Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. News: InformationWeek ?

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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 love open source software as much as the next guy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 Experiments, snafus and stumbles » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.17.07 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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MARCH 8, 2022

Jess: Our core values at Qgiv foster an inclusive and highly collaborative environment, specifically our values of respect and openness. Qgiv: When did you first develop a love for user experience and design? Meet Jennifer Mansfield, Vice President of Customer Experience . Meet Cristina Ordaz, Senior UI/UX Designer .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. 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. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. OK, enough of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 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?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Maribeth 07.19.07 " I love the idea, really, I do. It’s so nicely done, I wish it could indeed become that unified place.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. Open source projects do get better. That’s open source, no? It sometimes tastes yucky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Thoughts, leave them in the comments.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Definitely the e-newsletter; our first e-newsletter in 2008 resulted in hundreds of responses and donations, though we have seen some donation activity on Facebook through special source codes tied to campaigns.

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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. This experience has made me think a lot about where organizations should think about using Linux, and where they should steer clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

But I’m not going to join another social network unless: 1) It is truly compelling on a content level, and provides a way to do things with content that is impossible otherwise, or, 2) It uses OpenID , 3) It has an open social graph , and 4) I have ownership and control of my own profile data. at 9:46 am Web 2.0 at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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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. I love apt-get/aptitude. It’s so incredibly easy. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. My tip: Allow non-registered users to comment – I imagine you’d get more comments that way. at 4:44 am { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 03.03.07 Her posts are thoughtful and accessible for non-techies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. To vote: 1. Create an account. With snacks!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Then in September 2006 Facebook made the move to open their community to everyone (before you had to have a “ edu&# e-mail address to use Facebook). 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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dru 08.05.09 at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! And you don’t have to have that silly cube graphic in some far corner of your site. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. But some comments on the whole phenomenon. 9 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Chris Willmott 09.25.06 Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

And it’s nice to know that all of the last 8 years or so as a “technology vendor&# as it were, will be there as good experience and guidance as I work with clients. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 Thanks for blogging. 2 Michelle Murrain 04.18.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. No technology vendor, even the largest ones, can support everything. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Next, colleague, Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation, talked about their how the foundation has embraced social media as a true experiment. This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees. This will be very valuable information to the field.

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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. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we’d have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decision-making to outside influences. It was dramatic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

Anna has been forthright in the press about her enthusiasm for Google Art to open up museum and art experiences for a wide and diverse audience. Needless to say, I'm one of the people who believes the 2008 IMLS research that shows that online encounters with museums increase visitation.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. The very openness and flexibility of purpose is exactly what's powering this type of engagement. If you have others to share, please share them in the comments of this post.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Frogloop: What is Open? If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Trevor O'Donnell : Leaders Use Their Words O'Donnell was not one of the invited bloggers but a commenter from the field (a follower. A museum that is committed to childhoodeducation might find it relevant to open a charter school.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Having a social culture is about opening up and sharing; letting go of the content and giving more credit than you take. Andrew spoke about the huge access the Internet offers — citing stats from how the presidential candidates used social media in the 2008 election. Comment away…. The Internet is not an ATM. Did you attend?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was so proud to see how our overall ethos of participation and social bridging was manifest in making the experience really wonderful for everyone. In some ways, this event reminded me of the Ontario Science Centre's YouTube Meetup in 2008 --a real-time, physical event to support an online community.

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