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AUGUST 5, 2008

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 08.07.08 RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group. But the real question is: will this actually result in data portability? {

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. It’s a pretty amazing tool.

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It can handle quite the long list of chat protocols: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC , SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client. A number of these I’ve never heard of. It’s got great plug-ins, too. {

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons. I love it.

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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. OpenSocial is a set of APIs. It’s aimed primarily at developers.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. I have a few comments. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08

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JANUARY 24, 2008

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 DennisVega 09.30.09 at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Update: Nick Carr thinks the fair use study is “a crock.&# Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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JANUARY 3, 2008

I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 David Ascher 01.03.08 at 8:39 pm Wow, Thunderbird gets the #1 post!

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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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OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.)

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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. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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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. at 10:14 pm Good carnival!

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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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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. at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. Basically, he argues that in the era of Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 Brian 11.23.07 at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Karel Lukas 08.24.07

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. You know why I started to twitter. 2 Beth Kanter 12.18.07

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

September 30, 2007 I had decided, a while back, not to buy an iPhone. at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 Choosing Apple will always be like choosing ask.com over google because ask.com has a ‘prettier’ interface. No, but they are getting stupid. Too expensive, for one thing.

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JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. It sometimes tastes yucky. Yeah, talk about lock-in!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) Comments and Likes on Facebook and LinkedIn postings, retweets and replies on Twitter, and comments on YouTube videos), (3) increase in fan base on the social networking outlets.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { 3 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 9/22 « i On Nonprofits 09.25.08 at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

land are either using iCal, or integrating with Google Calendar (my present calendaring software). I can’t change a basecamp milestone in Google Cal, I have to go back to that particular basecamp account to change it. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments. So that’s good. But the integration there even can be clunky.

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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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60) Search « NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award | Main | Building a Successful Internet Presence » Tuesday Aug 21 2007 Get a Google Earth Pro License for Free! Visit Google to learn more: [link] Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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” As part of doing the demo of Convio’s new application, Austin noted that Convio reportedly is offering additional extensions for nonprofits to tap into audiences on Google, Flickr, Plaxo and YouTube, as well. Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments.

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JUNE 26, 2007

Google Earth Outreach To Aid Nonprofits | WebProNews: "Google Earth Outreach To Aid NonprofitsMike Sachoff's pictureSubmitted by Mike Sachoff on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 10:59.Comment

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