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If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. What is Google Analytics 4? Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) How do I switch from UA to GA4?

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And I’ll be Google+ing (rather than Tweeting, which is mostly for my writing , or Facebooking, which is friends/family) interesting Tech and NPTech topics as they come along and are discussed. And when Google+ stops being relevant, I’ll find the next thing that comes along to share links and ideas and discuss.

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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.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

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 great software. 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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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. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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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. Be Helpful.

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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I said in that post: At one level, whether or not the software underneath the SaaS is open source is not relevant. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Well, we have some data from Europe : FLOSS potentially saves industry over 36% in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation. A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1%

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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. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

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. 2 Jack 08.07.08 Be Helpful.

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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.) I learned a lot. Be Helpful.

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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. And yes, it would be cheating to make that a separate blog entry!) Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 24, 2008

It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention. It is a great blogging tool. I doubt you’ll look back. {

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JANUARY 3, 2008

Generally, Thunderbird falls into the category of free and open source software that “just works.&# It’s easy to set up accounts, move mail around, and do sophisticated filtering of mail, and such. And, because it’s in the Mozilla family, it has a plug in architecture which can add some really neat features. Be Helpful.

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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. .&# Be Helpful.

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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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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. I had good intentions, like virtually all software vendors do.

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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. I tout the benefits of open source software. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. It sometimes tastes yucky. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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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. I’ve thought that it was truly one of the best pieces of software ever written.

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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. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. He’s right. Be Helpful.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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. Be Helpful.

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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 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

September 30, 2007 I had decided, a while back, not to buy an iPhone. The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. No, but they are getting stupid. Too expensive, for one thing. This is why.

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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

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 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 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. Be Helpful.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. 4 Ade 12.18.07

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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. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 So that’s good. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

When I read that Google was donating $600,000 to provide free Wi-Fi in San Francisco parks, my first thought was, "Wow, it's going to be hard to get a signal at Dolores Park on a sunny day." Since 2007, San Francisco has been striving toward becoming a digitally inclusive city. Powering Communities with Tech.

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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. That why the “walled gardens” are great to have, it protects your privacy so when someone google’s you they wont pull up any inappropriate material that you’ve posted. 2 admin 08.08.07

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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. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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