Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org.

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JUNE 26, 2013

This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard. We will also adopt the beach at Brunswick Avenue in his memory.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis. 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. In fact, that is far from the case.) I’ll keep you posted. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A big player jumping into Linux June 15, 2007 Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks, Quicken, and TurboTax, are jumping on the Linux bandwagon. Check out PostBooks at [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. One of the drivers of adoption of any software is relentless positivity. Driving nonprofit open source adoption might be best served by a mix of actors (NOSI as a relentless proponent, Idealware as a responsible reviewer). That was my point. { The negatives clutter the message.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

Because my children were adopted from Cambodia and it is a way to give back. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007. I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation , that supports children and young people in Cambodia. HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! DONATE HERE ! Why this charity?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Thanks for a great site!! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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APRIL 15, 2014

” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. If you find Twitter boring, perhaps you are following wrong people. She’s written a book about this, “ The Social Learning Handbook.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

RSVP today and join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag: #NPLive. Ben co-founded Games for Change and served as a co-director until 2007. Expert Guests. Barry Joseph, Global Kids. Four months after Barry Joseph was born, humans first walked on the moon. Three months later, the Internet was born. Ben Stokes, Games for Change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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JANUARY 6, 2011

Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! It does heavily rely on Twitter and Facebook for promotion, adding it to the increasing amount of social middleware platforms that are being developed. What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future.

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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. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

If we adopt, in whole, or in part, the metaphors of the corporate world, whose basic fundamental goal is making a profit, and use it in the nonprofit sector, whose basic fundamental goal is making people’s lives better, does that create a problem or conflict?

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2010

This leads to some valuable opportunities for product designers, who have often used SxSW to release their wares into this hungry ecosystem of early adopters. In 2007, Twitter was announced here. When Twitter was announced, many attendees rushed to sign up. Now, updates on Twitter and Facebook are commonplace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

It is my not so humble opinion that, like many technologies, simply the presence of them provides pressure for some to adopt them. I’m an early adopter, I know – it’s easy to feel like everyone’s doing it, and maybe I should look into it. Or whatever. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Some participants acknowledged that they "Twitter resisters." Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. On Twitter, it is retweets. Social media is evolving at an incredible pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone? To celebrate, Rob Stein , the CIO, has started a series of blog posts on transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011. is by far the number one question we get by email, Twitter and Facebook when we talk about our app.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit. Cancer.org is an early adopter and nonprofit pioneer using this largely untapped fundraising technology. Jen Burton, Community Director of Causes Fundraising Focus: Facebook.

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Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) allow you to send out polls and questions to your followers. Social media polls. This is a great way to find out what supporters and community members are interested in or to get feedback on certain issues and initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. bleeding edge tool, twitter. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He mentioned that I would be talking about Twitter and quipped."If "If you see me twittering, take me to the back and shoot me." " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip. The corporate sector have adopted it. Mike Seyfang responded.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

That’s especially true on Twitter. Your organization is much more likely to be successful on Twitter if you can respond quickly to breaking news related to your mission and/or organization. The subject of nonprofits and blogging was very popular in 2006 and 2007. I have icons for Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

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Brother Wolf Animal Rescue was founded in 2007 to enhance the lives of companion animals and the people who love them. Additionally, who doesn’t love a donation form with cute, adoptable dogs and cats on it? Their two primary social media accounts, Facebook and Twitter, were provided via direct feed on the year-end donation form.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2011

Like other early adopters of the day, I was more than eager to pay the $200 Donate Now account sign-up fee and high donation-processing rates. Notice the larger jump in giving in 2007? Facebook Fan Pages were launched late in 2006 and grew by the millions in the nonprofit sector throughout 2007 to the present.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" May 1, 2006 | Sandy thank you September 18, 2007 | sohbet Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The sea-change in nonprofit adoption of APIs has yet to occur. But widgets are just the beginning.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Yet there are organizations like LIVESTRONG, the Humane Society of the United States, Care2, Wiser Earth, the American Red Cross, charity: water and others that have been successful with social year for successive years dating back to 2007 if not earlier. They adapted. In some cases, they changed systems to make it more community centric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010.

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