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MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Sounds pretty interesting, but hold on a second.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new.

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JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. It is important to understand that Rapleaf is just gathering public information on people, based on their email addresses. What is public? How can we assure privacy? 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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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. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that’s worth reading. { 2 Anonymous 06.13.08 2 Anonymous 06.13.08

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Check out our Moodle page for more details (the outline, and information on how to participate is there.) I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. { I’ll be following this up with an Open Source 101, starting in early 2008, on my own Moodle site. {

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APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

There are substantive conversations that happen, and real information gets shared. There seemed (to me) to finally enough interesting people and things to follow on twitter – it began to seem like microblogging was more that just about what kind of tuna sandwich someone was eating (although it sometimes still is that.)

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. for geeks is APIs.

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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 New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. Watch the demo.

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JULY 6, 2007

The site is beautifully designed, and engaging, with some good information and tools, as well. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. OK, so here is yet another website providing information that nonprofits need to be sustainable. " I love the idea, really, I do.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

But for a long while, it took a lot to gather all of that information. at 12:39 am Spokeo connects people from different networks together, just like how RSS readers connect disjoint blogs into one united Blogosphere. The effects could be disastrous if someone got their hands on that information. 5 Jay 12.18.07

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MARCH 13, 2007

We all talk about information overload. Give me tools, like Yahoo Pipes , or other kinds of things, that help me to whittle down the information I’m taking in – make it more useful, help me find things faster and easier. And then there is data. I love my friends and colleagues.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. 3) keep stakeholders informed?

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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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JUNE 10, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations.

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MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Kelly O’Neal, online marketing consultant, provides the following recommendations to nonprofits.

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MAY 10, 2011

Blackbaud and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council have been working together to publish trends and best practice information in this area. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. All Rights Reserved

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AUGUST 23, 2007

There will be some much more detailed information that will help make it easier to figure out if it is right for you. { Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. I’ll be announcing it, for sure.

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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The 34 page report contains a lot of information across a broad range of questions. Each of these entities has, at a minimum, a decade of direct experience collecting information from nonprofits concerning charitable receipts, fundraising practices, and/or grantmaking activities. sectional studies.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. If you’re just looking at the list, then the value of the information is relatively low. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

There are 75 pages of statistics and trend information in the report. consulted accountants, 40.8% consulted attorneys and 38.8% consulted financial/wealth advisors when making charitable decisions 55% of high net worth households gave their largest gift in 2009 to fund general operations at nonprofit organizations 54.6%

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MAY 18, 2011

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

What you do with the information makes all the difference. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Sometimes that leads to very valuable insights into what’s happening. All Rights Reserved

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Human-based social engineering is just what it sounds like – people at a computer entering stolen credit card information to process a transaction. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

How will you gather information about the results of your efforts? Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Process Does your organization have an emergency rapid response plan? All Rights Reserved

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JANUARY 18, 2011

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

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