Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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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. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. And I’ll also be experimenting with the XHTML Friends Network , which looks like an interesting start on an open way to connect people. { There are some great tips in this Wired article.

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APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued.

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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 co-administered that box for a few years.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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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. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. But it appears, from my experience and others, that question actually has to be framed not as “Is Linux ready for the desktop?&# , but “Is Linux ready for your desktop?&# coming out in October.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive?

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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. Both of these things have lead me to think a lot about this topic.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. It is a huge community, so it is hard to get to know users, since there are so many, but it’s not commercialized, from my experience.

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MAY 21, 2007

I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Ubuntu doesn’t come default with an easy GUI way to connect to a wireless access point. I had to go command line in order to get online. So I had to dig out of my memory (and do some online looking) about iwconfig.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. There is a good reason Time Magazine named the iPhone the Invention of the Year in 2007 and that 87% of smartphone consumers in the United States chose the iPhone.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! I appreciate your patience as I know my ignorance was showing. There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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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. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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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. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. 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. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you. Hmmmm… 6 Beth 09.28.06 7 Todd Sieling 09.28.06 Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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JULY 28, 2010

Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter. 1) Your organization’s social media campaigner should be passionate about the Internet, social media, and flexible, and most importantly willing to experiment with new tools. Five Lessons Learned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. There’s no shortage of niche networks out there to experiment with. If your nonprofit primarily serves the African American community, it’s worth experimenting with a group on BlackPlanet. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

I’d like to share our experience with Lavelle, where they took a series of calculated risks in grantmaking. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Economic theory required no falsifi-able hypotheses and demanded no repeatable controlled experiments (these would in most instances have been hard to organize in any case). He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Economic theory required no falsifi-able hypotheses and demanded no repeatable controlled experiments (these would in most instances have been hard to organize in any case). He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” For consultants, networks expertise is an addition to standard skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Though the numbers aren't in, it must be likely be higher in 2008 as this article by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times points out. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

When developing mechanisms to improve downward accountability, informal mechanisms provide opportunities for unexpected communication with nonprofit staff and empower clients to provide perspectives relevant to their experiences (Wellens & Jegers, 2016). From consultation to participation. doi:10.1002/nml.21191.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. Human contact leverages passion that sometimes gets lost online. And am I ever energized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008.

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