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JUNE 4, 2012

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. " "We are using Office 2007 for our daily office work. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

I agreed to publish my piece at Sage for complicated reasons, but… I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. That’s super depressing. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same. It’s really worth a read.

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JUNE 25, 2008

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. would all be free (libre).

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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. But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Data – We collect only data that is on the public web like all other search engines and never display personally identifiable information (phone, email, address). I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock.

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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.

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APRIL 3, 2009

In the end David is right… the absence of a good metric does not excuse the publication of a bad one. Does it contribute the information that the the project does not report their security vulnerabilities? 7 admin 04.07.09 at 9:13 am Actually, Plone didn’t have zero – it had two.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

I have to admit that I went into this thinking much more about the more public types of APIs even though the APIs for internal data integration has been a real interest of mine, and a real concern, as well. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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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. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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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. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

In their words: “CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast. It is Red Hat, with branding removed. So they take RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and repackage it.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

I suppose if there were a lot of charity focused intermediaries that wanted to build and market applications on top of a platform, then there would be a huge incentive to maintain platform neutral APIs. But so far Convio on top of Salesforce is the only publicly visible player in that space.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as a publicly traded company September 1, 2007 You’ve probably heard the news, and I’m taking a break from my break to write about it.

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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. The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. Others aren’t at all.

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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 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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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. And, their weapon is poetry.

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