Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

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. You can share these Blists.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

His examples are things like saving millions by reducing employee turnover, increasing profits by streamlining processes, etc. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. A great many people in my Mentor Program consult with non-profits. Not about how many hours you spent at the client office, or how many reports you wrote.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. at 10:40 am Twitter and Non-Profits-Are Baby Boomers Involved?

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MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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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 intend to make a good living on open source software.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

And I know that many nonprofits use software designed for corporations and for-profit entities, such as Quickbooks (although I know there is the NonProfit Books variant.) at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. The wholesale adoption of for profit language into the nonprofit space has bothered me for years.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. Do I like it better than Drupal? I’m not yet sure. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

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. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

There is one additional point I want to make: On some topics that may not have wide resonance yet, there is, by definition little traffic. Our dashboard rocks and we would be happy to share it widely — as we think that people SHOULD indeed be tracking all of their data as vigorously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. And, for what its worth, Arizona organizations are getting new charitable exemptions all the time, more than 800 of them in 2010 alone. This is great news.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Definitely. Doing More With Less: How Not-for-Profits Leverage Technology for Change: They've won Webby Awards. The SXSW Interactive Festival.

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MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2008 to $29.8 Receive monthly updates 14 Comments | by Share Article in Direct Mail , Online Fundraising Reader Comments (14) This is a very interesting article and your points are definitely valid. Although its a niche audience, the non-profit saturation mail programs are still an amazing way to get postage down to 6.7

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JULY 26, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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JULY 17, 2007

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is important to think about the fact that dollars raised by nonprofit organizations are going to Blackbaud’s investors whose major interest in Blackbaud is the profit it can produce. That is the driving force behind what Blackbaud is doing – maximizing profit. So what are all the others doing? Free software?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

February 18, 2008 This is a rant. Definitely agree on all fronts. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology No more custom CMS! And it is a rant on behalf of the hundreds (thousands?) 6 Mike Gifford 01.04.09 at 8:05 pm Thanks for this post.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. What's "super squirrel" about that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. In my experience, for-profit business people simply don’t. Are non-profit companies and people different? 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. 3 AJ 07.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

that I will highlight, I’ll give you a short definition of what Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0 The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

I have the honor of collaborating with fellow Zoetica founder, Kami Huyse , on our Society for New Communications Research Fellowship research on the concept of Lethal Generosity - a way that for-profits can leverage social media for social change outcomes. Refining the Definition. Kami said it best over in her post. "It

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MAY 4, 2009

I definitely agree with you about how it is important to keep content fresh on profile pages, this really helps to keep readers interested and paying attention to what youre saying. January 11, 2010 | Marie DeMars Excellent post. March 3, 2010 | Peggy Great post, thanks! April 26, 2010 | John G Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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MARCH 4, 2008

While we in the not-for-profit world are looking at how the Obama campaign can be a model for what we are doing with issues and organizations, those in the advertising industry are also taking note. Tobaccowala: Definitely, Obama. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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