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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists. I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

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Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? 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 from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009.

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Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. So, I’m starting with Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

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Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications.

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What are learning platforms?

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September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there.

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Linux ready for the desktop?

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Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. So, overall, I like it, and I’m sticking with it, with the exception of my addressbook and calendar. Getting some hardware configured can be painful.

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Frustrations

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web.