Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. It doesn’t really change anything.

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JUNE 11, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Circuit Rider School June 11, 2007 Way back when (last month – I’ve been busy) Deborah Finn blogged about the "New England School for Circuit Riders."

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APRIL 10, 2008

Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account? But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ? I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. Sure, why not. 4 James Young 04.15.08

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Also, to be fair, SourceForge supplies a lot more “raw resources&# to its projects — web space, databases, login servers, compile farms, and so on. It’s not intended to scale up to the proportions one would need for a major project like Python or Amanda. Depending on the project, those can be really useful.

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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.

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. More adoption means more developers involved, more users helping, more resources available.

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MARCH 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The scarcity mentality March 19, 2007 Kudos to Michele Martin who brings up a sticky issue: the scarcity mentality. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07

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MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. What I like: I hear about a lot of new things from Deborah, and she explores a lot of new tools, and asks good questions.

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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. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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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. I wish all nonprofits understood this!

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JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I’ve been a bad blogger over the past couple of months, I know.

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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. It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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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. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense.

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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. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. All-in-one. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). What's the tone, formal or informal?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs. Someone (I think it was Nick or Peter) said that nonprofits can do more than vendors think they can – so providing the resources is important.

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JUNE 10, 2011

By Laura Norvig, Special Librarian, the Resource Center. A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter.

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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. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access. I promise (!)

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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. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access. I promise (!)

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AUGUST 8, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Its focus is on servers, and Fedora , it’s “community version&# does certainly benefit from Red Hat’s development expertise and resources, but it doesn’t have as vibrant a community as Ubuntu, for instance. It was the first Linux distribution to make it big in the business world.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2009

That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. More >> Tools. My problem has been retrieval. Or I can create a widget and add it as my sidebar. Communication.

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MARCH 4, 2011

Resources are a huge challenge to any research effort. Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. 2007, State and regional: NewsBank. Sources: ^ [1] Ryman, Anne.

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

RSS feeds and blogs, article comments, social networks… it’s all increasingly important. 8 Oct 2007 Mike Wow! I have watched a lot of them at [link] 11 Oct 2007 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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JUNE 13, 2007

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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AUGUST 27, 2007

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator. Need some metrics guidelines?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. Fan Pages have a metrics tool that has just upgraded.

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JULY 26, 2007

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