Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. I met Ruth in Oakland - she is a long-time Oaklander. Of course, I''ve always been (or at least, for a long time) all of those things. And, I hope my Oaklander and SF friends looking for space and time out of the city will visit, wherever we end up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. MobileCause offers a similar tool set and is a little less expensive, but for those who can not afford hundreds of dollars a month, some relatively inexpensive alternatives are TextMarks , EzTexting , and Frontline SMS. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. As I said in a post a while back, I know that Facebook is getting far more from my time spent on Facebook than I do. And, yet another login and password.

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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. ” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

As I might have mentioned, it was this very thing that stopped me last time (although, admittedly, it was much worse last time – I had to recompile my kernel to get my palm to sync, and I drew the line at that.) » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07

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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. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. So here goes. The date was sometime in 1995.

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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 It’s time for change to happen! know danah boyd. That’s super depressing. Open-access is right.

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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 8, 2012

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. I met Ruth in Oakland - she is a long-time Oaklander. Of course, I've always been (or at least, for a long time) all of those things. And, I hope my Oaklander and SF friends looking for space and time out of the city will visit, wherever we end up.

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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. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. It should be easy to plug in a new monitor.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Maybe these alternate spellings are all the same to you, and that’s fine. The Gilead soldiers had learned that the Ephramites had a hard time pronouncing some Hebrew words, including one that described the grain-bearing part of a plant stalk: shibboleth (שִׁבֹּלֶת‎). Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Or non-profit.

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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. At the same time you made, IMHO, a very critical mistake by teaching people something about security that just isn’t useful. I can only assume you concede these points. “itâ??s

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SSDs have been around in various forms for a long time , but only in recent years have manufacturers started seriously marketing them to consumers as an alternative to traditional hard drives. In early 2008, both Apple and Dell started shipping high-end laptops with SSDs only; others have followed suit since then.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them. “It was easy to learn because I have some background in it, and the rest of the staff have some limits, both in skills and in time.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We also don't know whether and how online giving marketplaces, social enterprise, social investing and other innovations born in good times will stand a downturn, short or prolonged, and how those changes will ripple across longer-standing practices." The idea is that even if times are bad, you don't have to be stingy.

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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? He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time. from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

Originally posted five years ago, in August of 2008. On this trip, for the first time, I truly understood the position of people who disagree with me, those who feel that eating and boisterous talking in museums is not only undesirable but violating and painful. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 It’s true.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

We at TechSoup have for a long time been fervent advocates for refurbished PCs. It is roughly 25 times more environmentally beneficial to extend the life of used, three-to-five year-old computers than it is to end-of-life recycle them at that age. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We at TechSoup have for a long time been fervent advocates for refurbished PCs. It is roughly 25 times more environmentally beneficial to extend the life of used, three-to-five year-old computers than it is to end-of-life recycle them at that age. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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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. This is not a business model that makes sense.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. 5 Jon Biedermann 08.09.07

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Great and sometimes surprising statistics on social media use around the world, circa March of 2008. It's part three of an ongoing project, so the authors analyze trends over time as well as providing a snapshot of March 2008. I can't wait for part four. The report covers both the social and civic aspects of gaming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Alternative Approaches.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

While the financial markets gradually have recovered since they crashed in 2008, a focus on providing good customer services to donors has helped generate annual giving of roughly $300 million a year over the past five years to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Blackbaud also publishes a giving index for Canada.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. With each action taken by advocates, there is the opportunity to virally spread the word about the action and, in turn, engage new contacts/advocates, building your database of people that you can communicate with at any time. The answer is a resounding YES.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In addition, I have used Care2 several times as an effective source for recruiting new email supporters for clients of my consulting firm, Rad Campaign.] 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. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

Just testing all this stuff out in early 2007, it became clear to me just how important it is for an organization to have a full-time staff position whose role is to manage the groups presence in the various Web 2.0 Copyright © 2008, Care2.com 60) Search « Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In addition, I have used Care2 several times as an effective source for recruiting new email supporters for clients of my consulting firm, Rad Campaign.] 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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The solution was to get impractical proposals on the table.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum. Director Lewis Sharp and I quickly convinced the Belmar developers that they didn't want paintings from the basement, but a dynamic alternative to the traditional art museum. I think it matters that we are not simply a developer’s philanthropic project.

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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.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There's quite a buzz right now about whether or not " Slacktivism " doing activism online, all the time - can effect change. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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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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