Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Now, it’s one of a very few choices that work on Linux – and it’s the best by far.

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MAY 15, 2007

Getting construction work done on your house will make life difficult sometimes. I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals.

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MARCH 19, 2007

I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Mark, of Sea Change Strategies , talks about five mistakes he’s made in working with clients, includes things such as ignoring internal organizational dynamics, and getting too involved, or not involved enough. He has some really good thoughts worth considering as we work with clients over time.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. at 2:31 pm There was an effort by some folks from Debian (not officially Debian) to work on a distro for Bhutan which uses a language similar to Tibetan. The event itself has been fab.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

"If we build it they will come" only works in the movies. I think the time has come to think differently. The point of a nonprofit – the point of working to help others in any fashion really – is that if you have helped one or two people, the plight was worthwhile. at 11:51 am Sadly, you’re right.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. And it’s open source – so someone who really cares can port it to work with MySQL, etc.

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JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { The feed should stay the same.

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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. .&# So many organizations that I talk to still don’t know what it is, let alone how much it could be changing their work, etc.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010. 2) Causes – [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. Almost all of our development work goes into the community version. I couldn’t figure out whether the project was dead or not. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 at 3:45 am I don’t like the way Basecamp is set up. Check it out [link]. 3 Dustin J.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

and our own Social Source Commons , are a different animal.) It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it. I guess if you want privacy from casual observers, then a “walled garden&# works. 2 admin 08.08.07

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. Founded: 2010 Designed with fundraising staff in mind, iDonate’s overall mission is to move overall giving from 2% of disposable income to 4% by 2025. MobileCause. Platform Fee: 2.5%

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? Right, right, right.

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APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. I am rather pained by the thought that the technologies to which I have dedicated my career have done so much to create precisely the horrors that we profess to work against.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. I am rather pained by the thought that the technologies to which I have dedicated my career have done so much to create precisely the horrors that we profess to work against.

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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. Heck, yeah, I could easily argue it will help them in their work. Sure, why not.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds. We worked with Ianncomm for the Drupal development and Frazny for the Salesforce work. 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. 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job. 3 Laura Whitehead 02.05.08 4 admin 02.05.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. I hope this will help in understanding how it works. 2 Beth Kanter 12.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. The middle way isn’t splitting the difference. Or given up? It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. 2 Michelle Murrain 11.16.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. at 12:33 pm I think digital sharecropping works better as an analogy than as an actual analytical insight. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Understandably, it has come to be somewhat different than I designed it back then, but it still feels good that something that I worked hard on is still serving people. I sat for hours (or days) at a time in front of my screen without contact with the folks I was doing the work for.

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APRIL 15, 2007

I guess that’s where it gets interesting when you work with a CMS, right? It’s the same, really, with Drupal, only different. And we use plone for a lot of things in the organization I work for now. Um, sorta. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. And, of course, there are plenty of peripherals that don’t work with Macs.) Did you learn anything about how your computer works?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. There is a constant need to reach out to more supporters who exist on different (evolving) social platforms, and cultivate a personal relationship with them. It says that 22.7%

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MARCH 12, 2011

And each of us explained it a little differently. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. " The work begins Here's where it got tough. She got it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I am working on several projects, both collective and personal. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. And even if they were, they might not integrate well (For example, I use three different Basecamp accounts – which don’t integrate with each other.)

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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