Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ).

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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. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude. coming out in October.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. It should be easy to plug in a new monitor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

MARCH 27, 2008

I myself wrote a custom CMS a long time ago that would be considered crap now, so I don’t blame them for that, but the charges???) 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel. Five Lessons Learned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I like that she includes graphics in most of her posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 12.14.07 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. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07

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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. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Recently, I began experimenting with pushing the kind of info usually relegated to final reports out across multiple platforms. That seems a little more elusive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. At first, I liked it a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 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! And you don’t have to have that silly cube graphic in some far corner of your site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Economic theory required no falsifi-able hypotheses and demanded no repeatable controlled experiments (these would in most instances have been hard to organize in any case). He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008. There are lots more - if you come across them, put them in comments. Environment.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Pacific time. 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

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. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Economic theory required no falsifi-able hypotheses and demanded no repeatable controlled experiments (these would in most instances have been hard to organize in any case). He says: "Which brings us to the global crisis that began in 2007–2008. There are lots more - if you come across them, put them in comments. Environment.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2007

Everyone will agree that in places where there is a lot of text to read it is important to make the experience as comfortable as possible. Examples of serif fonts are Times New Roman and Courier New. Post a Comment | by Share Article in Email Marketing , Guest Blogs Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I promise (!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. took over MySpace.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. As the facilitator, you have give clear instructions to people and keep time. Share in the comments. The topics. … Read More

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization. Here are some examples of categories and how they might be implemented within a website: Show – Recent Tweets, Likes, Comments. Interact – FB Live Stream, Hashtag (Tweet Chat), Comments.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. Experiences? Some are huge.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In 1963, Charles Hermann defined a crisis with 3 distinct characteristics: surprise, threat and short response time. By turning our Facebook fan page into a community feedback forum, we were able to harness the power of our patrons by seeking their comments and suggestions in regards to our crisis. Implementing the strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. This was also about the same time as the flood in Nashville. In the end, this entire experiment was all about just that: experimenting.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. One thing that has kept this app relevant over time is the Aquarium’s commitment to keeping it updated. Frogloop has you covered.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Each of the solutions, such as online conferencing, recorded seminars, screencasts, and learning management systems, utilize the Internet to take the common job training seminar and keep it on location, saving time, energy, and money. Intro to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. Tools for Training Staff Online.

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