Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. It’s definitely worth a listen. That feels good. There is a part two coming, I understand.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I won’t be buying Leopard November 1, 2007 As many of you know, Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS, 10.5 , shipped just a few days ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Broadband, Day 1 March 5, 2007 Dial up just wasn’t going to cut it. As someone I talked with today said, “with dial up, the internet feels broken.&# YouTube ain’t bad.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company. Carol Cone is considered the “godmother” of social purpose, having launched the first social impact consultancy for companies, nonprofits, and foundations in the early 1980s. What is a purpose-driven business?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

2 trackbacks } Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 04.14.08 For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:40 am Twitter and Non-Profits-Are Baby Boomers Involved?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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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. It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. So I like Joomla.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

When I came back, I was surprised to see how many consultants and technology providers have jumped on the Salesforce bandwagon. at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. One of the big changes that has happened in the nptech space, besides the ways in which Web 2.0 Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I think it’s certainly a possible choice, especially if you’ve got a philosophical approach that’s resonant with Debian (a lot of activist technology organizations use Debian) and have (or can find) the expertise needed. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits. If you’re considering running this game yourself, definitely check out what we learned ! Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2006

There was a quite a flap on the list and according to Allan it came from vendors and consultants who suggested that vendors and consultants were upset because "seems vendors think that we???re Some consultants. Some consultants. Some consultants used to be nonprofit staff, some nonprofit staff used to be consultants.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. People definitely saw the URL in the local press and on local media websites and responded. 60) Search « Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I didnt follow the voice prompts to a real person, but Id guess that the founders abandoned their nonprofit and maintained their for-profit consulting gig instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Deadline is March 2n.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Charlene Li has a great graphic on measuring blogging impact from her 2007 report, and I can't say it any better than the Q&A that concludes this blog post that announced the report : Q: Is there a standard ROI for blogs? Q: Our CMO/CEO/CFO won't let us have a blog until we can show him/her the definitive ROI of a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. Or, if they do, the nonprofit will not have a full-time Web Analyst , although might work with a web analyst on a consulting basis. Learning Goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Definitely agree on all fronts. Wordpress… Cuz if you’re going to customize it anyway, and yes you are going to customize it, why not go with the simplest solution out there? Best and easiest out of box *content management* system out there. 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09 at 8:05 pm Thanks for this post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

The “free&# aspect of open source is definitely a draw to the neophyte; that doesn’t mean that proprietary is the only way to go afterwards. .&# This may be true, but I’ve seen my share of occasions where poor planning put people in what is affectionately called “open source hell.&# 3 AJ 07.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I definitely don't think mobile donations, and mobile solutions are a waste of time. In fact, any redesign project should be taking that into consideration from the start. An in-app donation feature would just be icing on the cake. All Rights Reserved

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Mashable has kindly published a list of major web services that definitely require password changes here. The 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its fifth report on what the science tells us about how fast human created global warming is affecting the biosphere.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

that I will highlight, I’ll give you a short definition of what Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0 The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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