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04.25.08Breaking: Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against ConvioA quick search on "Convio lawsuit" in Google turns up: http://snipurl.com/25sx1 [dockets_justia_com] The lawsuit was filed on April 22, 2008 and the plaintiff is Scott D.H. Redman. Digging further turned up this PDF document of the filing. The plaintiff's claim is that Convio keeps sending receipts with credit card expiration dates on them to donors in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I don't have any idea what the merits of this suit are but it looks like a fairly small violation to me. I'm wondering now how widespread this practice is and what kind of effect this will have on the ...
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10.10.07JustMeans = great job postingsMartin Smith, Founder and CEO of JustMeans Ok, ok, there's a lot of social networks for nonprofits out there now. The list is so long that most nptech bloggers have ceased to mention new entries unless there's something unique about the offering. At first, I have to admit that I thought JustMeans was a YASN (Yet Another Social Network) for the nonprofit sector. One of the core problems with most new social networks is the lack of content they exhibit as they slowly ramp up. It's a classic chicken and egg scenario. You don't get new users until you get compelling ...
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08.14.07Project Agape’s Causes Facebook app now at 2.5 million usersI had a quick phone interview with Joe Green and Keith Rarick from the Project Agape team. Joe Green is the head of Project Agape and Keith Rarick's "title" is Lead Engineer. I first wanted to ask the questions that were submitted on the blog. However, I think you can find many of the business-oriented questions that readers submitted answered in a more direct format over at Micah Sifry's interview with Joe Green over at the Personal Democracy Forum. Continue Reading...
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07.27.07What am I up to? I’m building socialmarkets.orgThat's Karl Brown from the Rockefeller Foundation, Jeff Tuller (the chairman at socialmarkets) and myself hanging out at Rockefeller Foundation I know I know -- I haven't posted recently. However, it's because I've been putting more and more effort into my startup at socialmarkets.org. You probably have seen Deborah Elizabeth Finn's posts regarding our efforts. Anyway, I'd really love for people to comment on our manifesto over at socialmarkets.org. I want to know what you think about the idea of a social capital marketplace for the nonprofit sector. I know -- that's a mouthful but let me give the quick and ...
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05.22.07Change 2.0 is out!Ben Rattray e-mailed me an hour ago that Change.org has released their 2.0 version that now allows users to build a virtual PAC for candidates. These were the new features he mentioned at the Personal Democracy Forum even though he was slightly stymied by a computer that refused to boot for his presentation. And Techcrunch has additional coverage as well. Continue Reading...
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03.31.07Happy Birthday to the Non-Profit Tech Blog!Picture above by Heaven's Gate (John) The blog is ONE year old. I can't believe it. Just for fun I did a year end accounting of all the traffic (using AWSTATS which does try to filter a lot of things out so my actual stats are probably way higher) on the site: 30,229 unique visitors 87,739 visits 439,961 pages 1073739 hits 18.80272 GB of total bandwidth Frankly, I'm impressed with the fact that I got even a tenth of this traffic (and that I didn't really start blogging until August) so it is with deep gratitude that I now take a virtual bow and give thanks to ...
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03.31.07Another social network for activism on the horizon…Techcrunch reports that Project Agape started by Sean Parker (co-founder of multiple Internet properties, Plaxo, Facebook and Napster) is headed towards the social and political activism space. So that makes for yet another social network treading on nonprofit ground. I know, I know, I understand that certain people in our sector are experiencing social networking fatigue. I say, give it time, I suspect that it will take 2-4 years before anything seriously materializes in the nonprofit space around a social network. In the meantime, let these new properties such as change.org bloom and grow. Continue Reading...
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03.16.07Change.org joins the ranks of widget makersChange.org is now the THIRD Flash-based widget maker for the nonprofit sector. It looks like the sector is really heating up around this technology as people are realizing the ramifications of a revenue stream built on donations to nonprofits. Nothing like getting a small, thin piece of a potentially large pie! Below is from Ben Rattray's e-mail to me regarding the widgets: As compared to Chipin’s widget, I think there are three things that make us different. First, we have access to Guidestar’s database use the nonprofit JustGive to process donations, so we can assure donors that their money will get ...
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03.12.07kikono.org it is!kikono.org was selected as the new name for our social news site for nonprofits. Just kidding with the logo there -- it was built on that Web 2.0 stylr thing. No, we'll get a proper logotype together soon. Change all your bookmarks! npdigg.org is officially kikono.org. Kik your tags to kikono! Here's a list of some things that are going to happen to kikono.org 1. Move it to its own site 2. Make sure tag links are properly imported. I've already made slight mods to the code to do this right as well as import the original tag creator. However, I'm working with ...
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03.08.07New Poll: What should be the new name for npdigg.org?Courtesy of Linus Gelber So... after careful deliberation (just making sure the domains are available), I have distilled the candidates for the new name. They are: nppligg.org npsocialsearch.org mynptags.org mytags.org kikono.org aardvark.org npanthill.org npstars.org Take your pick! As always, look for the poll on the upper, right-hand side of the screen. The poll will end at 9 AM Monday morning. The winner should be available then. In the event of a tie, we'll ask Dick Cheney to come in and break it.
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