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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on?

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. There are, of course, some tweaks we can make to make sure that everyone really can gain value from NTC, and we can sustain the richness that it contains.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. So here goes. The date was sometime in 1995.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Glad you like it.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased. Perhaps it’s time to change the message, a bit. Comments? {

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. It sometimes tastes yucky. 2) KAddressBook.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points. Here’s hoping that the next time around we get even more response! 3 Christopher Scott 12.17.07

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. But I think time will tell. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. You are totally right about Salesforce.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. And, of course, always, for developers.

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MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. So it doesn’t happen. This reminds me of a true story. So, guess what?

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APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. Of course, I totally agree with you that more eyeballs on code leads to more vulnerabilities shown. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. He thinks that time-based billing is bad. The real wealth is discretionary time.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

Human beings use metaphors all the time to understand the world, and to frame it. " Software uses metaphors all the time as well. Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. 4 Katrin 10.13.06

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. They each have their good points and bad, strengths and reasons I use them (I use furl, for instance, to save pages I think might go away, or become paid content after a short time being free.) It’s just so … painful.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008. Occupy has made this argument mainstream.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

And, of course, otters aren’t the only marine animals that people love – there’s mariachi whales. Time to Update The Cute Dog Theory of Social Media: Cute Animal Theory. Back in 2007, I noticed a pattern in the US. Cute Dog Theory. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us. That’s what a lot of foundations would love to see happen: in this case, it’s happened multiple times! We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

All good stuff, and I'm not at all against any of this, of course, and I think as a short-term way out of the worst of our current problems, it makes a boat load of sense. He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008. Occupy has made this argument mainstream.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 9 sundar 08.24.07

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Why is MacBU adopting Ribbon now, after defending its absence in 2008 ? And as we looked ahead toward the next decade, we knew it was time to take the venerable Office for Mac user interface to the next level. The consensus among Mac users seems to be one of bemusement. read more.

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It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007). Banks were not lending.

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