Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising. I’m looking forward to reading it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

But I help them plan their technology initiatives (a new database, a new website, etc.,) For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training! Here''s what they said.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Because WordPress is so easy to use, people have twisted and turned it to make regular websites. It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

We might be able to build the most wizz-bang amazing website ever (in a technological sense) but if we haven’t really thought about how we moved through the project, never evaluated how the project really went, and didn’t learn from the process, in the end, the project wasn’t the success it seemed to be.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Check out the website. 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? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

September 30, 2007 I had decided, a while back, not to buy an iPhone. From a developers prospective, Vista is much better than OS 10 – Microsoft even gives away basic development tools like asp.net and visual studio on their website. No, but they are getting stupid. Too expensive, for one thing. The iPod is a rip off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2006

at 12:10 pm It doesn’t freak you out that: * Chase’s website runs on IIS? Even the big guys, with big budgets, mess up sometimes… It also means at least these guys are running windows. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 12.16.06 Chase’s QA/QC can miss something like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Linux people can actually join any Yugma session (including those hosted by a Skype user/skype version) by “joining&# from the yugma website (just click join on home page). Also we offer free training of the tool and will work with you to make sure whatever you are trying to accomplish will be able to get done and look good.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

If you want to try and get a small website going for your organization – Joomla is a good place to start. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Despite claims of access to a robust user community, there’s no sign of such on their website. Not among Techsoup’s Business Objects offerings, and $15k without discounts – there may be some available. Client-(pc-only) server?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI ( Nonprofit Open Source Initiative ) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.) That’s a good thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I have a new endeavor (see the last post ) that needs a new website, and I figured, why not? Well, guess what? Installing Joomla is dead easy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The projects ranged from as simple as troubleshooting a website to as complex as creating a management system for an organization with multiple locations in India. Through meet-ups, workshops, and trainings, NetSquared members collaborate on projects for social impact. A representative from each NGO presented his or her project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

After a few hours (as opposed to the few minutes it would take now) we configured that server to hold a website and serve email. We set up a little box in the corner of my office, and loaded several piles of floppies containing the Slackware distribution onto this box. The old site is still up on the Wayback Machine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

But from my perspective, working with organizations that are sometimes having a hard time moving from a static website to a CMS, social networks in general, and twitter specifically, are a long way away. Also, I am thinking about the need to train target markets how to use some of the social marketing tools like Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. Websites shouldn’t. Actually, they don’t even have a website. It’s not so much about depth and breadth, although that certainly can be a part of it.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. registration and online community website for associations, clubs and communities.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Lumity , a nonprofit organization serving the Chicago region for 25 years, "helps charitable organizations to more effectively fulfill their missions through technology, financial support services, and training." Learn more about them from this short video. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French. Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. " "We are using Office 2007 for our daily office work. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

It’s the 5th visited website in the United States and according to ComScore [the only Web data I trust], MySpace has almost 66 million active users … three times as many as Twitter, and [sadly] Twitter is now shedding users faster than MySpace. The AFL-CIO is non-existent and the Teamsters haven’t logged in since 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

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.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

A good software program, professional development opportunities for the development staff, and an investment in things such as research tools and consulting and training help for the development office can reap huge rewards.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Foursquare): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Facing History and Ourselves trains middle school and high school teachers. We're building a website for students all over the world that profiles five different human rights awards winners. Would you mind if we used your image "Monks in Roteang Village" for the website? The site is currently in BETA form.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Are there any tools that you know of that combine CMS and CRM (rather than pasting a web form html snippet on to another website)? I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

at 3:02 am Have you tried StumbleUpon for ’stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked. But in the meantime, social bookmarking tools are I think a useful part of Web 2.0. { 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Its great for lunch hours! 2 marnie webb 09.25.06

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AFP Blog

MAY 17, 2011

Disconnecting From The Network : "NPower, the national network of nonprofit technology consulting and training organizations, has restructured. In a quiet change late last year, NPower New York, which took over the national organization in 2007, became just NPower and dropped any mention of the other affiliates from its website.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. One cool sounding project in Brazil is, Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators. If by December 14, 2007 12:00PM PST, Bryan's Cause has the most unique donors, the Interfaith Youth Core will receive $1,000 from the Case Foundation.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting. Easy to use website to track messages and responses. Bogii partnered with Mobicom, the largest mobile provider in Mongolia.

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