Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I also have a document nightmare – I have documents on the desktop, documents on my laptop, documents on external hard drives, aiii. Be Helpful. I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats. Be Helpful. In fact, that is far from the case.) Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Allows me to upload any open document format (.odt, Be Helpful. But … Why am I not buying a Kindle? Sorry, Amazon.

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JANUARY 15, 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 #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP. apps out there.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! Be Helpful. Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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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. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Be Helpful. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Be Helpful. :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07 at 2:42 am Hmmm, I am not sure that open source opensocial applicaions would matter so much.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Be Helpful. Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! Be Helpful. It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. That part looks very interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. at 8:54 pm Most of the programming problems are misuse of the well documented abstract layers. Be Helpful. I can only assume you concede these points. 3 Dave Keays 04.03.09

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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. Be Helpful. I do demand a lot of my system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. Be Helpful. 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Successful open source projects are increasingly emphasizing and devoting resources towards usability improvements, documentation, and ease of installation and upgrades. This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

So, all browsers keep bookmarks – it helps one easily go back to and find sites that you go to regularly. These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. Be Helpful. And then, I’ll ask myself some questions about it. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism documents how nonprofits are using analytics to listen, experiment, learn, and thrive in the digital era. Digital listening just gives you a new set of tools and processes to help confront hard strategic questions. The Media Theory of Movement Power. pages 5-11 of chapter 1).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Here at ReadyTalk, I am the Account Manager who works with our Nonprofit Customers helping them save money increase their efficiency through using our audio and web conferencing services. I hope that information helps you in your analysis. This will help us make Dimdim better. 6 trackbacks } The Webinar Blog 08.23.07

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. But the Internet has changed all that.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. But the Internet has changed all that.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." I strongly believe it is through shared evaluations and documentation that we will advance as a field overall in these efforts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Also, we posted the slides from our talk on the integration here: [link] We’re working on some additional documentation and screencasts as well as a distribution of Plone that includes the salesforce.com integration ready to go! Be Helpful. 3 Christopher Johnson 05.05.09 Look for that shortly.

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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. Be Helpful.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

There are plenty of well documented and researched usability issues with nonprofit donations forms that can be improved to get better results right now. And that giving experience needs to account for scenarios like recurring giving, memberships, and event registrations if you really want to help a broad section of nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

Green IT For Dummies has sections on reducing IT power consumption, electronic document management, telecommuting, extending IT hardware life, green lighting, electronics recycling, and perhaps most importantly building support from management and employees to get all this done. partner, Redemtech. I started out as a systems developer.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

It’s definitely a new project, and a very new community (with some huge warts) but it is promising for organizations that want to create private (or public, perhaps) social networks that include groups, discussions, document sharing, bookmarking, blogs and other things. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09

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