Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What are learning platforms? September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Be Helpful. Well, that depends of course, on the organization.

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APRIL 21, 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 #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. I’m not so clear about how this helps users. at 1:15 pm Open Social !=

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities.

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OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available.

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APRIL 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful.

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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 tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. Be Helpful. 3 Beth Kanter 08.15.08

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? Evolution, apparently, is not under active development because Novell is focusing on Groupwise. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 Be Helpful.

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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. So far, there is basically no activity in the forums and mailing list. Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Vendorspeak August 24, 2007 One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that my blog is getting the attention of software vendors. I hope that sheds some more light on how we are actively contributing.

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

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, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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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. Be Helpful. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Best.

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MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. Be Helpful. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones. The next step was to get online.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. 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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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. If you don’t help yourself, you can’t help others. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 Anyone going to help clean up?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The organization's mission is to bridge the digital divide by providing good, low-cost computers to low-income people and also help those people get online. It all started in 1998 when social worker Andy Elofson wanted to help a young man who had gotten in trouble for misusing school computers. Going National.

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JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? When you want someone rooted in both the business and art worlds? Here's what I love about Createquity: In-depth analysis of arts research reports. Exposure to a broader arts world.

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JUNE 1, 2017

That’s why we’re here: to help you navigate this confusing sector simply saturated with content, ideas and innovation. In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”-

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Care2 was honored to play a part in this effort, in partnership with CGI, by mobilizing thousands of Care2s civically active members to send emails to their senators in support of the treaty. July 6, 2009 | Anwalt Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This is a huge step forward for ocean conservation and international law. Nice blog.

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MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. Arts and culture – Giving for impact. ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Would this help: 1) gain donors? Be Helpful. Such is life. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

And with all open source projects, we really haven’t seen the demand or user participation in expanding the APIs… it is not that CiviCRM can’t have platform neutral APIs, we’d rather focus on building things our installed base will actively use. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Favianna's blog, Art & Activism. Inventor, Saul Griffith, who has invented all kinds of good things, including WattzOn.com, a site that helps you understand the consequences of your energy consumption. Image credit: Utne Reader November/December 2008 cover image from Utnereader.com. WattzOn.com's blog, What's On?

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MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. s needs, knowledge, and the sorts of practices they face on a daily basis is critical in an effective knowledge transfer and exchange activity.". Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

According to the most recent “Daring to Lead” study, despite the fact that only 20 percent of executive directors are “very satisfied” with their nonprofit board’s performance, the majority of executive directors (56 percent) spend 10 hours or less on board-related activities each month. appeared first on BoardAssist. governance'

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APRIL 23, 2015

Here are a few tips to help your nonprofit think about strategy: 1. For example, a nonprofit music lesson provider might face competition from school music programs, but also from sports and other after-school activities, or from video games. 1] David La Piana, “The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution,” Fieldstone Alliance (2008): 32-33.

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