Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 A couple of days ago, she made a call on her blog for academics to stop publishing articles in closed journals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago.

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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. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

2 trackbacks } claudiapena.com » Blog Archive » I’ve Got Beef (theorectically)… 10.04.07 People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. Thanks for the heads up on the blogging – I’ll check it out. So where did the women go?

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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. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ve heard my various sagas around using Linux on the desktop. 10 Isaac 11.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

On the Four Kitchens blog , they say, “While both reports above seem to identify Drupal (and Joomla! You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. But it has been in Oakland that I really could see with my own eyes, and get to know a lot of people who were "in my tribe"--that is being black, and choosing to be "alternative" (crunchy-spiritual/queer/hippie/punk.) Blog Category: Personal Tweet'

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. But it has been in Oakland that I really could see with my own eyes, and get to know a lot of people who were "in my tribe"--that is being black, and choosing to be "alternative" (crunchy-spiritual/queer/hippie/punk.) Blog Category: Personal.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I’m not sure it’s possible to write this blog post without looking like a grammar Nazi, but I’m going to give it a whirl. Maybe these alternate spellings are all the same to you, and that’s fine. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. posted by Mark Hager Associate Professor ASU School of Community Resources and Development.

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JUNE 24, 2011

For example, should we give more focus to finding alternatives that tap the power of networks such as ‘crowd-funding’, which not only bring in money, but it also power the community? Ditto, charities as “sensemakers” – mashing data with storytelling – a topic that Peter Wanless blogged about this week.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

We do offer a hosting service, but it is not a direct alternative to the companies that you mention. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. It is not a white-label service.

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AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2011

The JOY program was launched in 2008 by the Unity Foundation, which is based in Unity, with funding partners UniTel Inc. They also participate in Jumpstart Our Youth (JOY) -- the state's most comprehensive youth philanthropy program -- with Jobs for Maine's Graduates students statewide. and the Maine Community Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

There are many blog posts on the theme of 10 Ways for Nonprofits to Cut Costs and The Nonprofit Hard Times Survival Guide. Okay, if I start to round up and summarize everything else that's out there on the economy and nonprofits, I'm going to get so horribly depressed I won't finish this blog post. I'm not in denial. A recent post.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

blog posts from the past. Originally posted five years ago, in August of 2008. They are the great big public, and giving them comfort and access makes national parks a valid and worthwhile alternative to theme parks and resorts. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 It’s true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Visitors are people who visit your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Last week I started looking into alternatives to Feedburner to track RSS subscribers because Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change. Of course, you can't know - nobody knows but Google. And that's why I read my sever logs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Alternative Approaches. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). Connect, listen, learn, and participate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I'll be adding a bunch of answers to your questions and some other ways to browse the archives this weekend, and then I'll link to it from the main blog site starting on Monday. related questions , starting points , and guides to the blog--for this to truly be a living resource it has to keep growing. I can't wait for part four.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

But the newspapers have provided a concentration of resources for serious journalism that the new media alternatives, such as The Huffington Post, let alone individual bloggers, have not yet demonstrated an ability to replace. Shirky says, " Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Full disclosure: Care2 operates the Frogloop blog, and hired me to be its editor. Another 2008 market research study conducted by NPD Group showed that 61 percent of Boomer Internet users had visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video (e.g., February 24, 2009 | Laura Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

The rest is history, but in the next few weeks, the story was in several local newspapers and blogs. The SRWA is just getting started, but soon enough it will be providing grassroots greening and alternate transportation programs for residents and children in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, and Brooklyn Waterfront communities.

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JUNE 21, 2007

If your sites emphasis is grabbing names, use alternating shades of color and prominent placement on your homepage to make sure visitors can see it and will want to give you their name. Our good friend Alan Rosenblatt suggested having members, or donors, do a video blog of why they feel your nonprofit is important. All rights reserved.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Full disclosure: Care2 operates the Frogloop blog, and hired me to be its editor. Another 2008 market research study conducted by NPD Group showed that 61 percent of Boomer Internet users had visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video (e.g., February 24, 2009 | Laura Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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JUNE 21, 2007

CHEJ also hoped to boost public awareness about safer alternatives to PVC, which it calls a “poison plastic.” Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to be able to implement CRM/Fundraising solutions (or any software solutions, for that matter) that cannot be taken away from them, or have the terms under which they use them change without their control or consent, there have to be open source alternatives. at 10:03 pm Jon, That is a funny video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving. Following the Museum 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. If you've already got an idea for an organization you'd like to create, the deadline for Echoing Green's 2008 Fellowship applications is December 3, 2007. Great New Book on Organizing!

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