Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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JULY 21, 2015

In early July, it was revealed that adversaries gained access to an archaic — but crucial — part of our government personnel system , where detailed background information required to obtain security clearances in most U.S. Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 (including Server Core installations).

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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second.

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APRIL 15, 2009

And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible. Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 Open-access is right. know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks.

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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. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The date was sometime in 1995.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Children’s Network also convenes and coordinates other local child welfare agencies, knitting together seven family resource centers with a database called the Childnet Results Manager data system. This project actually started with a Microsoft Access version of the Childnet Results Manager.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2010

I remember the heady days, when most nonprofits didn’t even have networks, and some of them still didn’t have internet access. You can bet that the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections will not be a repeat of the 2008 election with such a massive differential in use of technology and social networks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. to the data in the Kintera platform. The APIs will be without cost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. We had just won a large contract to deliver high-quality accessible textbooks to students with disabilities in the U.S., With the investment in systems thanks to Rockefeller’s support, expansion is relatively easy. We go way back with her firm.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. billion people lack access to toilets. To actually improve our world, both fix the things that are broken as well as create new systems that aren’t, we need behavior change. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. And fine grained access control to what data goes through to which other individuals. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important. 2 admin 11.22.07

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JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. Server-based DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) MySQL – MySQL is, I think, the most popular, and best known open source DBMS. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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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. It’s not just about access to resources in an economic sense. But it needs addressing. {

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

He talks about data “accessibility&# , “visibility&# , “removal&# and “ownership&# – all things that, to my mind, are components of data portability. I’m involved in the evangelism action group. .&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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JULY 9, 2007

I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It’s as good as Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 but not as good as the current Outlook Web Access product. There are still some, shall we say, hanging chads. It was great.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Make sure you know how to access your on-demand training options and urge your staff to take advantage of what’s available. About the Author Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

This is an increase of 13% in call volume over 2008. VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Finally, Organizer’s Database is open source, but written on top of a proprietary platform (Microsoft Access). 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Grantmakers of all sizes should check out Idealware's recently updated Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Systems. Available from Idealware's website as a free download, the updated guide compares 20 grants management systems, including popular offerings from Bromelkamp and MicroEdge. More Customizable Interfaces.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

It allows nonprofits free access to data that they would normally not have access to (like mapping data), or would have to pay a lot for. I think that APIs are an expression of the best of what the internet is about. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. And if nonprofits, in making their own Web 2.0

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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’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org. and pretty good, and improving fast.) that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The CRM is Salesforce, the CMS and Web Publish System is Drupal and then we have to determine the Donation Managment System (Convio, Blacbkaud) or do we create custom donation forms and use a 3rd party? And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. 3 sudha 01.15.09

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We then did check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use. Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. Rebooting the system did not work. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We then did check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use. Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. Rebooting the system did not work. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" Ping him over at his blog. Christian also sent me some links that answer an earlier question I've had, " How Can We Use Cell Phones to Bring Web 2.0 " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Ehtan Zuckerman blogged this week on Nancy Hafkin Gender and IT about disparity in access to the Internet of women and girls. But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

that are incredibly helpful, and provide things that really do connect people, and help people decide in a much more granular way what they want to read, and have access to. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

But I think the larger question about folksonomies is important: is efficiency all there is, and in what ways are folksonomies a way for the “folks&# (rather than “experts&# ) to have access to the process of categorizing their own content, and content they care about? What do those guidelines look like?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2015

TechSoup's popular donor partner, Cisco , is best known for supplying the switches, security appliances, access points, and other products that charities need to run their wired and wireless networks. Even in the United States, nearly 15 percent of households have uncertain access to food. Feeding a Need in Southern Nevada.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Verizon sales folk promise the moon, the tech guys explained I’m at the far end of dsl access. What kind of neighborhood do I live in? Non-deseving of dsl apparently. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. Search for any phrase.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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