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. The date was sometime in 1995. If you don’t, it’s still the majority.)

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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 know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. That’s super depressing.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing world accessible through the Internet and by harnessing the power of individual donations. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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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. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture.

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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

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 some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The Internet has disrupted the old economic realities of information distribution. 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. What we need is journalism."

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Early Boomers are pretty tech savvy, and have been using the Internet as a communications, ecommerce, and research tool for over 15 years. 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.,

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Early Boomers are pretty tech savvy, and have been using the Internet as a communications, ecommerce, and research tool for over 15 years. 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.,

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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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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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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 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 nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Dave Cohn.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. I think here will come a day when 5-10 great open source CRM alternatives, each of which integrates nicely with your CMS of choice, will become a reality. There is some great food for thought, although in some ways, the results aren’t so surprising.

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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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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.

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APRIL 8, 2007

In those days, the buzzwords were “internet connectivity,&# “networks,&# “websites,&# and “email.&# world where many organizations still weren’t even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO’s nephew.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

.” A social media meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet. The Ice Bucket Challenge morphed into a social media meme and like a worm penetrated other popular Internet memes like Star Wars.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2013

Think Progress, for example, said #RIPDOMA and the sentiment of Peace in RIP was not taken kindly by Think Progress'' supporters, and they started providing alternatives to #RIP, as a constructive way to share their opinions. Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Think Progress, for example, said #RIPDOMA and the sentiment of Peace in RIP was not taken kindly by Think Progress'' supporters, and they started providing alternatives to #RIP, as a constructive way to share their opinions. Proposition 8 took away California same-sex couple''s right to marry, and invalidated 18,000 marriages in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. What Slice of the Internet Budget Pie Should Social Media Get ?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So the internet being sort of the preceding technology which then allowed blockchain technology to come to fruition, but cryptocurrency is really the first use case of a blockchain technology. It’s something that is not connected to the internet. It was really right after the financial crash. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So the internet being sort of the preceding technology which then allowed blockchain technology to come to fruition, but cryptocurrency is really the first use case of a blockchain technology. It’s something that is not connected to the internet. And I think what we, you know, and it kind of is, it’s very similar to the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. In any case, I didnt mean to imply that there is a ceiling at the $200,000 level for fundraising through social networks, just that there is no evidence so far that this particular channel hasnt yet shown any promise as an alternative revenue stream for nonprofit organizations. But actually you didnt say that.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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