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My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?)

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Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?

ASU Lodestar Center

In their 2007 Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) writes, “Inadequate infrastructure leads to inadequate organizational performance. Four methods to address the challenges of slim administrative budgets are: 1. Grant Makers for Effective Organizations (2007). As Sharon King, president of the F.B.

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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. It’s designed as a basecamp clone. However, that won’t happen.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) They work by REST via POST, or JSON.

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An Analytics Consultant’s Recommendations for Fundraising During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. We’ve weathered the 11 recessions that have occurred between 1945 and 2001 as well.