Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right? Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. .) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. Like any powerful CMS, though, there is quite the learning curve in order to get a site up and running.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. I’ll keep you posted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

He then talks about something that I find really interesting, and hadn’t fully understood until I read it: why the radio spectrum was regulated in the first place, and why now, regulation is basically moot. 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

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. Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). She really understood the organizations.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. This is great news.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

in fact, cutting and pasting from their website they offer: * Two-way audio * Interactive whiteboard * Direct messaging * Application sharing * File transfer * Synchronized web tour * Live webcam * Breakout rooms The only problem I encountered is that video transmission is only supported for Windows and Mac – not Linux/Unix.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Rachel Muir , CFRE, Nonprofit Consultant, Speaker & Trainer. And they regularly maintain and update their database. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Can you do like they do?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). And each of us explained it a little differently.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. Rachel Muir , CFRE, Nonprofit Consultant, Speaker & Trainer. And they regularly maintain and update their database. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Can you do like they do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. These and other things have the opposite effect.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS.

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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. If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

What about nonprofits that don’t file an IRS Form 990 ? Getting it right would mean doing a lot of things including the following: The Right Organizations Who should be eligible to get a donation through an iPhone app? Only 501(c)(3) organizations? What about the 27 other types of tax exempt organizations in the US?

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APRIL 21, 2014

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. They allow you to back up and restore files. Cloud storage backs-up files and also gives you working access to them.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

While there are several elements of communication that are different between the two channels, I offer the following five tips to online fundraisers from a direct mail dinosaur: Segment your file: Not all online subscribers are created equal, nor should they be treated equally. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

While there are several elements of communication that are different between the two channels, I offer the following five tips to online fundraisers from a direct mail dinosaur: Segment your file: Not all online subscribers are created equal, nor should they be treated equally. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Filed under Uncategorized. Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing! Posted on at. Bookmark the permalink. Am I missing something?

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