- Napier conference talk
- Context
- Happy 20th Birthday
- thinking beyond the web, to webs within webs
- goals, objectives and priorities
- To be SEEN and HEARD
- To be CONNECTED to someone or something
- To be part of something GREATER THAN THEMSELVES
- To have HOPE for the future
- To have the security of TRUST
- To be of SERVICE
- To want HAPPINESS for self and others
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- Free and Open Source Software
- Definitions
- freedom to tinker not 'free' as in cost
- “When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.”
- “free speech, not free beer” or "free as in 'free market'"
- Collaberalism
Examples
Linux operating system
MySQL relational database
GIMP drawing and image editor
NeoOffice and OpenOffice office suite
- Mozilla Firefox
- Apache - the current #1 web server
- PHP - a web scripting language
- Wikipedia uses Creative Commons licenses
- Issues
- Financial
- Reliability
- GNU/Linux is more reliable than Windows NT
- the MySQL database (a leading OSS/FS database) had fewer defects than a set of 200 proprietary programs used for comparison
- Sites using Microsoft’s IIS web serving software have over double the time offline (on average) than sites using the Apache software
- Control
- not being held hostage by any one vendor
- Flexibility and Innovation
- Support and Longevity
- risk of abandonment
- Communicating online
- Sizing up your audience
time spent online, globally, increased by 18% last year
the amount of time spent on member communities rose by 63%
the time spent on Facebook rose an astounding 566%
- Websites
- writing for the web
- skimming v reading
- the E of skimming
- sub-headers become critical
- resources
- Open source CMS options
- Drupal sites
- Amnesty Interanational NZ
- Greenpeace
- CTU
- Cycling Advocates Network
- Crop and Food
- Green Party
- Joomla sites
- Deaf Foundation
- Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
- SeaWeek
- Association of Administrative Professionals New Zealand
- Neighbourhood Trust
- Wordpress
- much more than a blog
- Comparisons
- Blogging
- hosted or integrated on site
- making blogging easy eg Scribefire
- Newsletters that engage
- don't just repeat what worked in print
- more personalised
- more relevant - links
- more teasers, more captions, more subheadings
- pull people through to your site and engage with them
- talk to your audience, ask their advice
- social media
has social media has been oversold to nonprofits and should they concentrate on their Web site first
- social spaces such as facebook bebo and myspace
Facebook is the ninth-most popular site on the web overall, and also among the “stickiest” with the highest average time per person spent on the site of the top 75 online brands
the largest growth in Facebook traffic came from people in the 35-49 age bracket.
- sites are revenue raising based on advertising
- social messaging services such as twitter
- fad or fundamental
- campaigns
- Greenpeace USA
- Oxfam
- NZ Blackout
- fundraising
- community building like ning
- professional networking like LinkedIn
- multimedia
- slideshare
- sharing images
- getting images
- video
- integrate on your site
- Managing your contacts
- CRM: what can you expect
- data only one place
- multiuser, no licence costs
- real time data access
- engaging your contacts
- enriching your information
- avoiding password and login hassles
- complex controls on access
- ability to extend custom data
- joining and donations
- event registrations
- case management
- searching and reporting
- task management
- creating relationships between contacts
- CRM comparisons
- Integrating technologies
- Getting your website and database in tune
- Drupal/Joomla and CiviCRM
- Organic Groups
- Connecting the dots
- tweeting your facebook and blogs
- email blasts with site logins
- Media monitoring
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- Google news alerts
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- Planning and training
- mind mapping
- collaborating online
- skype screensharing
- Google documents
- Advice
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- membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals
- drop-in clinic @ 7am NZ ;-(
- original research
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- reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits
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- Resources
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Have you ever tackled a big project on your own only to find yourself confused and flailing, wishing you had someone to turn to for advice? If so, you know firsthand the importance of an advisory committee. This article will help you learn to build and manage a tech team at your organization.
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blog posts and news from the world of non-profit organizations making a difference in Second Life
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- Australian resource for the not-for-profit sector
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lists of software tools reviews and contacts
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- Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology
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- a “safe” space for all those harried non-profit IT directors/sysadmins/developers to share experiences and wisdom regarding the IT non-profit sector
- e.g. a 4-part blog on how to Build a Nonprofit’s Technology Assets from the Ground Up
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- Blogging, and Nonprofit Technology
- social media marketing
- NZ sources
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TechSoup New Zealand provides donated software and hardware from companies such as Microsoft to eligible NZ Charities etc
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- Mapping
- Google maps and databases - knowing where your contacts are
- Who am I?
- Peter Davis
- former Communications Manager GreenMPs
- strategic communications advisor
- environmental advocate
- sustainability researcher
- Author NZ Green Guide [Penguin 1990]
- non-geek
- What is Fuzion?
- NZ-based company
- connect + campaign + communicate
- communication strategies
- campaigning and advocacy tools
- contact management systems
- content management systems
