go to get up to speed!
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Online Database Management
Monday, December 15, 2003
Donor data management... the bane of nonprofit existence for many of us. How on earth are we supposed keep up with endless amounts of data clean-up, much less data entry, on top of our busy multi-faceted positions that keep us moving in five different directions at once? This is the tedious work that is essential to tracking the many relationships we juggle as development professionals.
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Contributed by:
Amie Michaelek
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The Good, the Bad, the Ambiguous: A Look at Technical Standards
Monday, December 01, 2003
Technical standards are everywhere these days -- and it's not hard to understand why. Standards are useful: They provide a context for development, they create a shared language that facilitates discussion, and they provide guidelines for evaluating work. But standards can also stifle creativity by defining an issue narrowly or become dangerous by unnecessarily limiting the ways we approach a topic.
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Contributed by:
Jude Higdon and Celisa Steele
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Web Content Strategy & Guidelines for Nonprofits (Part 2)
Thursday, October 02, 2003
There are the six steps to developing and executing an effective Web Content Strategy. The first two steps were covered in the last issue of EPTR, Web Content Strategy & Guidelines for Nonprofits - Part 1. The four final steps will be covered in this article:
3. Produce
4. Edit/Proof
5. Publish
6. Maintain/Update
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Contributed by:
Clayton Frech
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Wired, Willing, and Ready?
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Even though the promise of the Internet boom times has faded, corporations are still investing in technology. Technology holds the promise of more efficient operations, further reach, and the ability to do more with less. Technology allows small and large companies to play on the same field. That is why technology still seems to be the word of the day ? even for nonprofits...
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Contributed by:
Matt Florence
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Web Content Strategy & Guidelines for Nonprofits (Part 1)
Monday, September 15, 2003
Should nonprofits worry about their website content? Yes. Is there a process nonprofits should follow to develop website content? Yes. Is the web that different from other media? Definitely. Can you produce web content by simply uploading brochures and other printed materials to the web? Probably not.
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Contributed by:
Clayton Frech
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Lessons for Nonprofits from Howard Dean's Use of the Internet
Monday, August 18, 2003
Regardless of whether you support former Vermont governor Howard Dean in his bid to win the Democratic party's presidential nomination, his campaign organization is proving to be phenomenally successful at incorporating the online medium into its fundraising and grassroots mobilization. Every nonprofit organization -- not just political campaigns -- can learn from Dean's success.
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Contributed by:
Vinay Bhagat
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Philanthropy and Virtual Community (Part 1)
Monday, August 11, 2003
Part 1 of a 3 part series. In this series of articles we will explore ways that foundations, corporate giving programs and organizations can use virtual community approaches to foster effective communication and productive relationships. We will consider approaches that fit the needs and opportunities for stages of the philanthropic process, with stakeholders respective to each.
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Contributed by:
Janet Salmons
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Website
Monday, June 23, 2003
How do you know if your website is displaying the right image and information about your organization to all of your potential constituents out there in the cyber world? The first clue to answering that question is to look at your website from your constituents eyes.
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Contributed by:
Andrew Urban
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Pipevine - A Valuable Lesson in Donation Processing?
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Apparently, when you write the word "crises" in Chinese, two symbols are used; one signifies "danger" and the other "opportunity." The piece of news that reminded me of this saying was the recent closure of Pipevine, a credit card processor for the nonprofit community.
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Contributed by:
Amdrew Mosawi
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