Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector? How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at. I’m creating a new practice, called MetaCentric Techology Advising.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. That dog won’t hunt. I believe that a web site will eventually become a major hub of communications even for direct service organizations.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. If the learner is not actually opening the content, then you’re not providing a valued service, you’re just contributing to alert fatigue. Slope of Enlightenment. xAPI: It is eerie how xAPI has exactly followed the hype curve.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. The previous sentence is a clumsy attempt to use langage from both parties in the conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Business people evaluating process advice have a much harder task: they have to evaluate the product based on their experience and the reputation of the author, and if they do try to “run&# the advice, they have to do it in the real world of their enterprise at a very high cost for failure. These worlds are radically different.

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