Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. Be Helpful.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I had the pleasure of meeting her earlier this year for an exciting conversation. She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. An interesting conversation ensued on the list – with some arguing that this was a problematic thing. What is public? Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. I did feel that the vendors had a small tendency to indicate some concern about security when asked about openness.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That feels good. I need to figure out a good network configuration. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

I just had a great conversation with a IT manager at a medium-sized nonprofit that had implemented Asterisk for their call center. Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. ’&# I do think that is something that we have a hard time getting across to folks. It takes more, because you own your own system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

In a conversation with a colleague over some wonderful Asian fusion lunch, we both agreed that in fact, the problem that nonprofits faced in the 90s, lack of good information, was, in a broad sense, mostly solved (there are, for sure, areas where there are gaps, but overall, the coverage is quite good.) Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

So a conversation is happening, in a session, or in a plenary, and people are talking about that on another channel. Why aren’t I Twittering away , like so many of my nptech colleagues? One of the potential uses of Twitter is as a “back channel&# for events and the like. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When it comes to conversations about things like the innards of APIs (REST or SOAP?), But then, there is the little secret (well, it’s not so secret). When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

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 August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I picked it up by happenstance, I think because I had NOSI on my mind, and I was thinking about how to talk to people about open source and nonprofits. Definitely an interesting conversation to have. The first book, called “ Made to Stick:Why Some Ideas Survive, and Others Die.&# I’ll have to look for it. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I think this may be a false dichotomy and one worth having a longer conversation about. Salesforce is a serious tool with a ton of functionality and it it supported by a growing community – some very much into open source software, building an ecology that goes beyond metaphors but that provides extremely interesting and useful tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

And in your case, as the head of a nonprofit open source organization, I think you’re going to find that not publishing site statistics will cause you more grief than you think. at 8:21 am What a great conversation; fun to have but for the fact that it misses the point. That dog won’t hunt. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With snacks! We need to hack the model for accessibility tools!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. This past year, U.S. Privacy and Security. Children love it.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Does the post relate to the blog's goal, voice, and conversational voice. Need time and patience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

They struggle mightily with software, no matter whether it’s free/open source or proprietary, shrink-wrapped or custom-built, on their desktops or web-hosted, which they generally spend extraordinary amounts of time and/or money on. I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Third, I want to invite people to participate in a conversation about how this could be done differently. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. Thanks for starting the conversation, Michelle.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Sometimes, even with larger providers, they manage to get around this by having detailed logs of conversations with you. Usually, of course, with the huge technology providers, that sort of thing isn’t possible. But with smaller providers it certainly is. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well. Email is a critical channel.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. The project will launch in December, and we are planning to have our first exhibits developed by this process on the floor at The Tech in summer of 2008. Viva the distributed conversation! This is happening very, very quickly.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. Audacity - open source and free, lots of community resources, have to download a separate mp3 encoder but they have links on their site. Can import other sources well. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast! Chad: baudcast.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After our acquisition of Kintera in 2008, we went through a similar review process and decided to focus that product on the peer-to-peer fundraising space and to stop offering it as a CRM product. These plans will include incentives such as implementation, conversion, and comparable pricing. They do not need to migrate now.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Democracy Lab : DemocracyLab is an experiment in direct democracy, powered by open source software, and built on the idea that technology can empower us to harness freedom of speech and the power of the vote to solve today’s most challenging problems. March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some states, such as Colorado, have started official employee-ownership commissions and dedicated new funding to support business conversion to employee-owned cooperatives or ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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