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My Theory of Practice

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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Charitable Giving in a down economy: Performance strategies for any market

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Historical support shows that charitable response is swift in response to natural disasters, financial crises such as the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009 and the pandemic, as seen below: Revenue Trend: Human Services Benchmark. Rounding up at a physical store is most popular, followed by online methods. Follow the Leaders.

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What is cloud computing?

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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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Reflection and Evaluation

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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Platforms break open!

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Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me.

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How not to treat an open source user community

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It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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More patent office silliness

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At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.