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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is also free.

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Thus came my introduction to the wonderful world of Google Sheets for scheduling and the nightmare of sending scheduling emails before we had scheduling apps and volunteer management systems to simplify this laborious task. I came in as a consultant with a focus on Salesforce, but addressing data & tech in all aspects at the organization.

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Take a minute now to Google yourself and all of your top staff or consultants. I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Here it is.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up.

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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. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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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&#. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel.

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FEBRUARY 5, 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 #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It blocks banner ads, Google adsense ads, stupid dancing aliens for mortgages, etc. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. This is the best thing since sliced bread. I love it. Plus, pages load faster without ads.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! 2 Jack 08.07.08 I’m starting to make a concerted effort to keep up, though.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with. .&#

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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 Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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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. at 9:24 am Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

at 2:39 pm Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.19.07 And, if Facebook offered in-kind donations of ads – similar to Google, I’m sure that nonprofits would flock to it. 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07

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JANUARY 3, 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 #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. So, I’m starting with Mozilla Thunderbird.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

They have increasing competition from OpenOffice.org, Google Apps, and, on the Mac, iWork. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard. Microsoft is in an interesting place with their cash cow, Office. I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. { I’ll keep you posted. {

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Here are the details: —————————————— Free Online Video Consultation at Nonprofit Technology Conference Not sure how to use video to its highest potential in telling your organization’s story and begin incorporating video into your messaging?

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Google it – you might find articles and reviews that might be helpful Try it out. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. These are almost always free to download and try out – this is easier for some projects than others.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Google is a little vague about the fact that when you invite someone to a spreadsheet they’ll need a Google Account. That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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AUGUST 6, 2007

I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop. So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists.

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OCTOBER 15, 2007

gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. They’ve got this great Facebook application – basically a template that allows an organization to create their own Facebook app.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

at 4:44 pm I’ve hurd that google uses redhat too, and so does this hosting site: [link] , which is in fact, quite good. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 me_just_me 11.12.07 2 Brian 11.23.07 at 11:17 pm Keep in mind that your EC2 nodes don’t have a static IP address or persistent storage.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. 4 Ade 12.18.07 The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Choosing Apple will always be like choosing ask.com over google because ask.com has a ‘prettier’ interface. The main draw to Apple for consumers will always be industrial design – A pocket PC does more than an iPhone, it just doesn’t look as good doing it. 2 DeathMonkey 10.10.07 at 2:16 pm I like you PW.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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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?) There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.)

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JULY 9, 2007

Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. Linux has server market (check) Linux is working on the browser market (checK) Linux has apps that work for addresses and also integreates with other apps well (BUZZ!

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

land are either using iCal, or integrating with Google Calendar (my present calendaring software). I can’t change a basecamp milestone in Google Cal, I have to go back to that particular basecamp account to change it. Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 So that’s good.

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