Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Here’s some statistics about what happens when a girl who makes it through both high quality primary and secondary education is… …less likely to experience violence or marry and have children whilst she is still a child. …more likely to be literate, healthy and survive into adulthood, as are her children.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07

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JANUARY 19, 2011

I “met&# virtually Chris first through the NpTech Tag in 2007 and he kindly helped me clean up an RSS mess. Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan. Chris lead us through a simple user design process based a book by Giles Colborne.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. One big one was my address book. First problem: Linux address books … suck. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. It sometimes tastes yucky. It was great. 3) Evolution.

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JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." Throw a website at it!

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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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MARCH 27, 2008

I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems. I know when a vendor knows their technology, and when they are blowing sales language at me, and might not be up to the technical task.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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MAY 21, 2007

I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.) Next up, let’s see how the details of migration (web, mail, address book, etc. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. I co-administered that box for a few years. Eventually, they got a T1, and moved the server in-house. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time.

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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 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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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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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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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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OCTOBER 12, 2011

A student of various dialogue approaches, he was an integral member of the team that developed the World Cafe dialogue process and was director of community outreach from 1997 to 2007 for The World Café Community Foundation. Pierre Khawand has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

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. I do disagree with you about the commercialization of the Joomla community, though. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. The interaction component was a new version of the Social Media Game that I first used in 2007 with David Wilcox. The largest group I ever worked with was with the Meyer Memorial Trust in Portland for 150 nonprofits and with Compasspoint for a 100 organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

We are interested to hear your personal experiences, your thoughts on media stereotypes of certain religious and ethnic groups, and your views on how violent conflict has affected your life. Image & Identity: Culture behind clothes Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007 Appearances aren’t everything, or are they?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. The blog started with a conference experience. It was going to be developed by contractors and overseen by Anna.

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JULY 31, 2013

I didn''t want to write about something I was an expert on; I wanted to write to explore new ideas, share my questions and ideas, and learn from the experience. It has been a catalyst for speaking and consulting gigs, and the laboratory for a book. Blogging gave me a way to formalize out-of-work learning in a format I enjoy.

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MARCH 4, 2009

The campaign is trying to raise awareness that, "Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape, or other violence." One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

It’s a much richer, more thought-out experience than anything I’ve seen for nonprofits on social networks. [.] 18 Oct 2007 facebook » Convio Open – Why the Convio Facebook Application blows away Causes [.] 19 Oct 2007 Non-Profit Tech Blog » Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right now [.]

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FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Now she is the Producing Director of Women Center Stage. In addition to her work as a musician , Greer and her boyfriend, Aaron Rudenstine, produced the book, Actions Speak Louder Than Bumper Stickers , a collection of progressive, often hilarious, bumper stickers. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi.

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JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Looking for a job can be a lonely, frustrating experience. Boy, do I wish this book had been around when I was in college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

PledgeBank is a platform that gives folks a way to connect with others in ways that integrate with their everyday lives and capitalize on their wisdom, experience, and resources -- whatever. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. More on that later.

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