Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read. Be Helpful.

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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. I have to ask, why would you think that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.) Be Helpful.

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JULY 28, 2010

While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing. Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter. Supposedly, MySpace is dead, but I still get about 100 friends requests and 20 wall comments a week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 11.01.07 I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. It seems a fitting moment to say goodbye to Apple. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! This will be my last tech blog entry until at least August 6th. I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. Technorati Tags: broadband , hughesnet , satellite { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Catherine Carey 03.06.07 But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. In general, installation and configuration of software has become much easier.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Trade-off – you don’t get best of breed tools for both. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) at 4:38 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } 1 mathew 01.15.09 All-in-one. Web forms from CRM vendor.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. But some comments on the whole phenomenon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? at 2:47 am { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike T. 1 trackback } The Better Scoial Network 08.24.07 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 10.22.07 Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I infer from your comments that there is, in you view, something antithetical about providing quality consulting and making money. But, there are some useful ideas to mull over. { 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. Technorati Tags: cms , drupal , joomla { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Photopoppy 04.17.07 CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008. It was dramatic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

has clearly changed the nptech providers community, is the increasing use of Salesforce as a nonprofit CRM tool. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 10.10.06 at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

I think it’s certainly a possible choice, especially if you’ve got a philosophical approach that’s resonant with Debian (a lot of activist technology organizations use Debian) and have (or can find) the expertise needed. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

.&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

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. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. These same tools become very powerful in the hands of activists. Please leave a pointer in the comments. of Wired Blog).

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JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. As for that other definition of subscription learning, spaced learning, we are, again, all for it. Slope of Enlightenment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Earlier in the month I taught a Nonprofit Blogging 101 workshop at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. What are the communication tools you could use to achieve that goal? If a blog is one of the tools you think would meet your goal, ask yourself: 4. How do you encourage comments? Make it easy to comment.

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JULY 26, 2007

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APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We value the expertise of our colleagues and welcome any feedback or comments. And we should.

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MARCH 25, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman JAN 30, 2008 Identity 2.0

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree. Thats wrong. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Photo by RedRaspus.

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