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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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. Open source projects do get better. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 That’s open source, no?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&#

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JUNE 15, 2007

They announced that their server product, Quickbooks Enterprise , will be released to work on Linux Servers. Yes, it’s proprietary, and I certainly wish that someone would write an open source worthy competitor for Quickbooks, but they haven’t yet, so a good second choice is Quickbooks itself running on Linux. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Blackbaud buys Kintera May 29, 2008 In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM.

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JULY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. 2 admin 07.07.08

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MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. { This is big. 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. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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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. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. The next step was to get online.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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DECEMBER 1, 2007

The thing we have actually done the most of is write the primer , and I’ve got more ideas for types of open content that NOSI could get involved in doing, so these suggestions for business models are quite welcome. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. at 8:37 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.14.07 That, of course, can spread virally.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

We think our particular products or service is the best around, or, at least, provides our clients with some unique value. I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. you the picture.

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JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. at 1:35 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 PW 10.03.07 Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few. at 9:46 am Web 2.0 Be Helpful.

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MARCH 19, 2007

at 7:35 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07 So the scarcity mentality isn’t just for small, struggling nonprofits. It’s very widespread. Technorati Tags: nptech , opensource , web2.0 { 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 03.19.07 Be Helpful.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Some vendors have products that provide integration by having both the CRM and the CMS together. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But some comments on the whole phenomenon. of them have open APIs (that is, they allow other software to interact with them, and grab data, or add data,) they aren’t really interoperable (see Marshall Kirkpatricks excellent post on issues regarding Yahoo and del.icio.us Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

" While there are still contradictions in terms of the unpredictable nature of crises and a delay in data, his project attempts to test out these ideas in different "labs" around the world by coalescing data from public and private sources, with the first one starting in Uganda shortly. Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Comment Notification. Subscribe to this posts comments using RSS. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Leave a Comment. Comments (required). Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Rebecca Muller. Remember Me?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. 1 trackback } Wild Apricot Blog : Tech Support for Free and Open-Source Software 08.20.08

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

What should bother us is the possibility of lower educational value being associated with the flood of cheap CE “products” into the market. And we wouldn’t expect virtual reality to be a popular on-demand product until the required devices become more widely owned. Plateau of Productivity. But nonetheless, the future looks rosy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. How did the transaction go - not the final service or product. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. What kinds of comments do you make on other blogs? Do you moderate comments or not?

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MARCH 13, 2009

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

CONVIO OPEN While attending the Convio Summit, I had the opportunity to sit down for some Q&A with Sam Heywood, Senior Product Manager for Convio. Sams presentation and demo of Convios new "Open" feature set had piqued my interest in APIs and their impact on nonprofit communications. Frogloop: What is Open?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

In those situations, generally, the product remains largely the same (with some branding changes over time.) In that case, the acquiring company eventually does away with its own product, and the acquired product becomes that companies offering in that space (with changes.) Like Google buying YouTube , or Yahoo buying flickr.

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MARCH 16, 2009

an event management product that connects with Salesforce.com A PayPal integration product This is a pretty robust set of channels for data to move back and forth from Salesforce.com to Plone. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mark Bledsoe 08.23.07

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APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 04.08.07

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Zeidman 09.03.07 Good quality software increases productivity and enables more money to go to non-profit’s goals. You are correct – good quality software increases productivity.

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MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. at 7:27 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Peter Suber 04.08.07 This comment is for Michael. I appreciate Peter’s suggestion for using the OA repository, and also Michael’s idea of an ‘open’ bounty.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Since 2008, Aplos has been providing cutting-edge accounting software specifically designed for nonprofits. It’s ideal for nonprofits just getting their footing, since it’s easy to use and open-source. Additional users must purchase additional product keys. Take to the comments below to rave about it!

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Building open social networks – This is a great article on O’Reilly Radar about opening up the “social graph&# – it’s worth a look. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Drew Garcia 10.01.07 My online identity score is 9/10. That’s kinda cool. { Be Helpful.

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