Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. at 11:42 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dave Copeland 08.12.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Chris Blow 06.29.07 But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Technorati Tags: linux , linuxchix , nptech { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tory 11.19.06 You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. at 4:03 pm Thank you for furthering the presence of women in technology… 2 John Powers 11.29.06 at 2:04 pm I’ll second Tory’s thanks.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I have some advice for both companies, though: Keep going – it’s looking more and more like not only are people expecting the ability to mash their data and other data more, it’s also looking like a pretty good business model. at 8:50 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.15.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

From his perspective (and mine, too) one of the big issues (as he put it, the elephant in the room) is how open APIs impacts the business model of vendors. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06 Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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APRIL 15, 2007

And I also struggled with the consulting business model. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07 at 7:01 am John, Thanks for your kind words, commenting, and reading. &# I don’t blame them – they needed the fixes, and the features.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) at 9:18 am { 18 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Tracey Grant 08.17.07 In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. It is commercial, but it has a kind of pay-as-you-go pricing model. Wish I were!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Reading it you get the sense that these folks just won’t face the music. Their business model is near death and they better move faster to preserve whatever value they still have. Share and Enjoy: 4 Comments comment Michael P. 11 Feb 2008 Michael Hoffman Michael, thank you for your reply. So, we shall see.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09 I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going.

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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

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. It opens additional doors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

February 18, 2008 This is a rant. at 8:53 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin Reagler 02.19.08 at 8:53 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Robin Reagler 02.19.08 Should we be able to achieve a migration to drupal or one of the other open-source models? How do we know our options?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Looking forward to more comments and posts in this vein. As I keep thinking more about this, I’ll be blogging about it. Mitchell 04.08.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Zeidman 09.03.07 And there are other models – SugarCRM is a model of a for-profit company that has a community version – so more people can contribute and benefit from their software. This is neither impractical nor rocket science.

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JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. Look at the comments. Oh, my gosh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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MARCH 4, 2008

While we in the not-for-profit world are looking at how the Obama campaign can be a model for what we are doing with issues and organizations, those in the advertising industry are also taking note. But the Black Eyed Peas made this great music video about Obama. and new media to energize and engage supporters. We’re Hillary!&#

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