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Of course you do. According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. This decline is not anecdotal.

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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JUNE 17, 2008

This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It’s an interesting time, and there is a good question – is this something nonprofits should jump on? That, of course, can spread virally. Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. The platform contains two parts, which I’ll talk about individually.

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. There are, of course, some tweaks we can make to make sure that everyone really can gain value from NTC, and we can sustain the richness that it contains.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. So here goes. The date was sometime in 1995.

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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. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Glad you like it.

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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!&#

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news. All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. But first, of course, you must be “verified&# as a Kintera Connect partner.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. In a sense, we are, of course quite biased. Perhaps it’s time to change the message, a bit. Comments? {

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I have owned about a dozen Macintosh computers (or clones) over the course of 20 years. There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

So there was the saga of migrating my data from Apple’s proprietary address book to Evolution (and of course, dealing with the beast that Evolution is.) And, to top it off, I had to make things more complicated last week, because I decided to get a Palm PDA again. found a great, really cheap E2 on Ebay.)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Quite the contrary: it was very well made, with important, disturbing, and timely information. The 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards , which we're co-sponsoring with See3 Communications and the Nonprofit Times , are now open. If you made a video in 2008, we want to see it!

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JULY 9, 2007

It’s not as bad as Thunderbird, except, of course, it doesn’t integrate with Thunderbird. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. at 5:36 am I was reading though this post thinking about Evolution until, of course, you mentioned it. 2) KAddressBook. It’s just a bit more polished.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points. Here’s hoping that the next time around we get even more response! 3 Christopher Scott 12.17.07

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

But I think time will tell. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. They have the gold standard in API and I think it will be a long time before anyone else gets to that level. You are totally right about Salesforce.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

. “Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization.&# In fact, if you are a nonprofit, you’ve spent time wading through that crap (and believe me, I’ve created my own healthy share of vendorspeak.) you the picture.

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JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. And, of course, always, for developers.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 2 admin 04.03.09

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MARCH 19, 2007

If ten similar nonprofit organizations came together to build a system that would work for them, they each would get 10 times the software that they could afford individually. But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration. So it doesn’t happen.

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

He thinks that time-based billing is bad. On one hand, he feels that consultants should base their fees on the value they bring to the consulting relationship, not the time spent. But some of his ideas are interesting, especially the notion of setting the fees on the value you bring, rather than the time you spend.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs September 27, 2006 When I start out these series, I seem to have an idea in hand about how to organize them, which, invariably, gets rearranged in the course of writing. Which, of course, is why many people and many organizations don’t need blogs. Such is life. That’s part of the point.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

Human beings use metaphors all the time to understand the world, and to frame it. " Software uses metaphors all the time as well. Of course, the use of business metaphors, language and procedures in the nonprofit sector in general is far from new, and it’s been a trend I’ve not liked much. 4 Katrin 10.13.06

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Let's just consider our popular webinars : in addition to saving up to 50% off our already low prices, NTEN Members can buy the Season Pass -- unlimited webinars in 2009 for only $275. And, of course, NTEN Members save $200 off registration for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Prepare for the NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. They each have their good points and bad, strengths and reasons I use them (I use furl, for instance, to save pages I think might go away, or become paid content after a short time being free.) It’s just so … painful.

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Founded: 2009 A leader in the crowdfunding space, it doesn’t get much more straightforward than setting up a page with Fundly for a simple means of collecting donations online. Properly is the key word here, as customizing Salesforce, despite the 10 free seats offered still costs dev time and ongoing management of your data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

You basically have to either decide which site has your loyalty, and then stay with that one (or spend a lot of time importing and exporting and double/treble/quadruple bookmarking. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.) It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Even if Allan’s vision does become reality some time in the future, why rush to present your figures now. Allan assumes two points here.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Web Huddle – The only other one I can find that at this time offers the possibility of sharing a Linux desktop. at 12:31 pm Online Courses » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.06.07 We chose Persony because it had one of the simplest interfaces and had a one-time fee. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news. All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008.

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