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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. He even asks “What would Jesus do?&# Worth a read! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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Another interesting thing was that I wrote an article for TechSoup, on “ The True Cost of Free and Low Cost software.&# I said this at the end of my response: This makes me wonder whether things have changed. 4 Laura Quinn 01.21.08

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AUGUST 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tips for reducing IT costs August 16, 2007 Nicholas Carr, who writes the blog Rough Type , is a smart dude. We all don’t need to be on the bleeding edge to get stuff done. {

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So if the article is about a fire, you might see on the widget information about the American Red Cross, or other local nonprofits that address the needs of victims of fire. at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. Watch the demo.

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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. for at least 4 years. Lately, I’ve been running the 2.3

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry before a brief break August 30, 2007 I’m taking a brief 4 day weekend – not that it would be that noticeable on this blog, since I don’t always post consistently.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is a good blog article , which, in some regards, might be seen as a criticism of the dataportability.org group, but which, to my mind, actually defines quite well what I’ve thought data portability means. .&# are *yours* to do whatever you want with. And you have control over who can see what.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 10:38 pm Thanks for adding my article =)! 2 Beth Kanter 11.19.07

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JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I’ve been writing a series of articles for LASA’s ICT Knowledgebase.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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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. In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

She wrote a great series of articles for O’Reilly about IPv6. One of my favorite people who makes geeky stuff understandable is Carla Schroeder. They are worth a read. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. They are worth a read. {

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MARCH 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Nonprofit Data Management March 12, 2007 As you know, nonprofit data management has been a really important issue for me for a long time.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

at 8:08 am I have been using Site Meter since my blog was born mid-July, but many articles tout the superiority of Google Analytics. If I’m reading your article correctly, you’re saying you’re sticking with Site Meter. And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water. {

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The recent theft of confidential documents from Twitter's Google Docs account points out the dangers of insecure passwords. A 2007 NTEN post provided suggestions and resources for creating strong passwords and establishing a password policy. NTEN's blog discusses the details of the break-in and lessons we should learn from it.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

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OCTOBER 27, 2006

All of these articles were interesting and thoughtful. It’s really nice to learn more about what people are talking about. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. I’ll be posting the Carnival on Monday afternoon. {

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AUGUST 12, 2007

Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. But, as the article linked above says, they don’t have an official affiliate program, so it will take some shoe leather on your part to build the business aspects.

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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!" Karen Taggart is a Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. Check out this article in MORE Magazine about Diane Lane , one of six actresses involved in film. Check out Tara Mohr's interview with her on The Huffington Post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to see my article about my impressions of snews…see sNews – an easy and simple web publishing tool for non profit organisations Each CMS should be judged by an org, on what it can provide now for an organisation as well as in the future. BTW, really enjoying your 100 foss posts… keep it up!

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. 2 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 01.22.07

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JUNE 26, 2013

In an article about his surfing in the local newspaper , he said, “I like the thrill of riding a large waves – it’s like climbing Mount Everest.” One of my most memorable Skype calls was when I had forgot to turn switch off SKYPE during a presentation to health care nonprofits about social media in 2007.

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Yesterday's Huffington Post article, 500,000 Iraqis Refugees in 2007 , reported that, "A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality." Follow their Twitter feed. That's a statistic you don't often see in the news.

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This one is a bit complicated, so check out Ed Bott ’s ZDnet article: Why I use Outlook.com for my custom email accounts (and how you can too). Outlook.com connects up with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and soon Skype to "bring your connected world to email," as they say.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 9:17 am Thanks for this informative article! Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool. 3 Beth 09.27.06 4 Michelle 09.27.06

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MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. 2007, State and regional: NewsBank. Schools are Failing Or Lagging." Arizona Republic : A.1. Arizona Republic.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." When I first saw the article, I thought it was the article from a year ago where they said basically the same thing. Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic.

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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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0 com , Inc.

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