Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. And should it be on the tool list over at WeAreMedia? All really great stuff. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?)

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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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NOVEMBER 26, 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 a Kindle November 26, 2007 I think I might need a new blog category: why I won’t be buying … First Leopard, now, Kindle. Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt,

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MARCH 27, 2008

I do a ton of technical writing, and I have become the “documentation facilitator&# of the OpenMRS project – it is an open source medical records system, designed to serve clinics in low-resource areas (such as sub-sarahan Africa) that treat patients with HIV/AIDS.

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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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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? gid=104492.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 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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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

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. A large chunk (the majority?)

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MARCH 9, 2008

.&# And, of course, there has been a lot of resources and money poured into server software for Linux, but not as much for tools for the desktop. And I’ve talked about how the means and the ends are the same – so it’s important to me to use open source tools. This is my dilemma. And I have to eat, too.

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APRIL 3, 2009

at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. Even though the documents online explains it well, people still use the T() and the DB_QUERY() functions incorrectly. at 4:26 pm Dave Keays wrote: Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. How busy is it?

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AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. I have become fascinated by the ways the CRM/Fundraising space is changing so rapidly.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. 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). 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. The API is SOAP. apps out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I had been thinking it was an isolated moment of geekily recursive silliness, but today I got a ping from Lucy Hooberman , also from the UK, about a post she wrote that observes that so many people are live blogging conferences that it produces a lot of documentation of the event. Davos 2007.??? At this rate, we???ll

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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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. The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We designed a highly interactive workshop based on Jo Wolfe’s “ NGO Digital Maturity Matrix ,” an assessment tool that enables nonprofits to codify mindsets and skill sets required for moving along the path of digital transformation. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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JUNE 9, 2010

View more documents from Noah Flower. is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Monitor Institute: KaBOOM! Case Study. And the results have been impressive. With assistance from KaBOOM!

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What tools do you already use, if any? What tools are you comfortable with? Should you support their use of existing tools, or create a new space? What are some possible tools? It doesn’t allow commenting on documents, but it’s a great place to create a libary of resources without hosting them yourselves.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. 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.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. Documentation creates internal value. Listening skills and tools upgraded.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

They understand that video is a critical communications tool in creating that narrative, especially online, and they strategically incorporate video onto their web pages. Perhaps most importantly, they are committed to a culture of documentation: they record almost everything. Foundation’s Sharron Raybold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

There are online collaboration tools with social features - many of which can be used for internal coordination/collaboration. She also shares some basic rules for introducing online collaboration tools. We can answer this question pretty well in the context of nonprofit organization for its external communications. Collaboration.

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MAY 28, 2013

The new Sweep feature has tools to clean and maintain your inbox. This means that you can do large attachments of up to 300 MB and share documents easily with others. It integrates with Outlook (on-premises) 2007 or higher by installing the free Hotmail Connector. You can also get an ad-free version for $19.95

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JULY 15, 2011

By thinking first about the goals, you clear a path for the decisions around which tools you’ll use to get there. Each category is exhibited by different tools, technology, and/or approaches. Check out the Brooklyn Museum’s API documentation for some pretty advanced tech sharing. Authenticate. Open source.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“Increasingly, audio and video on the Web are critical tools [for nonprofit groups] for communicating to people about the work they’re doing, and I only see that intensifying,&# Ms. “The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Even non-entertainment non-profits are using these tools.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“Increasingly, audio and video on the Web are critical tools [for nonprofit groups] for communicating to people about the work they’re doing, and I only see that intensifying,&# Ms. “The model of continuous documentation is so important,&# Mr. Hoffman says. Even non-entertainment non-profits are using these tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Learn about and document how the blogging team is doing outreach and encouraging new bloggers and share on my blog.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project.

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It has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent since 2007, and Cisco wants to bring this reduction up to 40 percent in the next couple of years. Box is a new donor partner that provides cloud document storage. Our many fundraising tools and services are now mostly cloud-based.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

I think the title should have been more aptly "Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better ROI for Fundraising Than Second Life in 2007!" It comes down to understanding what is the best tool/strategy to reach an organization???s Exploring a tool with a low risk experiment to see if it is the right fit is not a waste of resources.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I really like the idea of using online organizing tools to bridge the gap that many in politics and media tell us are unable to be bridged, and to provide a way for folks to "meet" one another virtually in a way that reduces anxiety and amplifies commonality. At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool.

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