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AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. What are these new competitions about—are they working? How does it work? Let's discuss: join us!

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MARCH 17, 2008

This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC. I’m looking forward to it. I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. And of course, there is Penguin Day !!

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APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. So go rate your CMS ! {

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The link in question was on a comment at the bottom of a 5 year old blog post. The comment itself was “Thanks for this information” and the URL of Softweb Solutions. Guess that one slipped through in 2008. If they really like it they’ll post a link on their own networks. That’s all I look at.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. This is my dilemma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. The video above shows the whole room discussing an important Networked Nonprofit concept, simplicity (focus on what you do best and network the rest.). Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general. There are a number of factors at work. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed.

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too.

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JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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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. It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network.

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JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. My resolutions were to: 1. Watched Darfur Now.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. In general, the phone actually works quite well. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 You deserve to be proud of this work! at 11:01 am Congratulations! at 11:01 am Congratulations! Excellent resource.

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JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon. Also, they have a very interesting ROI calculator for social networks that is worth a look. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07 He even asks “What would Jesus do?&# Worth a read!

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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. Gotta work on that.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Hiatus August 26, 2008 As many of you know, I’m about to make a big move: to the left coast, to the big city of Oakland (or thereabouts). This is a good move for me, in many ways.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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DECEMBER 18, 2007

Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. You choose the House or Senate committee you want to call, type in your phone number, and Committee Caller will sequentially dial each member of the committee so that you can leave your comment. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Ed Dodds 12.29.07

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APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have a few comments. From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. Those shine as industry-standard examples of how open API s need to be distributed.

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JUNE 17, 2008

Leverage the power of the open platform of Salesforce.com, and do the work that nonprofits (and consultants) have been having to do to bang Salesforce.com into shape as a donor database. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it.

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JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. A story about Rapleaf in Clickz (a newsletter for online marketers) says this : Rapleaf allows you to quickly and inexpensively find out the social networking footprint of those you’re marketing to. What is public? When is it private?

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

Some nonprofits fit into this category, but most nonprofits that I work with don’t. For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. Think big companies, lots of bucks, lots of boxes. I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching. I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. {

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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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 She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. know danah boyd. at 1:24 pm Hear.

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MARCH 7, 2013

In the early part of 2000, I was working for a large engineering company, SAIC , when I was approached by two coworkers about setting up a technology nonprofit. Having spent 12 years working with nonprofits and focusing on technology, I realized that my knowledge and experience could probably benefit others.

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MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. I need to figure out a good network configuration.

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JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&#

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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. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).

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