Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

That the old metrics aren't working. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. Two years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. Gotta work on that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. In September 2007, the U.S. Thousands of students with differing learning styles and language requirements can also benefit greatly from accessible books.

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JUNE 1, 2009

It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. For starters, it only works in Internet Explorer. images/location).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. A very different context than I, or most people reading this work in, for sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Here's how it works: NTC conference participants and local DC area volunteers team up, pick an organization to share their skills and expertise with and spend a few hours on-site. I got to work with a colleague, Dirk Slater, and watch him work with clients! The partners include NTEN, NPower Greater DC, and DC-Cares.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since 2007 Facebook has found great success in serving ads to its users at what could be considered a shockingly specific level. This is the part of the blog where you start to wonder if working on this new tech is worth it or truly needed. A glimpse at a cookie free world . Privacy vs performance. Conversion Tracking Accuracy.

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MAY 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Better Late than Never May 15, 2007 This carnival is a day late, unfortunately. Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC. Lots of wonderful folks, should be great panels. And of course, there is Penguin Day !!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far. And if you’ve been used to the Photoshop workflow, it will take a lot to get used to the very different GIMP workflow. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does.

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MAY 3, 2021

From an outsider’s eye, volunteer management may look easy: just be friendly when volunteers come in and thank them when they leave; be thankful you even have volunteers coming in to do the mission-oriented work. If only our work was that simple. Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. A great read for anyone who does development for clients.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. Another complication of continuing UA was that it works through cookies. What are the differences between UA and GA4? How do I get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Anyway, they were looking for a different article – one that was more about the advantages of FOSS, not about the broad category of free (as in beer) and low cost software, which includes FOSS, proprietary, and SaaS. at 4:01 pm I think there’s also some difficulty with different parts of the audience being at different places.

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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(?) "If we build it they will come" only works in the movies. I think the time has come to think differently. Throw a website at it! Wishing, unfortunately, won’t make it so.

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JANUARY 29, 2012

I love the people I’m working with now just as much as I did before. Outlook 2007 isn’t that bad. “Implementation” implies that I’ll only be working with Common Ground clients when they’re first getting started, and that couldn’t be further from reality. I love my job. My title now?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m learning November 30, 2007 It’s been mostly fun so far at the Open Translation event here in Zagreb. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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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. and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) I guess if you want privacy from casual observers, then a “walled garden&# works. 2 admin 08.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me.

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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 What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Joining the NTEN Board August 7, 2007 Katrin, the Executive Director of NTEN, announced today that I’m joining the Board. (So So now’s my chance to blog about it!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. And it’s open source – so someone who really cares can port it to work with MySQL, etc. How cool is that? 2 Josiah Ritchie 04.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. 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. 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Despite this, less than half of employees know what their organization stands for and what makes it different. Any area of the company that would be directly impacted had a seat at the table, connecting purpose and strategy to the people working in the stores. “We Brands With Purpose Link Day-to-Day Work to a Shared Purpose.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. There are different approaches to assigning people to groups and facilitating small group discussions, but it is used to have the same facilitation method for each.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

“If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 6, 2011

What I like most about WordPress is that I don’t really have to do any work to use it, or tweak it. I have hosted with Dreamhost since 2007. I love how easy it is to use. I keep debating about whether or not to migrate this blog to Drupal. Stay tuned. Hosting: All of my personal stuff is on Dreamhost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2007, over ten years ago, I launched a crowdfunding campaign to participate in the first ever Cambodian bloggers conference, organized by Tharu m and colleagues. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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