Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. The other arm is learning. I can’t do what I do without being a technology expert. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 2 admin 11.22.07 That was all.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. at 9:36 am Ha ha, I want to know what the naughty word is!!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Consider the Wikisonic , a beautiful collaborative instrument initiated by Jon Brouchoud, an architect from Wisconsin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. We believe NLEs will be the next evolution in eLearning: [link].

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women.

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