Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I gave up.

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AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. In general, the phone actually works quite well. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem. If your organization’s peer-to-peer fundraising team doesn’t seem to be working as efficiently as it seems like it should be, it might be time for new software. As your organization evolves, it’s not uncommon for technology that once met your needs to no longer work for you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 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. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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MARCH 10, 2008

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. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X No happiness for me. 4 admin 03.01.08

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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. I help them to work out first what they want and why, then help find the right tool to do the job.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

But, I have been following Michele Martin’s work on The Bamboo Project Blog with some interest. But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Well, pro bono consulting can happen entirely on digital platforms. Once they saw how meaningful that work was, they kept coming back. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. How do you do that in an all-virtual world?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

Like many who work in this sector, I cared more about the missions of my clients than I did about my own income, although I also needed to put food on the table. It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# and “We’ve designed Yugma to work seamlessly between Mac, Windows and Linux.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. ” Does this signal that working in networks been become normal in the nonprofit sector?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

Open Office works better on Linux than on the mac, as does thunderbird and firefox For a few things (mostly system/network tools) there are some incredibly awesome options, amazingly good for free (as in beer) software, and better than software you’d pay for. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Developers, consultants, experts and users all like to weigh in with their predictions for 2009’s big developments, innovations and attempts for the coming year. What comes next is tools that accelerate and are created by the needs of communities we already work in and have created online. Community Movement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

The major problem I found with ActiveCollab wasn’t open source vs. not but the fact that it wasn’t getting updated very often. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. Almost all of our development work goes into the community version. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 Mitchell 10.25.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. So, I did some research, and realized that the best choice for me was to get a Thinkpad – most everything works right out of the box.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

First problem: Linux address books … suck. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. 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! It was great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

But the roof works fine. Pandora works dandy. Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. The install was very smooth, except the guy had to chip off a bunch of ice off of the roof. It didn’t start out bad. down, and 256K up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room.

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APRIL 3, 2009

If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. 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.

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JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Lessons learned from our work with agencies in the field. At present, we’ve conducted one-on-one consulting engagements with over one-third of the state’s DV programs. Between 2000 and 2008, this revenue mix provided stability and the opportunity to grow, due to gradual increases in overall government funding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Yet, executives also report enormous satisfaction in working with talented, dedicated, and inspiring staff members. Problems can become exacerbated if an organization lacks the adequate systems to swiftly and carefully handle personnel issues. In the words of one executive, personnel management is a "sucking bog.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I really could have skipped the pictures of two of my work colleagues necking. :) Kinda fun though. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. I hope this will help in understanding how it works.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. of me, but what I really want is something powerful that just works locally. So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. I know it is awfully Web 1.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Jeff Hancock has been working with technology both from the developer or technical standpoint and as a business manager for. Today he runs his own consulting company, Adapt ∞ Impact , which serves the nonprofit community exclusively. more than 20 years. He's been involved with nonprofits and community. Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I am working on several projects, both collective and personal. And, of course, not everyone I work with is choosing the same to do list or project manager. So, can you solve my to do list problem? :-) And I’m grabbing the sunscreen already! And I like and use to do lists. 2 Michelle Murrain 11.30.06 That is so cool.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research. What It Means.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?) It’s found from our add-ons page: [link] and you need to be signed in for it to work. 3 Beth 09.27.06

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

By using tools that are owned by everyone, you know you aren't building your work in a way that depends on or benefits any one corporation or institution, but building your work in a way that benefits everyone. . Talk to folks using it, to consultants and to developers. Connect, listen, learn, and participate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

In my tests it was buggy (some parts of it just didn’t work), and the interface was still a bit crude. 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. Audio works fine for all platforms.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Random Thoughts on Life and Work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 The buzzwords have changed and the technology has gotten more sophisticated – but the problems many nonprofits are facing are exactly the same.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. In addition, there is attention to major donor development and a focus on the cause and the people affected by the work of the charity.

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JUNE 18, 2009

If not, you have work to do. Jennie Anderson of AIDS.gov and William Neuheisel of DC Central Kitchen, who work on communications at their respective agencies, share some of their tactics and techniques. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news. Jennie Anderson is is a Consultant at John Snow, Inc.

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